Once Messica Quirk started hitting the crazy juice a little too hard, a bunch of her loyal readers (and loyal sponsors) defected to another fashion blogger with a heart of gold and a wardrobe of c/o. Who was this squeaky clean fresh face on the blogger scene? Kendi Everyday, of course! Or, as I like to call her: Kendi Everycray.
I used to think of her like a Messica 2.0. I thought she was relatively enjoyable to read for quite some time. Then I actually started to read what she wrote.
Here’s what she wrote below the above trainwreck of an outfit:
I bought this bow tie for my lover for our anniversary. My husband was super jealous when he saw them. I kid, my husband is my lover. That way things aren’t complicated at Valentine’s. Anyways, when I bought it there was a slight part of me that thought “I bet I could wear this too. Muahahahahaha!” What? Don’t act like you don’t people you love gifts so that you can use them. Those make the best gifts.
By the way, Mom for your birthday I’m getting you a new laptop that I’m going to keep at my house. You’re going to love it.
Ugh ugh UGH. I can’t take any more of her “oh I’m so witty and ironic” babbling that rarely makes sense. Her little hook is that she’s the cute, stylish AND funny blogger. She thinks that is funny. She really does. It’s clear she doesn’t realize (or care) that the stream-of-consciousness “funny” on her blog smacks more of Desperation Street, Crazytown, USA. (“See! I am the funny blogger! I am so sarcastic! Teehee!”) This twee little persona and her knocking about in abandoned parking garages with her Photo Bitch husband writing cutesy, pithy little witticisms has me barely controlling my normally dependable Parisian indifference.
All this, and the fact that she insists she actually wears these outfits all day at home and that she also charges $4 for a digital book on how to make 30 outfits with 30 pieces of clothing (something most people have to do everyday minus the famewhoring appeal you’ve brought to the endeavor) makes her a blogger slowly climbing her way up onto my Messica-Level Ego Blogger Hall of Fame list.
xo,
Lancelle
gah, this chick annoys me. from the bland talbots and jcrew catalog rip-off outfits to the cutesy staring-at-my-feets- -in-a-parking-garage poses, I’m glad someone is finally calling this bore out on her pseudo silly-sweet crap.
I get it that she is popular because her clothes are from target /old navy/ modcrap /jcrew etc. and thus accessible to the masses, but her styling is so lackluster and uninspired, why even bother chronicling it.
Some of her outfits are copies of JCrew catalog ensembles. Again, fine but she’s certainly no original. Also, I love how all of Jessica’s fan-fashion-bloggers (kendi is one) BELT everything just like Jessica. That trend is almost as dated as the denim jacket/skirt trend. Come on people!
For the most part, I have no problem with what Kendi wears. Or Messica, for that matter. Their missteps are funny (Kendi’s above, Messica’s penis hat), but there’s nothing inherently wrong with what they wear.
I DO have a problem, though, with their “I am so fashiony” attitudes–as if they are the first ones to wear stripes or skinny jeans or a pencil skirt. On any given day, there are thousands of girls around the world wearing a version of what Kendi and Messica put out there as their original, awesome-blossom style.
There’s an audience for the inspirational fashion blogger, like the Glamourai, and there’s an audience for the everyday fashion blogger, like Kendi & Messica, but it’s all in the execution. I find Kendi’s execution annoying and Messica’s off-putting. If you want to show a more everyday style, fine! That’s helpful. But to act as though no one has ever had to make 30 outfits from 30 pieces of clothing before, like it’s some HUGE, DIFFICULT problem, is just delusional. Most women do this every day and don’t try spin it as this amazing and innovative fashion experiment. It’s just getting dressed and making a few clothes go a long way. Nothing new.
THIS.
I agree. One of the prerequisites to being a fashion blogger is you need to have an ego large enough to devour all of the other fashion bloggers. It kills me that bitches get PAID to be lackluster fashion bloggers, because I have better style than them and am actually funny when I write (or so I’ve heard), but I just can’t find it in me to pimp myself out on the Internet. I don’t need 150 commenters saying, “You’re so cute!” to feel worthwhile about my life, sorry.
