Are Style bloggers wealthy as a result of their blogs or do only wealthy women actually blog in the first place?

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Just wondering really as every single style blog I come across is written by someone who appears to have pots of cash and thinks an item reduced to £200 from £300 is a 'bargain'?

I seriously can't get over the amount most of them seem to spend on clothes!

I've never seen DMB40 wear them though I don't have Instagram and only look at her blog so I may have missed them. I think My Fadhionable 40s looks great in hers I look great in mine too . I've seen a few bloggers wear a white pair from Mango that looked nice but I think my legs are too pale for those and it would look like I wasn't wearing any shoes.

Sorry I meant my fashionable 40s.

I doubt DMBL40 would wear them!

On a slightly different topic I've just been looking for reviews on Mac's Next to nothing foundation. The first google searches threw up the magazine reviews who needlesstosay adored it. Needlesstosay I skipped quickly over them to find non biased reviews.

My problem with bloggers being sponsored is that I can no longer believe their 'independent' reviews which was their main attraction originally which means they aren't any better than just looking at magazine adverts.

Actually I don't think that I have been mean all I said was the the M and S holiday post wasn't what I called chic. Not sure why I feel like I am being told off.

I wouldn't use the word frumpy though as I would find that hurtful especially an since my surgery I feel that way about myself and hate it.

I love a red shoe so I looked at those flats from Top Shop - you would need very dainty proportions to carry them off - I don't have that. I also struggle with completely flat shoes.

I will check out Wears my Money

My feet are small (3 and a half) and v narrow. The top of the shoes felt nice and soft, but they were far too flat - worse than slippers.

I think MF40s looks brilliant in them, but I can't imagine wearing them for much longer than to take a photograph of them.

They are all wearing those wide legged cropped trousers, they look fab as they are slim and elegant. I would just look like an idiot.

I need a blog for a fat 40 something ugly person who doesn't want to scare the cattle. If there is such a thing please let me know

homebythesea What I was trying to say above is that I think different standards apply to online comments on published material, but that there is still a requirement not to be needlessly personal. If someone publishes on style, readers are entitled to express opinions about that style just as they would about clothes in a magazine or shop.

aspasia I don't think we disagree, but where someone's style or choice of outfit on a post isn't one's bag, then just say that rather than "my god how frumpy my granny wouldnt wear that" which is the gist of some comments on some bloggers on some threads here

"I just find it fantastically odd that people make disparaging comments about the style of people who do style blogs."

Well, all I can say is that you must lead a very sheltered life then home if you think someone commenting that they find certain fashion blogs frumpy/dull is 'fantastically odd.'

I think describing a blog as frumpy, or timid is absolutely fine if that's your opinion. These bloggers are sending their posts out to the world, and must expect that some people will dislike what they do.

I love the red TS shoes (and I have them in black and gold). But, then I do have very narrow feet, and I'm only a size 5, so think they look very elegant.

I can honestly say I have never had a pair of shoes be admired so much.

I wouldn't have thought that saying, "I don't like her style much, especially those green and pink striped trousers she wears with red lizard print deeny boppers" was any worse than saying, "I thought such and such a writer's book was bloody awful" or, "I thought the outfits in such and such a magazine were pretty unappealing this month" or whatever.

MQ - with me, the shoes looked nice enough but felt horrible, and came up too big for me. I still think they are lovely, but way too thin soled for the amount of walking I'd need to do in them.

It's much the same as not liking a particular musician or actor. Sometimes one just needs to put it out there! 'Emma Watson has as much acting ability as a doorknob' for example. Not attacking her as a woman, just the 'product' she sells to the public.

I know the shoes you mean. MF40s looks v nice in here - even that gold pair she has - but she has the sort of figure that looks great in everything. Which is a bit disheartening sometimes as I love some item and then realise I'm a size 14, lol.

Those ASOS dungarees she eulogises over looked like maternity wear on me. Made my stomach and my chest equidistant from my body! Hideous.

One thing I find a wee bit frustrating is that bloggers are all either a size 10 or a size 22. There's nobody that I'm aware of in the middle. I'd love to find a blogger with a really cool style who was a size 14! I'd probably buy everything!

I've got the softy kicks in red and I love them. But I do feel a bit that I'm outed as the blog follower that I am and as a bit of a sheep

MaQueen of course we all have opinions but its sad that the Internet legitimises the expression of those opinions in a way that we might not express them in real life. I've spent years telling my kids not to put on the internet things they wouldn't say to people's faces and I try to abide by that rule especially in a forum such as this where it is fairly certain the subject of those criticisms will be reading.

Hmmm. I also think that bloggers who look on threads like this to see what people are saying about them, should probably realise that at best there will be very mixed opinions.

I'm slim and I'd look daft in the very wide cropped trousers too. It's not a size thing. Not sure what it is but it's not just size. I'd look like a clown. Just to reassure some pp.

Some of the clothes that bloggers claim to wear look good when posed in carefully for photos but for actual wearing and moving in they don't wear well or hang nicely or they look crumpled and baggy after an hour.

I'd like to see less posed pictures and some more out and about ones taken after a couple of hours wear. I see why that's not practical but it'd be interesting. Although it could be easily faked of course.

Think this is why I prefer people watching to get outfit ideas sometimes. (In a non-creepy way )

Insprired by The Frugality, I tried on a bunch of khaki wide cropped leg trousers at H&M today. They must be the most unflattering garment ever, I am reasonably slim but felt like an elephant in them.

Years ago Trinny and Susannah said never to wear cropped trousers as they make you look short and stumpy. Previous to their advice I wore them lots but convinced this was true I got rid of all of mine. It was only about two years ago that I stated wearing them again in the summer.

They also said never to wear black with a colour - I stopped that immediately - I suspect I still don't wear black with a colour.

@EnidButton I thought that the black summer dress on the midlife chic website looked quite a good buy on the carefully posed picture from the M and S website but not quite as good on the lady in mid life chic which is not a criticism of her as she has a lovely figure

I've given up on the wide leg cropped look - tried some wide leg chinos on earlier in the hope that they would look more flattering on me than wide leg jeans but they didn't. It's just a shape that doesn't suit me - I suit a straighter leg so will stick with Capri trousers or straight leg rolled up chinos.

Hope you don't mean these trousers Frugal as I bloody love 'em (although not with the comedy shoes). Trinny and Susannah would have disapproved for multiple reasons: cropped, tapered and pleated but I can live with that - although I do still avoid black with bright colours thanks to them.

In fact if it wasn't for those trousers, I'd have sacked H&M by now. They're seriously off form at the moment in my opinion.

They look nice Flosime - I didn't see them in store, wish I had! These were one of the pairs I tried on - I knew they'd look shit before I had them on me due to the high waist and belt but thought I'd give them a go.

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