About Broke & Beautiful
You’ll find one major difference between Broke & Beautiful and your average budget fashion blog:
We don’t want you to scrape the bottom of the bargain bin for your clothes. We don’t like the idea of you forking over a few bits of cash and getting fashion that’s guaranteed to fall apart within 3 months. We’re not fans of fast fashion, and you won’t find us worshipping fast fashion meccas like Forever 21 or Urban Outfitters. We like clothing that tells a story, we like to live in a life that inspires us – whether it’s a pair of shoes, an amazing jacket, or that print on the wall from a local designer’s clearance sale.
We are passionate about buying things that mean something to us… Something that transcends trends and makes our creativity sing when we wear it or look at it, or just hold it in our hands.
The Broke & Beautiful march to the beat of their own drum, defining their style not with labels or price tags, but with what calls to them and stirs their imagination.
Many may be broke, and all may be beautiful, but it takes more than that to live Broke & Beautiful.
Since 2007, Broke & Beautifulsm has been helping to connect those who live inexpensively with the best, most beautiful designs we can find. We have developed a community of style-loving, smart and ambitious women who are love going the extra mile to get the best for the best price, and have been recognized for our focus on affordable, high-quality design and styles.
Broke & Beautiful has been named a Top 10 Budget Fashion Blog by:
B&B has also been named one of the Top 50 Fashion Blogs by BlogRank.
Hello, I’m Lindsay.
After jobs as a newspaper editor, fashion photographer, stylist and marketing coordinator – I decided to leave the corporate life and go into business for myself as a professional apparel addict.
Picking up a magazine and seeing the first 40 pages full of high-end luxury ads, followed by editorials suggesting you just run to the nearest Neiman Marcus and pick up the latest Alexander Wang plain t-shirt dress infuriates me. While designers are obviously to be respected, I refuse to pay $90 for a white tee, or $150 for a pencil skirt, and so on – especially if it’s not perfect. If it’s not what I’ve been dreaming of, forget it.
There’s no reason to pay exorbitant amounts simple for a name tag. I have designers I adore – truly unique, inventive, and authentic designs are few and far between – but paying retail is completely out of my reality. My philosophy? There’s never a reason to pay full price.
Truly unique designer items will absolutely show their faces on B&B – provided they’re worth the money that’s being asked for them, and provided they’re designed well enough to pluck my heartstrings.
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Hi, I’m Jen.
I love combining my passion for beautiful clothes with my fervor for socially-conscious consumerism – but ethical fashion can come with a hefty price tag. B&B is both freeing and challenging: I can branch out from my stricter eco-restrictions, but I also have to find fashion I respect socially at a price that doesn’t make me cringe.
That’s not all you’ll see from me, though; I’m a fashion fiend, and sometimes that means traversing outside of the realm of eco-friendly fashion. I’ll bring reviews, indie designers, and that delicious B&B smarm that you all love.
While Lindsay has a lifestyle that allows for fashion experimentation, my own wardrobe is a bit more subtle. I’m locked into the corporate world for 40 hours a week, and I can’t exactly come in to the office with an avant garde getup – no matter how much I love it. But I still love experimental fashion, so I’m always on the hunt for pieces that translate from work to happy hour (oh god, I love a good happy hour) without making my bosses’ heads spin.
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Broke & Beautifulsm was launched by Lindsay Ginn in 2007, and is now a production of Less Than Four Media. Other Less Than Four Media Productions include:
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