Glamour Magazine Review

I am in the middle of the third year of my subscription to Glamour magazine.  For the first two years, I absolutely loved the magazine!  I got a two-year subscription for around $25.00, and it arrived promptly every month.  The articles were great: lots of variety, tons of handy hints, and even though a lot of the items they feature are WAY out of my price range, they were all things that I could find a cheaper version of and gave me great ideas for my personal style.

However, in the past few months, I have become increasingly disappointed with the magazine.  Within three issues, they had Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift as the cover girls.  Now, I'm not knocking either girl, but if I wanted to read interviews with teenagers, I'd buy Seventeen magazine.  Another complaint I have is that Glamour used to have more variety in their articles.  Marianne Pearl was one of their reporters who did some fabulous pieces on the plight of women across the world, and it really broadened my understanding of women's issues and my own privilege.  That style and depth of article has since disappeared from the magazine.

The nature of the magazine has become very repetetive.  Obviously, most of the content will be geared toward style and fashion, but there are times where it seems like they could have just cut and paste last month's issue into the new one.  The style of writing has simply become stagnant, even though the fashion is current.

The only thing I do like about the magazine's direction is that they are trying to present more budget-friendly ideas for those of us who are "recessionistas."  Glamour seems to stay in touch with my generation's needs, so that leaves me REALLY confused on the Miley Cyrus interviews...people my age have children who watch Hannah Montana, we don't want to dress like her! 

I'll be discontinuing my subscription when it expires for these reasons, and because I'm going more toward online subscriptions in an effort to save more paper and reduce emissions from printers.  Fortunately, letting go of Glamour will be an easy way to help the environment.