![]() Petite embroidered chiffon top / Petite boot cut jeans / red buckle strap ankle bootsĪs much as I longed to get myself out there in front of the camera and finally face my fears, I just couldn’t get past my own negative judgements about my face or my body. The initial excitement I felt at breaking into fashion blogging waned and I fell into the old conversations I always have with myself and the negativity I often have to fight against: “You’re too old for this.” “You’re too fat.” “You aren’t pretty enough.” “You’re too short.” “Seriously? What do you know about fashion?” and on and on. Even when I finally found inspiration on Instagram like #midsizestyle (heralding positivity for those in-between sizes), I felt like perhaps my time had passed. I had such a positive response to that post and while I know in my head the saying “become the change you want to see” was screaming at me, I couldn’t shake my insecurities. ![]() Petite gold foil mesh dress / knitted sock style ankle boots And while both were inspiring in different ways, I wanted to see more people like me – those who were sort of in the middle when it came to sizes (10-14 perhaps) and who were already waving goodbye to their youth. Instead, what I found at the time were gorgeous, young slim white girls (not me then) or beautiful plus-sized babes who were crushing it with their two-fingers-up-attitude (again, not really me). ![]() It was a time when I had considered branching more into fashion here on my blog (the reasons I didn’t venture far are coming up) and so I was looking out for some bloggers similar to me who were crushing it for inspiration. This is going to be a long introduction so please do bear with me! Back last year, I wrote a post about the lack of diversity I saw in fashion blogging.
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