Links à la Mode - My first time featured!

Sorry that it's late, it was my first time being featured (for my "PIF" post) and I wasn't aware that I was featured LOL

Links à la Mode : May 13

• 365 Fashion Rehab – Notes from the closet: Day 357! Building better future buying habits by way of a major wardrobe investigation.
• 39th and Broadway – The Fall of Designer Denim.
• Bachman’s Sparrow – Saturday Advice column: develop your personal style into something amazing by learning how to take risks and not dress for others.
• Chrissy Styles – I create an outfit inspired by a painting. This time one by Luc Tuymans:
• DailyDivaDish – True Cost of Disposable Fashion: You may be paying more than you realize.
• Debutante Clothing – Are you Lying? Why Do You Wear Vintage? A response to 5 Lies Women Tell About Vintage Dresses.
• Emerald Dandy – Meggings: Meant to be?
• Evoluer – 7 girls : 7 bicycles : 7 unique & adorable outfits
• Independent Fashion Bloggers – Finance & the Fashion Blogger: Ignore-ance
• Journey to Fashion – From Undergrad Slob to Graduate Fashionista? An introduction to my quest for fashion.
• Missemmamm – How the internet has changed & woman are now more empowered.
• Oranges and Apples – On Beauty.
• Retro Chick – Are you ethically fashionable or fashionably ethical?
• Return to Sender – What do you do when your old insecurities rear their ugly heads?
• Shrimp Salad Circus – Ten things to smile about right this very second.
• Style on a String – The Insatiability for Logos, not Luxury.
• The Coveted – The Coveted launches a new blog dedicated to real women wearing denim.
• The Laundry Narrative – Fighting the urge to justify criticism of fashion blogging as superficial, anti-feminist, and materialistic.
• The Sunday Best – The Best Time of the Year for Menswear
• The Thrifty Poet – How to Feel Beautiful.

Blogging & Bloggers

What I like about reading blogs is that there is (often) new content everyday.  I follow a number of bloggers who rarely fail to update their daily outfits or fashion/beauty-related news and I find that although I don't like all of their posts, just having new stimulation a click a way is exciting (versus having to find new stimulation).  Unlike fashion magazine websites or sponsored bloggers (like on Glamour) I don't have to worry about pimping or undeserved hype, and I get to comment when I have an opinion and not be drowned by other comments.

What do you like about reading blogs? This is partly asked in the poll I have going now and it's partly for improving my blog and partly for satisfying my curiosity.

For actual news I follow Refinery29, Mama's Rolling Stone, and just recently: Teen Vogue (not sure if it's a keeper yet). I wanted to follow Vogue UK's daily outfit blog but couldn't find the feed. I'm also looking for a decent feed from one of the Finnish magazines...

What I like about blogging is that I get to share my findings, share my new haircut (that even yobu didn't notice until I asked him), share my hauls, and I think especially other bloggers will understand just how much trouble blogging can be, or just how much trouble picking out the perfect outfit or doing the perfect make up/hair can be.  It also means that my personal blog will be saved from my strange rantings of new products, and my facebook friends won't have to deal with my strange feed notes about what I saw in the store today. What do you like about blogging?

And to close, don't you just love this black leather jacket blogged by Advanced Style? I think I need to pay more attention to granny styles now...