If you'll forgive a brief and selfish feature about this blog, I wanted to record my delight at being a Vuelio Top Ten Men's Blog for 2020. A blogger receives little feedback on his/her efforts and even the wonders of digital technology give little idea of a blog's impact without access to the sorts of data that Vuelio crunch to make their selection (you can read more about that in the link below*).
Grey Fox Blog is in a list of well-known blogs (click here to read the list), a few of which have been around longer than our eight and a half plus years. Blogging has changed hugely in that time. When I started, Instagram was new and my initial efforts on that platform were designed to support the blog. Instagram now takes more of my time and, while each feeds on the other and I would never give up the blog, Instagram is probably the more influential of the two. Doubtless that will change one day, meanwhile I use both as the blog has a permanence that media like Instagram do not.
There are many brands I'd like to wear but find difficult to reach. This may partly be because of the industry's myopic fascination with younger consumers, (despite the size and relative affluence of my demographic) and partly because I don't have enough time in the day to do everything I'd like to do. If my focus seems to be on the smaller brands, many manufacturing in the UK, that is because those businesses are happy to work with me, allow me to wear their clothes, and I appreciate their sustainable approach. I'm always pleased to hear about new brands from blog readers and companies themselves.
Everything you see and read about here is a product that I like, or I think readers would be interested in. Any money I make from this blog goes towards blog expenses. This is not a career for me: I do this because I love it and the people I come across as a result of being Grey Fox Blog. With the exception of a few sponsored collaborations, taken on to pay the bills, the overwhelming majority of what I do is unpaid. I do receive samples which, in general, I keep in order to illustrate Instagram.
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*Click here to see how Vuelio ranks the blogs that it reviews for the awards.