Elegance as defined.

hats still have relevance.

“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.” ― C. JoyBell C. 

Elegance of a woman is the stillness of her elegance, the coolness of her temperament and the way she moves easily within... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/22/17

Sophia Loren on the set of 'Judith' in 1965 wearing her trademark accessories,

dark shades, and a wide brimmed sun hat!!!!

“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!”   ― C. JoyBell C.

Elegant Black Lady defined and ready for church at best,

taking on the world of fashion as if it were a walk!

“The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance.” ― Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men

"Older Black women, as she does, question futility with a look, rebukes trifleness with a look, and in her eyes tells a story a 'man' needs to hear." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories