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Jennine, the uber-stylish blogger behind The Coveted, has been doing something interesting lately - she's taken to wearing her clothes upside down.

It looks better than it sounds - here she turns a sweater dress into a cowl-neck crop top. It's pure genius!

We like her theory that wearing clothes differently "elevates your IQ by encouraging experimentation." It's also good for the earth. In her words,

Part of being green is buying organic, sustainable fabrics, vintage, recycled...getting the most wear between washes. You can be the most green by buying nothing at all. How do you keep up when you aren't buying anything new? Like an artist turning the canvas to get new perspective, I've seemed to taken a liking to turning my clothes around...

It undoubtedly takes a certain level of confidence to pull this off, but since it doesn't cost anything, we're willing to give it a shot. How about you?

UPDATE: A big thank you to reader Nuala who pointed us to another blogger who does this, fellow Bostonian Dreamecho.

(Pictured: Two-Timing Sweater by Anthropologie)

If you're as big a fan of street fashion as we are around here, you're going to love a new site called streetstyl.es. This site is a portal into the online world of international street fashion, and acts as an aggregator of the best fashion blogs, websites and communities that the web has to offer. We think streetstyl.es is going to be the next big at-work-time-waster. (Not that we're complaining! We're bookmarking it now!) Just hop on to see the latest from sites like The Sartorialist, Face Hunter, and Lookbook.

via The Coveted

The Sartorialist occasionally features older folks on the street, but have you ever wondered what it would be like for a blog to focus mainly on that demographic? Of course you have. We know what you think about all day. Take a look at Advanced Style, a style on the street blog that features the finest fashions from the older folks. These people have had years to find the balance between fashionable and practical and have picked up a little something from every decade they've lived through.

Alert: Soon you will be able to take a peek into the mind, closet, and kitchen of style arbiter Gwyneth Paltrow. She has a blog! And it's called, um, GOOP. What a chic-sounding name! I wonder what she'll advise us all to do. Yoga? Shop? Be good to ourselves? Marry a rock star?

The site will launch soon, but here's what Gwynie says to reel us all in:

"My life is good because I am not passive about it. I want to nourish what is real, and I want to do it without wasting time. I love to travel, to cook, to eat, to take care of my body and mind, to work hard. I love being a mother who has to overcome my bad qualities to be a good mother. I love being in spaces that are clean and feel nice."

You'll just have to wait and see. Go check it out and sign up for the newsletter -- then maybe you'll become BFFs with Madonna too.

Weblogs is one big bloggy family, and we're getting bigger! If you haven't already noticed the announcement at the top of the page, we've just launched two new blogs, Aisledash and GreenDaily.

We here at Styledash are pretty excited about Aisledash, partly because it's name rhymes with ours, and partly because weddings, whether you love them or hate them, are still always a great excuse to get dressed up. Of course, if you're planning on getting married, Aisledash is a great resource for all things wedding.

Sure, Styledash blogs about eco-friendly fashion, but GreenDaily is our family's first blog dedicated entirely to green living, whether it's grocery shopping, driving, and of course, our favorite, fashion.

The Internets normally don't have much to offer the everyday fashionable dude. There are hoards of sites devoted to shopping for, commenting on, and bitching about all kinds of women's clothing, but the only men's outfits you find discussed on most fashion blogs probably cost more than the car you drove in college.

So thank goodness for See Jack Shop, a site dedicated to middle-of-the-road, stylish clothes for the guy who likes to dress well, but isn't making six figures. The looks featured go from dress casual to very casual -- with posts on everything from Perry Ellis Sharkskin pants for the office to Led Zeppelin vintage tees for rocking out on the weekend.

Check it out, dudes. You've now run out of excuses for dressing like a slob.

As you know, we at Styledash love sharing style blogs with our readers as we come across them in our daily (hourly?) jaunts through the fashionweb, so we could hardly contain ourselves when we found out that design blog NOTCOT had branched out into fashion with Notcouture (excellent play on their original name!).

Not quite a blog, not quite a social site, Notcouture allows fashionistas to sign-up and submit images that link to sites, blog posts, and stores. The result is a gorgeous gallery of clothes, handbags, jewelry, and just about anything else that looks good. Because they launched recently, they've partnered with various stores and brands for discounts and giveaways, so it's definitely worth a peek.

There's an enormous number of fashion and style sites around the interwebs. While it'd be impossible to read (or even find) these hundreds of thousands of sites, the good news is that with all these perspectives, you're almost certain to find one that speaks to you.

If you're the kind of person that finds ultra-pricey, or uber-trendy fashion out of reach (or just obnoxious), and have been looking for a voice of reason to guide you through the insanity -- look no further than Susan Wagner.

Susan is a style writing machine -- she maintains 4 sites (3 of them related to fashion), and can give you advice on everything from comfort to cost-cutting to what to wear when you're expecting. Check out Friday Style for common sense fashion advice, Work It, Mom! for clothes you can wear before and after the baby arrives, or get a sampling of everything on Susan's BlogHer blog.

And for parents, there's also Susan's personal blog, Friday Playdate.

Sarah Jessica Parker thinks all the criticism on blogs of her underwhelming new clothing line is "foolish."

