Carol Vorderman has spoken about how she was branded 'mutton dressed as lamb' twenty years ago, but what's changed? Read more on Grazia.
'Would you call a 39 year-old today mutton dressed as lamb because she wore a dress above the knee? Of course you wouldn’t! That’s just nonsense.’'Carol Vorderman, 58, shows off her impressive curves in skintight leather trousers'; 'Carol Vorderman is feeling herself in leather trousers as she shows off new hair'; 'Carol Vorderman shows off sexy makeover in skintight leather trousers'.
‘Not about the dress,’ she added. ‘[But] it became about should a woman aged 39 wear a dress above the knee? I was called mutton dressed as lamb. Would you call a 39 year-old today mutton dressed as lamb because she wore a dress above the knee? Of course you wouldn’t! That’s just nonsense.’is a vile, sexist term - and one we have all heard someone sneer at a woman who has committed the heinous crime of wearing what she damn well likes.
Thankfully, Carol’s right - we don’t see the phrase in print that often anymore. Attitudes towards women aging, within the last twenty years, have indeed started to shift. Even if
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