That’s why I’m so happy when I come across the extremely rare fashion blog that keeps it real. I love fashion bloggers who are like, “I absolutely hate that outfit I wore yesterday,” or “These 6-inch heels gave me blisters after five minutes.” You know, bloggers who don’t pretend that their life is all cupcakes and husbands and cute antique stores. I actually like Tavi a lot. My favorite, however, is Lulu and Your Mom, because she loves to talk shit on other bloggers.
End rant.
When does Lulu talk shit on people? I read her blog once in a while but must have missed that one…would love to see it, though, she strikes me as a snarky bitch.
I would also like to know who “keeps it real” because one of my biggest peeves about bloggers is when they’re at the beach or, like, in the middle of the woods wearing these 5 inch beartrap heels and I’m like WHO DOES THAT. WHO GOES “HIKING” WEARING THAT.
I had made a comment earlier about the same thing, Shrug bitch. Like, I can believe they wear their stupid outfits, no matter how crazy you can physically WEAR a lot of crazy stuff… but putting the crazy on your feet? you are disabling yourself. and you don’t even look good. heels with giant platforms look so awful. i wish the trend would go away.
Lets see some of your sweatpants outfits.
i tuned her out a few months ago when I realized that our clothes are so similar. Let’s face it, I just don’t need help “remixing” (i believe simply “dressing” is the word she is looking for) what is essentially a closet full of target, J Crew and Urban Outfitters clothes. It’s not brain surgery. It’s pretty much garanimals for grown ups and I am fine with that.
She bought the same lace skirt as I did from Loft and blogged bout it saying, “I’m going to remix the heck out of this thing” whereas I bought mine thinking, “I am going to wear this thing.”
She really thinks she is hilarious!
I also just had to stop visiting her site when I found out how in with Messica she is. It’s called guilt by association, right? Just can’t stand them.
I like Kendi; I do think shes funny. But I agree that knowing that she and Quirkamania were actual good friends without irony ruined her for me.
And her outfits lately have been almost embaressingly unflattering…
Quirkamania! Love it! What I’m calling her from now on.
Kendi doesn’t get on my nerves… yet. I feel like she really tries (though maybe a bit too hard sometimes). Yes, the $4 remix guide is a bit much, but she hasn’t done anything I’d consider overly obnoxious. I’d take a little cutesy & kinda corny over self-absorbed anyday. But, BUT if she keeps kissing Messica’s ass, she’s toast in my book. You don’t need her help, Kendi! She’s only in it because she perceives you as a threat & wants the recognition on your blog so she can hopefully lure some new readers. She could only dream of having a feature as popular as the “30 for 30 Challenge” (Wonder why she never participates? Hmmm…) Messica doesn’t do ANYTHING without her best interests in mind. Why do you think her only “friends” are fellow fashion bloggers who’ve never (or have only barely) met her? She’s the kind of girl who is b/f/f’s with everyone when she’s single because she needs someone to go out with so she can meet guys. Once she’s chosen a victim, she blows her friends off. She’s done the same many times with other fashion bloggers- once she’s gotten enough exposure (seriously- her “friendship” with JA?) she moves on to the next up & coming “big thing” (read: threat to her).
Sorry- got off topic… I don’t think I’ll ever dislike another blogger as much as I dislike Messica. I guess not *all* the posts can be about her though. :)
You’re still fabulous, Lancelle! I might be right there with you soon, but not yet.
Merci!
P.S. Agree 100% on the friends-as-leverage comment. They seem to have no tangible, real life friendships and instead look for validation in the form of fake, OMG NO YOU’RE THE BEST tweet convos with other bloggers.
That’s the way I see these bloggers. While they seem to document every stupid little thing they do and/or wear, rarely do you see them spending time with anyone besides their OMG!HUSBANDS and other bloggers–who, considering that these are their “jobs” or whatever, would fall under the category of “colleagues.” They just don’t have regular friends.
Sometimes I think about starting a blog, because it would be fun to document my crazy Russian adventures. Problem is, when I’m not working on stuff for school or work, I’m generally spending time with my friends and then don’t have the energy leftover to document things for a blog. (Or I’m too wasted/hungover–it IS Russia, after all.) I mean, I have the fucking flu right now and last night two of my dude friends came over with beer and they and my roommates and I all sat around in the kitchen shooting the shit for a few hours, and then today my bff came over and we watched Gossip Girl. These girls have no one to watch Gossip Girl with! That is so sad.
