The thing I find about blogging is
the personal vs the professional. How many of your own opinions do you share
and at what times is it better to simply present facts and be objective? I
struggle in writing a lot about myself, not because I'm shy or anything but I know
you is reading them in some cases and others, I don’t know at all. It’s much
easier to write and have any old person read it, as opposed to sharing your
opinion and letting people who may know you from a distance get a real insight
into your life.
Also how much are you entitled to
say? I find myself somewhat restricted in what my real opinion is, as blogging
is just as powerful media outlet as a newspaper or any other avenue. How much
should you say before you offend someone or cause defamation?
Perhaps we should be approaching it
much like a food critic would, look for the positive and comment on both side,
both good and bad. Or like a teacher when grading reports “If they applied
themselves, they would go far”. Which is basically saying they’re a slacker and
are getting bad grades. Of course anyone could do better if they tried, what
kind of compliment is that!
My opinion on ‘fashion’ as a whole
is very personal. As much as I have spent many countless hours rolled up in PJ’s
and trackies in front of fashion tv all weekend, I live in Perth, WA. So far
(if we’re being honest) from that couture world of fashion, we’re not even a
capital city of Australia and even our capital city isn’t right up there. Don’t
get me wrong, Australian fashion as a whole has a multitude of talents and I'm a huge fan of many local and interstate
designers.
However, my ‘fashion’ is really in
surrounding, I sit on buses and watch people get on and off, assessing what
they are wearing and how they have done their haoir, what age they are and what
job they are going to. It says so much about and that I find fashion so
important. Presentation is such an enormous communication tool.
Recently when interviewing (not
myself) people for a new job at my workplace, girls trundled in and out, and
from the way they presented themselves alone, I could determine a ‘yes’ or ‘no’
response. For someone who received a ‘No’ straight off the bat, they would have
to try very hard through what they had to say coupled with an impressive resume
to move forward or I would just have to frown and shake my head a day “no I just
didn’t really like her, something about her, I think we could find someone
better”.
I think people underestimate the
power of an outfit and what it says about you. Maybe think about that next time
you get dressed, what do I look like? What would people think about me if they didn’t
know me? What first impression would I make in this? Who would I not want to
see me in this outfit right now and why?
Anyway, if you bothered reading all
this, thanks!
Wonderful! Piece, I very much agree with you.
ReplyDeleteI definitely find myself editing what I say/post on the internet, compared to my actual feelings. Don’t get me wrong, all my opinions are true and my own, but I’ll maybe just talk a couple of facets, I might leave a few points out. Either wanting to keep them to myself or as you said not wanting people who know me to gain that much in-site into my personal thoughts. Its much easyer to be frank with randoms!
I love your idea of constructed criticism, and I always try to encourage it in my blog, whether it be "No don’t like those colours together" or "I don’t think that post is very interesting you should do more outfit posts!"
But people seem very reluctant to give constructive criticism, even me while reading blogs will come across something that doesn’t make sense or just looks horrible and I’ll want to comment, but I don’t. Mainly because many times I feel there is no benefit from being negative, that and I was always brought up with that saying - “If you can’t say anything nice don’t say it at all”... but on the other paw, I can see how helpful it can be, especially now I have my own blog.
I love people watching and imagining the person behind the outfit. I am very much the same as well and will judge a lot of people by their outfits, admittedly more so in a professional capacity than a social one, more often than not I've found truly beautiful people who have no idea what so ever how to present themselves.
P.S – I’m going to take this opportunity to give my first piece of constructive criticism! (I really hope you don’t mind and if you do totally delete this comment!)
I absolutely loved this post; I thought it was wonderful that it really gave me something to think about and something to relate to! So I hope you do more posts like this. But when reading it I did have trouble with a few of the sentences not making sense. Not many at all, actually now reading back over it I can only find one! So it may have been me going crazy! I really enjoyed reading this and writing a reply too!
Fashion from Feline Eyes
xoxo