The Blogger Uniform

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It's come to the attention of the fashion blogosphere that online retailer Modcloth has started selling a dress called the "Blog Writer Dress"—and some bloggers are none too happy about it. Fashionista, in particular: "There’s a stereotype about bloggers that they are slovenly and perma-pajama-ed and stuck in the middle of a macbook-and-couch sandwich. Feeding into that stereotype, Modcloth’s “blog writer dress” looks like a nightgown. For an eight-year-old. I blog and I edit a blog and I don’t dress like this. Nor do any of my friends who edit and write online. The Gloss took an informal poll of some lady bloggers only to find out that they, too, did not wear, as Triangle Music‘s Valerie Marino calls it, “hipster muumuus,” to work." [Fashionista]