Cottagecore Style Is Much Older Than You Think

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  • @love4cynthia233
    @love4cynthia2333 жыл бұрын

    Im all for cottagecore until mosquitoes

  • @_Lord_of_Misrule_

    @_Lord_of_Misrule_

    3 жыл бұрын

    For real, I live in Europe and a friend of mine lives in the desert and she says she‘d love to live in a cottage in the woods. I‘m like: if you knew of the amount of gigantic bugs there you‘d maybe overthink this wish again lmaoo.

  • @emieve617

    @emieve617

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! They are absolutely savage, can’t even go outside, especially not in the woods.

  • @alejandrarodriguez8410

    @alejandrarodriguez8410

    3 жыл бұрын

    Use lavender!

  • @adedow1333

    @adedow1333

    3 жыл бұрын

    Counter with blue birds (they eat mosquitoes)

  • @deltaflute03

    @deltaflute03

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or ticks. Prancing around barefoot in fluffy dresses while getting those shots in makes me nervous. Two words: Lyme Disease.

  • @jennystout8600
    @jennystout86003 жыл бұрын

    I love how those princessy cottagecore dresses suggest living on a farm but doing literally no farm work.

  • @science3816

    @science3816

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rich dad

  • @R83145

    @R83145

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm just here for the honey, kthxbye.

  • @JM-wt4bf

    @JM-wt4bf

    3 жыл бұрын

    True true, if in working on the farm I want me jeans, steel caps, fly net, protective wear if dangerous work

  • @alexmacgregor9631

    @alexmacgregor9631

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah they're not going to enjoy the part about living on a farm in the middle of nowhere in the middle of winter and you can't to town cuz the roads snowed in for days and your plow truck won't start...

  • @phreakazoith2237

    @phreakazoith2237

    2 жыл бұрын

    you gotta have a lot of peasants doing all the work to enjoy this fancy vision of living on the countryside. Preferable you are a princess to do so, or even better you are the queen of France. wait, forget about the last one. It did not turn out to well when the real peasants stormed the palace.

  • @Apledore
    @Apledore3 жыл бұрын

    As someone who lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere, I’m just thinking about how filthy I get hauling dirt to my garden beds, how much time I spend making sure my plants don’t die, and how I have to deal with animal violence and illness. Don’t get me wrong - I love my farm, and the benefits are massive, but seeing it romanticized is just silly when you live the reality.

  • @burntcoppery

    @burntcoppery

    3 жыл бұрын

    I live on the edge of suburbia/farmland and thus have been side-eyeing cottagecore since I first discovered it. There are very few cowpats and grass stains in this fantasy.

  • @ohrats731

    @ohrats731

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s even funnier thinking about 16th century aristocrats fanaticizing about farm life without bugs/dirt/crop failure/disease because those things were so unavoidable back then. I mean they still are to some extent but we’re a lot closer to the ideal with bug repellents, washer machines, grocery stores/amazon, and modern medicine. Really the pastoral ideal is far more reachable now than it’s ever been. I’m pretty happy living away from the city with a small vegetable farm knowing that I can still eat if all the zucchini plants die again and I don’t HAVE to can to survive the winter lol. I don’t have to make or wash my own clothes by hand. I like modern appliances and medicine. I’d like to have some chickens and goats some day but I’m not ready yet. In the mean time the grocery store is only 20 minutes away! I guess bugs are still a big point of contention for people but we can’t get rid of them without seriously harming our ecosystems, so they’re here to stay. Where I live, I’m fortunate that it’s incredibly rare to die from a bug bite. Lyme disease is an issue but I’m used to being vigilant about ticks. Bugs are creepy but they’ve been around us for the entire history of the human race, it’s time we loosened up on the bug anxiety a little lol and not let that be a dealbreaker for leaving the city. (Y’all have cockroaches by the way. May I point that out to people who are going ew country bugs? Lol) Other than that, life’s pretty good at the cottage 😎 lol well I don’t wear dresses and take selfies so I guess I can’t really say I live cottage core 😂

  • @iseeyouineverystar

    @iseeyouineverystar

    3 жыл бұрын

    also how everything is so far away, and, if you have animals, it’s a whole different story.

  • @PeachysMom

    @PeachysMom

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, that’s why it’s “let’s sit on rocks and watch shepherds work” lol cottagecore is a superficiality

  • @KaliMaaaaa

    @KaliMaaaaa

    3 жыл бұрын

    Like most other things under our current corporate system it is actually fetishization for profit. It has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with selling people a false image and more made in China junk they don't need.

  • @NosferotikaBr
    @NosferotikaBr3 жыл бұрын

    Alternate title: karolina criticizing English for 20 mins straight (you're right tho)

  • @janmelantu7490

    @janmelantu7490

    3 жыл бұрын

    I will always apologize for our absolutely absurd R and terribly inconsistent stress system

  • @camillegras6942

    @camillegras6942

    3 жыл бұрын

    And also pronuncing french right, which pleases me a lot.

  • @user-iz8np3vv4i

    @user-iz8np3vv4i

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you can't say: "A rural girl's pastoral horror story." you might be Polish (or else Japanese, it's a fine line)

  • @melissasaint3283

    @melissasaint3283

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@janmelantu7490 our terribly inconsistent EVERYTHING. English is like a quilt sewed together as a group project by a drunken party of multilingual people. I feel like, if someone not raised speaking it can become fluent in English or any variety of Chinese, you can probably learn any major language, because... holy moly. They're just needlessly hard. Latin may have words that build like a Lego tower of suffixes and prefixes, German may have 16 different tenses of the word "the" but at least the rules and pronunciation remain basically consistent! Even the best rules of English only apply like 90% of the time, lol .

  • @brunakorsch5319

    @brunakorsch5319

    3 жыл бұрын

    aaa kkkkkk que lindo navirotikah assistindo as youtubers de moda histórica que eu gosto

  • @margaretwalters6757
    @margaretwalters67573 жыл бұрын

    Finally someone discussing how cottagecore is just modern pastoralism.

  • @beahgg

    @beahgg

    3 жыл бұрын

    Y e s

  • @evapalma9899

    @evapalma9899

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Take made a video essay about cottagecore's literary connections ala Jane Austen and being a resistance against rushed city life. It's okay even if it acts like Taylor Swift's Evermore is THE cottagecore album

  • @elise_h

    @elise_h

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm holding out for sublimecore.

  • @Jamesharveycomics

    @Jamesharveycomics

    3 жыл бұрын

    If cottagecore fetishists had actually read the literature from the era they claim to idealise they would know the word pastoralism!

  • @audreyjoy578

    @audreyjoy578

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol I feel so called out 🤣🤣😭😭

  • @ForeverEva
    @ForeverEva3 жыл бұрын

    karolina: *complains about R’s and L’s* also karolina: *has an R and an L in her first name*

  • @marionwieczorek8919

    @marionwieczorek8919

    3 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, it really wasn't her choice, so..

  • @alicjakempisty2729

    @alicjakempisty2729

    3 жыл бұрын

    Polish r's are very much different than English r's

  • @mariadumitru3962

    @mariadumitru3962

    3 жыл бұрын

    The l in rural, unlike the l in Karolina, is a dark l

  • 3 жыл бұрын

    @@alicjakempisty2729 Yeah, they actually sound like r's.

  • @gittevandevelde2208

    @gittevandevelde2208

    3 жыл бұрын

    they sound totally different though. I speak dutch and also struggle with english R's, while Germanic R's are fine for me

  • @MicarahTewers
    @MicarahTewers2 жыл бұрын

    petition to end the word "rural"

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    signed 📝🙏🏻

  • @antique.4617

    @antique.4617

    2 жыл бұрын

    singed

  • @thereal5326

    @thereal5326

    2 жыл бұрын

    YO

  • @thereal5326

    @thereal5326

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its the queen!

  • @clairekeiser2076

    @clairekeiser2076

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m a native English speaker and I *hate* that word, too. I can never say it! That and brewery are so hard for me to say 😅

  • @avsusky
    @avsusky3 жыл бұрын

    my take is that cottagecore is capturing the vibes of aristocratic, countryside summer-home living, not really farm life. so it's going for rural, but high class, bougie, our family owns the town rural. in cottagecore content you don't usually see farm animals or food crops, it's flower gardening, song birds, drinking tea from fancy china, sitting in grass with a book, doing crafts like the "work" upper class women did. it seems to be all about relaxation.

  • @liv-uu1fi

    @liv-uu1fi

    2 жыл бұрын

    exactly thats why its called COTTAGEcore

  • @hanibee22

    @hanibee22

    2 жыл бұрын

    Totally 😂

  • @InWinds

    @InWinds

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@liv-uu1fi I don't think thats much of a point you made there. Cottages don't really involve rich aristocrats. Those are just actual farm houses.

  • @liv-uu1fi

    @liv-uu1fi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@InWinds really cause I don't have my own cottage

  • @helloworld2784

    @helloworld2784

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactlyyyyy!!

  • @Charlie-im9iv
    @Charlie-im9iv3 жыл бұрын

    "Oh, to quit your job and be a 17th century shepherdess" will appear on a mug in Urban Outfitters in 3 months

  • @sebastains

    @sebastains

    3 жыл бұрын

    Beat them to it!!

  • @Charlie-im9iv

    @Charlie-im9iv

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sebastains omg do you have an etsy

  • @ReptilianTeaDrinker

    @ReptilianTeaDrinker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sebastains Where is your shop? I need that mug!!!

  • @DaphODyl

    @DaphODyl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Her Etsy shop is linked in her About info! Although, I found no such mug on it. I believe she was telling you to beat them to it, not that she had made the mug herself.

  • @michellebyrom6551

    @michellebyrom6551

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DaphODyl clearly a gap in the market ready to be exploited. Lol

  • @charlottebuijteweg7160
    @charlottebuijteweg71603 жыл бұрын

    When I tried to explain cottagecore to my grandma, her reaction was just “But I already do that, I have always done that, is that new?” She still was very happy to know her lifestyle is now trending.

  • @flowergirl5962

    @flowergirl5962

    2 жыл бұрын

    I always took after my grandma for this reason, I loved how naturally pastoral she was due to her upbringing in rural prairies, I’ve told her it’s trending too and she’s happy that “girls are letting themselves be natural girls again” which I found adorable 😭

  • @charlottebuijteweg7160

    @charlottebuijteweg7160

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@flowergirl5962 that’s so sweet! And such a cute sentence. My grandma tries to teach my family the same in the sense that she always says: “If you make it yourself it might not be as pretty as in store but it is something no one else has and is fully you own”. I think of this when something doesn’t turn out how I imagined, and it makes me proud that I made something.

  • @flowergirl5962

    @flowergirl5962

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@charlottebuijteweg7160 thank you so much!! ♥️ I love that so much, she’s completely right too, always better to have your own work than to have another’s. your grandma is a wise woman and she sounds like a real gem to have around!

  • @charlottebuijteweg7160

    @charlottebuijteweg7160

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@flowergirl5962Thank you! And I agree (with my grandma being a gem and that it’s beter to have your own work around). Cottagecore may not be new but there are definitely some things that get more attention now that it is popular and I think that’s a very good thing.

