提到簡?奧爾德里奇，就不能不說她的博客“鞋的海洋”（sea of shoes）。2007年，對時裝有著高度敏感性和鑒賞力的簡開設了這個博客，并在博客中記錄著自己的穿衣靈感和搭配，她對高跟鞋有著超乎常人的敏銳觸覺，堪稱最年輕的“資深高跟鞋收藏家”。2009年，幸運的她還獲邀參加了有“公主聚會”之稱的巴黎名門千金成人舞會。

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Jane Aldridge hoped to get a few readers when she started a style blog at 15. Today, that sounds impossibly modest[1].

Aldridge, now 18, gets about 70,000 hits[2] a day at her blog “Sea of Shoes”. She’s been featured in magazines like Vanity Fair and Teen Vogue and has designed shoes for Urban Outfitters.[3]

“I didn’t realize at the time that I started my blog that blogs would ever become what they are now,” she said.

With a love of designer vintage, Aldridge said she started her blog as an outlet for a fixation on fashion that wasn’t shared by her peers in Trophy Club, a small town about 30 miles northwest of Dallas nestled among the city’s sprawling suburbs.[4]

“Living out here I was kind of isolated in my love of fashion,” she said.[5]

Her blog is mostly pictures of herself in her home or wooded areas nearby posing in outfits she’s put together—from modeling a pair of knee-high black leather Balenciaga boots to a frothy peach Comme des Garcons skirt paired with a gray cropped sweatshirt from Zara.[6] She said that she finds inspiration in being far away from a fashion hub like New York City: “It sort of inspires you to create your own little world,” she said.[7]

Being home-schooled for her senior year, Aldridge works on photo shoots for the blog about four days a week for several hours each day, she said.[8]

She said she’s happy with a life focused on her blog and the opportunities that brings, including attending Paris’ Crillon Ball dressed in Chanel.[9]

“I’m not sure that a normal life would be for me,” Aldridge said.

Vocabulary

1. modest: 要求不過分的，適度的。

2. hit: 點擊量。

3. feature: v. （書刊）特載，特寫；Vanity Fair:《名利場》，美國時尚雜志名；Teen Vogue: 美國青少年時尚雜志名；Urban Outfitters: 美國著名零售商。

4. vintage: 收藏，收獲；outlet: （感情、精力等的）發泄途徑（或方法）；fixation: 固戀，固著的偏愛；peer: 同行，同等身份；Trophy Club: 美國德克薩斯州一地名；nestle: 坐落于……之間；sprawling: 蔓延的，擴張的；suburb: 郊區。

5. isolated: （被）孤立的，隔離的。

6. posing: 造型；outfit: 服裝；knee-high: 高到膝的；Balenciaga: 巴黎世家，西班牙服裝品牌；frothy: 泡沫的；Comme des Garcons: 日本潮流服裝品牌川久保玲；cropped: 裁剪不正的；sweatshirt: 運動衫；Zara: 西班牙服裝及其服裝連鎖零售品牌。

7. inspiration: 靈感，下文的inspire是其動詞形式，意為“啟迪，賦予某人靈感”；hub: 中心。

8. home-schooled: 接受家庭教育的；senior: 高中；shoot: 拍攝，攝影。

9. Paris' Crillon Ball: 巴黎名門千金成人舞會；Chanel: 法國著名品牌香奈爾。

（來源：英語學習雜志）