(Photo: Style Bytes and canoeing )
It seems that after the boom of street fashion blogs, there has been a veritable rash of personal style blogs, that is, their main subject are photos commemorating the author's daily outfit. The oldest of these (eg Style Bytes or Style Bubble ) developed on the basis of previously conducted by the author blogs about fashion. Newer often already have a clear profile wardrobe'owy. Many of them are also continuations profiles Style Diary or Flickr group wardrobe_remix , bringing together "the lovers of personal style."
It seems that after the boom of street fashion blogs, there has been a veritable rash of personal style blogs, that is, their main subject are photos commemorating the author's daily outfit. The oldest of these (eg Style Bytes or Style Bubble ) developed on the basis of previously conducted by the author blogs about fashion. Newer often already have a clear profile wardrobe'owy. Many of them are also continuations profiles Style Diary or Flickr group wardrobe_remix , bringing together "the lovers of personal style."
phenomenon of blogs and profiles wardrobe'owych is another slap in the face of these critical (and skeptical) to the existence of the phenomenon groupness on the Internet. We have here an example vibrant community with common interests (fashion, shopping in stores with starociami), their own standards (for example, avoids the criticism presented in costumes, and if anything, it emphasizes the subjectivity of the evaluation - eg "I can założyłabym other shoes") and ties between people from different parts of the world (their word is their mutual commenting entries, swapping clothes). They are not at the same flat relationship, characteristic of the combined group only interests. Owners of personal style blogs share photos and also because information about his private life (partners, place of residence, work, trips) and sometimes also meet in the offline life.
UPDATE
At the international fashion arena, blogging is becoming increasingly evident by the Polish team. In her case, much easier to identify the genesis of the whole phenomenon than the more dispersed in time and portalowo foreign community. For the Polish fashion bloggers (as we called themselves inspired by the name of the first Polish personal style blog Wardrobe Sztywniary ) all began with the fashion forum gazeta.pl portal, where the great popularity enjoyed the threads consisting of pasting photos their shopping loot or everyday clothing. There are also many girls engaged in later blogs come to know and polubiło. The forum fashion future blogowiczki also gave an expression of his fascination with foreign blogs wardrobe'owymi exchanging your favorite links. For example, fashion bloggers probably still evident nature of this social networking phenomenon. The authors present the generally accepted name "Szafiarki" (in foreign blogosphere - probably because of its size - this community operates in parallel under several names, including the Society Wardrobe Remixers and Girls, which does not relate the same population), have created a closed forum that allowed only persons accepted by the public. Szafiarki exchange or buy clothes or inaccessible to each other in some cities things. Also jointly organized an information campaign to combat Breast Cancer.
wardrobe'owe popularity of blogs as well as those of street fashion is part of the ongoing discussion for some time over the democratization of fashion. Since the trends are dictated by the bottom-up person of average wealth of the portfolio, it can emulate the proverbial Everyone. Wardrobe'owych blog owner put on "personal style" in place of the blind follow the fashion, DIY and second hand clothes instead of those from the designers. Another thing that's most popular blogowiczki set a specific "ideal way" pursued by the younger disciples of blogging, which, instead of the fashion istnego crucible often have to deal with variations on the same.
Personal style blogs are a new source of information about trends for the cool hunters and marketers of all kinds. Instead, as before, moving in the area after careful discernment to identify innovators in different environments, today is enough to observe the most influential blogs. Owners of such sites are often recruited by word of mouth marketing agencies to assess the products entering the market. If anyone doubts the impact of certain trendsetterską blogowiczek, let them look into this, as evolved under the influence of Polish style fashion bloggers (eg here ). The prestige of some blogowiczek and their country of origin without a doubt, positively affect the ease with which diffusion takes place trends. However, the Polish-cabinet blogs retain local flavor exhibiting is even in the fact that often speaks to them about "lumpeksowych hunt" than "vintage finds" (which follows from the specifics of the Polish market for used clothing, which goes mainly przepatrzone already abroad sieciówek clothes from a few seasons).