  • @cathleenmoyle1476

    @cathleenmoyle1476

    2 жыл бұрын

    So what does your grandma do, that's just like cottagecore?

  • @LillibitOfHere
    @LillibitOfHere3 жыл бұрын

    I’m living my best cottage core life yelling at the deer eating my vegetables while sunburned, soaked with sweat, and covered in dirt.

  • @petrichorbones

    @petrichorbones

    3 жыл бұрын

    ok my fav thing about goblincore (or gremlincore) is that it WELCOMES the dirt. i love me some cottagecore but thats for special days, i'd be gremlincore in daily life ehehehuhuhuehe

  • @user-iz8np3vv4i

    @user-iz8np3vv4i

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a amateur gardener, everything wants what you got. Deer, woodchucks, rabbits, beetles. As I was picking blueberries last year I had to keep waving away the hornets. They eat/suck on the berries. Your garden is sort of like your money. Every charity, tradesman, utility company, and the government, thinks your money is actually their money.

  • @ohrats731

    @ohrats731

    3 жыл бұрын

    Heckin deer 😂 Ravenous, all of them! Once they’ve finished the veggies it’s off to eat the day lilies and the hostas! Meanwhile the porcupines are up in the apple trees killing the new growth and the woodchuck is polishing off everything else. I’m honestly surprised we don’t have rabbits too but I guess the coyotes are good for something in that regard. Very hard to run a farm without pulling out the guns, traps, and pesticides… but we manage!

  • @user-iz8np3vv4i

    @user-iz8np3vv4i

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ohrats731 I don't know where you live, but I personally wouldn't care what you did to protect your farm. Legally ...it's hard in Massachusetts.

  • @LillibitOfHere

    @LillibitOfHere

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ohrats731 Last year they ate my hostas to the ground and stole every tomato after I roped off my beans and peas. My current nemesis is the chipmunk who is planting sunflowers everywhere. I can’t imagine protecting a whole farm!

  • @IceOfPhoenix88
    @IceOfPhoenix883 жыл бұрын

    J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, based the Shire and hobbits on how he wished life was: rural and peaceful. This was because he grew up in rural English areas and over time watched as they were industrialised. Fun fact.

  • @laerin7931

    @laerin7931

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kind of interesting, considering how The Hobbit is like an anti-pastoral - hero escapes from his comfortable and cutesy pastoral life to have an uncomfortable adventure in the more wild parts of the world.

  • @IceOfPhoenix88

    @IceOfPhoenix88

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@laerin7931 well Gandalf did kind of bully him into it but I get your point lol

  • @laerin7931

    @laerin7931

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@IceOfPhoenix88 That is true, but in the end he enjoys it much more than he expected. Which was Gandalf's plan all along, because prophecies and shit.

  • @jakubrogacz6829

    @jakubrogacz6829

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@laerin7931 That is not true. Whole war is wrought to stop industrialization ( Sauron and Saruman ). It was to protect Shire.

  • @laerin7931

    @laerin7931

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jakubrogacz6829 Honestly, I haven't read or watched LOTR yet. I've only read(and watched, go figure) The Hobbit, so I can't really say what the themes are in LOTR.

  • @duod7847
    @duod78473 жыл бұрын

    I also hate the word "rural" but I found it helps if you imagine that you're doing a Scooby-Doo impression when you say it.

  • @blacksheep1924

    @blacksheep1924

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep pretty much.

  • @RB-747

    @RB-747

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or maybe try saying mural first? Then switch the r?

  • @bad_revecula

    @bad_revecula

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's so hard to say :(

  • @blacksheep1924

    @blacksheep1924

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or you could say Royal but pronounce it royoil

  • @gudulpif264

    @gudulpif264

    3 жыл бұрын

    Words like “rural”, “mirror”, and “horror” are absolute nightmares lol

  • @ashleynichole8687
    @ashleynichole86873 жыл бұрын

    I lived in “rural” farmland California. I know that sounds ridiculous, but a vast majority of California is NOT cityscapes. We were surrounded by crops for 30+ miles on all sides. I started loving cottagecore because it helped me romanticize the life I was living, especially during Covid, and be content with where I was in the moment. This honestly saved my mental health. We ended up having to move to New England, and my cottagecore aesthetic morphed a bit more into “Princesscore”(since there’s actually a grocery store within an hour of me now) but there’s so much I learned from living life in rural America and making it pleasing instead of fantasizing about what I didn’t have. Appreciate life right where you are, nothing is promised.💛

  • @SimpleDesertRose

    @SimpleDesertRose

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm from the central coast or as we like to refer to it, the universe between LA and SF. When you think of the old west, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Hearst family that is where I came from. Frank James helped settle the area. When people ask about what your home town smells like immediately you think of the stock yard or barley fields and oak trees as far as the eye cam see. There is the charm of a small town but people don't really know what its like to grow up in a small town. Everybody knows everybody. You can't do anything without the whole town knowing. Good or bad.

  • @i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r

    @i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r

    3 жыл бұрын

    I live in rural New Jersey. Doesn’t that sound ridiculous?

  • @Harleyxjokerforever

    @Harleyxjokerforever

    3 жыл бұрын

    I live in California ( near the Bay area) where the hell is the "Rural" farmland at?

  • @SCompton4

    @SCompton4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in California as well, and where I live you’d have farmlands sprinkled around suburbs packed together. An interesting mixture for sure lol. You could be driving down the road and see close knitted houses, and in the next moment cows roaming the fields or sprawling vineyards. My grandparents used to live in what I always called “the back hills” of our town, where the houses are spaced wide for cattle ranchers and other livestock farmers and also areas for nature hiking. My grandparents didn’t care for any themselves, but I remember the old barn on their property and their neighbor’s cattle that would graze close by that I was always excited to greet. I remember I especially loved frog hunting when I was there, but I wasn’t allowed to catch them, just look (probably for the best). As a kid I thought it was such an adventure to drive up there. We have local farmers’ markets every week in the summer too, and I have many family friends that care for chickens or gardens (growing things like tomatoes, sunflowers, fruit trees etc.) in their backyard. My family road-tripped around CA a lot too growing up so I was always exposed to the vast farmlands and more rural scenery as well. All that and more (I could keep going but I should probably stop here) became cemented in my childhood memories. So while the town I grew up in isn’t exactly small or secluded, there’s always been this intrinsic atmosphere of agricultural/rural lifestyle in my life. Pair that with a childhood obsession with fairies and you have a kid that has apparently always been in love with “cottagecore” before I ever new the word. Writing this all out, however, I’ve realized it’s so bizarre talking about my childhood town like this because for so long I desperately wanted to leave for a variety of reasons. But I still aspire to that balance of the conveniences suburban life gives you along with the close proximately to nature/agriculture.

  • @JodiesSideEye

    @JodiesSideEye

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Harleyxjokerforever about 150 miles north east and most of the central valley

  • @misslyntheena
    @misslyntheena2 жыл бұрын

    Reading these comments I just gotta say: People who enjoy cottagecore know what real farms are about, we know what winter is, we know that you get dirty when you work with animals and all that. Some embrace it and want to learn old crafts and farming but cottagecore is about the small things. It’s not about huge tractors but about a small beehive in the backyard, not about hundreds of pigs but ten chicken. Cottagecore does not romanticise modern farmers, it romanticises the countryside, drawing attention to the small and simple things in life and being able to provide some things for yourself such as making your own jam, knitting a scarf and sewing a dress.

  • @livtree9941

    @livtree9941

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are so spot on with this. I even grew up on a farm with my family and there was plenty of muddy days, but I still also made time for running through a field in my best dress because it really did fill me with joy. People think those two things can't co-exist but they can. Life is what you make it :)

  • @helloworld2784

    @helloworld2784

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can't say "we" lmao. Speak for yourself. A bunch of people on Instagram and Tiktok that enjoys Cottagecore doesn't share the same idea of yours.

  • @july4376

    @july4376

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes! this is exactly it a lot of people are misunderstanding

  • @singerofsongs468

    @singerofsongs468

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well put!!

  • @ticcitoasty

    @ticcitoasty

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@helloworld2784 so the aesthetic can only be what instagrammers who want some likes and shares want it to be for 2 seconds before they move to the next popular aesthetic? just stop

  • @mrgngrn
    @mrgngrn3 жыл бұрын

    What I dislike about this aesthetic is that cottagecore mostly pretends that winter doesn't exist. Just like movies and tv-shows. Bitch this fantasy will turn into nightmare as soon as it hits 10° C and lower. Don't even get my russian ass started on actual snowy no sunlight winter

  • @laerin7931

    @laerin7931

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or autumn. Such an amazing fantasy when dirt roads turn into mud that will cake your boots and likely ruin your pretty dress. Or having cold rain showers.

  • @popovka

    @popovka

    3 жыл бұрын

    This!!!!!

  • @phoebeel

    @phoebeel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Girrrrrl NOOO skirts, especially woolen ones, are the WARMEST garment you can wear in winter! All the air underneath your skirts work as insulation from the cold. Cottagecore for me is a winter look. In summer, all those long linen dresses and stays are just too much

  • @maitesoto1953

    @maitesoto1953

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's why Dark Academia exists duh

  • @blazertundra

    @blazertundra

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cottagecore is great out in the desert, though. Off-white cotton dresses hide a lot of dust and shed heat really well.

  • @quexybompq
    @quexybompq3 жыл бұрын

    The idea of romanticising the countryside is super old, there was an ancient Chinese poet Tao Yuanming who wrote about moving to the countryside, farming, drinking homemade wine and cutting toxic friends out of your life 🔥This was like, 1600 years ago

  • @edenjaycollins6055

    @edenjaycollins6055

    3 жыл бұрын

    He knew what was up ngl

  • @cramerfloro5936

    @cramerfloro5936

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wrote my final school paper on one such poet: Theocritus, syracusan poet living in 3rd century Alexandria, one of the biggest cities of the time.

  • @heliosfromacrossastar878

    @heliosfromacrossastar878

    3 жыл бұрын

    I believe Leonardo da Vinci preached going to the countryside, even though he himself lived in cities most of his life xD

  • @jakubrogacz6829

    @jakubrogacz6829

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dude you had that 7 thousand years ago in ancient Greece. Everywhere. It's a proces like breathing LED. One generation glorifies high tech and cities. Another one finds that gutters stink and life full of having it going with someone new every five seconds is not so great and moves more to nature. That literaly was whole Romanticism, much of Polish noblemen culture from occupation time as well. That was a lot of that even in late medieval. And even in medieval there were such phases. I mean... we only treat is as one long period cause the farther we go into history the less records we have. Come on, in this 2000 years tech changed completely at least twice. And Antiquity is dated since about 7000 BC to about 500 AD to 800 AD. That was a lot of time for stuff to change.

  • @Igorcastrochucre
    @Igorcastrochucre3 жыл бұрын

    Barbie and the Diamond Castle was my introduction to Cottagecore.

