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Blair Waldorf's Pinterest makeover gets a ModernGurlz reality check

The channel's only new upload revisits the Gossip Girl character's jeans, bright colors and clashing prints.

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blair waldorf is NOT coquette 😩

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ModernGurlz wants the moodboards to make room for Marc Jacobs and jeans. In "blair waldorf is NOT coquette 😩", the presenter argues that the internet has smoothed Blair Waldorf's wardrobe into something much narrower than the clothes she actually wore on Gossip Girl.

The Short layers commentary over fashion collages and stills from the series, rather than presenting new Gossip Girl footage. Blair, played by Leighton Meester, might have been preppier than Serena van der Woodsen, but that doesn't make her an exclusively tweed-and-pearls dresser. ModernGurlz points instead to bold colors, mixed prints and the confidence to wear combinations that weren't always tasteful. The point isn't that Blair dressed perfectly. It's that she dressed like Blair.

Viewers pick up that distinction in the comments. Some remember an era of statement necklaces and neon skinny jeans; others separate her school-uniform look from her more playful street clothes. There's also a case being made for calling her style twee rather than coquette.

That single new upload has reached about 140,000 views and is the busiest of the channel's highlighted videos right now. Just outside this week's release window, "the rise and fall of the barbie cinematic universe 💖" also keeps moving, looking back at the animated fairy-tale films and questioning the direction of their remakes.

Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while today's channel-wide viewing is a little below its usual pace. Blair's wardrobe debate nevertheless gives ModernGurlz a specific new conversation: how much of a remembered character's style belongs to the show, and how much belongs to Pinterest?

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What viewers say

I don’t think the younger folks understand how colorful this timeframe was, it was the era of gaudy statement necklaces and neon skinny jeans lol
@taylorgayhart9497See it on YouTube
Yessss she is so much more twee than people everrrr credit her for!!!
@ShelbadelbasingsongSee it on YouTube
I did not love her style, but that Elie Saab dress she wore to marry Chuck, I LOVED. I would wear that in heartbeat to get married albeit in a shade that complemented by skin tone more like a peach or even a jewel tone.
@TheKhalienteSee it on YouTube

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Haha those outfits are actually interesting I'll look into it more. Love some color.
@zzkzkzzkzkzk8945See it on YouTube
She's sooooo art history/color theory personified.
@Lboogie71See it on YouTube
I never watched this show so if a Pinterest image says that she dresses like a twee ballerina in my full ignorance I'll buy it 😭 that's how these misconceptions spread like wildfire
@maddodeuil3342See it on YouTube

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