Comments on: Are you a Fashion Blogger, Style Blogger or Shopping Blogger?

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:07:10 +0000

One of the ways I am attempting to differentiate my blog (http://the-budgetista.com) from the rest of the fashion blogs is that I don’t tell my readers what “fashion” is, I allow them to tell me. They have the ability to contact me for whatever fashion inspired them, whether seen on a reality show or music video. Then I try to find them what they are looking for at a cost that cannot be beat. For me, after reading so many fashion blogs, I realized I still couldn’t afford anything they wrote about so I would ultimately stop reading. What I hope to do is find affordable fashion for those readers who are on a budget.
elizabeth´s last blog ..Spotted: Serena’s Cut Out Dress & Messy Necklace from Gossip Girl’s The Empire Strikes Jack Episode

By: The Curvy Fashionista

The Curvy Fashionista — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:45:21 +0000

Hey hey there! You know when I first started out blogging (a short year ago) I wrote from the personal style and fashion point of view, then I realized that others liked, respected, and wanted more, and as one of my blogging friends told me, you evolve.

My blog has grown into a fashion and lifestyle especially as mines focuses on a specific niche (plus size). I do try to differentiate my blog, focusing on the contemporary, and fashion forward designers and fashion, translated from what we’d see in fashion week and in the mags…

Great post Gretchen!!! Aptly timed as I am restructuring my positioning
The Curvy Fashionista´s last blog ..Revisiting my Open Letter to the Retail Industry

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:50:12 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by grechen, Ashe Mischief and Michelle , hyw. hyw said: If wut u blog is good it doesnt rlly matter!: R u a fashion,style or shopping blogger? does it matter? http://ow.ly/10e2H via @greedygrechen [...]

By: Yuli

Yuli — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:52:07 +0000

Thanks for the shout out and for joining the discussion, Grechen! One thing I would like to add, which wasn’t mentioned: I see also many bloggers who post a little bit of everything, which confuses people even more about the various kinds of fashion bloggers. Just like established publications have their own mission statement and niche, I think it’s important for bloggers to figure that out, so they don’t get swayed away by PR pitches and traffic driving temptations
Yuli´s last blog ..10 Fashion Blogger Stereotypes, Or Why Brands Still Fear Working With Bloggers.

By: grechen

grechen — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:26:17 +0000

hi indiana!! see…that’s why i love to read adored austin – you have your own distinct style & you love to have fun with your outfits. i feel like WAY too many of the uber-popular personal style blogs have the same look, they’re always following trends, or look like something out of the shopbop lookbook. that gets boring after a while.

i can’t wait to read more of your austin events/designers pieces – i’m really looking forward to getting to know the city

By: Indiana Adams

Indiana Adams — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:04:51 +0000

Thank you for the link, Gretchen. Here’s a little tidbit that y’all may not know: I didn’t start off doing Adored Austin with the intention of making it a personal style blog. I wanted it to be a spot sort of like TheAustinist where I wrote about Austin events, but I wanted the events to only be fashion, home decor, art, and shopping based. I was throwing in What I Wore type posts to fill in the gaps. Alas, my personal style posts were the ones that people were actually commenting on, and after a month of so of my launch, I decided to just go with it. In all honesty, I don’t feel particularly fashionable. I’m not into shoes or bags, and I don’t read any fashion magazines. I just like thrift store shopping and buying clothes that are affordable but sustainable, so a lot of the time I feel like the ugly duckling of this whole strange land of “Fashion Bloggers”.

Also, there are days when I feel incredibly narcissistic and shallow, though. I sometimes wonder if people know that there’s much more to me than what I wear and what I buy. This year I’m going to try really hard to put more of a focus on events in Austin and to spotlight small businesses and emergent designers, instead of it being a 100% Look at Me fest.

Thanks for everything you do here, an I’m excited to finally be able to meet you soon!
Indiana Adams´s last blog ..Video: Getting to know me, getting to know all about me

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:57:36 +0000

I think these “categories” matter only when others (advertisers, networks, PR people) assess your blog to see if you’re worth working with, as far as target audience and content.

Grechen, if you’re not a fashion blog, then I’m really on the fringes

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:55:17 +0000

Great post! I agree with Ashe – I call myself a fashion blog because it’s easier to say and much more used than ‘style and lifestyle blog’ (which is the niche I would say I fall into as well). It is a really interesting thing to think about, because the discount/sales blogs that update 10x in a day and the content-heavy blogs that update 3-5x week are all under the same umbrella!
Michelle´s last blog ..How to Stop Worrying All the Damn Time

By: WendyB

WendyB — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:48:45 +0000

P.S. One time I tried to join a fashion blogger network and they told me I wasn’t a fashion blog

It wasn’t IFB of course!
WendyB´s last blog ..Epic Outfit Post: Electric Lady Gaga Land

By: WendyB

WendyB — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:48:03 +0000

Ha ha — people have told me that I would be more successful if I could just do something third or fourth instead of first. It’s so much easier to sell. Like those movie pitches that say “it’s like When Harry Met Sally meets Jaws meets Cold Mountain” and everyone says, “Oh, of course!”
WendyB´s last blog ..Epic Outfit Post: Electric Lady Gaga Land