提到简•奥尔德里奇，就不能不说她的博客“鞋的海洋”（sea of shoes）。2007年，对时装有着高度敏感性和鉴赏力的简开设了这个博客，并在博客中记录着自己的穿衣灵感和搭配，她对高跟鞋有着超乎常人的敏锐触觉，堪称最年轻的“资深高跟鞋收藏家”。2009年，幸运的她还获邀参加了有“公主聚会”之称的巴黎名门千金成人舞会。

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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: 要求不过分的，适度的。

2. hit: 点击量。

3. feature: v. （书刊）特载，特写；Vanity Fair:《名利场》，美国时尚杂志名；Teen Vogue: 美国青少年时尚杂志名；Urban Outfitters: 美国著名零售商。

4. vintage: 收藏，收获；outlet: （感情、精力等的）发泄途径（或方法）；fixation: 固恋，固着的偏爱；peer: 同行，同等身份；Trophy Club: 美国德克萨斯州一地名；nestle: 坐落于……之间；sprawling: 蔓延的，扩张的；suburb: 郊区。

5. isolated: （被）孤立的，隔离的。

6. posing: 造型；outfit: 服装；knee-high: 高到膝的；Balenciaga: 巴黎世家，西班牙服装品牌；frothy: 泡沫的；Comme des Garcons: 日本潮流服装品牌川久保玲；cropped: 裁剪不正的；sweatshirt: 运动衫；Zara: 西班牙服装及其服装连锁零售品牌。

7. inspiration: 灵感，下文的inspire是其动词形式，意为“启迪，赋予某人灵感”；hub: 中心。

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

9. Paris' Crillon Ball: 巴黎名门千金成人舞会；Chanel: 法国著名品牌香奈尔。

（来源：英语学习杂志）