Either they are so annoying that no one who is not boning them wants to hang out with them, or they ditched everyone once they achieved their life’s goal and got married.
OT, sort of, but a few days ago I found http://nataliemerrillyn.blogspot.com, and it is absolutely the worst offender of the OMGLOOKATMEANDMYHUSBANDIAMMARRIED genre I’ve ever seen.
OMG… the profile picture!
STFU SMUG MARRIEDS
STFU grown women who think Disney is awesome.
This. Thank you.
Who wants to read this tripe on a daily basis? I just don’t get it. I can see the appeal of fashion blogging. But there is no general theme to this blog other than posting things she likes and things she does with her husband. WHY WHY WHY
Then don’t read the blog, guys. It’s not for you anyway.
Who is it for? Because I’m married, and I shop, and I put clothes on in the morning… am I not the target audience? Yet I can’t remain for longer than 30 seconds on any of these godawful sites.
If you want to write something for yourself, like a record of your newlywed days or whatever, put in a fucking journal. Or on a password-protected blog, so the people who would care, like your mom, can read it. But if you’re writing a blog that anyone can read, then it’s no longer for you. it’s for everyone. Even if no one gives a shit.
“While I write this my husband is sitting next to me. We’re about to get on a plane to fly to our home in California. And I cant WAIT to start our lives together. :)”
Oh god. Wonder if she’ll take the blog down in a few years when she catches her husband cheating with a colleague.
Holy shit.
An entire website designed to look like the wedding invitation.
The print is so pale it’s like reading a fainted louse.
Clementines with cinnamon syrup? Avocado fries?
“The taste reminds you of a pomander ball?”
/VOMS
Oh, and how the hell does your husband surprise you with a trip to Disneyland?
“But honey, this isn’t the way to the ER!”
“I know! Hee hee hee!”
I used to like her a lot but recently I’m a little over the constant (bad!!) jokes. I feel like eventually it’s just going to be “No but really folks, what IS THE DEAL with chopsticks??” or “In all seriousness, I love my wife, I just don’t like her!”, (insert rim shot here).
So this jacket came up to me in the store and said, “Can I come home with you?” And I said yes and now I’m wearing it.
I GOT LOTS MORE WHERE THIS CAME FROM
I just flew in for fashion week and boy are my arms tired.
I just got a brand new sponsor today and by that I mean that I got four of Messica’s old sponsors.
BAZINGA
**crickets**
First prize: One week in Bloomington!
Second prize: Two weeks in Bloomington!
*air horn*
Ha! That one was actually pretty funny. :)
hahaha…. Kendi, in this post http://kendieveryday.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-we-meet-again.html said:
“So if you are new here, I need to make you aware of two rules for Kendi Everyday readers. Rule 1: You have to be fluent in sarcasm. Rule 2: You have to like what I wear so much that you don’t mind seeing me in it more than once. And by more than once I mean that I repeat many things.”
kill-me
Oh, yay, another blog with “instructions” on how to read/interpret the content. Smells like another Gawker Media redesign.
what a sarcastic woman!
If you dont like her blog, why are you reading it? dah
its her blog, she can do whatever she wants!
On kendi’s blog (under Q&A) it says she takes some of her photos “after work”. So she actually has a job, unlike Messica? Or is this just legalse, i.e. her HUSBAND takes them after HE comes home from work?
I’d feel better about hating on her if it’s the latter. Legalese really gets my goat, bunnies.
Maybe it is a piece of her “sarcasm”.
She used to have a job, she just quit back in October. http://kendieveryday.blogspot.com/2010/10/jump-in.html
God I hate her now.
Another lazy girl.
This will likely make your head explode then.
“We’re Bryan and Kendi Skeen.
A. Husband and wife
B. Wedding photographers
C. Not that great at writing bio’s on themselves
D. All of the above.
Bio:
Bryan and Kendi Skeen met in 2005 through a blog. Bryan said to Kendi, “I read your blog” and from then on she was hooked and so was he. In those 5 years, they got married, moved three times, adopted two dogs, and have lived in an embarrassing number of rental units. Kendi also writes a blog called “Kendi Everyday“. Bryan takes her photos, every single day.
