To address the elephant in the room. Yeah, I stopped posting. For about a year. There's reasons for this of course, and I plan on walking you through them all below. For those of you who just want to skip to the point, here's the TLDNR version: Big changes, and we're about to get real personal. Want more details? Keep reading below. Enough information for you? Keep checking in, I plan on posting a lot more often than once a year (already got a few queued up and ready to go, so you know I mean it this time)
I've been reflecting on this blog a lot lately. I've missed it. I've dwelt on why I felt so uninspired, so unable to post, so lacking in creativity or direction, and came across a lot of things that contributed to this. First and foremost: I haven't been real with you guys. I've struggled to post because I've lost my own voice it seems. I like putting together cute outfits with geeky flair, that much is true. However, I have never seen myself as some sort of fashion authority, in any place to tell people what to wear or how to wear it. In fact, what I love most about fashion is the way people make it their own. The way two people can take the same article of clothing but adapt it so differently into their own personal style. It's nothing short of magical. Being that I am not some fashion overlord in a position to dictate peoples day to day outfits, I felt everything I previously posted felt forced. It was a struggle to continue doing, because I was genuinely concerned people might just follow this formulaic outfit building that I like, and not apply their own spin on it. That would truly be devastating and against everything that makes me love both nerd culture and fashion.
I plan to leave the previous posts up, because I do like a lot of the outfits I've put together. There might even be more similar posts if I find that perfect piece that just cries for an outfit to be built around it. But it now comes with this disclaimer: There are no rules to fashion. This is my personal take on it. If you love it, great. If you'd do it differently PLEASE tell me about it, I would love to hear your input and feedback.
On to main reason I haven't posted number 2. Or maybe more of a 1B, as these reasons aren't totally unrelated. The feedback: I'd been told that the blog felt impersonal. Like it could have been anyone writing it. I completely agree. As someone who knows myself quite well, reading back through my posts I could really only find tiny shreds of myself within the content. Probably in part because I felt I wasn't being genuine, but also because I wasn't bringing my own past, my experiences, my thoughts, my feelings, my opinions to the table. It all felt very generic and cookie-cutter-esque (it's a word now). If I, as the writer couldn't find myself in this, how could anyone else?So, how to fix it, and why did it happen?
I've never been the type to openly share with anyone until well into an established friendship of sorts. I tend to be quite shy and reserved until I get a sense of who I'm talking to. Pretty tough thing to do through a screen. But then I realised how mutual that can be. How can I expect to know you, if you know nothing about me? Going forward, you will have that opportunity. Since I'm cutting back on my "wear this with that" posts, but planning on posting more, I've got to get content from somewhere. Where better to start than with my own life? While it may not always feel like it when I'm the one living it, I'm sure to an outsider looking in, my misadventures as a geeky girl in a glamorous world could be pretty entertaining. I can't wait to introduce you to the real Chic Geek.
Standby for more, and I do hope you enjoy the show.