Behind The Laptop: What We Really Wear When We Blog...

By Cate Sevilla

People have a lot of ideas about bloggers: who they are, what they dress like, whether or not they get laid on a regular basis, and if they actually possess any social skills. While there are a good number of privileged bloggers who work in or have the option to work in their company's office - I think it's safe to say that many full time professional bloggers work from the *comfort* of their own home.

A lot of people frowned upon my decision to do freelance full time and work from home. I was told I'd lose the ability to carry on an adult conversation and that it was only a matter of time until I resorted to sign language and smearing my own poop on the walls.

 So far, so good.

The only thing I've found has turned a bit sour is my fashion sense when I'm around the house. Sure, when I leave the house remember to brush my teeth and mostly seem remember what deodorant is for - but indoors? Well. It's a different story.

While some fashion bloggers and stylish Geek Goddesses may post photos of themselves "working" in their fancy shoes and vintage dresses or with their hair perfectly coiffed, I'd put money on it being a lie. A offensively attractive, perfectly groomed lie!

This is the image I think most geektastic female bloggers portray to the world (myself included):



Behold my fun, geeky T-shirt! The adorable glasses! The Cons, the stylish nerd jewelry and the gadgetry du jour. This is the Blogger Persona many a female blogger presents to the world. Hawt, no? I'd do her.

But, as part of my journey to bring a bit or realism back into the female blogosphere and to women's media in general, I'll have it be known that this is what most of your beloved bloggers are sporting when they're working from their home office (aka Their Bed):


Aaaaawwwwww yeaaaaaaaah. Check the nasty leggings you would never wear in public! The overly bright hoodie! Leg warmers! The slippers and...THE SCRUNCHY!

Maybe I'm totally off base and I'm actually  the only lazy ass blogger out there that thinks that this is a totally acceptable outfit to wear at home while working...

But I'm going to bet that there are a lot of women who care about one thing when they're writing: comfort.

Personally, I just find it's easier to work when I don't have the waist band of my jeans digging into my fat...but maybe that's just me.


POSTED IN: STYLETECH
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:22 (GMT+00)
17 Responses
1.

Haha! I am currently wearing rock-climbing pants a bit like the Rex Kwan Do instructor in Napoleon Dynamite (BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!), a 'rawk' t-shirt with skulls on it and a hoodie with chocolate stains given to me by my flatmate.

I have also not washed or brushed my teeth and I had biscuits for breakfast.

Isabelle
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 16:37 GMT
2.

Heeeck yessss! Rock climbing pants?! Ahahahahaha!

Cate
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 16:48 GMT
3.

I love it!!! Both of your outfit choices are so spot on!!

I have been working from home for the past three years, and the FIRST thing to go was the desire to get dressed unless I had to leave the house. Today, for instance, I have a few places to go later in the day, and when that time comes I will throw on a cute thrift-store dress and some correspondingly cute accessories and my hi-top chucks and probably even attempt to do something with my hair. But for now it's just my raggedy old big-ass plaid pajama pants, the first tank top I laid my hands on, bare feet and unwashed ponytail hair.

For me, that's the beauty of working from home. I don't have to think about my appearance every single day. And I think it makes the times when I DO need to actually get dressed and put together an outfit more fun.

rosina rubylips
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 17:05 GMT
4.

I must admit that I am working from home (not blogging alas but in a researchy job) and today I am wearing a pair of five-year old grey trackie bottoms, slippers, a Death in Vegas t-shirt that belonged to my boyfriend (then shrank in the wash hehe) and his red hoody. I have not washed my hair but merely put in dry shampoo because I had to nip to the shop. I am a dirty dirty girl when I work at home.

Like Cate, I don't have the desire to get dressed unless I absolutely have to leave the house. I'm so glad that I'm not the only scummy blogger out there.
I actually had to warn people at work when they call me on Skype, not to be alarmed if they see me wearing pyjamas on the otherside of the webcam :) They were surprisingly cool about it.

