The Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me ; Style Commentator and Mother of Two Lucia Van Der Post has Written a Guide to What Every Woman Should Know. Here, Five Writers Reveal the Advice They Got From Their Mothers and Those Things They Are Pleased She Left Out

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CONNIE ALLFREY MY MOTHER is one of those irritating people who can turn her hand to most things. She can whip up a monkfish curry from scratch, pull off four-inch Bottega Venetas, and prattle newly acquired Greek to a waiter.

She is young at heart, often limpeting onto a new trend before I do, and as a result we're very close, more like conspirators than mother and daughter. We used to steal into the garden for cigarettes together and then spirit the evidence away from my disapproving sister.

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The Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me ; Style Commentator and Mother of Two Lucia Van Der Post has Written a Guide to What Every Woman Should Know. Here, Five Writers Reveal the Advice They Got From Their Mothers and Those Things They Are Pleased She Left Out

I've adopted her offside rules like strapless dresses being a no- no at an age when things need to be strapped in and a dislike of heels with shorts and bare legs with boots.

That said, there were a few things my mother just forgot to tell me. While I was a tot waiting for my ticket in Peter Jones to be sized and shoed, I think my mother was a little distracted as I chose the most impractical patent numbe...

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