Talk about dedication.”
Wow, writing FAIL all over the place. And this is their BUSINESS?
They’re going to sell this bidness for fuck you money, i just feel it in my bones.
Well, it’s a bit confusing actually. Her husband is a photographer, that is his job. Although I don’t know if he has a second job.
But it looks like she quit to work with him? I’m not really sure, and their joint photog website is pretty sparse, looks like they are just setting it up now.
I feel the need to mention that I actually like Kendi. I think she can be a bit much with her cheesiness, but I suspect that comes from have some self-awareness and knowing that what she is doing is not at all to be taken seriously. And since her husband is a professional photographer, it makes sense to me that he would take her daily photos.
Doesn’t he work at some sort of camp or something? I think he just does the photography on weekends.
Yeah I honestly don’t know much about what her husband does, aside from the photography thing. Although now that you mention it, I seem to recall a post of hers where she was talking about visiting a camp? It would make sense that he would have another job, though.
Ah yep you’re right, he works at a retreat center. http://kendieveryday.blogspot.com/2010/07/half-way-there.html
It was shortly after this that I started disliking her outfits. But I never connected the two.
I think she means after her husband’s work. But, someone corrected me on another post saying she had a job–she and husband are starting a studio together. I don’t know if that means she gets dressed up to go look at real estate or what.
BTW, do you see all that sponsors on her blog?
She has thinning hair, constantly pursed lips and a cleft chin. Also, she looks very physically awkward. I can’t really find any charm in this girl.
Sort of like Calivintage. So tired of her doe-eyed, sooo beautiful and french… and the text font is ridiculously small. does anyone read all that???? seriously, what is there to say every single day like that? am i missing anything?
I dealt with Kendi via email when she was selling some of her clothes – she was friendly and helpful. I think that the humor is a little over-the-top/unnecessary sometimes, but I do like her style and find her funny most of the time. The one thing I didn’t like was when she sold the $4 guide. I think she said she’s starting a wedding photog business with her husband, but also freelancing, since quitting her job a few months ago. She said for sure she’s not doing the blog full time.
Yeah, this is basically why I can’t hate on her. The only thing she is really guilty of is trying a bit too hard on the humor front. I think it’s good to realize that she’s categorically different from Messica – she seems to be nice, cares enough about her readers to respond to them in detail, actually CREATES something helpful on her website (even if it cost $4), and doesn’t have pretensions to being some fashion goddess (even if it makes her wardrobe a bit boring). Messica is the opposite of those things, and has garnered some very harsh comments on here as a result of that. I don’t really think Kendi deserves those.
I’m pretty much over fashion blogs in general these days. They’re all wearing variations of the same outfit. I thought they were ok at first, and I have gotten a few ideas here & there. There are a few I check once or twice a week, but on the whole I find you guys much more entertaining. I’m often waiting on clients with just my phone for entertainment, and GOMI always delivers.
THANKS SHUT YO! Thanks! So grateful! Thank you! Your positivity means so much to us! Thanks!
Aaaand THAT is why I keep coming back for your features!
PP, your pic really contributes to the sincerity of your reply!!!!!!
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I agree with everyone here. I liked Kendi’s blog at first, but now it’s just the same twee shit everyday. At least Kendi seems to have some humility and seems genuinely nice.
I’m sorry, I know I keep nominating her but seriously, WHAT IS THIS? http://caseyculture.tumblr.com/
For a client meeting? In the middle of winter? WHO is taking these photos? At the office? all of this screams professionalism.
It sort of looks like a bridesmaid dress you’d wear to a summer wedding.
LOL. The wine bottle and glass KILL ME EVERY TIME. It’s sooo tacky, low brow, elementary school teacher clip art…
I kant take it.
Excuse, she is allowed a wine bottle and glass clip art because she is tres chic because she has been to France. She went to France once where she learnt how to say tres chic and bought a handbag. God. Une bouteille de vin et une verre sont très, très chic. Mon dieu, zut alors.
Was it a Lancel? From Paris?
Her prior post is even funnier:
“You know why I love you, sweetie? You’re real” – her Dad.
