Links à la Mode: Week 42, 2010

As bloggers, we often find ourselves looking to other blogs for inspiration. Sometimes we look to our closets, magazines, or in the mirror.
— Independent Fashion Bloggers

Hi, Links à la Mode is a link list of the 20 best fashion blog posts of the week maintained by the Independent Fashion Bloggers, a social network of more than 10.000 bloggers. I am happy to announce that I made it into that list for the first time with my recent post about our beauty ideals :)

The Blogging Diaries – Introspects, insights, and inspirations

Edited by: Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista

This week's roundup fashions some of the most introspective and insightful posts from bloggers who reach across the blogosphere as they look for ways to build upon, contribute to, and pull inspiration for and from the fashion world.

• 365 Fashion Rehab
  Lessons from a (Reformed) Shopaholic: A beautiful handbag repaired (for free!). One more reason to buy quality over quantity.
• Boheme Noir
  The first ladies of Vogue – a closer look at the most important editors in chief.
• Daisy Dayz
  Friend Friday: How to learn from your mistakes and let your blog grow
• Devilishly Pleasurable
  Reflecting on the evolution of my blog and tips for better blogging!
• Fish Monkey
  The notion of flattering dressing is oppressive and unnecessary. Rather than conforming, why not chose a different shape?
• Hazel Eye Personality
  Who has what it takes to be the next big and game changing designer? It takes a lot of time, passion and sanity to make it in the fashion world.
• Independent Fashion Bloggers
  Work Smarter, Not Harder – 3 Ways to Massively (and Permanently) Increase Your Traffic.
• Miss Viki
  "Love Me" and what is wrong with our beauty ideals, if anything?
• No Guilt Fashion
  I put on my game face and tried out my biggest fashion trend fear
• Passionista Place
  qvc, hsn...oh my! find out why home shopping networks have become a bit of an addiction for a modern passionista like me.
• Seamstress Stories
  Reflections on the role that mirrors play for our body image and self-perception.
• Showcase Edge
  Indie Fashion Goes Back to the future. A look at designers who hand-make clothing inspired by times of the past
• Sidewalk Chalk
  I'm a poser, baby: 7 steps for posing naturally in outfit photos
• Stylish White Female
  Transitioning from vegetarian to vegan: Some things are hard to give up. Fur is not.
• Taxonomy of my Wardrobe
  Shopping the Wardrobe. My version of this month's Harper's Bazaar Buy Now wear Forever list selected from my own wardrobe.
• The Coveted
  Three Way With a Long Chiffon Skirt
• The Curvy Fashionista
  Nordstrom reaches out to plus size fashion bloggers to collaborate on its newest plus size endeavor- Sejour
• The Demoiselles
  She is not a fashion blogger. She's just a woman, sitting in her bathtub.
• The Simply Luxurious Life
  In a world that seems to be changing quicker than the seasons, what does it mean to be a lady?
• The Wondergirl
  retail-me-not: waxing poetic on two interesting happenings of late in the world of specialty retailing.
• Vogue Mornings
  How not to lose motivation when blogging, a few quick solutions to the problem many bloggers face.