#2014 TUMBLR FASHION HOW TO#

It was a lot of party photos, fashion bloggers, flower crowns, Lana Del Rey, Arctic Monkeys, hipster fashion (now newly for some reason deemed the ‘Twee’ Aesthetic), and indie movie stills. Either you were on the “fandom” side, or you were on the “aesthetic” side. There were only two obvious crowds on Tumblr, and most were only on one side. If someone asked if you were on the site, the answer was always no. You wouldn’t talk about Tumblr in real life, because that was immediately deemed uncool.

Tumblr gained a cult following because it was cool to secretly have a Tumblr account. With that in mind, the next morning when my hungover friends went home, I sat at my bedroom desk and typed ‘Tumblr dot com’ into my laptop, and made my account. He casually nodded with approval, never making eye contact, which my 18 year old brain found insanely cool. I couldn’t tell if he was joking or insulting me, but he seemed genuine. I didn’t smoke, so I just sat and analyzed his expression from my porch stairs. It’s cool and I think you’d really like it.”

Thankfully, one good thing came from inviting a ‘guitar guy’ to my party, because as we sat outside in the crisp winter night listening to muffled rap music coming from my bass-shaken garage, and he pointed at me with a cigarette and said, “Hey, you should join this new site I’m on.

#2014 TUMBLR FASHION HOW TO#

I didn’t know how to tell him I found serenades to be cringe-inducing, so I allowed him to play his heartfelt tune, as I sat silently trying not to laugh. I refused to invite my ex, so instead I invited a new guy in a band I was talking to, and he serenaded me with an acoustic guitar in my living room. It was December at the end of 2009, and I was celebrating turning 18. Two months after being brutally dumped by my ex boyfriend– twice, I threw a massive house party.

2014 tumblr fashion