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

259 replies

BrendaandEddie · 30/12/2015 14:19

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
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MrsCampbellBlack · 02/01/2016 20:12

I don't think anyone commented on Poppy's relationships with her family. I totally stand by my comment that Kat shouldn't say so much about her son either. Children deserve a right to privacy.

I like Poppy but I do think she buys a lot - I doubt she'd disagree with that. At difficult periods in my life I've bought too much too. I think a lot of us recognise that compulsion.

You need to have a thick skin to blog.

Methenyouplus4 · 02/01/2016 20:12

Blooming heck. I honestly don't think anyone made personal comments about Poppy beyond her style/ clothes (which surely she would encourage)?

A lot more personal comments were made about bum40. Some were a bit brutal but it's hard not to expect people to have opinions if you put these things out there. I said I find it awful that she calls her child 'aspie', I stand by that. Pretty sure if that happened in a school setting it would be regarded as bullying. I think it's ten times worse that it's her own child she is referring to.

MrsCampbellBlack · 02/01/2016 20:14

And with regards to 'grieving' - there have been a few threads on here about how it is inappropriate to facebook at a funeral. I think the majority think the same about instagram/blogging about a funeral.

But ultimately it is up to the individual but if you do stuff like that then it can't be a massive surprise if people are a little surprised.

CuffsAndCollar · 02/01/2016 20:21

Look, whatever, I'm not particularly sensitive about this kind of stuff, but there are personal comments about both Bum40 and Poppy on here.

Whether they 'invite' them or not I have no idea or care really, but like I said, hardly surprising they might then respond in some way. And, like I said DISingenuous to profess to be surprised by that.

MrsCampbellBlack · 02/01/2016 20:23

Was anyone surprised she commented? I'm not as others have said poppy has been on here before.

But anyway she should worry if she'd started a thread on here asking about buying an expensive bag - then she'd see just how mean mumsnetters could be Wink

CuffsAndCollar · 02/01/2016 20:27

I misread the Oprah gif then Smile

Yes, don't mention luxury handbag budgets on here Grin

SouthWestmom · 02/01/2016 22:42

I'm not surprised, I was just owning up.

BrendaandEddie · 02/01/2016 22:47

i dont really care if they mind about any of our opinions, hey I am old enough to manage if people disagree with me.

THe original post was 'do they never ever think I have enough stuff' and it seems they dont

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HappyGirlNow · 02/01/2016 22:55

Um... Isn't it kind of their job to try lots of new clothes?? Confused

AlwaysBeYourself · 02/01/2016 23:00

Methony I think that comments were made about Poppys alcohol intake and Kat "Does my bum" alcohol intake too and her apparent lack of grieving for her deceased Mother who died just before Christmas.

AlwaysBeYourself · 02/01/2016 23:05

Brenda your original post was quite interesting but then your posts descended into character assassination which were nasty and uncalled for.

Expellibramus · 02/01/2016 23:06

I'm just not a fan of the 'put yourself out there and you're asking for all that you get' ethos.

BrendaandEddie · 02/01/2016 23:09

meh - I dont care

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GiddyGiddyGoat · 02/01/2016 23:09

It's a blog! Not a private diary! If bloggers chooose to post stuff about their children (calling them "aspie", for example), or their drinking, or indeed their horrible badly fitting trousers, ON A BLOG then they can expect to receive comments on those issues - and can't expect them al to be favourable.

Expellibramus · 02/01/2016 23:14

I'm sure they do expect it.

Toughasoldboots · 02/01/2016 23:17

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 02/01/2016 23:21

It's nothing to do with them, 'Asking for it'. It's just silly when they act all shocked and hurt that some random people online don't like all of their fashion choices. Anybody who thinks that they look brilliant in every outfit they wear and every picture they pose for is almost certainly deluded.

BrendaandEddie · 02/01/2016 23:21

leather culottes

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Annarose2014 · 02/01/2016 23:22

But in fairness they are inviting opinion and not all of it is going to be positive and they know that.

I lost my Mum recently and when Kat was blogging about handbags throughout I was a bit suprised but then she was made the point that people grieve in different ways and I thought "Fair enough - the funerals not for two weeks and theres nothing happening in the meantime and she has to make a living"

But then it turned into The Coat Saga (aka what coat will I buy to wear to my Mums funeral) and thats when I started to get a bit wierded out. Cos nobody gives a shiny shit what coat you're wearing love, its a funeral. Literally nobody is going to notice as long as you're not wearing dayglo orange.

She was debating black-and-blue, coatigan-or-structured, black-or-grey.....it was going on and on and in the end she ended up buying two and wearing something old anyway.

And then posted an outfit post. Posing. From the day of the funeral.

Thats when I noped out of there.

Look, she genuinely seems like a nice girl. She's a hands on parent and her life is clearly not a bed of roses with "The Aspie". And maybe her Mum would be applauding her doing it, we don't know what she liked. But imo Kat has gone a bit down the blogging rabbit hole where there are no boundaries.

Not all content is good content. Not all content is appropriate content.

I honestly don't mind her miles 'o links. Its how she earns and fair fucks to her. But for harrowing personal events, please take the day off from enthusing about your sales finds, thanks.

HappyGirlNow · 02/01/2016 23:32

Great post annarose to be fair I was a bit weirded out with the funeral stuff..

aniceearlynight · 02/01/2016 23:45

The ceaseless consumerism of many bloggers does make me feel quite uncomfortable and this is why I stopped reading Poppy's Style. I wonder if perhaps in the US that level of shopping/conspicuous consumption is normal among wealthy soccer-mom types? I think it comes across as excessive to a UK reader (or at least to this UK reader!).
I really like Creation of Style (mentioned upthread, written by a v chic Australian lawyer), Buynowbloglater (agree she writes well and is genuinely funny), Paris to Go (zero-waste blog with content about buying vintage/preloved clothes and wardrobe care), Chocolate Cookies and Candies (knowledgeable about vintage stuff, although she doesn't blog about clothes as much any more) and Pandora Sykes (her clothes/style far too young/adventurous for me but I think she writes very well).

Oxfordblue · 02/01/2016 23:50

I'm new to following Kats blog, so no comment there.

I will say Joanna (aka Poppy's style) is completely bonkers. I have to read it, but I think it's because it makes me feel better about myself Confused Part of me thinks she looks ridiculous most of the time, the other thinks well fair play, she forswear she likes. Don't think you can expect to put yourself out there though & not expect critiquing etc. I do wonder that she's lost sight of what she looks like & really could do with losing some quite a lot of weight - aside from the fact her trousers don't fit around the crutch, that Apple shape is NOT healthy. Plus the amount she buys is obscene...stop the madness !

I read style guile, which is a bit dull, although wears her clothes better, schoolgate style, re-wears her clothes & Mid life crisis. Although too much fur gilet obsession of late & always neutrals...let's have some colour !

I do enjoy a nosy at them all on Instagram Blush

Awks · 02/01/2016 23:52

Ooh heck. Kat got the hump cream is a wee bit narked. She's written a manifesto and everything about Mumsnet bitches

You lot ought to be ashamed Grin

Toughasoldboots · 03/01/2016 00:01

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 03/01/2016 00:09

Cba to read the manifesto.

I do quite like Fashion Mum of 40 She wears lots of the same sort of stuff that I do - so, yes, another mum in boots, but lots of black and grey!