Real???!!! You’re real???!!! Your financey type boyfriend no doubt pays most of your rent, while you prance around getting fauxto-ed in are you kidding me clothing. Making recipes you got off your nanny.
Girl would not know real if it slapped her in the face.
HERE ARE ME N MY DADDY KEEPIN IT REAL IN PARIS on a vacay I didn’t spend a DIME for!
#SOREAL
Not that I’m any beauty prize, but I don’t GOMI her because frankly I don’t want to LOOK at her.
correct, she’s fug. i can’t tell (bc i’m straight) but i’ve seen her bf and he looks as fug as i think @quirk looks, if tghat makes any sense
Her flamenco dress for work is even funnier
http://caseyculture.tumblr.com/post/1479558580/flamenco-inspired-number-almost-a-decade-later
what they hell is up with her eyebrows?
It’s like from 2004 and costume-y. But then everything on ModCloth looks like a costume. Is that what “personal fashion” is about? Infusing a personality or characteristic where there is none? I’m not seeing too much of the “don’t let the clothes wear you” from these fashun blahgers.
Belle sleeves. Belle. Zut alors.
From Express.
I kant. There is just too much wrong with this picture.
Client meetings. Client meetings. WHAT.
No one wears Express anymore, that post made me get all nostalgic and shit. Remember back in the ’90s when Express had NICE clothes???
Let go of the belt. For reals.
“everything is better with a fried egg.”
Which is why you’ve slipped two of them onto your face and another two down the front of your dress, right?
PS. That is a POACHED egg, dumbass.
I hate every single one of these interchangeable people.
Also, none of them can dress for shit.
Also, also, stop hitting so many young women with clothes, man, clothes, man – you’re setting feminism back fifty years.
Also, also, also telling people to buy nasty plastic shoes from Target tells me you know nothing about style and don’t even bother researching affordable alternatives.
Get off my internets all of you, seriously.
I think the worst sub-genre is the fashion blogs where the girls just take pictures of themselves trying on clothes at Anthropologie. I just don’t get it. Maybe if 1 or 2 blogs did it to review the fit/ quality of the clothes (as they are a bit of an investment), but there’s like 50 of them & they all follow each other. It’s… odd.
Wait, there are dressing room fashion bloggers now? I’ve heard everything.
oh yea, complete with poor lighting, blurry shots, crooked angles, etc. of course, most of them are size 0-2 and ALWAYS make excuses if they have to size up (“this fit better in a 4, BUT I HAD A BIG LUNCH and WAS WEARING EXTRA THICK TIGHTS!”).
“Normally I wear a 0, but in this I went with a 4. If you are super skinny but have massive breasts like me, you might want to size up to the 4 to hold your huge knockers.”
5 different angles of a piece of clothing shot with an iPhone in a dressing rooms feels very voyeuristic…
This doesn’t even make sense:
“For those curvy like me or those with larger busts or hips, expect to size up 1-2 sizes. For those less curvy your true size should work fine.”
So basically, the sizes run small? The tortured logic makes me want to cry. And oh, there’s so much more:
“I should have sized up to an 8. The 6 was going OK until I had to zip over my 34D bust. At that point it started pulling, and the skirt too started pulling as a result. Ignoring the fit issues, the dress is lovely.”
“My true size 6 fit wonderfully, but the stripes were stretched to the point of exaggeration across my chest. So I sized up to an 8 for these photos.”
“Since this dress is a shift I knew my true size 6 was out of the question. I grabbed both an 8 and a 10. The 8 was not comfortable (too tight across my chest) so it was on to the 10. Thankfully, the 10 worked!”
“…this dress is tight around the chest. Porridge usually is. So instead of my usual 6 I tried an 8 instead.”
OK, protip: If a 6 is too small in every single size you try on, YOU ARE NOT A 6. I’m not bodysnarking, but this woman is not a 6, and *she* is essentially bodysnarking by broadcasting her desire for thinness.
In every single *dress*, that is. Sorry.
“From the available choices, I reached for a 6. That’s my normal size but I’ve had to go to an 8 in Edme & Esyllte since last year.”
“I sized up in this dress to accommodate my 34D bust. A size 8 (one size up for me) worked perfectly.”
