Polyvor-acious

Who uses Polyvore?

What?

You've never heard of Polyvore?!

Clear your schedule and prepare to start spending way too much time in front of your computer screen. 

This site lets you "shop" the entire internet at once!! And make little magazine style sets of your findings!!

This does not seem to be translating properly, even with the double exclamation points. Let's try a scenario.

You're looking for summer outfit ideas online. You go to "Polyvore.com". You click "Create a Set." Oh! Look! Clothing categories! Hmm, let's go with dresses, it's summer after all. You click "Dresses." Now you can narrow things down with a couple drop-down menus, "Price Ranges" and "Color Families." I can not emphasize enough how much I love the color categories. Like, seriously. But on with the scenario...

You're young and unemployed (I might be projecting a little here) so you click the "Under $50" category. And you chose the darkest blue color because you know, you're a little obsessed with navy blue right now. And ta-da, a lovely selection of navy dress available online for under $50. And you can type in something like "Stripes" or "Strapless" and narrow things even more. And if you can't find that perfect thing in the Polyvore database of stuff, you can use their little clipper tool and grab something from the world wide web itself for you and other people to use. But a lot of people have already done a lot of clipping so I don't often clip myself, but whatever you're into. Clip. Clip. Clip.

And now things get really crazy. You drag the image of the dress to the blank page and drop it and go looking for the perfect shoes, hand-bag, jewelry, jacket, etc. etc. And you can pile it all on your formerly blank page until you get something like this. 

And then you can do it over and over and over again. Making dream outfits and inspiration boards until your eyes bleed. Well maybe stop before that happens. Actually, please stop before that happens. I do not want to be in any part responsible for serious eye maladies. 

Polyvore. It's fun. Try it. Tell me your username and we'll follow each other and stuff.