BEAUTIFULLY PUT.

Hear hear Rosemary!
I have also noticed that fashion is the only hobby I have that I feel I have ever had to defend in some way. No one accuses you of being “vacuous” if you take an interest in any other creative media. If I bought a painting,a book, or a even a music album, no one would say:” Don’t you know there’s a recession on? Haven’t you anything better to do with your time?” to the extent that they would if you were seen perusing Vogue magazine.

A fashion blog talking about fashion? During a recession?! Who ever thought this should be allowed?

Well, I, for one. I love reading the blog, and looking at the lookbooks that come up, even if I know I can’t afford some of/most of/any of it.

Keep writing, Rosemary, and i will keep reading.

Extremely well said Rosemary! Fashion is just an interest at the end of the day, and nobody has the right to be getting judgemental about it.

I really enjoy reading your posts by the way!

I think people sometimes confuse a love of fashion with narcissism, vanity and the negative aspects of the industry, i.e. creating unrealistic stereotypes for females, underweight models etc. However, I think the majority of people who are interested in fashion see it as a form of art, and we admire the beautiful colours, shapes, materials, moods and images that fashion creates.

This confused thinking could of course be applied to other hobbies, like in the example above, motors. If we watched Top Gear, we would see Jeremy Clarkson and co driving fabulous cars around the track at break neck speeds. For most people, this is fun to watch and they admire a V8, turbo charged, beautiful piece of engineering in motion, but they are not going to go out and buy themselves a 1 million pound car or drive around at dangerous speeds.

Similarly, the majority of fashion fans are not going to go out and buy vintage Chanel for thousands of euro or lose dangerous amounts of weight. We are all simply admiring what we perceive to be a beautiful piece of art.

So whether it is a Bugatti Veyron or a Burberry trench…. can’t we all just get along!

Thank you! Thank you!

You know, this post really comes as a sign, because lately I’ve been feeling really bad. I’m a journalist, and currently working in a part time job at the foreign desk of the biggest daily newspaper in our country. I also studied international relations at the university, so until now I was completely sure, that international journalism is the ONE for me.
But lately I’ve been leaning towards fashion, and thinking about linking journalism and fashion in some way – although I did some research and sadly the hungarian fashion newspapers’ standards are really low, and I don’t see myself as a person who’d gave her name to one of these articles (but I don’t want to be a blogger either, because fashion bloggers are not that much important in hungary and definitely not something you can build a living on).
Anyway, this post (similar to Miranda Priestly’s speech in The Devil Wears Prada about the billion dollar industry) felt really good, because – although, I still think that foreign policy is still more important than fashion :] – at least I don’t feel that bad anymore about this HOBBY, which I start to care really strongly for (and definitely gonna do something about it!).

And btw, Hart of Dixie is my guilty pleasure too :]