Blog envy

I've been reading some very nice style blogs, and I realize now more than ever that Rock the Silver® is anything but a style blog. I mean, really, the fake snake clutch/wallet shouldn't have been your first clue. I don't know what I am doing at all.

I only know I am getting older by the minute and want to BE my best and LOOK my best, and I thought I'd write about it (in case you are wanting the same). And maybe nobody else is encouraging you to race through midlife with style and authenticity. If not me, then who? Oh yeah, before I forget, I'd like to do it all with cool gray hair.

So, consider yourself warned: don't come here for serious fashion advice. You can come here from time to time and watch me play dress up, and I'm hopeful my attempts might inspire you to try something new ... to not limit yourself to baggy and black.  The rest of the time I am probably talking about hair, health, fitness or some other silly thing that seems to get harder with age.

I don't mind putting myself out there for the good of the cause. I think of it as reality TV only on a blog. Some crazy silver-haired chick has to do it. But I feel sad for those of you who really are struggling to find a fashionable look. I don't think I'm helping. Today, I offer the gift of links. These sites are lovely and sophisticated, and I think you will enjoy checking them out:

Privilege

Trying to Look Fab in your Forties

A Femme d'un Certain Age

Inside Out Style

Corporette

Be sure to come back when you're ready to hear from the whack job with silver hair who was raised by wolves and can't tell the difference between real diamonds and fake diamonds or $70 eyebrows and $20 eyebrows. We'll have fun trying to figure it all out.

Comments

[Kathy]

Donna, You're my kinda whack job! Keep up the good work. You are thought provoking and make me laugh ( a good combination).

[Michelle]

I checked them out. None of them made me laugh, except the one with the absurd shoes. You win.

[Peg]

If Rock the Silver were a style blog, I wouldn't be reading it. Even the hair issue isn't that big a deal with me (although that's what brought me to your blog to begin with). Nope, I read it because it's funny, real, and well written.

[LPC]

Donna, thank you so much for the nod. In all honesty, Privilege is a style blog because you gotta hang your hat on something IMO. I'm always secretly or not so secretly writing about anxiety, rapture, love, loss, horror, or raccoons who eat my water hyacinths. We all have to call ourselves something, just to address that first, existential, where the eff am I? that people feel when they alight on our home pages. Over time Privilege has become more of a style blog, in order to have a focus, to be more useful to more people, but the urge to peel oneself raw is pretty close to the surface. If you're making people laugh, well then, that's something I'd like to do more often, so we're even. Nice to meet you, BTW, don't mean to forget my manners.

[Looking fab in your forties]

Sophisticated, Wow, I'm shocked! I wouldn't know Sophisticated if it jumped up and bit me on the ass! Thanks for the link xx

[Imogen Lamport]

Thanks for the lovely link - I really appreciate it. Hope you and your readers gain some insight from my blog.