  • @sanityidontknowher5057

    @sanityidontknowher5057

    3 жыл бұрын

    AHHH THAT MOVIE WAS SO GAY

  • @sanityidontknowher5057

    @sanityidontknowher5057

    3 жыл бұрын

    But yeah same

  • @Fisinocean

    @Fisinocean

    3 жыл бұрын

    FINALLY SOMEONE MENTIONED IT. LIKE YEA BITCH I ALSO WANNA LIVE IN A SMALL CITTAGE WITH GINORMOUS GARDEN AND SELL FLOWERS FOR A LIVING

  • @pattysalazar6823

    @pattysalazar6823

    3 жыл бұрын

    LMAO why do I relate

  • @notatallfunctional

    @notatallfunctional

    3 жыл бұрын

    DO YOU GUYS WANT BREAD AND JAM OR JAM AND BREAD

  • @melissasaint3283
    @melissasaint32833 жыл бұрын

    "there was a pandemic and a lot of terrible things happened, and suddenly everyone wanted to live in the countryside with their friends" **Boccaccio's Decameron**

  • @giulia5184

    @giulia5184

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! The crazy think is that I live in Italy and (the day we received the news of the "two weeks lockdown" that went on for months) my Latin teacher told us "Alright, see ya soon. Or maybe we should organise Decameron II?🤔". She was right, as always

  • @jakubrogacz6829

    @jakubrogacz6829

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah crazy how our lives echo those of old . Ain't it ?

  • @hwlsgrl

    @hwlsgrl

    2 жыл бұрын

    what is boccaccio’s decameron

  • @melissasaint3283

    @melissasaint3283

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hwlsgrl here you are😊 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron

  • @danone2414

    @danone2414

    2 жыл бұрын

    my mom fits that

  • @luciacuevas611
    @luciacuevas6113 жыл бұрын

    Bugs are 99% of the reason why I don't relate to this aesthetic.

  • @elenaovcharuk8529

    @elenaovcharuk8529

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't mind bugs. But ticks... They're infectious.

  • @brandonplowman3949

    @brandonplowman3949

    3 жыл бұрын

    climate change is killing insects off at rapid rates, so cottagecore kinda benefits from the end of the world

  • @InquirywithHelena

    @InquirywithHelena

    2 жыл бұрын

    What bugs? I live rural and this year it’s even more noticeable how few insects there are around. I can even walk through grass and around my veggie garden in a dress and sandals and not end up with 20 bites as per normal a couple of years ago. Previously I’d have to wear socks and tuck my pant legs into them to safeguard my ankles and legs.

  • @simranjeetkaur347

    @simranjeetkaur347

    2 жыл бұрын

    Let's be honest fashion isn't most known for practicality . It's one thing to enjoy it and the other wearing it everywhere , not dressing for the occasion . Also coottagecore is a concept so you alter it have long sleeves and stuff while having pretty much identical vibe .

  • @jillogicaljelly3627

    @jillogicaljelly3627

    Жыл бұрын

    But don't you see? *Slowly and Dreamily* There are no bugs in this aesthetic.....JOIN us.......

  • @18thcenturyhair10
    @18thcenturyhair103 жыл бұрын

    I first noticed that cottagecore was making a heavy comeback when people started building their Animal Crossing islands in the style. In a way it almost parallels what people were doing in the 18th century (building their own villages), only in a modern digital setting. Fascinating!

  • @petrichorbones

    @petrichorbones

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤯 u right

  • @Nenebeautyy

    @Nenebeautyy

    3 жыл бұрын

    my thought too!

  • @VanK782

    @VanK782

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's a cool observation

  • @yaelvacacenteno1382

    @yaelvacacenteno1382

    3 жыл бұрын

    mindblowing!

  • @bsferguson1

    @bsferguson1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow that’s so insightful

  • @hi-ve1cw
    @hi-ve1cw3 жыл бұрын

    When my mum was around my age in the 80s she was a New Romantic and used to wear her great grandmother's Victorian frilly puffed sleeved blouse, and now in the 2020s I'm into the cottagecore aesthetic so she gave me the old blouse to wear. I think "cottagecore" look never dies, it just goes through cycles

  • @Cationna

    @Cationna

    3 жыл бұрын

    ARE YOU SAYING YOU ACTUALLY OWN A VICTORIAN BLOUSE 😱😱🥰 so jealous!!!!

  • @ah5721

    @ah5721

    3 жыл бұрын

    The 70s back to earth movement was hard-core cottagecore

  • @BlitzsieLDiscoLSnow

    @BlitzsieLDiscoLSnow

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Fashion goes in circles. My grandma told me a couple of years ago that she was sad she threw out a lot of her old 50s and 60s clothes, because she could've passed it down to me and my cousin instead. I love longer skirts and especially the 50s A-line skirts with a couple of petticoats underneath. Lucky for me she has a ton of other stuff to pass down from the 70s, so yeah xD That's going to be fun.

  • @sofiaoutandabout

    @sofiaoutandabout

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cottagecore has been around for a long time in Japan, too! Check out the Mori Girl style.

  • @tomasck2973

    @tomasck2973

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can you please show us a picture 😭

  • @ZeLeninovoMasoveRizoto
    @ZeLeninovoMasoveRizoto3 жыл бұрын

    There's not much "cottagecore" going on in the Eastern Europe officially, but I think it's because a lot of our "cottagecore" tendencies are rather classified as folklore and folk dress, just returning to traditions that are still alive rather just reliving an idealised version of peasant history. Like for example, when I wear my nice embroidered rukávce (a kind of shirtwaist) and a floofy linen skirt with petticoats, or do weird thing with my hair and wear scarves, I'm not cottagecoring, I'm just wearing the traditional dress of my area.

  • @IEnattI

    @IEnattI

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would say that it is a little bit different here, because the revival in things like kroj and traditions is less question of let's escape the filthy city life and go live rural life and a little more about what our ancestors did and not necessarily divided into the whole city/village dichotomy. If it is romanticizing (which happens but I thinks that happens less often than in cottagecore) it romanticizes the past not necessarily the rural. Also, it usually disappears in women after the first time they try to wear the whole sunday best version of the traditional costume :-D. You can do the traditional things in the cities as well - Christmas traditions, building of the maypole etc. - and integrate them in your life in the cities (and you can remove the "peasant" or "cottage" parts which many people do). So I would say that it is more about looking for some connection with the past, tradition and ancestors (whatever that means) being rural.

  • @laerin7931

    @laerin7931

    3 жыл бұрын

    And because this rural tradition is still on people's minds, most seem to understand that it's rural life isn't all pretty dresses and picking flowers.

  • @Alex-ok5tp

    @Alex-ok5tp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fr my family in eastern europe live in a really big farm in the mountains for generations, and it's beautiful, but it's not all peaceful with bugs flying in your face, cow shit all over the place, the sheep- herding dog had fleas all over haha, and there's a lot of upkeep to it all

  • @dorizelion

    @dorizelion

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I also think cottagecore is kind of redundant in EE because the rural element never really went away with industrialisation to be romanticised? At least not yet, after all it was only a couple of generations ago that these countries were mostly agricultural. I can only speak from a Bulgarian perspective but a lot of people in the towns and cities will have some land outside of town, or they'll have their grandparents' village house to go to and grow vegetables or fruit or whatever. Even in town there's plenty of houses and blocks with vegetable plots nearby. There's a pretty big culture around growing your own produce or getting it from local markets because with the warm summers, it's always going to taste 100x better than in the supermarkets. Don't know about northern eastern european countries though. And yeah, a lot of our folklore and traditions come from peasant life so when you practice that culture, whether by wearing the dresses or learning traditional crafts, it's already kind of cottagecore-like

  • @portishphonic

    @portishphonic

    2 жыл бұрын

    how right you are.

  • @ramflight
    @ramflight3 жыл бұрын

    What gen z calls 'cottage core', in Bulgaria we call it 'visiting grandma in Summer'. Seriously, in Bulgaria grandparents (and also their offspring) still live this way.

  • @user-em6ym9rj4u

    @user-em6ym9rj4u

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yay, another Bulgarian!!! Наистина тази обсесия на западняците с “cottagecore” е побъркана…. Ако дойдат да видят как живеят хората на село тука, ще видят че не е лесно изобщо…

  • @petrus9067

    @petrus9067

    2 жыл бұрын

    My great grandparents in brazil do too!

  • @valemilillo

    @valemilillo

    2 жыл бұрын

    In most of Italy, too!

  • @takion732

    @takion732

    2 жыл бұрын

    Romanian here, totally relate to this post!

  • @cathleenmoyle1476

    @cathleenmoyle1476

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@user-em6ym9rj4u How exactly is it that the people of this Bulgarian village live?

  • @11orana
    @11orana3 жыл бұрын

    My three daughters who work in retail call this type of esthetic "cluttercore". All the people who threw all their old things out to be minimalist are now buying lots of new old things.

  • @nicolescats2

    @nicolescats2

    3 жыл бұрын

    No surprise that people who embraced minimalism for the aesthetic have embraced a new one. Interpretations of minimalism can involve having lots of things that are necessary or spark joy. Minimalism in the sense of not buying unnecessary things, not participating in mindless consumption. Minimalism as a philosophy isn't limited to fitting all your possessions into a suitcase. Sure, if you move often, having a suitcase of essential items where you occasionally re-purchase the rest might be helpful. Expensive, multifunctional items that don't do any one function that well might be worth it in that case. Moving items is expensive, and those traveling the world or living in college dorms are constantly having to do so. And it's not like you plan to live on the move for the rest of your life (at least I hope not).

  • @seabreeze4559

    @seabreeze4559

    3 жыл бұрын

    hipster, it's a more rural hipster

  • @sushreeshashwata

    @sushreeshashwata

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nicolescats2 well articulated and all this are people who just see the minimalist board on Pinterest and threw everything. Who actually understand and go through it as a lifestyle, you can live in whatever aesthetic you want and still be minimal.

  • @hi-ve1cw

    @hi-ve1cw

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think there's a difference between a minimalist aesthetic and a minimalist lifestyle. People who just liked the aesthetic have since moved on to other aesthetics that are more trendy now, but people who truly believed in the lifestyle of not buying unnecessary things anymore are most likely are still minimalist

  • @user-bh1tb9em1q

    @user-bh1tb9em1q

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, so people basically exchange clothes they don't like anymore? Doesn't sound bad

  • @AbbyCox
    @AbbyCox3 жыл бұрын

    Rural is also an impossible word for Southern Indiana/Louisville Kentucky accents...as is iron....the struggle to enunciate them is real. 😂

  • @hellogoditsmesara3569

    @hellogoditsmesara3569

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a Kentuckian I can confirm “rural” rhymes with “earl”

  • @christinacrites3828

    @christinacrites3828

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I live in the Ashland Kentucky area and the problem is here too.

  • @pamspray5254

    @pamspray5254

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also for Texan twangs! I've never been able to pronounce it, despite having to say rural frequently to describe where I travel/where some of my family lives.

