Essential women’s business

In which we converse on important subjects – holey T-shirts, crepey skin, perishing brassières, downstairs grooming and whether white sneakers are passé, or not.

My good friend Kate contacted me after last week’s newsletter landed in her inbox. “You will have hit a nerve on the topic of middle-aged clothes shopping,” she wrote. “Our bodies are not what they used to be and when you spy something on a rack that looks just right, it turns out to have a ridiculous cut-out or no back or massive gaps between the butto…