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Links à la Mode : The IFB Weekly Roundup

Choices, Choices! Edited by Dream Sequins At this time of year, even the smallest decision can feel like the biggest burden. As holiday shopping season swings into full and relentless motion this month, the choices we make as consumers can often feel overwhelming. This week's compelling roundup of reading explores these choices ...

Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup

Links à la Stocking Stuffers Edited by Fashion Pulse Daily This week, as I've been getting geared up for the holiday season's shopping ( both loving and dreading it) via Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I couldn't help but compare the posts to stocking stuffers. Why? Because it felt like a ...

5 Ways to Establish Credibility

This post is by Amelia Marshal of Further Ado Bloggers get a bad rap from the press sometimes. When they’re not calling us biased, they say we don’t know how to check our facts. The main problem, it seems, is that bloggers aren’t journalists, and we don’t have to follow their ...

Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup

Beyond Fashion Edited by Retro Chick This weeks Links à la Mode blows away any preconceived ideas of the narcissistic fashion blogger posting endless outfit photos and magazine shoots by covering a huge array of topics. Ranging from Dream Sequins whimsical birthday tea party to High Fashion Girls detailed examination of racism ...

Tips on How to Recover from Blog Burnout

This post is by Michelle from Wicked Whimsy We've all been there: burned out, frustrated, staring at the screen and willing inspiration to come to us. Obviously, the best way to beat burnout is to avoid it, and an older IFB post covers that topic quite well. That doesn't change the ...

Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup

Food for Thought Edited by Ashe Mischief This is my first time editing since I wrote Good Cop/Bad Cop: Participating in Links a la Mode. Thank you all so much for making this my most pleasurable experience in editing yet! I'm not sure if it's because American Thanksgiving is a week away, or ...

Sharing Your Secrets?

Post by Queen Bee We all have secrets…secrets that we pinky swear we won’t share, secrets we never share at all. But what about trade secrets? Those aren’t just any old secret. They are secrets with actual monetary worth. If you’ve never heard of a trade secret, it is something ...

Fashion Blogging : The Road Ahead

Looking at the home page, you might notice that we haven't posted here for a while. Over the last few years, IFB has gone in ebbs and flows, I've really tried to post only when I'm inspired, and a few times I thought about shutting the whole project down. Thankfully ...

Links à la Mode : The IFB Weekly Roundup

Finding what works... Edited by Jennine Man, editing the links this week was painful, only because there were so many fantastic posts, so be sure to check them all out in the IFB forums! This week we have loads of great interviews, a few wonderful lookbooks from our members, and had a ...

Links à la Mode : The IFB Weekly Roundup

Go Fashion Bloggers, Go! Edited by Debutante Clothing As more and more print magazines fold, bloggers seem to be growing in professionalism and media legitimacy. When bloggers such as Previously Owned and kaKofonie Of si(gh)lenS can get the scoop on international designers, you know the fashion playing field is being leveled. If ...