Everyone love buying things online. Girls & boys, teenagers & working adults. I love to buy stuff online too, especially from overseas shops. Recently, I bought two watches from an online shop www.watchco.com from America and I pray that it will arrive next week.

Fossil Women’s Slim Crystal Analog Watch

Fossil Philippe Starck Black O-Ring
The problem I have with online shopping, isn’t with online shopping itself, but with blogshops. I know I made a very sweeping statement with my blog post title, and I’m sure there are good quality, affordable, reliable blogshops out there. The difference between a blogshop and online store is that blogshops are usually run by individuals, usually amateurs in many ways. They purchase clothes from wholesalers with many clothes coming from Thailand or China and the shop format is a blog (duh).
These are the reasons why I have not bought anything from a blogshop before:
1. Sizes. Majority of the blogshops in Singapore offers clothes for sizes UK6 to UK8. I’m more of a UK 10 to UK 12 kind of girl. When they say “free size” it usually isn’t my size either. It’s dangerous when you see “free size” on a blogshop because you have no idea what size it is! I don’t believe a clothing that fits a sized UK 14 lady would fit a UK 4 lady as well?!

Bonito Chico – pretty UK6 to UK8 clothes and dresses, good quality stuff too!
2. Plus sized blogshops are for reallllly plus sized girls. Not disrespecting them, but I can’t find anything that fits my size that I like as well.

S$49.90 dress from BAB – plus-size blogshop
3. Plus-size blogshops that have my size….. they charge TWO TIMES the price of other blogshops. Typically, blogshops sells dresses about $20+ and these Plus sized blogshops sells them at $40+. Wah seriously the cloth required is twice as much? I don’t know why plus size clothes are not as pretty as well
4. Most blogshops (not all) import really low grade clothes. Lousy material, lousy sewing, lousy design. You can usually buy these dresses from Thailand for S$10. Instead, they are being sold in blogshops for $20+. That being said, I have seen blogshops that sells well designed and good quality clothes as well. I can’t explain to you how to differentiate the good quality and bad quality clothes… but… two really popular blog shops would be Bonito Chico and Agnesellse, some forumers call them BC & AE. It would be really nice if they would consider bringing in UK 10 to UK 12 clothes as well!
5. If a blogshop is full of pictures of foreign model modelling the clothes, like those you cut out from magazines, you can’t be sure that you will be receiving exactly the same piece you bought online. I went shopping with Sab in HongKong last year, and we saw TOOO many shops that puts pictures of the clothes being sold and the actual piece of clothes hanged behind the picture. HUGE difference. I have no clue why they bother putting pictures of Korean /China /Japan models with clothes that are obviously different from what they were selling. I guess the new online shopping word is “inspired”. You know like “Chanel inspired bags”, that kind of thing?


6. I’ve heard quite a few stories where the blogshop collects your money and run away with it. I’m not sure if the police actually bothers tracing who steals your money. Blogshops don’t need a name to open, you don’t need any credibility, certification, or any form of control. For all you know, the “blogshop owner” is actually running a Nigerian scam all the way from Nigeria.
Ok, I still have many other reasons why I’m so skeptical of buying anything from blogshops. In general, I prefer UK fashion as compared to Japan or Korean fashion, which seems to be the trend locally. I’m psyched that my sister is in HongKong now and she promised to get me 5 H&M shirts. I LOVE H&M!!! They have really good quality pretty shirts for less than S$20! When is H&M coming to Singapore?!

Fav H&M checkered shirt

Fav H&M striped shirt
*** I’m currently overseas now and I’ve been searching high and low online for a dress I can wear to my cousin’s wedding next month! I can’t find any pretty dresses that is suitable for the occasion and one that fits my size! So if anyone knows of a blogshop that carries slightly bigger size clothes, particularly cocktail dresses, please let me know!!! ***
Tags: blogshop, bonito chico, dress, H&M, online shopping, plus-size, watch