The cloak of invisibility is one of the most appealing inventions of author J K Rowling’s imaginings. But the experience of being able to walk across a crowded space and have no one seem to notice you is not so magical when it’s simply because you are a woman over a certain age.
This age-determined state is strange to experience and it even affects women who appear to have had it all, in terms of the looks, handsome and husbands and the ineffably cool lifestyles. Last week, Sadie Frost, now 52, confessed to feeling invisible. The den mother of the Primrose Hill Set, the chicest clique of the 1990s’, said on a podcast: “You do start to feel invisible and irrelevant… because there is a new generation...