“I tried on an 8, one size up from my usual but two sizes up from what I usually take in Anna Sui.”
“I sized up to an 8, noting the straight cut of this top. Unfortunately even that didn’t seem to help much — the bottom button was pulling.”
“This brand tends to run small so I sized up to an 8. Even that was a bit tight around my hips.”
“I sized up to an 8 to try this dress on, but really I needed a 10.”
“I could tell even on the hanger that I would need to size up in this dress, so I grabbed an 8. The 8 just barely zipped.”
I am literally pulling these quotes from every single one of her reviews. LADY, YOU ARE A SIZE EIGHT, WEAR IT AND BE PROUD.
Oh shit, I didn’t even mention: these are all from Effortless Anthropologie (see below). I suck so badly at commenting.
Thank you Expert Gay. I have thought this many, many times.
I even suggested (nicely – really) once that she should go up a size in a dress she had posted. I was JUMPED on about how i should stop taking my own body issues and transferring them to someone else. Which, huh? In the photo I could see the outline of her underwear — just thought that maybe if she went up a size then people wouldn’t be able to tell if she was bearing boy shorts or bikinis.
If you wear an 8 because Anthro runs small, then you wear an 8 at anthro. Spare us the gyrations of THIS RUNS SMALL THIS RUNS SMALL. Here’s a fucking tip: size 4 at Old Navy is size 8 every damn where else, so guess what: you’re a size 8. Guess what else, nobody cares. You’re still 5 sizes smaller than the average american female, so just say you’re an 8 in whatever is on your body. We can see the pics. We promise, you’re not fat. Now shut up.
Ugh, that’s awful. I don’t like watching someone (Mary, this blogger, whomever) work out her body issues in public. God knows I have my own hangups and sometimes wish I could fit into smaller sizes, but I don’t advertise my problems online, you know? And if I were a blogger dedicated to ascertaining whether clothes fit true to size, I’d stop misrepresenting my size. (Actually, it’s useless to call yourself a size anything, since women’s sizes are completely unreliable.)
I wear a 10 in target jeans. Skinny jeans, a 12. I don’t wear those super low rise pants because I have this thing about my fupa hanging out. Tops I’m a medium (pause for your lols). I wear a size 6 shoe (sometimes a 6.5 for those pointy ass heels). I am 5’2 and weigh 155 lbs. I weighed 180 in Cleveland about six months ago but New York involves a lot of walking.
I’m perfectly fine with all of this information. I think I look fine, and if you think I’m fat or whatever, ok. Who cares. I have a job and friends and cats. I’m just a woman and these are all just a bunch of numbers that help me cover my body from the wind. None of it defines me.
Haha, well in reading all of your comments…OK I’m a size 8. Or a 10. But also sometimes a 6. I think it’s a little unfair to declare that I’m dealing with body issues just because I normally reach for a 6. My weight and sizing are right on the blog for anyone to see. I think I’m pretty comfortable with my body. Those are fitting room reviews — not necessarily stuff that I buy. I think my outfits show that I know my size.
I mean, I don’t take myself so seriously to think that I’m a fashionista, or a fashion critic, or any of those things. I just happen to like Anthro so I started a blog about it. Putting photos of myself up on the blog was because I found myself falling behind when other blogs did it. I don’t mind it but it’s not like I’m sitting in front of the mirror blowing kisses at myself all day either.
Yeah, whatever, good for you. Then just say “this is a size so and so” and stop with the “I’m really a size 6 I swear! PROMISE! NORMALLY I AM SO SO TINY! I AM NOT FAT!!!! This stuff is just SO SMALL!” I’m sure you are super confident or blah blah blah. That’s not how you come off with your armwaving over the murmuring crowd to explain some number on a dress.
Ma’am, do you have this in the next size up?
Sorry, we only carry sizes 1, 3, and 5. You could try Sears.
“OK I’m a size 8. Or a 10. But also sometimes a 6.”
My dear, without snark, I must say that that “sometimes” rarely happens when you’re in the store then. Just reach for the 8 to start with and you won’t have to mention it again.
Roxy, you’re contradicting yourself. You say you just like antro but you also say “Putting photos of myself up on the blog was because I found myself falling behind when other blogs did it.”
Falling behind WHAT? Is it a race?
