I've lurked so much on Tattle over the past 2 years ish or so, but never posted before, because literally nothing any other "influencer" has posted has ever irritated me quite as much as this glasses debacle. There's some right twats out there, of course, but this feels so... needlessly and disingenously sanctimonious?
I absolutely loved Alex's fashion posts. I loved that she combined more expensive pieces with high street fashion; in the past, I've had so much inspiration from her. I still wear outfits inspired by her previous posts. She had (and still does) have a really great eye for timeless style, for me.
For the past year or so, it's just been... awful. Absolute shite. She's never been THAT frugal. That house, the absolute crap she buys... nothing is frugal. That's alright, I guess. We can all aspire to being better with money. I can appreciate skimping a bit on Everyday Essentials vs branded items (a no brainer, really) to eventually afford a one-off nice purchase. Still, it's not revolutionary, and not really what she does now. It's all gifted, isn't it? I suppose that's why she's stepped away from The Frugality Insta (which is fair enough, if you want to move away from that MO - but own it! Commit to it! Don't call it 'maternity' when you're rabidly posting about glasses on your other account) ... but to spend a holiday in your family's apartment abroad, for example, and still preach frugality is a bit of a kick in the teeth, to be honest. To moan about being able to take your kids abroad and about restaurants and hunting down chips and bread... Come on!
Anyway, the original complaint: the glasses. I've worn glasses since I was about seven years old, and the only time I've ever felt tit for wearing them was when another seven-year old called me four eyes. That was over 20 years ago. I love my glasses - I love that they're a fashion accessory for me, and I love the way they feel and look on my face, and I love that when I get a new pair, people notice. They say, I love your glasses. No one post-adolescence has ever made me feel like tit for wearing glases. I've had a lot to feel a bit tit about (influencers having basically free holidays in their parents' apartments and moaning about how they didn't feel relaxed after it, for example...), but wearing glasses isn't it. In fact, the only person who really seems bothered about Alex wearing glasses, is Alex.
I'm not sure what planet Alex is living on that she feels like she has to take her glasses off to look pretty or accepted or whatever, but maybe she needs to get new friends? Or new peers? Or maybe she's just angling for laser eye surgery. Who knows! I unfollowed her today, after perservering for a while in the futile hope that she'd post something in the ilk of her OG high street fashion inspo. There are loads of mums who post great post-partum fashion and Mum fashion and what-have-you, and none of them seem to be quite so hard done by. I can't sit through crap photos of any old woman wearing glasses, using her convoluted rules for what's acceptable for women wearing glasses in media (apparently if you're a "nerd" or in science, you can't wear them because that's what the media and society expects of you???).
I dunno, man. Maybe just finish tiling your bloody garden before rallying against the non-glasses plebian masses?
. I feel she’s completely lacking direction now she knows the frugality angle is a busted flush.
