It's taken me twenty and a half years, but friends, I've finally figured it out.
I figured out the difference between the real world and the blog world,
and I'm not even referring to the fact that one is two-dimensional while the other is three.
{And okay, I guess blog world is not twenty years old, so I can cut myself some slack.}
No, here's the actual fundamental difference:
In the real world, when you've newly acquired a super cute and snuggly sweater with chic ikat and cool drapery and a neutral palette like you've wanted for forever, you style it with your new Target booties, grab a couple of textbooks and some friends and head to the coffee shop in an effort to show the hipsters your "effortlessly" fashionable outfit. You prance around in it, fling your hair this way and that (but subtly, duh), and then you go home. Your roommate is driving back from LA and is three hours away, and you're really tired and just want to shower and change into pajamas, but you wait out those three hours because by golly, the roommate needs to see this outfit and she needs to compliment me. And then because you decide not enough people saw the outfit, you wear it again the next day.
In blog world, you don't have to wear it twice in two days! All you have to do is pose! click! upload! and it's documented forever and now everyone can see. So you sidle up to your roommate who's lounging on the couch, and you say very, very sweetly - "hear me out. You're not going to like this, but I have a compromise. If you go outside with me right now and take two pictures of me in this outfit, I'll come back and watch an episode of Castle with you." Roommate rolls her eyes, but accepts, and unknowingly falls into your trap - you stay out there for forty minutes taking way more than two photos. But hey, Castle happened, quickly proceeded by Chinese takeout and New Girl. So we're all winners here.