I don’t understand anyone who allows one brand name to be such a big part of her life.
Start with
http://effortlessanthropologie.blogspot.com
and go from there. The writer is actually helpful with sales etc but the entitlement shown by some of the commenters is mind boggling. I used to work part-time at one of their stores and the fandom the store generates is weird…a little twilight zoneish.
This one is even more awful http://anthroholic.blogspot.com/. Frumpy McFrumperston, for real.
Who are all these nothing people from Middleofnowhere taking photos of themselves all day???!!!! It freaks me out, the whole internet is turning into an Avon catalogue for Stepford Wives.
Awww, I like Anthroholic.
She is very into reader participation and posts pictures of OMG NOT THE SKINNIES along with everyone else, doesn’t claim to be ‘in fashion’, has a job and styles clothes on the side. Also, I don’t think she has any sponsors.
Though I only go there if I want something specific at that store and want to see it on a person because Anthropologie just shows a flat pic of a dress and how the hell am I going to make a decision based on that?
Ya know, what, you’re right. I do appreciate the diversity in styles and body types on her blog. I just don’t understand the obsessive cataloging of one store’s product.
Sorry, the “I went for my normal size 6 my normal size medium size6 size medium I’m normally a 6″ shit has to stop. She’s pulled it enough to fucking KNOW not to bother with anything under an 8 or L at Anthro. All she does is try on their clothes. She’s more than established that she DOES NOT WEAR AN ANTHROPOLOGIE 6. She just keeps saying it so that we are continually made aware that she is NOT fat and she wears a 6/M. You got that? A 6 OR A MEDIUM.
It’s obnoxious.
yea, i like her reader feature because it includes people of all sizes (even if their outfits are just copying what they saw on the mannequin at their local anthro), but anthroholic herself needs to lay off the eyeliner. omg it makes her eyes look like tiny beans.
I don’t understand Anthropologie, especially considering their target is supposedly rich ladies in their 30s and 40s, and yet I know all of these people in their 20s who salivate over it. Knee length skirts and cardigans? I’ll pass.
I agree completely. If I had a real job (i.e. not grad school), I’d probably shop there occasionally, but I’m 23 and find most of their clothes too matronly – lots of boxy cardigans with appliques and A-line skirts with large floral prints.
On another note: I bought an ivory lace skirt from Anthropologie six years ago, and have never worn it, because I can’t find a single top that might work with it! The skirt is really beautiful, actually, but I need to wear it before my gluttony and sloth catch up with me and I no longer fit into it. Any ideas, catladies?
BUT THIS IS SO PRETTY!!!
Sorry, this is my one and only purchase from that store and it is my new go-to party dress, dinner dress, wedding-attendence dress, it is just awesome. If a bit expensive.
I find that most of their stuff looks pretty in a catalogue or on a mannequin, but always ends up looking really weird on my body. It’s like they learned how to create cute patterns and unique styles that are more interesting than your average Banana Republic, but couldn’t put the time/$ into tailoring them correctly to fit real people.
You could wear a well tailored white dress shirt tucked in with a neutral belt and some pink shoes. Dress it down with a light grey tank and some leather sandals? I dunno, I’d have to look at it.
Silly. You should get married and wear it to your wedding, of course.
Ack not pink, i meant blush.
Is this the skirt by chance, EG? Or does it look somewhat similar at least?
http://www.polyvore.com/openwork_vines_skirt_anthropologie.com/thing?id=14074308
Floppy: the problem is, I can’t wear white with it, because it’s off-white. Well, I guess I could, but I don’t think it would look great. However, I do like the gray tank idea!
Partypants: OBVIOUSLY. I’ll wear five pettiskirts under it, too.
Helena: no, it’s completely ivory, not lined with black. It’s also a bit more dressy and delicate-looking than that skirt (which is nice, though!). I’m pretty sure my skirt isn’t sold anymore, seeing that I got it in 2005…
Yeah I like Anthro but a lot of the merch seem over designed and tad grandma, like ModCrapth for grown ups. Cutesypie animal adorned skirts belong on 5 year old girls, not 30-somethings.
I think I’m too short (5’3″) for Anthro. Everything I’ve tried on there just doesn’t fit right.