  • @maggpiprime954

    @maggpiprime954

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rural "roorl" Iron "arrn" Drawer "drorrr" Mirror "meer" Horror _"hold up!"_

  • @ForeverEva

    @ForeverEva

    3 жыл бұрын

    My mom is from Alabama and she struggles to say it

  • @gr3y-heron
    @gr3y-heron3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a big fan of cottagecore, but seeing all those white dresses in fields just makes me wonder how much time you'd need to get out all the grass stains.

  • @yesthisisshi
    @yesthisisshi3 жыл бұрын

    the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents the romantization of rural life as a response to an increasingly frustrating and exploitive urban setting again

  • @pawel198812

    @pawel198812

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gilgamesh: Being a king of a city state in Mesopotamia is such a drag, you know. Wars, plagues, food shortages, smelly furnaces... I hate the neolithic revolution. We should just go back and be hunter gatherers, connected to nature, to the animals in the wild. That's the dream...

  • @user-bh1tb9em1q
    @user-bh1tb9em1q3 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of 1920s Russian poet Esenin, who *loved* countryside. He would run away from stinky Leningrad to the village where he was born. Then he would get bored sick of the village life in like 8 hours there and run away to Leningrad to drink vodka, pine and write cottegecore poetry

  • @nineteenfortyeight6762

    @nineteenfortyeight6762

    3 жыл бұрын

    Which kinda sounds like Konstantin in Anna Karenina

  • @ducky_strawberry

    @ducky_strawberry

    3 жыл бұрын

    iconic✨ (for real tho thats really interesting! I also have a feeling a lot of people in the cottagecore aesthetic would be fed up with living in the countryside in like... minutes lol, like living in the countryside is hard sometimes and is not for everyone)

  • @ns.kha29

    @ns.kha29

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ducky_strawberry ik youre right but as someone who honestly enjoys the simpler life this comment had me like "welll....ehhhhh"

  • @ducky_strawberry

    @ducky_strawberry

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ns.kha29 I definitely agree that's possible! I have friends who live on farms and are super happy. I think it mainly comes down to managing your expectations and being realist about what living a simpler life means.

  • @ns.kha29

    @ns.kha29

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ducky_strawberry yea

  • @Heleyrine
    @Heleyrine3 жыл бұрын

    I'm shocked Cottagecore didn't become a thing after Coopla's Marie Antoinette

  • @monkeyfan37

    @monkeyfan37

    3 жыл бұрын

    it’s not exactly cattagecore tho. more like rococo core. although her white dress when she was living alone could count as cottagecore

  • @isaacgray2909

    @isaacgray2909

    3 жыл бұрын

    It flatter more on the aesthetic of the palace instead of the outside in cottagecore.

  • @Heleyrine

    @Heleyrine

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@monkeyfan37 Of course. I rather meant the "post giving birth era" depicted in the movie. But rocococore with a pastel twist? Sign me in!

  • @monkeyfan37

    @monkeyfan37

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Heleyrine yeah i realized that you probably meant that in the middle of typing. anyways i’m all in for more simplified rococo core cuz they were honestly crazy with all those accessories

  • @monkeyfan37

    @monkeyfan37

    3 жыл бұрын

    also i really like chinoiserie which is a style that was popular during the rococo era. it’s basically appropriation and romantisation of chinese culture but it’s soooo pretty

  • @carolinacs5049
    @carolinacs50493 жыл бұрын

    For me cottagecore relates Studio Ghibli movies. It has a nostalgic tone for a simple living.. I love the details in the countryside scenarios. Kiki delivery service has a wonderful cottage core dress.

  • @bs4e

    @bs4e

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is for me as well!

  • @monstercockie
    @monstercockie2 жыл бұрын

    I love how the rococo shepherdess costume also was an opportunity to dress "slutty", with a sentiment of "but it's ok because it's a costume", just like the mainstream halloween costumes for adults today.

  • @sarataylor6164
    @sarataylor61643 жыл бұрын

    Meme Mom, Your stomach pronounces rural better than you. Twice.

  • @ns.kha29

    @ns.kha29

    3 жыл бұрын

    PFFF

  • @katlunascoven7932
    @katlunascoven79323 жыл бұрын

    japanese lolita fashion is, as far as I know, inspired by Roccoco and vitorian children's clothing so western styles getting inspired by japanese lolita fashion is completing the circle, kinda?

  • @user-xt2qp2cw9w

    @user-xt2qp2cw9w

    3 жыл бұрын

    true! didn't think about that!

  • @goblinteehee

    @goblinteehee

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its like playing telephone with generations and regions, just evolving and improving.

  • @emiliedarveau19
    @emiliedarveau193 жыл бұрын

    I straight up did my final philosophy paper on rousseau, camus, cottagecore and its link to escapism and the absurdity of urban life

  • @jurin3016

    @jurin3016

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would love to read your paper

  • @blameitoncapitalism
    @blameitoncapitalism3 жыл бұрын

    I love how you pointed out that the whole idealization of rural live is a rich people fantasy. As a result, the direct baby of all these trends, today's cottagecore is boujee af. the whole idea is a burgoise fantasy and it's always been. it's always been romanticized poverty, and /or frustrated central people imaginations of escapism to a word they don't really know anything about via fancy and expensive versions of their visuals but never really dealing with the struggle. that being said I think it's really beautiful. it's cute and creative and captivating and looks very nice. I just hate how people ignore the elitist origins of it and how pricy and unnafortable the style really is. It's not cheap or easy or humble or natural at all. It's a privilege of very few to able to afford to escape and do nothing all day in the vast land you have somewhere, and it's a privilege of a little more but still a certain leval of financial confortable few to buy those dresses and garments and accessories and shit to take them pretty photos. don't fake poor and humble yall. ain't nothing natural bout shaved legs underneath some cotton copying viscose and polyester skirt, and rosy polished toes tucked into vegan leather boots.

  • @VanK782

    @VanK782

    3 жыл бұрын

    Preach

  • @JeromeViolist

    @JeromeViolist

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I hate how so many of the people who idealize rural life sneer at people actually living a rural life. I went to college near Chicago, and whenever we went on a trip and the city kids saw corn fields, they’d groan about “uncivilized hillbillies” and joke about marrying their cousins. They only have respect for their fiction, not for real people.

  • @adiem8764

    @adiem8764

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JeromeViolist true that

  • @semi-useful5178

    @semi-useful5178

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed

  • @shanoysewelle8462

    @shanoysewelle8462

    3 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know they bought the clothes, I thought they made them.

  • @WayToVibe
    @WayToVibe3 жыл бұрын

    I'm appreciative of cottagecore becoming mainstream because now all my aesthetics will finally filter down into the second-hand shops I frequent. And natural fabrics will hopefully replace polyester plastics that don't breathe and cause you to either freeze in winter or overheat in summer. What I won't give for a basic white linen dress.

  • @annbrookens945

    @annbrookens945

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ooo, I hadn't thought about that! I love when the things i already love finally become fashionable! And end up in second hand shops!

  • @mrluvpups

    @mrluvpups

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ooh please! As someone who's allergic to polyester, i would love for natural fabrics to come into fashion

  • @maximilian6829

    @maximilian6829

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mrluvpups Natural fabrics have been and always will be in fashion. The issue is that it’s expensive, outside of cotton, and always will be so long we continue plastic use.

  • @maximilian6829

    @maximilian6829

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just purchase some vintage linen fabric from Etsy. It’s not too expensive, and sew a dress! All you need are your two hands, a needle and thread.

  • @magiv4205

    @magiv4205

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@maximilian6829 As a hobby seamstress, I'm gonna have to say that while basic stitching by hand or machine is very easy to get the hang of, sewing an entire dress is kind of a different story. It's usually far less difficult than you think it is, BUT it also likely takes alot more time than you think it does. I can see how it might not be for everyone, especially if you don't really have the time to spare. But if you're up for it, then by all means, go for it! Sewing your own clothes is one of the most rewarding things you can do in my opinion.

  • @ahoyhere8113
    @ahoyhere81133 жыл бұрын

    henry david thoreau was also like a cottagecore influencer. he wrote that he went to the woods to live deliberately and suck the meat off the bone of life, but actually he walked to town every day to have tea with his mother and get his laundry done ahahahah

  • @irka4397
    @irka43973 жыл бұрын

    Now try to say this: Professor Quirrel owns a rural squirrel.

  • @valariebrown3768

    @valariebrown3768

    2 жыл бұрын

    Aw, that's just mean! 😂

  • @alinageorge2681

    @alinageorge2681

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh you villain! 😂😂😂

  • @OneTrueVikingbard
    @OneTrueVikingbard3 жыл бұрын

    0:51 “why would you do that?” The Germanic side of the English language: “it’s the French.” The French side of the English language: “it was the Germans.”

  • @jensboettiger5286

    @jensboettiger5286

    Жыл бұрын

    Rural and Ruler are both not in any way German. Rural (English), Rural (French), Ländlich (German). Ruler (English), régle (French), Herrscher (German). Case closed.

  • @OneTrueVikingbard

    @OneTrueVikingbard

    7 ай бұрын

    @@jensboettiger5286the point being that English is a crazy amalgamation of no fewer than two different languages with arbitrary vocabulary rules created by Victorians which nobody even keeps anymore.

  • @ObjectOfEveryHarem
    @ObjectOfEveryHarem3 жыл бұрын

    So... what I’m getting out this is people have been wanting to move out of the city and be forest gremlins since there were cities.

  • @elizabethb4168

    @elizabethb4168

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely

  • @theodoreyoungman2111

    @theodoreyoungman2111

    3 жыл бұрын

    Forest gremlins sounds so much more fun than flouncing around a meadow just waiting to get mowed down by a combine harvester

  • @ObjectOfEveryHarem

    @ObjectOfEveryHarem

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@theodoreyoungman2111 Unless the meadow is full of pretty flowers not just from a farm 😍🥺

  • @theodoreyoungman2111

    @theodoreyoungman2111

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ObjectOfEveryHarem I'll take the flower picking forest gremlin aesthetic.... Hobbitcore... Is that a thing? Goblincore? I feel like these are things. Whatever Rachel maksy is with her whiskey grandpa look haha

  • @elizabethb4168

    @elizabethb4168

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@theodoreyoungman2111 goblincore, is in fact, a thing Can't speak for Hobbitcore though

  • @rosevinetube
    @rosevinetube3 жыл бұрын

    In 1974, my then-husband, 3 yo son, and I moved from small town Wyoming to rural Montana, as part of what was then called in the US “the back to the land” movement. We bought a few acres, lived in a tipi and a school, bus, while we hand-built a house a passive solar house. We also grew a big garden, and raised our own goats and chickens. Cottage core style? Oh yeah. The real thing. I did milk goats in comfy shirts and mid-calf length skirts. Lots of flow, color, cotton prints, hair kerchiefs. I sewed a lot of our clothes. (My son still complains about those shirts with calico yokes.) It was a lot of work, but it was also a wonderful time, especially sharing it with others. Free-range parenting. No time for photos.