I am having some M&S "extremely chocolatey swiss roll" for dinner. Yum.

Steph
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 17:20 GMT
5.

I worked all this weekend from home in a faded pair of Kent State flannel jammie pants from 1995, a ripped up AC/DC t-shirt, sports bra, pink fuzzy slippers - hair pulled back with a headband circa 1991 and my spare pair of glasses which are more comfy than the ones I wear in public. I should also state I didn't wear makeup or wash my hair for three days - granted I'm suffering from a breakup - so I was just proud of myself for showering, changing undies & putting on deodorant.

Kate
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 18:00 GMT
6.

When I used to work from home I lived in my G'n'R shirt from approx. 1994, leopard print furry pyjamas and very little else. I used to love not wearing underwear and knowing that the postman just had to deal with that.

I would, however, always wear a full face of make-up. I think that was largely procrastination in the mornings though.

I think the main reason I couldn't work from home would be that I would just never wear any of my clothes, ever.

rachael
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 18:41 GMT
7.

I actually get dressed every day! And I work from home, too. The days that I haven't, I feel terrible. So even if it's just jeans and a cute tshirt, I always get dressed. However, there are quite a few times when I've written from the bed, wearing almost nothing at 2am, so it balances out :)

maria
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 19:57 GMT
8.

Kate -

Ahaahaha! I did have some nasty yellow sports bra in the second outfit but I took it out! I should have left it in! LOL I wish I had another pair of glasses to wear when I was at home! :(

Steph -

"a pair of five-year old grey trackie bottoms, slippers, a Death in Vegas t-shirt that belonged to my boyfriend (then shrank in the wash hehe) and his red hoody." *high five* Awesome!!!!

Maria -

Right on for having the will to get dressed every day! Some days I manage to put on a bit of makeup and a proper outfit...but that's usually not until the afternoon!

Rosina -

"raggedy old big-ass plaid pajama pants" LOL I had to buy new ones bc my other ones got so crappy they were falling apart. Old Navy PJ bottoms are the best!

Cate
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 20:15 GMT
9.

Huh.

I feel so obliged to get dressed in the morning as if I were to go out. My mother guilted me out of living in pajamas as a kid.

I do think, however, that my tights are glued on to my body.

Mona Lopez
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 20:37 GMT
10.

My sports bra is a chic black with a little white racing stripe down the side... :P

(But there is a hole in it.)

Kate
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 20:52 GMT
11.

I don't know about you chicks, but when I work from home (which I try to do at least once a week), I just wear my PJs and work on my laptop in my bed... It's called a LAP top for a reason, right?

Miz Susan B.
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 21:30 GMT
12.

AMG - Miz Suz!
xoxoxo

Kate
Tue, 19-Aug-2008 22:23 GMT
13.

Don't even OWN anything from the second set. Dress daily much more like #1. presently wearing straight skinny jeans and fitted black thin-cord jacket with ruffled cuffs, though most days you can find me wearing something from lululemon.

New Age Bitch
Wed, 20-Aug-2008 00:16 GMT
14.

Much as I would love to work from my bed, I fear that perhaps it would be a step too far into a world of lazy. Intermittent snoozes would probably begin to rule my life (and my work). Maybe it's a good thing that I can't get wireless signal in my bedroom!

Steph
Wed, 20-Aug-2008 07:57 GMT
15.

Love the second one! Scarily accurate...

FabSugarUk
Thu, 21-Aug-2008 14:04 GMT
16.

You mean, some of you actually get dressed when you're working from home?

I must try that....

Sian
Fri, 22-Aug-2008 11:15 GMT
17.

You get dressed? I'm impressed. Ooh, someone just wrote that above me! Nay bother.

Can I add skirts (the just below the knee, expandable-depending-on-how-much-I-ate-last night-wraparound-waist kind) to the list? With big, warm woolly socks that probably weren't deisgned to be worn with skirts and can become quite dangerous when used on shiny wooden floors?

Lindsey
Mon, 25-Aug-2008 17:21 GMT

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