My thoughts on LJ "Fashion" Communities

[pygmalionsennui]

Quotes intentional. This is going to be mean, skip this post if you are easily offended.

• Most (99%) of girls on here have no taste. I hate to be so brash, but it's the outright, uncensored truth. Most girls on here are cobbling together ideas they clearly are taking from trashy celebrity blogs and what they feel are "retro" sources and cobbling them

Comments

[nishisen]

Please believe, you start the community and every post is as kickass as your journals are. People will flock to it, then it'll be spotlighted and a shitload of people are going to ignore the rules and just add. You're going to get a migraine and then you are gonna want to destroy something.

I think you just named my younger sister in a nutshell. She has that damn Hannah Montana dress style. and I hate it. She wants neon flavored gymshoes that I wish my parents wouldn't fall for it. God.

Most of these girls seem to barely be able to maintain their hair, let alone exercise, diet, or manage their skin tone properly.

Oh my God. Some girls just need to jump off a roof. I'm willing to sacrifice, dammit.

[pygmalionsennui]

Haha, people just post willy-nilly? Sounds fairly familiar to me. With that being said, though, I tend to enjoy stuff like that, as I like to wield moderator/admin powers capriciously anyway. Last time I ran a major forum I had a system that would identify posters I didn't like and mess with their posts -- changing "the" to "a" and so on.

Neon flavored gymshoes? ughhhh.

[pygmalionsennui]

Haha, yeah, most people in rating communities do so out of jealousy/vanity/whatever. I kinda find it amusing, though obviously it's not quite as useful as it is just needless drama.

[electricsparks]

PREACH.

[although i have to say i'm slightly relieved that the photos on my only wiwt2 post are now inaccessible because that outfit was indeed all black. but trust me, you do not want to see someone of my colouring wearing colour. shit just looks wrong.]

ia so hard about the hair thing as well. especially those girls - here and elsewhere - who obviously don't style or colour their hair or apply any sort of product to it and consequently have this old-school hermione granger deal that makes whatever they're wearing look unstylish. not that you have to colour your hair to be stylish, but at least make it look nice/not like the hair of a 15-year-old who believes in vampires.

[pygmalionsennui]

I really want to see those pictures now for some reason.

Ahh, you make a good point. I don't have anything wrong with traditional hair coloring, but the neon-colored I-write-creepy-fanfiction type look is... disturbing.

[demondramon]

Like (I think) I've said before, I'm down with being harsh with things like that. Speak your mind. If they can't take the harshness, they can move on. And on most of these points I agree. Especially about a lot of these people just wanting attention. They just have to realize that they're going to get attention they don't want along with the attention they do.

Fashion's a vague enough thing, people will search for it and come across your community, you make it interesting enough, like-minded people will come. Me, for instance. While I'm not the most articulate, nor the most fashion-minded, I would enjoy joining such a community. Just for kicks.

[pygmalionsennui]

I think I may give it a shot then. I'll have to put out some feelers to figure out how other communities operate on here, of course.

[candacetrauma]

I think you should definitely open a community like the one you're talking about here. I'm not much for fashion, but these people who claim to be should at least be somewhat educated.

It's weird that the 'goth' thing has gone in a totally different direction. During my Hot Topic days (I cringe, but it was high school), everything was dark, and now you go in there and it's all neon. It's slightly frightening.

[pygmalionsennui]

Haha, I know what you mean. I'm not sure what started it either, but the whole neon-crazy-colors-everywhere trend is somehow worse.