  • @NoiseDay

    @NoiseDay

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds a lot like the recent homesteading and tiny house movements. I guess it never ends, just goes by different names

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962

    @kimberlyperrotis8962

    3 жыл бұрын

    My parents did that to us, we hated it, we were cutoff, dirty and starving.

  • @reneeleese

    @reneeleese

    3 жыл бұрын

    How long did this last? What’s your life like now and if different, how come? I’d love to know more!

  • @missnaomi613

    @missnaomi613

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've always lived in a city and always, since I was little, wanted this kind of life!

  • @rosevinetube

    @rosevinetube

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NoiseDay So true. Although in the 1970s, the “back to the land” movement followed on the Vietnam War protests, the anti-administration sentiments, the hippie culture of openness to new music, drugs, sexual freedom, etc. There were many people, us included, who really worked hard to create a new “counter culture” environment, rejecting religious and materialistic values of our parents and/or the mainstream culture. It was an adventure to learn to garden, raise animals, build houses, cook on wood stove, etc. Work, yes. I think the really hardest part was the estrangement from family, in some cases, the insular nature of social groups, i.e. communal settings. I was at an age where I was just beginning to know myself, my boundaries, and so the stresses of emotional growth in a difficult personal relationship, albeit creative in many ways, was a true concern.

  • @christianjavier693
    @christianjavier6933 жыл бұрын

    You should do a Dark Academia aesthetic vid, that'd be really intresting

  • @pixlfinch1091

    @pixlfinch1091

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes please

  • @sofvpgn

    @sofvpgn

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @80svampire36

    @80svampire36

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes i need it

  • @fighttheevilrobots3417

    @fighttheevilrobots3417

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh God I feel so old, as someone who had been a teacher and a secret goth for 20 years do I dare ask what that is

  • @clairekeiser2076

    @clairekeiser2076

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed!!

  • @celinafall8384
    @celinafall83843 жыл бұрын

    Ok but side note: lets normalize POC in “ soft “ fashion trends. I loved how inclusive the example pictures were. White people arent the only ones enjoying historical fashion trends!

  • @katew7770

    @katew7770

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's a great facebook group called Multicultural Cottagecore which is for non-whiteppl from across the world who are part of the cottagecore aesthetic.

  • @sofvpgn

    @sofvpgn

    3 жыл бұрын

    ikr

  • @ingupin

    @ingupin

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed but it's sad how white people aren't encouraged to do the same thing (wear kimonos for example) cause it is critizised as cultural appropriation :(

  • @marciamcdevitt964

    @marciamcdevitt964

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ingupin that’s not sad. It’s a false equivalence.

  • @horanghaeng

    @horanghaeng

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ingupin it depends on the occasion, if you're in japan and want to wear traditional garments then go ahead, you won't be appropriating as you are being dressed by them there, being guided by them and will be properly dressed. but for daily wear far away from japan? that's a no no, cause you dressing yourself up in a cultural thing that ain't yours is not the same thing, even if you do research about each piece of the garment. in places like japan and south korea, if you wear traditional clothing as a western tourist the locals will be amazed and will enjoy it (mostly), but as i said, you were dressed by the people who grew up with the culture already so it's ok to try it out once. but why can non white wear clothes from europe fashion? well, it's simple, cause europeans already invaded most places on earth and their fashion comes from many different cultural influences back in the day, their fashion isn't exclusive to a single culture nor place. in brazil, for example, we had the "belle époque" just a little after it had started in europe and ended a little late too, after the country had already conquered independence from portugal. and back then the lands were full of immigrants and locals, descendants of many countries around the world.

  • @jessicapeters5716
    @jessicapeters57163 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who's like "ummmm lying in fields? there's bugs in fields"

  • @BonaparteBardithion

    @BonaparteBardithion

    3 жыл бұрын

    So, watch the bugs. Chew on the grass (and hope no animal has peed on it).

  • @Muchenaft

    @Muchenaft

    3 жыл бұрын

    I like bugs. I wouldn't sit in a field still, because of pesticides and because it will destroy the crops.

  • @sofiaoutandabout

    @sofiaoutandabout

    3 жыл бұрын

    ...tick season *shudders*

  • @Muchenaft

    @Muchenaft

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oups, I forgot ticks... Yep, ticks suck. No field for me.

  • @fugithegreat

    @fugithegreat

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ticks and chiggers, no thanks!

  • @sofiapratto801
    @sofiapratto8013 жыл бұрын

    Karolina: Oh English Ls and Rs are hard Also Karolina, speaking Polish: SHRAKSKASDEPFIFLSASKA

  • @AustinLeeds

    @AustinLeeds

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's still too many vowels for Polish.

  • @guillelainez

    @guillelainez

    3 жыл бұрын

    And dont forget, the Z in her last name has a weird "stick" on top Ź. How do you pronounce that?

  • @ItsAsparageese

    @ItsAsparageese

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@guillelainez I'm completely guessing in the dark here but the only variant of a typical "Z" I know is the shhh-ified one, like how you say the voiced S in the middle of "Persia" or the same in "Asian". So like a subtle Zhebrowska instead of a pure Zebrowska. Could be totally wrong though, the mark could have some other effect that doesn't actually change the core phoneme at all, idk

  • @arina_ascorbina

    @arina_ascorbina

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@guillelainez it's Ż with a dot, a slightly different sound that Ź. And it's pronounced like zh or like g in genre, more or less. Or you can watch this, Ż is in the end: www. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYOptrJ6ZtjMiKQ.html

  • @abibas3050

    @abibas3050

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ItsAsparageese rz ź ż ć ci cz sz ś si ♥

  • @stefka9156
    @stefka91563 жыл бұрын

    Imagine inventing a word like "cottagecore" when "bucolic" already exists ROFL

  • @emma7933

    @emma7933

    3 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, for some reason the word bucolic has always reminded me of vomit even though I know perfectly well what it means, so I won't get mad at TikTokers for making up something more cute-sy sounding to try and promote their aesthetic.

  • @SL-lz9jr

    @SL-lz9jr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well… because people want to seem original. Plus, they created “norm core” so it seems like “cottage core” was the logical next step

  • @SteamFaery

    @SteamFaery

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are some words that should be retired, though. Bucolic is one of the most gross-sounding words in the English language, and does sound like it should be an illness. It already has ‘colic’ in it, but also sounds a lot like ‘bubonic’, and I can understand why anyone would want to avoid associating their aesthetic with a plague in the current climate!

  • @need_more_kittens

    @need_more_kittens

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh god i agree with the comments above, this is such an unpleasant word and English is not even my native language. I guess it just sounds gross universally

  • @Terri_MacKay

    @Terri_MacKay

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SteamFaery I thought I was the only person who felt like this. I've always thought that "bucolic" is one of the ugliest, most unpleasant sounding words in the English language. It's funny that a word that is supposed to conjure up images of peaceful, sun-dappled countrysides makes me think of illness, disease, and throwing up. 😂

  • @bonniebrown5102
    @bonniebrown51023 жыл бұрын

    My mom was a teenager in the mid/late 70s...I honestly thought "cottagecore" was just another 70s revival at first because the dresses looked a lot like what my mom would wear in high school and college...

  • @kooltom4

    @kooltom4

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, this was definitely a very similar sort of fashion in the 70s in English speaking countries. Not sure what it might have been called in US, but here in Australia it was called "ethnic" because of the supposed "traditional" touches from various cultures (no insight back then that lumping all cultures into one might not have been very respectful!) or "peasant" (also not a great concept). Laura Ashley type styles very popular (Laura Ashley originals pretty expensive). And indeed Peter Weir's hugely popular film here "Picnic at Hanging Rock" did influence too. Holly Hobbie also very influential here! Probably more so in parts of USA, given she is American artist?? I'm sure your mum will recall Holly Hobbie 😁

  • @ivetawelborn
    @ivetawelborn3 жыл бұрын

    You should do goblincore next - it’s Cottagecore without having to be “princessy”

  • @ouijedanse

    @ouijedanse

    3 жыл бұрын

    Isn't Goblincore just Witchcore but with more snails?

  • @ivetawelborn

    @ivetawelborn

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ouijedanse kind of, but less magic! Goblins don’t really do rituals like witch core encourages :) clothing style might be similar, but goblincore likes greens, grays, browns, and overall clothes you can get dirty and grungy in. :)

  • @lunalimi9798

    @lunalimi9798

    3 жыл бұрын

    What different from what she has already said would she say in that video?

  • @petrichorbones

    @petrichorbones

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ouijedanse im pretty sure witchcore would have a lot more black and purple and def would include pointy wizard hats lol (well idk if goblin/gremlincore also has the hats idk?) but ye witchcore def seems to me to be more darkly inclined than goblincore would be and more similar to the goth aesthetic (i know not all witches are goth and not all goth are witches im just saying witchcore makes me think of black but goblincore doesnt, basically)

  • @avamorgan7860

    @avamorgan7860

    3 жыл бұрын

    goblincore is honestly more chaos-based, since it’s basically cottagecore with more personal and “dirty” details. cottagegore is similar :)

  • @erenmidnight9543
    @erenmidnight95433 жыл бұрын

    Question: was the first cottagecore influencer Marie Antoinette? She had a garden built either near or in versailles. She wore a simple white dress with a ribbon and large hat when in her garden. She had animals in the garden and would try to simplify her stressful life as a young queen by spending time in her garden.

  • @A.M.84996

    @A.M.84996

    3 жыл бұрын

    Moe can change

  • @elirchi9214

    @elirchi9214

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. She and her friends wanted to live like peasants. As for the real peasants of France when they heard what Marie was doing, and how she used their tax money... it just worsened her reputation.

  • @returnoftheromans6726

    @returnoftheromans6726

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@elirchi9214 You are 100% correct. I was wondering if someone would say this. She thought the peasant life 'quaint' and wanted to try it out for herself-- herding sheep and milking cows, ect.

  • @seabreeze4559

    @seabreeze4559

    3 жыл бұрын

    the classist who let her people starve while she built a larping place? yeah that woman starving takes a long time, plenty of women with children just... out in the street... begging, not that she cared

  • @clarenicke8653

    @clarenicke8653

    3 жыл бұрын

    She would play Little Bo Peep lol

  • @liaharmony9195
    @liaharmony91953 жыл бұрын

    If you hate the word rural, the word "bucolic" is a good substitute; it's less commonly used, but it has the same meaning

  • @Nenebeautyy

    @Nenebeautyy

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes! I was constantly thinking about this word and the poetic movement

  • @neonxvices

    @neonxvices

    2 жыл бұрын

    are you kidding me the word bucolic is incredibly ugly

  • @patheticmortal373

    @patheticmortal373

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@neonxvices sounds like a disease

  • @charleswade-smith7263

    @charleswade-smith7263

    2 жыл бұрын

    rustic ... plain & simple rusticated... a little too contrived !? pastoral... ahhh... perfect... +symphonic’ly too 🎶🎵✨

  • @liaharmony9195

    @liaharmony9195

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@charleswade-smith7263 Oh yeah pastoral is also a great synonym

  • @elisabettadapelo3727
    @elisabettadapelo37273 жыл бұрын

    Poets dreamed of moving to what we call a "locus amoenus" : an idyllic place full of clear waters, green grass, beautiful flowers, etc. so yeah, it's cottagecore.

