Sure these websites are like junk food, but who doesn't love a tasty snack?
The models of American Apparel
Looking for a cheap and easy perve?
Some may drool over this casual clothing company's sweatshop free basics but others just ogle the models. American Apparel is famous for super salacious advertising campaigns, often featuring their foxier staff members. It's not all amicable in this sexually charged company - they have faced a few sexual harassment lawsuits.
On this website, which may or may not be safe for work, it's a definite T&A show with lots of nubile young things lolling on white-sheeted beds in stretchy cotton garments. There's a good reason why an American Apparel see-through body stocking made it into the pages of Playboy. For these models, being braless is a necessity, as is having what looks like a post-coital hairdo. Topless? Absolutely. Wearing a sheer garment with nothing more than your own hands to spare your blushes? Sure, why not? But the nice thing about these uninhibited models is they aren't airbrushed into monotony. It's possible to see them in their freckly, asymmetric glory. It's nice to see a big clothing company show that yes, some women's armpits look ugly, yes, some pairs of boobs are lopsided, yes, people have blemishes. To show flaws on such sexy images seems to say that in spite of imperfections (or perhaps because of them), a woman can be very, very hot.
The downside? The men in the photographs aren't particularly fine.
Bagaholic Boy
So it's not eye candy you're after, but arm candy? Check out Bagaholic Boy, a Singapore-based blogger with flamboyant and extravagant taste. He loves Chanel, Coach, Gucci, Hermes, Kate Spade, Loewe, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Mulberry, Prada and YSL, to name but a few, and he professes this love by sharing new images of beautiful current season bags with his reviews and comments almost every day. It's possible to find a little review of any hot new bag released in the last couple of years or so and he is also prompt to field questions. He's quick to lavish praise on Louis Vuitton's latest creations, but just as fast when delivering a scathing review of the poshest designer bag if it falls down in the looks department. For instance, a clutch bag made of white faux fur that was released when Miuccia Prada was sending models down the catwalk wearing jackets made of the stuff you might sew into a teddy bear, was dismissed as "what Girl Bigfoot would carry on a date with Boy Bigfoot".
Luxury companies seem to recognise his influence.
"Some," he says, "are very nice to me."
Bonanzle
Bargain hunters who have grown disenchanted with Ebay (dubbed "Evilbay") have begun to turn to Bonanzle to snap up hot buys or offload excess purchases. Try typing in "TPF" (The Purse Forum) to find page after page of second hand designer bags from all the labels. Sellers who use "TPF" in their listings do so to show their alliance with the forum where users spend more on bags than most would on their first car. Sellers who are TPF members like to declare their dedication to authenticity as opposed to fakery (a problem that is rife on Ebay) and encourage interested buyers to get second opinions using the forum.
Go Fug Yourself
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan have simple goals: To wage war on leggings. To fight crimes against fashion with snide derision and razor-sharp humour. To lambast jumpsuits/rompers/all-in-ones, surely the scourge of our time. Regular offenders such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Bai Ling and D-listers like Phoebe Price are taken to task for ridiculous, sloppy, outrageous or silly ensembles. The fact that they can all afford decent stylists makes their dodgy apparel all the more inexcusable. But Morgan and Cocks give credit where it's due and praise starlets who look lovely. They also adore looks that are brilliantly nutty, like Beyonce Knowles' robotic hand (visible in the video clip of Single ladies (put a ring on it) that she has on occasion worn on the red carpet.