Fashion Bloggers - do they never think " i have enough stuff'?

[BrendaandEddie]

EVER?
Christ it is relentlessly irritating. I popped back to look at a few after some time and enough already guys - you can only style a pair of skinny jeans so many ways.
STOP BUYING STUFF*

• am aware its none of my business/first world problem/dont have to read them etc etc So dont bother saying all that

Oh balls. tethers already posted! V funny though

who/what is a dry blog?, must have missed that.

I think Poppy decided to stop drinking but then changed her mind and tried to drink less.

She set up a blog to document her journey to sobriety after realising she had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and drank to get drunk far too often.

She was dry for a couple of months, congratulated herself on being able to stop, then went on holiday and "rewarded" herself with a few beers.

Blog was then abruptly deleted - I suspect she didn't like people's opinions on starting drinking again.

I have kids, job etc but keep toying with the idea of starting a blog yet it does all seem (or at least some blogs make it seem) rather vain and self-absorbed. I certainly wouldn't be doing it for money/freebies and don't even think I' m especially stylish so I have trying to think of what the main motivator is. I think it's because as a busy adult, when I meet with my closest girlfriends now, it's less often than our youth (maybe only every couole of months) so we often have the 'big issues'that come with adulthood to discuss (a live in parent/ child with disabilities/ money worries etc). Those women I see on a weekly basis are at work/ toddler groups and so the topic tends to be (you guessed it), work/kids. I really miss the frivolous chat of a new lippie/ pair of shoes etc that we would sit and chat about when I was in my teens/20s. Other blogs and mags fill that gap a bitbut I still miss the show and tell of my own bits and just sharing thoughts with others.

All of that said, the whole idea of putting yourself out there is just pretty scary.

'Show and tell of my own bits'. Cringe

I don't think anyone other than hubby would want to see that particular show after four kids!

lol at all your / s

I do think a lot of women feel a bit embarrassed at liking fashion - it doesn't always fit as being taken seriously I guess.

For me, fashion is an escape - life can be pretty hard so it is nice to focus a bit of frivolities. But luckily for me I have some friends who love clothes too.

I quite like DMBL40. She is tall and thin and suits many things but not all and I like her self deprecation about her less than good bits.

I like Poppy's Style blog too, although Lord knows, she does not suit much of what she wears - but she does it with such brio, I admire her self confidence.

What is the name of Poppy's blog?

DMBL40 posts endless links to cheap shite but only buys designer. She also in my opinion writes too much about her children - I wish bloggers would respect the privacy of their children.

I agree with her writing about her children too much, especially her son she refers to as the 'aspie'.

Methen Don't do it - your eyes may never recover. She seems lovely but her choices are bizarre at best.

Am not interested at all in bloggers' lives. I wish they'd just post the outfit and not bother with the wittering.

Totally agree Dick. I loathe labelling children like that.

They are all on Instagram now so I follow them there just to see the clothes, I imagine their blog read totals will fall as more people switch to instagram?.

I do wonder how Kat's son will feel when he is older and can see his personal life discussed on his mums fashion blog.

And dear goodness, Joanna from Poppy's style has the most interesting (!) taste but clearly gives not a jot, good on her.

MrsCampbellBlack i agree on the oversharing of dc's lives. But then I feel that almost all the time on FB. Those poor kids when they reach the age to understand that their parent has shared every private conversation of their childhood!

I hope those parents have a dc therapy fund stashed somewhere.

She calls her own child 'aspie'? That's pretty awful.

Found Poppy's blog,not quite my thing style wise.

I enjoy reading bits and pieces of homelife, as well as bits about beauty/fitness/ general lifestyle. I really dislike when they all seem to buy same jumper or whatever, less styleish and more fashion sheep. I actually seem to generally prefer blogs where the bloggers are in their 40s despite being early 30s myself, I think because they have less to prove and don't feel the need to present that heavily filtered sort of 'isn't my life rosy?' life.

At the moment I like Midlife Chic, StyleGuile and Buynowbloglater.

I think sometimes they start a blog and have lots to say and then as it gets more successful / popular they struggle for enough to write about so end up waffling on.

There's one called Little Wood Life that is very sweet a X she has an amazing house but it's getting more and more contrived.

Aspie is offensive isn't it? My sister has aspergers and she'd hate to be called an aspie. I think my mum would kill me as well!

Very offensive. Plus it suggests that is the defining feature of her child. It also means that as the child grows, everyone in their social circle (and complete strangers) will be aware of their condition, when they may prefer to keep it private.

Little Wood Life is lovely, serious home envy. Not much I csn take from it in terms of fashion but a nice read. Reminds me a bit of love taza, very pretty to look at, easy reading but a bit syrupy sweet and twee.

I'm going to sound like an utter bitch, but does anyone else think that a certain blogger (already mentioned above) could do with doing a "dry blog"?

Yes I cringe at some of the detail DMBL40 puts on her blog and on Instagram. It's one of the reasons I don't bother reading it much any more.

And yy, I find fashion a great escape/de-stressor.

Brennie you wouldn't be the first to notice there's wine mentioned in every single post - and she posts every single day.