cultural & subcultural

Style Statements: When External Judgements Conflict with Personal Choices

December 7, 2010

A girl friend of mine recently wrote about the judgment she felt based on how she was dressed.  She’s not the first friend of mine who, dressed in a similar manner, felt judged based on what she’s wearing from the conservative sector. What’s surprising though, is that these aren’t girls with vibrant, candy colored hair.  [...]

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Fashion Blogger vs. Fatshion Blogger

September 23, 2010

Over the last few months, I’ve had the particular pleasure of discovering many great, super intelligent, beautiful, and stylish fatshion and plus-size bloggers on the web. I’ve loved the opportunities to get to know them through their incredible blogs, chat with them on Twitter, and more. In reading these ladies blogs, I find inspiration because [...]

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Finance & the Fashion Blogger: “Haul Videos”

May 26, 2010

After the response on my first few Finance & the Fashion Blogger posts, I thought I’d try to make it a regular series– talking about my own interest in finances, how I use different tools to manage my money (and save for shoes!), observations I’m seeing in the blogosphere, and more.  I hope you enjoy [...]

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Finance & the Fashion Blogger: Blogging & Buying

May 7, 2010

The response, comments, and interest in my post, Finance & the Fashion Blogger: Ignore-ance has been overwhelming and incredible.  Though I haven’t responded, please know that I’ve read them all. Money– It’s Important to talk about. And I don’t mean how much we make. In the U.S., the Horatio Algiers, rags-to-riches ideology is still an [...]

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Finance & the Fashion Blogger: Ignore-ance

April 27, 2010

Please be sure to check out my follow up posts to this one: Finance & the Fashion Blogger: Blogging & Buying (for my reactions on this post) & Finance & the Fashion Blogger: Haul Videos to check out more thoughts and reactions to this post and its lovely, thought provoking comments! I write this from [...]

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