GRAY IN L.A.

It's almost Christmas. I don't shop, I have no family in the States, I'm single, so I'm relaxed. But others are super-busy. So let me be brief for the last blog of the Year ! It will be pretty cold over the Holidays in Los Angeles which is nice in many ways because it sets free delicious visions of coats and stylish sweaters, fancy shawls and a glove here and there. But most of all it tickles the fantasy bone of a longing that simply must have something to do with childhood and lots and lots of Nordic fairy tales: Snow for Christmas! I'm not immune to that kind of longing since I grew up in Germany where Christmases were white indeed very often. But I know it's not going to happen in LA. So what? We're grown-ups and the only white this Christmas will be on the heads of a lot of people - and that includes Santa Himself, the M ighty M aven of style - longish hair, beard and all. Come to think of it, naked, or let's say, in his Un...

We - the official Silver Sisters, Gray Goddesses, White-Heat-Hotties, Silverettas etc. do make fun of LA which is supposedly a gray-free zone as if not to shock its often all-embracing, but sometimes prejudiced residents with the cruel facts of aging . We got that, Thank You! The percentage of  gray-haired  women is probably as  sky-high   (JOKE) as the percentage of female directors or other women in p ower .   However, since going gray, after all an act of courage, somehow comes with a certain amount of feistiness and derring-do. So we will not be deterred.   (left to right: Irene, Sabine, Victoria Marie, Peggy, Gloria, Emma)  As it happened, Victoria Marie of the "Gray is the New Blonde"  https://www.facebook.com/GrayIsTheNewBlonde/?pnref=lhc website had the brilliant  idea to get a few Gorgeous Gray heads together for Happy Hour and picked an amazing location here in Los Angeles. "The Edison",   https://www.ediso...