Fashion Down the Drain?

I don't work (I start on Monday), which means I have a lot of time to check out different blogs and sometimes my fascination with reading unknown people's blogs scare me. Do I have tendencies of becoming a Peeping-Tom as the whole blog-thing must be a legitimate way of conducting/allowing voyeurism?

Never mind, they're obviously there to be read so back to the main story; What really strikes me is the amount of fashion blogs. I don't mind fashion blogs at all - it's nice to see that some -unlike me - have a sense of fashion. My most worn outfit the past 2 weeks is a cotton pyjamas and a pair of multicoloured woolly socks often unless I'm wearing a pair of purple slippers (I've never been to a country where it's so cold indoors). It's not something I usually wear but it was a comfy outfit when trying to recover after our holiday. I'm much better now but the 'poison' has well and truly stuck -I love my PJs!

Anyway, back to fashion blogs, again: the girls - cos it is mostly girls - take pictures of their daily outfits and that's all very nice and I appreciate that it can be a bit tricky taking your own picture although I am sure digital cameras come with a timer or whatever it is called when you place the camera somewhere, make sure there's room for you so your head won't be cut off, push a little button and then run like a crazy person to position yourself right before the....."click" - often leading to the subject looks a little haggered and not as composed as planned.

This being said, most of them stand in front of a mirror holding the camera and then they stand in a very, very odd way. They sort of bend their knees, almost having them touch so your legs get that X-shape that no one really wants. Then they often poke their arses out, making it look as if they're trying to bend down to tie their laces. And to top it off, they tilt their head as if to look a bit coy, which of course they aren't, and pout their lips in a manner that would make Mrs Beckham herself look like a novice.

So, we're left with a pose that does look very, very strange. I agree that a picture with a person standing straight "up and down" isn't always the most exciting one but at least they don't look like a long-lost cousin of Quasimodo. But maybe that's where the fashion-blogs are clever - and I'm not - they're showing the juxtaposition of fashion and odd "body-posing" for those who indeed are related to Quasimodo - leaving stupid people like me to wonder exactly "why is she standing as if she is in desperate need of an unoccupied loo?"

Perhaps all fashion blog owners have been to the same holiday resort as me?