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The Sartorial Lining

It’s big and it’s bland, full of tension and fear. They do it over there but we don’t do it here. Fashion! Turn to the left. Fashion! Turn to the right. We are the silver squad and we’re coming to town. The first part comes courtesy of David Bowie, the last sentence of China’s shishang nainai.

Literally translating as “fashion(able) grannies,” but occasionally referred to as —the new generation of grandmas who are stylish in the way they live and dress and do not fit the typical cardigan-bearing, permedhair granny stereotype, this quartet of late-aged urbanite women entered the stream of their golden years with gusto, strutting their

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