I love fashion. As you may know in the
last years many bloggers have emerged and became life exhibitors of brands to
sell and promote their items. I'm not going to lie, but I check their posts
almost every day. Some of them are professional bloggers, meaning they get paid
for showing items in their blogs, and they also get to keep the clothes. And
sometimes bloggers sell the clothes and get extra cash.
I used to think fashion blogs are cool, they express a
certain personality and allowed anyone to get ideas on how to dress. However,
after seeing the way some bloggers have become a mere way of selling stuff it
makes me wonder if the shirt the girl is wearing is really something daring,
cool and something she will wear if she wasn't paid for. Us mere mortals, with
a normal budget and not getting paid for wearing clothes can't afford to have
the same closest they have so we have to choose, prioritize and be realistic
with the money and space we have.
Last week, being already pissed with one blogger for
being extremely obvious she was wearing something she wouldn’t normally wear...
I saw one of them posting a link of a website where she was selling her
clothes. It had the price, the composition and how many times the item had been
used before. Most of the things had only been used one time. And now is when I
need to ask myself, is it even responsible to behave like that? I'm a grown up,
I know I can't buy 7 outfits every day and I don't get frustrated (at least not
all the time!) but they are sending a wrong message to the young girls out
there...
I understand in their case bloggers use their clothes
as part of their work, fine... But by the way blogs are made, and also the way
they are written and I guess is the reason why they are so popular is because
they are meant to represent "the girl next door" (of course, the girl
next door always looking adorable). What would a normal girl wear to
class/work/party? And it turns out some of the blogs are not even about that
anymore. I respect it has become a job, but let’s not pretend they are spontaneous
or free or that they represent "the girl next door" because what we
see know it's just a brand, paying a model, the blogger, to show their clothes.
