The Love of the Blog

I've been thinking a lot about blogging and the blogging world lately. I keep wondering what exactly makes a successful blog and what makes some bloggers stand out more than others. Great pictures? Consistently creative and on-point outfits? Publicity/marketing? I'm not sure if this is true, but maybe when all the "big" bloggers started, the fashion blogging world wasn't as saturated. I know that I didn't discover fashion blogging until after blogs like Selective Potential, Delightfully Tacky, and The Clothes Horse were already on the scene for at least a couple of years. And now a few years later, it seems that there are a ton more bloggers than before and it's harder...