  • @orangentage
    @orangentage3 жыл бұрын

    The original of Anne with an E (Anne of Greengabels) is really cottagecore too and its... idk old. Lol ok now i have to do my research Edit: Yeah its from 1908

  • @z.kaminska130

    @z.kaminska130

    3 жыл бұрын

    This book series is extremely popular in Poland, more than the TV series. It was the first book I read by myself without help

  • @lumpusumpus

    @lumpusumpus

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@z.kaminska130 no ja uwielbiałam tą książkę jak byłam młodsza i jak później obejrzałam film to chciałam wyglądać jak ania

  • @Mothyave

    @Mothyave

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@z.kaminska130 Yeah, it was a mandatory read in my primary school

  • @Kasiarzynka

    @Kasiarzynka

    3 жыл бұрын

    Before watching this video, it reminds me of the 1901 Polish play titled "Wesele" ("The Wedding"), which is about a wedding between a poet from Kraków (one of Poland's biggest cities and a former capital city) and a girl from some village. As you probably know, a marriage between classes was usually frown upon and worst case scenario, you could be disowned etc, but in that period, the so called intelligence class from cities were absolutely fascinating in the countryside life and culture and it became more common to marry people from rural areas. The play itself is super weird and contains various mystical elements such as various ghosts and prophecies, especially about the restoration of the Polish country (in that period, Poland didn't exist and the land was split between Prussia, Russia and Austria), alongside a social commentary on the whole "intelligence meets countryside" situation. It's a set book in high schools, at least was, a few years ago, when I graduated and if you ever witness teens saying "trza mieć buty na weselu" (one must have shoes on during a wedding), it's from that play and it's generally hated among high schoolers because it feels like such a pile of nonsense, at least in my high school experience. If you played there video game The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone (it's a DLC), there's a quest where you attend a wedding in a rural area, that was heavily inspired by and is an obvious reference to "Wesele". Now I don't know if anyone even cares, but it's not everyday you get to show off your knowledge of early 20th century Polish playwriting on the English speaking Internet and it's actually more or less related to the subject on question so 🤷🏻‍♀️. At least it makes learning it not a complete waste of time, lol.

  • @AlicedeTerre

    @AlicedeTerre

    3 жыл бұрын

    I feel that way about Heidi

  • @htant7362
    @htant73623 жыл бұрын

    Karolina: "Rural" is so hard to pronounce Also Karolina: *speaks a slavic language so basically words with 11 letters but with one vowel in it*

  • @aspannas

    @aspannas

    3 жыл бұрын

    it's the english/american "r" that's hard

  • @bozhetsotyhtsesh1910

    @bozhetsotyhtsesh1910

    3 жыл бұрын

    She needs to use British accent

  • @messmeg7582

    @messmeg7582

    3 жыл бұрын

    In Polish our 'r' sounds like 'Rrrrrrrrr' in english it sounds like 'lou'. For me in world rural - just sound like..... louueloual.

  • @CipherDorito

    @CipherDorito

    3 жыл бұрын

    Even I have a tough time pronouncing it since English is my fourth language.

  • @inoue6

    @inoue6

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@messmeg7582 rip me, who is a Polish native and have a speech impediment, thus not being able to correctly pronounce neither Polish nor English r 😭

  • @tumblefluff2496
    @tumblefluff24963 жыл бұрын

    Cottagecore was heavily influenced by the Japanese fashion subculture of 森ガール (lit. forest girl; mori girl) via cross-pollination on Tumblr back in the 2010's which was in turn influenced by (the famous Japanese fashion subculture) Lolita which is, you guessed it, derived from Rococo fashion

  • @fighttheevilrobots3417

    @fighttheevilrobots3417

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lolita is just pdofhilia

  • @DoodleDoo2

    @DoodleDoo2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fighttheevilrobots3417 the Lolita that’s a fashion type, has nothing to do with the book lol, like at all

  • @hi-ve1cw

    @hi-ve1cw

    2 жыл бұрын

    Honestly it's come fully circle lol. Roccocco inspired lolita fashion, which inspired mori kei, which inspired cottagecore. It went from europe to japan to back to the west again lol

  • @reynaberry1657
    @reynaberry16573 жыл бұрын

    “white shirts and swishy skirts” do I sense a cottagecore rap about to drop?

  • @faridar.7846
    @faridar.78463 жыл бұрын

    Ahaha your look when you said "I look like I'm gonna milk your cows" 😂😂

  • @kohakuaiko

    @kohakuaiko

    3 жыл бұрын

    I ain't never looked like that when I milked cows.

  • @roninelenion4805
    @roninelenion48053 жыл бұрын

    I unwittingly got into cottagecore after reading and watching _The Lord of the Rings_ and _The Hobbit_ when I was thirteen. There was something so alluring about a simple life surrounded by trees and the comforts of home. All these years later, and I still want to live in the Shire and wear waistcoats over poofy shirts. Everytime I see cottagecore clothing, I just think "hobbitses".

  • @pandapuff993

    @pandapuff993

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ahh, same! I loved my incredibly inaccurate ren-faire clothes for this reason. I wore them so often that my school had to give me a pass for wearing them on Halloween (when costumes were banned) because I just dressed like that. lol

  • @AngelavengerL

    @AngelavengerL

    3 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @celeritas2-810

    @celeritas2-810

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pandapuff993 that is iconic

  • @bookcat123
    @bookcat1233 жыл бұрын

    It’s the pretty dresses that get me. I’d like to see all you city people come out here and fight crows and deer to protect the orchards and keep your pets away from the coyotes in pretty pastel dresses 😂 but I suspect the actual farmers said similar to the romantic poets...

  • @callmewaves1160
    @callmewaves11603 жыл бұрын

    I think a secondary cause of the cottagecore boom was the notion that the pandemic created the potential for the civilised world to collapse and so people were idealising the concept of learning survival skills whilst simultaneously living a charmed little cottage life style/getting back to more natural, simpler roots. If so, I don't think this is a bad thing exactly. I think in these modern times, we have become so dependent on technologies,creature comforts and all these gadgets and appliances that we have kind of forgotten the value of doing things by hand.

  • @singerofsongs468

    @singerofsongs468

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s so bizarre how society as we knew it collapsed and immediately everybody immediately started learning how to bake bread irl and building virtual society in Animal Crossing. I just found someone’s master’s thesis topic

  • @sasielb8922

    @sasielb8922

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@singerofsongs468 no it’s honestly insane how fast ppl were willing to adapt. Like even I learned how to garden and make my own bread and jam thinking grocery stores will start running out of supply

  • @angerykitty169
    @angerykitty1693 жыл бұрын

    Christopher Marlowe is like Hozier in the modern times. XD

  • @sumalyachakraborty7023

    @sumalyachakraborty7023

    3 жыл бұрын

    yessssss ! Hero and Leander was one of my faves

  • @beagarbo815

    @beagarbo815

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bold of you to assume that Hozier is a spy;)

  • @player2763

    @player2763

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@beagarbo815 Ah, yes. Hozier, the Belgian super spy.

  • @katherinemorelle7115

    @katherinemorelle7115

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also for the lesbians? Because I swear more than half of Hozier’s fan base are lesbians. And I’m here for it! (Possibly because I belong in that category myself)

  • @allygurngemoeder2795

    @allygurngemoeder2795

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're right and you should say it

  • @danielasarmiento30
    @danielasarmiento303 жыл бұрын

    My idea of cottagecore is Anne of green gables. Small town farmland with pretty sceneries and fanciful places and cute puffy sleeves. I remember reading a scene of the novel at eleven and falling in love with the world of Anne's Prince Edward island. Cottagecore is Anne of green gables, but with wifi

  • @annasophia2428

    @annasophia2428

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes i agree

  • @haddasancliffe9459

    @haddasancliffe9459

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same! Been dreaming of that life since I was a small girl

  • @sofvpgn

    @sofvpgn

    3 жыл бұрын

    yh

  • @thevampirefrog06

    @thevampirefrog06

    3 жыл бұрын

    real talk Anne Shirley would be HELLA into cottagecore/dark academia if she were around today. the lady of shallott! puffed sleeves! dramatically picnicing in a field!

  • @bumble9601

    @bumble9601

    2 жыл бұрын

    true! what do you think of the netflix show anne with an e?

  • @vickierayhill4637
    @vickierayhill46373 жыл бұрын

    The mid 1980's still had "cottage core"-- look up the brand Gunne Sax. I loved that look. My 7th grade picture day blouse, 8th grade graduation dress, even my prom dress, were all Gunne Sax designs. I looked like an extra from Little House on the Prairie.

  • @walnutwalnutson8723

    @walnutwalnutson8723

    3 жыл бұрын

    My mom was married in a Gunne Sax dress.

  • @aought2

    @aought2

    3 жыл бұрын

    I loved that brand in the early '80s, wore one for high school graduation as well, I still have it all these years later.

  • @kaferine

    @kaferine

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh no, I googled Gunne Sax and now I want to own everything. Why have you done this to me?!

  • @pilarlh1668

    @pilarlh1668

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thats so cool! My mom did the same and I really wish I could find one for my graduation dress :( theyre so expensive now

  • @luciacuevas611
    @luciacuevas6113 жыл бұрын

    Dark Academia is 90% gothic 19th century, 7% Beat Generation and 3% hipster culture

  • @Katharina-rp7iq

    @Katharina-rp7iq

    2 жыл бұрын

    I disagree. I'd say it's 20% 'so I'm a uni student but have hardly seen my university and don't feel like one without doing something uni-student-like.' And then they think of parties - not possible, sitting in a big historical building listening to great researchers - also not possible. So looking like an idealised image from a time when uni students were the most respected kind of makes sense.

  • @steadyeddie3251
    @steadyeddie32513 жыл бұрын

    The whole pastoral trend was also a thing in music. In the baroque there was a type of musical composition called a pastoral, and later, many composers where very much influenced by village life, folk music and and rustic vibes. The most well known example is beethoven and his pastoral symphony. Great videos keep it up!

  • @pienkunicorn

    @pienkunicorn

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for that. The pastoralle was a whole ass thing. There's also a Mozart opera and a well known ballet with the shepardesses and whatnot.

  • @tamarakonczal6350

    @tamarakonczal6350

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pienkunicorn Said this before: The 70's. Folk-Rock, English Bard Rock, even Prog Rock (Think Spinal Tap and the egg!) etc., etc., etc......Back to the Land. Mother Earth News, Hippy Communes, dried wildflowers and macramé. Been there. Done that!

  • @chileanyways196

    @chileanyways196

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ooh interesting!

