Even since I started reading fashion blogs, I have been truely amazed at the crap people write posts on… an entire post on a pair of boots found online… that are just sooooo cool/beautiful/stylin’/fill-in-the-blank. No commentary, no nothin’... just a photo and a link. ...magazine pages scanned from Vogue. I don’t recall too many bloggers talking about why a certain piece is exciting/beautiful/anomolous/worth $500 etc. And having written about fashion here on this blog, I understand why there is so little substantive work about fashion on the blogosphere. Writing about fashion is difficult; its like explaining why one likes peanut butter or hates bourbon. You just do.

One writer from the Washington Post speculates that figures like Bill Gates don’t care about fashion because “fashion just isn’t an interesting problem to solve”. Might there be little substantive fashion discourse on the web because there simply is little substantive fashion discourse to be had anywhere, period? In other words, what is the case for analyzing fashion?

After I wrote the above post (about six months ago), I changed this site from a fashion blog to a fashion tumblelog. I just didn’t feel that I was better understanding fashion by applying analysis to it, by wondering why fashion is significant or by wondering why we are drawn to it. The act of creating, splicing together old things into new creations, the act of discovery itself was a far better teacher than writing long diatribes about the aesthetics of a collection or shoe. The format of a tumblelog seemed to capture what I wanted to start doing with clothing and style, namely keep track of pieces and thoughts about fashion that I liked. That said, this site is mainly for helping do what I want with my wardrobe.