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Most weeks in the Guardian newspaper’s Weekend magazine, someone amusingly writes in to complain that they could never wear the clothes in the fashion pages because their thighs meet in the middle, or they can’t find purple sprouting at their local Asda, as if every single recipe and style in the magazine were meant to be followed to the letter. So I decided to do just that – follow the Weekending lifestyle section of the magazine as closely as possible and see what happens. Will I simply become a more concentrated version of my already white, middle-class, media-professional, Dalston-dwelling life of cliché, or will an altogether more interesting result arise from the project – perhaps proving that even Hackney isn’t ready for shirts-as-turbans or that you can get purple sprouting at any time of night if you try hard enough. My efforts are accompanied by very low-fi photo documentation for the purposes of illustration only.
I've always found it funny when people write letters to the Guardian's Weekend magazine complaining that the recipe ingredients are too middle class and the fashion only looks good on thin people. After all, it's just a magazine. Or is it? I decided to follow its recipes, fashion and lifestyle advice as closely as possible, to see if the aspirations promoted therein can really be achieved by the average reader who is not especially wealthy, not necessarily model thin and is obliged to work regular office hours. This blog has no affiliation whatsoever with the Guardian but I link to the Weekend magazine website for the purposes of illustration. 