What is fashion anyway? April 14, 2008
Hi, I’m Joanna. You might know me from all around the internet in places like Hubris and the Wellingtonista, and you might wonder why I feel the need to contribute to yet another site. Well, here’s the thing. I am a woman of contradictions. As I’ve just written on our About Page, I hate most fashion magazines. Yet I still really really like make-up, and clothes, and jewelery, and shiny things.
So for me, I’m hoping that Pretty Pretty Pretty will be a place to promote nice happy good things, things that make you feel good to wear, rather than a horrible magazine giving you complexes about things you can’t afford, or 4 inch heels that you would break your ankle in if you were ever to wear them (Full disclaimer: I have a pair of 4 inch heels. I wear them only if I am posing in front of the mirror by myself, and even then only for ten minutes at the most). I want to talk about how to get nice things that will make you smooth and soft and smell pretty and not pay the earth for them. I want to talk about where you can actually buy nice clothes for people who are over a size 16. I want to teach and to learn about how to wear eyeshadow to almost drag-queen levels and still totally rock the hell out of it. And so that’s what I’m going to do.