cottagecore

Aesthetically, cottagecore is women with long hair and long dresses holding wicker baskets, a warm berry pie resting on a cloth served beside herbal tea in a thrifted china set, mason jars, foraged mushrooms, beeswax candles.

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This approach to fashion provides a fountain of surprises, creativity and weirdness, throwing up wry, eye-catching, era-splicing looks with excellent names, ranging from Dark Academia (key references: Donna Tartt and Giles from Buffy) to cottagecore (gingham, crochet and ruffles).

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A close but more feral cousin to cottagecore, a trend for a stylised, agrarian way of life and its aesthetic – prairie dresses, jam tarts, thatched cottages and strawberry motifs – that was big last year, goblincore is, says Brennan, more “rough around the edges”.

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The pandemic was all about “cottagecore,” an idyllic or avoidant retreat to country cutesiness, sourdough bread–making, and an allegedly simpler time.

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Cottagecore as an aesthetic has been around since at least 2018, when Tumblr users started collecting nostalgic images of a romanticized version Western country life on mood boards, but its popularity has surged during quarantine.

My Life Is Little House on the Prairie. I Blame TikTok Condé Nast 2020

It could be the beginning of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, before the inevitable darkness seeps in, but rather it’s the backdrop of a budding aesthetic movement called cottagecore, where tropes of rural self-sufficiency converge with dainty décor to create an exceptionally twee distillation of pastoral existence.

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Cottagecore as a movement has become a kind of a shared community nostalgia for an idealized countryside cottage life, nestled in nature, where the social isolation so necessary in modern pandemic times becomes something enjoyed rather than endured.

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The trend represents a direct departure from the hyper-curated “cottagecore” influence of early pandemic days, a standout trend of 2020 that included pastel colors, bucolic scenery, and the showcasing of wholesome homemaking skills such as baking and embroidery.

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The reference here is cottagecore: a visual and lifestyle movement designed to fetishize the wholesome purity of the outdoors, spearheaded by lovely queer teens of TikTok.

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