Kater From All This Happiness: Blogger Style

Kater R: I come from a fashion and personal-style conscious family, so from a young age I was interested in fashion and costume, but really started thinking about dress in a serious way (which sounds incredibly pretentious, but it’s true really) after high-school.

Suddenly, I couldn’t rely on a uniform anymore for everyday wear, and I wanted to be seen as a person who took care in presenting themselves. I started thinking more about the sort of clothes I wanted to wear, but didn’t, for fear of seeming strange or standing out in my small city, rather than just what seemed trendy.

It became important to me to develop a personal style, but the innate interest in fashion was always there.



tFS: When did you first start your blog?

KR: I started my blog in late 2007. I had been sharing my outfits and shopping finds and thoughts online in Livejournal communities and among friends since much earlier (with much more embarrassing outfits!), but discovered a few fashion-centric blogs and thought it might be fun to start my own. I found that I loved sharing my outfits, and writing about what inspires them, or frustrates me about them, was a great way to intersect my love of writing and interest in clothing. I’m always inspired by books and movies, and I wanted to somehow combine all that into my own little corner of the world.



tFS: What fashion sites and blogs do you read daily?

KR: My google reader is enormous! I tend to go through phases with blogs I visit most regularly, but of course I tend to read those of the people who I’ve formed blogger friendships with most often. I read a lot of vintage-centric blogs like Sally Jane Vintage and The Snail and the Cyclops, and I’m also a big fan of fieldguided. I also love keeping up with A Cup of Jo for just about everything.

tFS: Favorite time of year for fashion?

KR: I love the look of summer outfits, the gauzy dresses, sandals, loose hair and all that, but it doesn’t seem to suit me very well! I will have to be typical and cite autumn as my favorite time of year for fashion. I think perhaps it is the most bookish of seasons, and allows for the light layering of summer and winter fabrics and garments that is outfit perfection.

KR: I’m always stumped by this question – there are so many people I would like to meet, and yet I feel that I would be terribly intimidated by them! I suppose I would like to have loads of my favorite authors around, or perhaps just the fictional characters in books who I miss when I’m not reading them. For real people though, I think it would be just fantastic to have a get-together with all the lovely people I’ve become friends with because of blogging. It’s such a shame so many of us don’t live near each other!

tFS: Do you pay a lot of attention to reader feedback?

KR: Most of what I buy tends towards vintage, without paying much attention to names. I do wander my way through various collections to see what’s up, or when I’m particularly stumped on an outfit.

I am usually quite fond of Rachel Roy’s collections, and the whimsical spirit in me is a bit typically enamored with Charles Anastase. I liked Miu Miu’s kitties on collars, because deep down I cannot resist anything with a cat on it. When I shop in real-life though, I rummage through vintage stores weekly and spend a lot of my pennies in J. Crew and H&M.



tFS: What do you want to be doing in five years? How do you plan to do it?

KR: I’m working on (well, to be totally honest, only just barely starting) my master’s thesis, so in five years I certainly hope to be done with that and well on my way to some fantastic job! I would love to write, just about anything, articles or stories or silly little captions. I’m crossing my fingers and tentatively dipping my toes into seeing if there are ways I can parlay my blog into landing my some kind of writing gig, and so I suppose keep writing and doing will work for now.

 

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