I liked twee because it felt like a "girl's girl" fashion. It wasn't about looking sexy for men or trying to prove you could fit into a 'mans world', it was about wearing cat themed shoes and cute dresses because you liked cat themed shoes and cute dresses.

@kab9706

3 ай бұрын

Great point, it wasn't about male gaze nearly as much as most women's fashion and style

@meowraiu2

3 ай бұрын

real

@MickeyGee73

2 ай бұрын

Except for the fact that diminuative womens fashion was originally designed by men to appeal to their commonly held taste for little girls..Its a clear power dynamic..I personally like the aesthetic..but I'm not going to kid myself as to where it came from..

@Kereru

2 ай бұрын

@MickeyGee73 Lot's of things were "originally" designed with different meaning. That doesn't invalidate modern interpretations.

@MickeyGee73

2 ай бұрын

@@Kereru I agree..as posted, I quite like the look..Just dont tell me it's free of misogynist roots..Way back when or today..

Twee during the day and indie sleaze at night 👌

@aestheticsexplained9639

Жыл бұрын

love it

@missironmouse

4 ай бұрын

YESS especially if you were a church girl 😅

@Pandadown9244

4 ай бұрын

I remember when some friends showed me twee videos and I was like what is unhinged chaotic manic energy.

@ShiningSta18486

3 ай бұрын

Facts lmfao

@Siss2012

3 ай бұрын

Yes! 🙌

i think i never moved on from twee, i still love my ballet flats and stockings with my aline/skater skirts. never without my cardigan and satchel bag. but now they call me academia.

@LoveMyUnusual

3 ай бұрын

You nailed it on the academia label lol. Every look is recycled, then called something slightly different by the next gen. While it's not entirely my thing, I'm sure you look lovely in it. I mess with fox print clothes and I love rockabilly cardigans. Sometimes I wear Peter Pan collars when I need to look more formal.

@bellarose1562

3 ай бұрын

Me too, this style is close to my heart

@sleepysartorialist

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like you enjoy your life. Whatever labels others give you are immaterial. Do you~

@kylatokki22

3 ай бұрын

@@sleepysartorialistlove your username

@an-enby-panda7840

3 ай бұрын

Skater skirts are just good, especially minis.

Twee is one of the fashon styles I feel still holds up to this day unlike other 2010s styles. It’s just more timeless with all the vintage fashon inspiration. It’s amazing.

@lalaland2107

3 ай бұрын

💯💯💯💯💯

I am forever grateful to twee, because I credit that thrift kitsch renaissance moment as the reason granny/grandpa style has become perma-cool in some way or another ever since. Cottagecore. Dad sneakers. Birk clogs. Coastal eclectic twice removed aunt or whatever we’re on now. We are freed from the y2k shackles of *needing* to dress modern, sexy + new or else be scoffed at by someone named Brittany, Ashley, or Tiffany.

@sleepysartorialist

3 ай бұрын

Enh cottagecore is explicitly queer but I know what you're aining at.

@user-nv7uq3zj5e

3 ай бұрын

‘can nerds like a style without being bitter and putting other people/aesthetics down’ challenge 🫠

@Justaregularoldplumbus

3 ай бұрын

Lol ‘can KZread commenters read a lighthearted jab without crying’ challenge. I love y2k btw. Just making a valid observation with a joke.

@user-nv7uq3zj5e

3 ай бұрын

@@Justaregularoldplumbus in what way is that lighthearted when we’ve already been thru what an NLOG is and why that’s bad. y’all are so unaware.

@Justaregularoldplumbus

3 ай бұрын

Ok it seems like you’re here to defend the fictional Britney, Ashley or Tiffany I made up for my comment 😂 please rest assured no real Britneys were harmed in the making of that comment. Just harkening back to mean girl culture in a non serious way to highlight my actual point- that before vintage and thrifting made a huge splash in the late 00s-early 2010s, emphasis on Mcbling, preppy or luxury “it” brands and whatnot were widely viewed as *must have* in an unsustainable way. One positive thing the internet brought is that all eras and styles are simultaneously cool now and finding your personal style is what matters to most people now. People aren’t pressured into following trends and buying new + luxury the way we used to be before the recession. Old money aesthetic is a thing but nobody is out here shaming others for buying secondhand, dressing “like a mom/granny” or re-wearing outfits these days. We have grown past that and I am thankful. When I was very young I participated in the problem of reinforcing it brands and not wanting to be caught in off trend or outdated pieces, so I’ve grown as well myself. That was my point. NLOG and putting others down has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation.

My style 2010-2015 was hipster twee mixed with kawaii Japanese street fashion. Call that tweeaboo

@duchessedeberne3909

4 ай бұрын

Same 🤍

@sleepysartorialist

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@lucasessman1910

3 ай бұрын

Tweeaboo lol

@LadyLyn1234

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for giving me a name for my style! ♡

@an-enby-panda7840

3 ай бұрын

Oh fun! Was there a more specific kind of Japanese street fashion or just like general kawaii?

Here to teach the children. The twee subculture began in the late 90/early 00s indie pop revival. It spread through the early internet with mailing lists and then music forums. It became mainstream in the late 00s through sites like Tumblr but was definitely a thing before then, I should know cos I was a part of it. One of the things I resent most is that the icons of the look, most of whom were not there at the beginning are all stick thin waifs. The pre Tumblr originators of the look were for the most part curvy girls desperate to escape the tyranny of the low rise jean.

