Ok, I mean this in the best way possible, but Ashley Ording's blog has major "I love her she's so crazy" vibes.
There's LOTS of talk in her posts about how she loves karaoke to the point where "it make me some kind of professional weirdo," drinking champagne with friends, hosting themed parties, and frolicking around San Francisco with fellow fashion bloggers. She mentions (multiple times!) that she loves her birthday because it means that she's "only getting closer to my true age, which usually hovers somewhere around 65." While that sort of talk usually hovers on the verge of NLOG territory, Ashley seems so genuinely sweet and friendly that you just want to be her friend and go on vintage fashion expeditions with her and her goofy personality.
And of course, Ashley has a killer closet. As a vintage collector, her wardrobe is full of the most amazing garments (with the occasional ModCloth dress—this is the 2010s after all) that are documented beautifully on her blog, alongside picks from her online etsy shop.
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| love the slight mori kei vibes here |
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| the colors are so lovely and autumnal—and that pop of mint from her headphones is so eye-catching! |
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| sorry but I'm just obsessed with this dress Maybe my favorite thing about Ashley's blog, aside from her glorious vintage collection, is the blogger community she highlighted. Throughout her blog, she talks about meeting up with her fellow vintage blogger friends, having impromptu photoshoots, and hyping them up in her posts. It's really nice to experience a little slice of that community, if only vicariously behind a computer screen, through Ashley's expressive writing and photography, and to remember a time when social media was an extension of real life, not an all-consuming void of faked authenticity. |
Ashley kept her blog active for a few years after the blogger era reached its peak, but her posts slowly trickled down until grinding to a halt in 2016. I can't help but wonder what her life is like now—is she still friends with her fellow fashion bloggers? is she still addicted to karaoke? does she still prefer wearing skirts to pants? I hope that, wherever she ended up, Ashley is continuing to live her best life and dressing up in fabulous vintage clothes every day. And I hope that she looks back on the blogging chapter of her life fondly, because it seems like she was having the best of times.