The blogworld's response to the star's line at Steve and Barry's has been decidedly tepid. But during a recent interview with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, SJP basically called the criticism invalid, saying her clothes are for the everyday woman, and were never intended to impress the fashion industry.

"These clothes are about people all over the country who don't have access to really well made, affordable clothing. It's wonderful that people in the fashion industry can borrow things, and have the money and the financial means, never mind the logistical access to clothes that are very fashionable and of the moment. What's really important is that women in this country, really, really feel good about who they are and that we make things affordable and accessible. So there's no criticism that a person can make about it. It's really important that women in this country have an opportunity to have the things that all of us who do have the financial means can have."

There's more here. I only re-posted the intelligible parts.

What's interesting, is that the women SJP is reaching out to (as if they were some charity case) aren't buying the clothes, and the collection was launched with an exclusive party for the fashion industry.

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

[via Budget Fashionista]

According to the New York Post, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has taken her discriminating sense of fashion and applied it to language. Just as Wintour has put the kibosh on celebrity designers in her magazine, she has put the kibosh on the word 'blog'. As Vogue gears up for its bright new media future, Wintour has run up against the net term. In her quest to avoid 'blog', she's even gone so far as to ask her staff to come up with a new term for the concept.

It's rare for me to agree with old Anna, but in this situation we're in lock step with one another. If you want to know why, it's the 'og' phoneme that really bugs me, not the blog itself.

So Anna, if your crackerjack staff comes up with something better, let me know.

[via New York Post]

One of the more popular fashion and style blogs out there is The Sartorialist, based in New York. The Sartorialist is known for snapping photos of people in their natural, fashionist states, on the street. A few days ago, The Sartorialist posted that he will be contributing to Cookie, the InStyle/Lucky-style magazine for kids and babies. His contributions will be called "Sartorialist, Jr." with the same sort of "street-style" capture, but instead of regular-sized people, his subjects will be of the smaller set.

From BloggingBaby, we get this random side note: "if you'll read the post, you'll find that The Sartorialist used to be a stay-at-home dad." Now who knew a stay-at-home Dad could have such an eye for style?

[via: BloggingBaby]

Back in December, Sarah mentioned that new media entrepreneur Elizabeth Spiers was about to venture into the world of fashion blogging. Using the old bait 'n' switch, Spiers led us to believe that the new site would be called Size0.com. But when the blog actually earlier launched this week, we were all quite surprised to see the site's real name: Fashionista.com. (Wonder what kind of strings she pulled to get that plush domain name...)

So far what I like most about the site is the knowing attitude of the writing (presumably the handiwork of editor Faran Krentcil). Fashionista.com strikes up a balance between the laudatory pandering of Vogue and the downright mean-spirited bile of Gawker. Perhaps that middle ground is not everyone's cup of tea, but for me, there's nothing I love more than fashion writers who call a spade a spade without actually dubbing anyone as "fat" or "ugly".

I'll be the first one to admit that I have given up on my personal blog. For a long time, I found blogging to be a satisfying, creative outlet during my otherwise dull working day. But after about 8 months of posting, crafting a clever daily entry felt more like a chore and less like like a treat. So when I stopped cold turkey, I felt great and I haven't missed it in the least. My friends and fans -- oh, yes, I had fans -- however, don't feel quite the same way.

When it comes to ex-bloggers, it seems that I'm in good company. According to the technology analysis firm Gartner, the blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007 with a predicted level of 100 million active blogs. Estimates also suggest that there are already 200 million now-defunct sites, on every topic from daily living to weird science.

What's the reason for the blog drop-off? Well, as Gartner analyst Darryl Plummer put it: "Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they're put on stage and asked to say it." (Now that sounds familiar.)

So what do you think: is the sun starting to set on the blogosphere?

As you know, Styledash likes to look good when we go out on the town, but we also like to good when we stay in. That's why we cover stylish interiors (and not-so-stylish, though I can't recall a HomeStyleFoul post yet).

If, however, you can't seem to get enough throw pillows, scented candles, bamboo flooring here on Styledash, might we suggest you head over to Decor8 for a little more than a peek?

Decor8, a blog about "fresh finds for hip spaces," is written by Boston-based freelance writer and interior design consultant Holly Becker. Holly created Decor8 "to catalog things that I love and to reach out to others who share my passion for design and the need for creative living." The things Holly finds are usually colorful and fun, definitely things that would add whimsy to a space.

We're always looking out for our playmates in the world of fashion and style blogging, and we were more than happy to fall upon Blog on the Cusp.

Blog on the Cusp is the blog of the store Cusp and from their HelloWorld post, they are intending to "give you the Cusp girls' perspective, courtesy of our store managers and employees, who are on the front lines of fashion and shopping trends. They can see a handbag obsession occurring the minute stock arrives in the warehouse." In case you didn't know, Cusp is the younger, hipper sibling of Neiman Marcus. It isn't any cheaper to shop there (i.e. this isn't an "outlet" or "seconds" store); it simply carries clothing and accessories that cater to a crowd that might think of Neiman Marcus as Their first store opened first in McLean, VA, then Century City, CA.