I guess it boils down to whether or not you’re documenting outfits because you need affirmation from the outside world, on whether or not your style is hip. If you take photos to document and show, regardless of what the outside world thinks (a big thumb to nose to those who think your style is completely off!) you’re not looking for outside affirmation.

Throughout history, women have often been defined by their clothing; the style of clothing they have been allowed to wear has been very often prescribed to them according to class… these strictures are falling away and we are freer to SIMPLY HAVE FUN!!!

I have never put photos of myself up on a style blog, though I have shared photos on sewing sites of myself wearing clothing I have sewn… I LOVE seeing REAL PEOPLE and their funny, quirky, inspired and most of all INDIVIDUAL takes on the fashions that blow across society or that they invent themselves. Mainstream media is rather disheartening in its continued used of all the same ‘ideas’, and all using the same models, who are a uniform size… It is awful really how our unconscious can readily absorb the idea that only model ‘types’ are fashionable or attractive, or that a particular style is in this month and out the next. Style blogs give a window into the lives of real people who are walking around among us in amazing, colourful, beautiful, joyous outfits and creating visual treats for everyone they encounter, and infusing art into something we all have to do every day- put on clothes! It does my heart good to see it, I thank you all for sharing, and isn’t sharing pretty much narcissism’s opposite?