  • @dominiquepocopio777

    @dominiquepocopio777

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pienkunicorn not the first time mozart was associated with "ass"

  • @macnadoodle
    @macnadoodle3 жыл бұрын

    I live in the middle of the cottagecore country - in Devon, England - and its always coming round as a trend. Rural life is bloody hard, but when you stop to weep, the view is bloody nice, and the air tastes sweet. And most British new-build homes try to copy a type of cottagecore aesthetic, even in cities. the huge downside of this, is that pretty houses in pretty locations are all bought up as second homes by Londoners, pricing all the locals out from living in their own villages and towns. Its a huge problem.

  • @cadileigh9948

    @cadileigh9948

    3 жыл бұрын

    too true and then they complain that the shops are too small when they try to crowd in without distancing 2 metres and are politely told to que out in the rain like the real locals

  • @wayneparker9331

    @wayneparker9331

    3 жыл бұрын

    We're seeing the same phenomenon here in California. People fleeing the SF Bay Area and moving to the small towns in the high Sierras near Lake Tahoe. The very real effect is that locals are being priced out of the comfortable (and usually older) homes here.

  • @adrenalinevan

    @adrenalinevan

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pastoralism is gentrification for non urban areas

  • @talosheeg

    @talosheeg

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wayneparker9331 theyre also leaving the main Los Angeles area and coming to my end of the city which is the San Fernando Valley and they're pricing us locals out. Im 21, have lived in the SFV my ENTIRE life and I know im gonna have to move to a different city if I want any chance of moving out due to the high prices

  • @icannotcomeupwithanything4609

    @icannotcomeupwithanything4609

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wayneparker9331 I live in California. I had two new neighbors this month. They are starting to bulid more houses where I am. I lived there for about three years now. I enjoyed because of the lack of people. Now honestly I just want to fucking leave. :(

  • @MrShivshank
    @MrShivshank3 жыл бұрын

    i feel like laying down in a meadow is always in fashion.

  • @MichieHoward
    @MichieHoward3 жыл бұрын

    My exposure to "cottagecore" started in the 90's when I came across architecture and home design magazines for the first time, the English and French country houses and cottages were always my favorite style of building and interior designs ascetic, even down to the trim or the dishes on the tables....Ahh memories.

  • @crowfaerymori
    @crowfaerymori3 жыл бұрын

    “So basically, no bugs” yeah, my concern about poisonous spiders and snakes does make things a little less idyllic. I miss being a kid and just assuming I’d be ok!

  • @ReptilianTeaDrinker

    @ReptilianTeaDrinker

    3 жыл бұрын

    They're only a problem if they bite you. Basically, don't just pick them up or get too close. Remember that they are more afraid of you than you are of them, because you're a big, scary human. lol

  • @michellebyrom6551

    @michellebyrom6551

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, that innocent/naïve strategy ibviously worked - you're still here. Lol

  • @laerin7931

    @laerin7931

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ReptilianTeaDrinker Problem is - if you're prancing around in thick grass, it's very likely that you'll step on some bug or a snake that you couldn't see. Also, mosquitos and ticks will actively seek you out even if you don't want to touch them.

  • @cleargreyskies

    @cleargreyskies

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are no poisonous snakes, spiders or insects* where I live, thankfully! With the exception of ticks - which are horrible. I am a field ecologist, so I know how to try to avoid them, but it never works 100%. I had 40 ticks last year, although it seems like I did not get infected with encephalitis or Lyme disease. *tiger mosquitoes are new here and I should research them

  • @persefoniajax
    @persefoniajax3 жыл бұрын

    I offer up this comment as a sacrifice to our algorithm overlords.

  • @marymills3581

    @marymills3581

    3 жыл бұрын

    may I reply as a supplementary offering

  • @stevezytveld6585

    @stevezytveld6585

    3 жыл бұрын

    I come as a supplicant to our benign(?) algorithmic overlords. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown

  • @martialme84

    @martialme84

    3 жыл бұрын

    Praise be.

  • @cam6110

    @cam6110

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blessed be!

  • @biancawantsbooks1904

    @biancawantsbooks1904

    3 жыл бұрын

    M

  • @abigaillachney9734
    @abigaillachney97343 жыл бұрын

    Cottagecore always reminds me of me think of that time Henry David Thoreau spent a whole year in a cottage in the woods and wrote a whole book about how enlightening the aesthetic of nature is. The Romantic movement in literature has a LOT of cottagecore vibes, more specifically the romanticizing rural life. I also love that you brought up pastoralism-- reading pastoral poetry of the 18-19th century is like reading a poem someone wrote based on a Pinterest cottagecore aesthetic board and then added a whole bunch of Christianity-inspired metaphor about shepherds. William Blake was one of the OG cottage core fans.

  • @Greenwoodland
    @Greenwoodland3 жыл бұрын

    Its so much fun listening to folks discovering the aestetic, after growing up watching Sense and Sensibility, the Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea movies, and Beatrix potter cartoons. Oh and Tasha Tudor books--if you like cottagecore and you haven't looked up the life of Tasha Tudor look her up. She's amazing

  • @girlwithoutpearlearring
    @girlwithoutpearlearring3 жыл бұрын

    As someone who studies history, I feel so enlightened and also a little embarrassed by how broad your knowledge is. I sometimes feel like I'm not trying hard enough to digg deep into history. But it's also kind of overwhelming because, well, there was lots of stuff going on in the past. But I'm currently (re-)discovering the 18th century a little bit, especially around the French revolution. Thus I would like to thank you wholeheartedly for sharing your thoughts and insights. It has been a delight, as always :-)

  • @gianmarcorusso1713

    @gianmarcorusso1713

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's fault of the contemporary Academic system. Specialization only and no broader knowledge.

  • @hiolanda1767

    @hiolanda1767

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don't be embarrassed, it's hard to compete with an imortal being

  • @NorthernGreenEyes

    @NorthernGreenEyes

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well said. You shouldn't feel bad because as long as we're living we're there to learn something new! 😊💗

  • @mrpalaces

    @mrpalaces

    3 жыл бұрын

    Then she dares to say her research wasn't through enough

  • @laerin7931

    @laerin7931

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nothing to be ashamed of. Most people who study history are laser focused on a particular and very small area, and have only cursory knowledge of stuff outside of it.

  • @Skykovtchai
    @Skykovtchai3 жыл бұрын

    This feels like a reborn of romanticism

  • @lobsterfren

    @lobsterfren

    3 жыл бұрын

    exactly what i thought

  • @Melissa-eh9vk

    @Melissa-eh9vk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Waiting for the romantic literature to make its appearance...

  • @GScheele3

    @GScheele3

    3 жыл бұрын

    Especially in response to all the Realism we’ve had for the past 2ish decades.

  • @kimtoannhan7275

    @kimtoannhan7275

    2 жыл бұрын

    Escapism ...

  • @slonmish

    @slonmish

    2 жыл бұрын

    more like sentimentalism

  • @avatheuniverse
    @avatheuniverse3 жыл бұрын

    so basically what im hearing is history repeats itself, got it

  • @mariearchambeault145

    @mariearchambeault145

    3 жыл бұрын

    Too bad we dont get the beautifully structured gowns in these times.

  • @givemeaminutetothink
    @givemeaminutetothink3 жыл бұрын

    In Latin, we have pastoral poetry written by Virgil that idealizes the simple life. Virgil was inspired by/copying Greek poets, like Theocritus, writing in the same style, and those Greek poems were called Idylls. We get the word idyllic from these poems. Wanna bet those Greek poets were inspired by/copying some additional predecessor?

  • @janushjanushewicz8740
    @janushjanushewicz87403 жыл бұрын

    To be honest, cottagecore let's me go back to my childhood, my grandparents lived in a house with flowers and a little farm around and I spent a lot of time there. The aesthetic reminds me of my grandma and makes my heart warm (apart from clothes tho, I used to wear comfy clothes, so I could chase chickens better) Sorry for my poor choice of words Also love u Karolina!

  • @Poppy-

    @Poppy-

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hot pies and chasing chicken, I did that

  • @tvdsje

    @tvdsje

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah same, reminds me of running from my grandma's garden to the fields or Forrest behind it, feeding the sheep that were neighbours and making strawberry jam or backing Christmas biscuits with her

  • @rebeccac5021

    @rebeccac5021

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is the same for me, I come from a rural town, but since there are no education opportunities there I’ve now moved to the city, which I find really harsh and confronting. Cottagecore reminds me of my childhood, and days spent with my grandparents.

  • @danam.5127
    @danam.51273 жыл бұрын

    As an Autistic person, I love cottagecore aesthetic because the subdued color palettes are soothing, the clothes are SO fun to stim in (especially swishy skirts!), and the natural fabrics are breathable and help keep me from getting overheated when the temperatures get over 100F/37C. I know that I wouldn't do well in a rural environment for a variety of reasons, but the idea of a slower pace of life, spending more time with friends, and pursuing hobbies that I enjoy are all really appealing to me. Embroidery/hand sewing has become a new favourite stim, and knowing that I have created something useful is really rewarding. Cottagecore aesthetic has encouraged me to try new things even in the midst of a year where I've been busier than ever, and it's helped me a lot with my body confidence as well. Sewing is a huge part of my grandmother's culture (Uchinaanchu), and through me learning how to sew, we've become a lot closer. I feel like I was always meant for the cottagecore aesthetic, and I'm really grateful for it coming into my life when it did. It's helped tremendously with my mental health. I know this is all very dramatic, but I really do appreciate how meaning can be found anywhere, even "internet aesthetics."

  • @lalalamaddalena
    @lalalamaddalena3 жыл бұрын

    Since everyone's sharing, my ideal cottagecore society is small cities with small hobbit/victorian houses surrounded by big-ass trees and a fuck ton of nature but with deeply connected modern undergrounds and amazon lockers here and there.

  • @MagickSprite
    @MagickSprite3 жыл бұрын

    I would also include the popular Chinese KZreadr Liziqi in that whole longing for a rural, simpler lifestyle. Her videos are gorgeous and peaceful, the music is soothing, while she is growing cotton to make a mattress pad for her very cute grandmother, or growing (cultivating?) silk worms to make her grandmother a silk filled comforter, or making 5-6 delicious looking recipes from the different roses she planted. The comment section is filled with "she looks like a fairytale princess", (I have commented this myself because yes she does), "I wish I had a garden like hers", "I wish I could live like this", etc... all for the longing of a simpler, idyllic lifestyle. In reality there is a lot of time and a LOT OF HARD WORK in what she is doing. She raised silk worms!! Meanwhile I hate mowing my own yard, I've let plants die in their nursery pots because it was too hot outside to plant them and not to mention there are bugs out there. If someone told me to make a chicken dinner and then handed me a live chicken, nope, sorry - that is not going to happen.

  • @lindafreeman7030
    @lindafreeman70303 жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" has a lot of spoofing of the over-romanticizing of rural life, especially in the sub plots involving the shepherdess Phoebe, and Jaques' pursuit of Audrey.

  • @smolcharlie1736

    @smolcharlie1736

    3 жыл бұрын

    "I like this place/ And willingly would waste my time in it" sums up a lot of cottagecore tbh

  • @burntcoppery

    @burntcoppery

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare, unlike most playwrights of the time, grew up in a very rural small town. His shepherdesses are very bitchy and hard-handed.

