So
after umming and ahhhing for literally a couple of years I've finally taken the
plunge and started a blog! a clothes blog! or even a style blog! I
discovered daily outfit posts and style / fashion blogs a couple of years ago
and I have my favourites – I’m always excited to see new posts from them in my
blog reader.
I'd considered starting up my own blog but had always hesitated - online, I've
always considered myself more of an observer than a joiner, a lurker rather
than a commenter. I am overcome with a strange kind of shyness when it
comes to leaving a comment on someone else's blog - I'll happily talk to strangers in random life situations such as in the
lift or queuing up at the supermarket, but commenting on a blog
– overcome.with.shyness. Obviously having my own blog is waaay outside my online comfort zone. And yet I still hankered to join the online party
Another
thing that held me back was that I didn’t see any one like me on the style
blogs I was reading at first. I’m over
forty, plus sized, not-at-all-photogenic (first outfit photo as proof) and live
in Sydney Australia. Whereas the style
blogs I first stumbled across showed young, thin, gorgeously photogenic,
US/UK bloggers. I felt pretty
intimidated by that community. Then I stumbled on my first plus-sized blog -
Tina @ TMinus TPlus who is awesome (I should point out Tina is not over 40, and
is very photogenic and American so not really like me at all). At this point I started searching for other
plus-size bloggers, and I stumbled across a few who were over 40 and a few who
were Australian and I realised that the blogging community had room for
everyone who wanted to join. Sadly I have not found any other un-photogenic style
bloggers so I may well be the first – maybe that could be my unique thing!
While
I love all the blogs where people post gorgeous photos of their ‘outfits’, I
also really love the blogs where people don’t always wear ‘outfits’ sometimes
they are just wearing clothes. Some days
I put in a lot of thought into my ‘outfit’, other days my decisions go
something like this – what do I want to wear? What is clean and ironed? Do these things look good together? What am I
doing today – what clothes will work?
Will I be comfy? My clothing
choices are a language of energy, laundry habits, tasks for the day, required comfort
levels, and self love; I speak this language one day at a time.
PS: an outfit photo to start, I'm wearing my sequinned black top and 'fiona' necklace as I'm on my way out to a birthday dinner.
