(quick note: The second part of the appropriation blog post should be up this friday!)

I’d like to share a couple of fashion and style blogs that I personally follow and enjoy.

fuckyeahchinesefashion  describes itself as “Chinese fashion in general. Street fashion, magazine scans, models, stores, news. We will try to make it 40% modern,40% traditional,10% Cpop and 10% art and other stuff.”  It’s more of a general aesthetic blog rather than a straight-up fashion blog–there are artsy photos of buildings and landscapes in addition to clothing photos. There are also a fair amount of posts about historical Chinese clothing and paintings.

tokyo-fashion is “an online magazine devoted to clothing, accessories, and style in Tokyo, Japan.” It mainly focuses on street style photography in neighbourhoods such as Shibuya or Harajuku. While street fashion is the main focus of the blog, there is also a focus on the different artists (specifically clothing designers) within the neighbourhood, and their latest projects. IMO, they do a very good job of presenting Japanese fashion in a way that doesn’t alienate the reader–a problem I feel a lot of other sites fall prey to.

fripperiesandfobs is a blog run by a costuming student, and contains historical fashion and costume design. It is mainly focused on the West, and usually the clothing is from the late 19th-early 20th century, although there are posts that feature the costume design for recent movies (I believe there was a series of posts comparing the initial sketches of costumes for Game of Thrones with the finished product). It is purely fashion-based, and has little to no text accompanying the pictures. I find this interesting because you can see how the Western image of beauty has shifted over the years, and the different trends that have gone in and out of style.

Minori has been mentioned on this blog before, but I’d thought I’d give her another shout-out because I really like her, and find her story inspirational. Her blog post contains photos of her outfits, updates on art shows she’s hosting/participating in, and assorted fanart/letters from her fans. I’ve already talked a lot about Minori here.

Fanny Rosie is a woman who lives in Montreal, and her blog (like Minori’s) Mainly contains pictures of her outfits. She dresses in a Lolita variant style, (Lolita is a fashion/subculture which originated in Japan and which mainly consists of wearing Victorian-ish clothes such as teacup skirts, elaborately patterned tights, and lots of bows and ruffles) and posts fairly regularly. Her blog is interesting, because her style is a Western interpretation of a Japanese style which was influenced by (among many other things) historical Western fashion. It’s all very through-the-looking-glass.

If any of you follow fashion blogs you think should be on this list feel free to tell me, I would love to hear about them!