  • @semi-useful5178

    @semi-useful5178

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@burntcoppery As they should be, having to deal with the dumbest, most suicidal creatures in all creation.

  • @dawngrrrl

    @dawngrrrl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I was about to comment this. I played Audrey in high school (back in like 2005 I'm old lol) and I was into cottagecore way back then because I was obsessed with Marie Antoinette and pre-Raphaelite paintings. I went from black mini-dresses and fishnets and bondage accessories to soft flowy things and delicate florals and botanical earrings. My parents were confused lol.

  • @semi-useful5178

    @semi-useful5178

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dawngrrrl Adorable.

  • @Veerlejf
    @Veerlejf3 жыл бұрын

    Try "bucolic" instead of "rural". Easier to pronounce, and it sounds fancy af

  • @Risaala

    @Risaala

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love the word, "bucolic"1

  • @duckdodgers3574

    @duckdodgers3574

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like bubonic plague.

  • @totallycrazystudios1801

    @totallycrazystudios1801

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or just say "country" Edit: just meant as a friendly suggestion

  • @doniaamr7278

    @doniaamr7278

    3 жыл бұрын

    And rustic

  • @buckyharris9465

    @buckyharris9465

    3 жыл бұрын

    But "bucolic" doesn't mean rural -- its meaning is more about an ideal version of rurality (an actual word) -- more like "pastoral."

  • @feliciahedrick29
    @feliciahedrick292 жыл бұрын

    "Idealizing *peasants-* " I can't XD ✨🐸💅✨

  • @O2BSoLucky
    @O2BSoLucky3 жыл бұрын

    Prior to C19 there seemed to be this whole tiny house, small footprint aesthetic. With lock downs and the reality that actually being with your loved ones in a small space for extended periods of time will drive a person bonkers it's switched back to the 'escape to the country' aesthetic. Your home is your castle and whilst an apartment close to the city might mean a dynamic lifestyle and small footprint in times of plenty, a house and garden is always the solid option.

  • @murphygirl4782
    @murphygirl47823 жыл бұрын

    "I look like I'm about to uh.. Milk your cows." Pauses. Inside voice -that didn't sound right- 🤣🤣🤣 bahahahahaha

  • @taylsbucko5190
    @taylsbucko51903 жыл бұрын

    "cottagecore emphasises the idealisation of the rural life" *the romantic poets have entered the chat*

  • @esther_margolis
    @esther_margolis3 жыл бұрын

    I'm too old to really "get" this cottagecore thing... however I'm just wondering what you would make of my teenage self in the 1970s, with my peasant dresses and tiered skirts and long braids or my hair tied back with a bandana just like you are wearing here! too bad I can't find pictures. but this was totally "a thing" believe me

  • @Terri_MacKay

    @Terri_MacKay

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes!! I loved dressing like that during the 70's. I hated so much of the fashion during the 70's, and, of course, being in high school, dressing fashionably was very important. Thank goodness for the peasant look!!

  • @Alex-ok5tp

    @Alex-ok5tp

    3 жыл бұрын

    The early 70s seemed to have a lot of styles inspired by medieval european fashion, i've never seen the resurgence of it till now but I think it's so cool!

  • @flowergirl5962

    @flowergirl5962

    2 жыл бұрын

    My mom was the same but in the 90s! Fashion cycles all the time, it’s neat to see how it cycled from the 1900s and all the way back to the Renaissance; we really are our mothers and follow in their footsteps 🥰

  • @fighttheevilrobots3417

    @fighttheevilrobots3417

    2 жыл бұрын

    When I was a teenager in the late 90s I loved loved loved the flowy flowery skirts and ultra long hair brushed straight down with brown lipstick

  • @singerofsongs468

    @singerofsongs468

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m a Gen Z kid and the 1970s is actually my main style inspiration. (Also my favorite music decade!) A lot of trends from that time became mainstream this summer, and I was so excited to wear comfy yet feminine clothes. I think it was one of the best decades for cultural expression!

  • @lolymop333
    @lolymop3333 жыл бұрын

    So, love of Rococo fashion, of what I know, kinda went 3 ways: Cottagecore Vintage fashion Lolita/ouji fashion

  • @rancidkippa4589
    @rancidkippa45893 жыл бұрын

    "We won't dwell on the ancient origins of cottagecore." Hesiod: Ight, imma head out

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    3 жыл бұрын

    I imagine neolithic and bronze age city folks now: "Hach, I dream of living as a hunter-gatherer in the wilderness; independent and free... Simply wearing a fur loin cloth instead of this modern, processed linen dress... Eating the fruits of the land wherever I find them." * chisels picture into stone column to share with all their friends *

  • @villmolsmerciweg2

    @villmolsmerciweg2

    3 жыл бұрын

    m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2pn0ZKweNrOdbg.html

  • @alicjakempisty2729
    @alicjakempisty27293 жыл бұрын

    About the Pre-Raphaelite paintings, let us look at Florence Welsh. That woman is on every cottagecore playlist and her style is straight up stolen from Rosetti's ladies

  • @heathermckay5034

    @heathermckay5034

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah she’s been doing this for YEARS

  • @334...4

    @334...4

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I've had the biggest crush on her, her voice and her style for years.

  • @FaerieGodMother

    @FaerieGodMother

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do you mean.. Florence Welch? My goddess?

  • @bunnyskiddadle1477

    @bunnyskiddadle1477

    3 жыл бұрын

    Her red hair is pre-raphaelite SPOT ON

  • @lobsterfren

    @lobsterfren

    3 жыл бұрын

    OG cottagecore

  • @Mooshrambo
    @Mooshrambo2 жыл бұрын

    I feel like for a lot of people cottagecore is a fashion version of escapism. It's true lots of people want that aesthetic of cottagecore simplicity without realizing the difficult and dirty work that comes into maintaining the garden, animals, and cottage. And I'm also sure it wasn't on purpose that modern cottagecore mimics the fashion of the centuries before. But I had always dreamed of cottagecore before it had the name. I've always loved the regency era and I also love the Romantic era and learning more about these eras and seeing the fashion and the art made me want that. And the older I got, the more I realized that I absolutely hate being around other people unless absolutely necessary. I'm a very asocial introvert who has massive anxiety, especially social anxiety, and I'm also so neurodivergent that I simply don't fit in with how the society and economy of today works. I just don't fit. I love hard work, but I don't want to work for people who will abuse my efforts, but not pay me a livable wage, and then try to bully or manipulate me into accepting the abuse. I'd much rather live in isolation and work hard on my own terms and dress and feel pretty when I want to take a day off and deal with people when I need to, like to sell things. But my dream is to be alone and be self-sustaining as well as live simply and beautifully. I'd also probably live greener than I do right now. So while cottagecore is sometimes just an aesthetic to some people, to others it's just the seed of a dream to ACTUALLY live with a different lifestyle that matches who we are on the inside. I think that's one thing that might be historically different with this current wave of cottagecore. Many women are independent of men where they usually weren't in the past since men had all the power and women were forced to rely on them in most cases and likely couldn't actually pursue their more rural dreams and, thus, had to live in a fantasy version of it just like how some people dream of fame and overspend money on designer stuff to make themselves feel like their in it. But many people nowadays, especially women, can pursue that cottagecore dream for more than the aesthetic that it is. I think that's kind of awesome.

  • @ragdollrose2687
    @ragdollrose26873 жыл бұрын

    Speaking of Marie-Antoinette and romanticizing past eras: have you heard of the game ''Time Princess''? It's basically a dress up game mashed up with a ''choose your own story'' type of thing, but it's centered around historical figures and well known tales. The graphics are gorgeous, but I would be curious to see you critique the fashion because it's heavily focused on history! I'm playing the part on Marie-Antoinette and I was impressed by the amount of facts we learn from a dress up game.

  • @imstupidthatswhy1432

    @imstupidthatswhy1432

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agree! I once downloaded it because I was bored but found my history-loving self enchanted by the amount of facts and history they put into this. Every time I told my friends about this game, they’d just look at me weirdly and ask why I was playing a “Barbie game”. But it is really great and a nice change of place from all the other history-inspired games which romanticize older eras a lot.

  • @PamelaFlitton
    @PamelaFlitton3 жыл бұрын

    In UK we would just call this style ‘Laura Ashley’

  • @barbarasmith7663

    @barbarasmith7663

    3 жыл бұрын

    That’s what I was just thinking 😂

  • @PamelaFlitton

    @PamelaFlitton

    3 жыл бұрын

    Barbara Smith Must be our age! 😉☺️

  • @barbarasmith7663

    @barbarasmith7663

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PamelaFlitton I’m 21 😂 but old at heart!

  • @isaacgray2909
    @isaacgray29093 жыл бұрын

    The Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightly gives a lot of cottagecore vibe as I just watched it

  • @Poppy-

    @Poppy-

    3 жыл бұрын

    I just rewatched it yesterday! Real cottage core.

  • @nineteenfortyeight6762

    @nineteenfortyeight6762

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hard-cottage-core. The costume designer has talked about how they made the Bennett girls' costumes more 'rustic' than they realistically would have been.

  • @watashiwachocho
    @watashiwachocho3 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you brought up J-fashion ay the end there b/c I keep seeing cottagecore looks that are basically natural or mori kei as well as inspiration from lolita and dolly (*cough*grimoire*cough*) kei in a lot of outfits

  • @user-jj6jg4cq3d
    @user-jj6jg4cq3d2 жыл бұрын

    Please, make a video about the “dark academia” or “anything academia” fashion. 🥺🙏

  • @PlayerClarinet
    @PlayerClarinet3 жыл бұрын

    Can confirm that the obsession with the pastoral aesthetic was a thing in classical music too. There's a whole subgenre of eighteenth century opera built around shepherds and milkmaids and stuff. Even Ludwig "Pastoral Symphony" Beethoven wasn't immune.

  • @lewisblakley8288
    @lewisblakley82883 жыл бұрын

    Karolina, I swear your content is laced with crack. I've watched ever single video in the span of 3 days. How are you so addictive. Lots of love meme mum.

  • @actsrv9

    @actsrv9

    3 жыл бұрын

    Really pretty, pleasing voice, clear diction, thoughtful discussion, perfect facial expressions, sprinkled with the right amount of humour. It's a perfect package. She's the PG Wodehouse of KZreadrs. I, for one, am smitten like a kitten (lol)

  • @melonebitch8946

    @melonebitch8946

    3 жыл бұрын

    she has a natural charisma that lecturers and youtubers would kill to have. many people fake it, many people think they have it, many people compensate for it, but it’s genuine with karolina. 👌

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962

    @kimberlyperrotis8962

    3 жыл бұрын

    Internet opium.

  • @feijaocomarroz2846
    @feijaocomarroz28462 жыл бұрын

    Meme mum is so pretty. She kind of became one of my favourite drawing models.

  • @MedorraBlue
    @MedorraBlue11 ай бұрын

    I just gotta say... your captions are fantastic 🤣Thank you for putting so much care into them!