@LeBasfondMusic

3 ай бұрын

ding ding ding ding

There's my picture at 9:27, I'm the one in blue! It didn't make me tumblr famous at the time, but I found it was doing the rounds on Pinterest a couple of years ago. Still gobsmacked and humbled to see it pop up in this video. I still have the top and the skirt, maybe I should hang onto them in case the V&A ever wants to put a twee exhibition on....

@cottagecorener

3 ай бұрын

Omg love your outfit!!!

@lynseyfahs8628

3 ай бұрын

Cool!

@LadyLyn1234

3 ай бұрын

you are so beautiful!

@macsworld93

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much :')@@LadyLyn1234

@macsworld93

3 ай бұрын

thank you! I'm actually thinking of wearing it again now haha@@cottagecorener

My feelings were legit hurt so badly the first time I heard a Fashion Person describe twee as a thing of the past. I had waited my entire life for the kind of vintage details that were finally widely available (especially in my size) and I assumed the popularity of the style, at least as a subculture, meant that designers had finally realized an audience like me existed. I was not prepared to learn that my taste was “over” lol, and just when I had finally collected the wardrobe of my imagination. I still wear my clothes obviously - and I never really had any female friends who were into the same look in the first place so other women moving past me didn’t actually change my day to day. (I had known a fair few mustache-bowtie guys over the period but I don’t really know what they’re wearing these days). I won’t miss the micro-hemlines at least. I like the certainty that butt will not touch chair when I sit down. But I like pintucks and collars and tiny buttons you guys. I can’t be stopped.

@erincoatney5151

4 ай бұрын

I know !

@inspiredby624

3 ай бұрын

Isn't dark/light academia the new version of twee? or is that trend already over?

@emilyglass6625

3 ай бұрын

@@inspiredby624 I think it depends on what aspects of each style matter most to a given person, but I see twee and dark academia almost as two opposite ends of a preppy spectrum. I personally think of twee as a prim but maximalist type of prep, with contrasting colors (though the colors themselves may be either bright or muted) and nerdy, feminine, and novelty details. Twee outfits could be costumes from a heightened-reality movie - Wes Anderson or Pushing Daisies. I think of dark academia as a more earthy and grounded prep - more dignified, more androgynous. Dark academia outfits could be costumes from a restrained, melancholic and even dangerous flavor of vintage movie. When people say that femme twee has a "little girl" aspect, I tend to balk a little, because I'm a forty+ year old woman and I'm definitely not trying to seem like a little girl or a doll. But it's also not *wrong.* For me, twee has a youthful, tongue-in-cheek, playful mood. Dark academia is an old-soul-in-a-young-body aesthetic. Twee could be milkshakes in the retro diner with two straws. Dark academia could be champagne coupes in one hand and old poetry in the other with your secret club behind the bookcase. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the two style variants have many fans in common, and I'm sure there are folks who prefer a middle ground. I love looking at dark academia imagery, but I always go back to color, quirk and novelty, in the end.

@24kgoldplatedvermeil

3 ай бұрын

@@emilyglass6625 youre all too affected and put way too much emphasis and weight on labels.

@Wakeupgrandowl

3 ай бұрын

If I had the money to build the wardrobe I wanted and looked and felt good in it I would have absolutely zero fucks to give about what someone else thought about its relevance or trendiness! And either should you! D you look good? Feel good? Then you have STYLE. Let the followers follow.

Today I wore a pinafore dress & coloured tights, i have berets in 5 colours, a fringe (bangs) & more breton tops than i should, I'm 44. I've never heard of twee but I've usually called it dressing like a primary school teacher or kids tv presenter. I much prefer this to the beige movement. Color makes me happy. wear what u love & ignore fashion.

@thelittlerawker

17 күн бұрын

I'm gonna need you to drop your brand recommendations 👀 i can't find cute places to shop anymore, I miss Dear Creatures

@styleranger

16 күн бұрын

@thelittlerawker Sure! I'm in the UK, so for tights I use Snag, lots of colours & sizes. Joanie is good for clothing with a vintage vibe, Seasalt for breton tops & of course what we call charity shops (u may call them thrift shops). Also Palava is a make I adore but can't afford.

@thelittlerawker

16 күн бұрын

@@styleranger you’re a godsend, thank you so much for taking the time to write this out!

I still kind of dress this way, partly because I like how it looks, and partly because it's physically comfortable. Most of the clothes I buy nowadays are vintage or second hand because they're more affordable and better quality than what is being made today. Do I want to spend $80 on a skirt made out of plastic or $16 on one made of 100% wool or linen? Not a hard decision. These styles are still around. They just got newer labels. Am I dark academia, whimsy goth, twee, or cottage core? Doesn't matter lol.

I used to be in this Flickr group called wardrobe remix, we would post our daily outfits, mostly vintage. This was around 2007. A lot of them were twee style, never heard of the term until now.

I've been trying to find this aesthetic everywhere. I remember it from when I was 8-14, roughly 2008-2014. As one can imagine I didn't remember it all too well except for when I found pictures that jogged my memory. I am so happy there's a name for it and even more happy that it is coming back. I still have this little brass owl pocket watch necklace, if that doesn't say 2010 indie hipster idk what does.

@cottagecorener

3 ай бұрын

I'm the same age as you and I didn't remember it either until this vid so weird cus it totally influenced my style to this day! Seeing all the stuff in this vid that I wanted but couldn't afford because I was 8-14 😂 so nostalgic

I'm 27 and twee is the best thing that happened to me as a teenager! Still love this style and 2010s vibes in general

I miss this style so much. I used to really enjoy getting dressed in twee & hipster styles and I feel like it encouraged creativity when choosing your clothes. These days, I feel like it's too easy to throw on some leggings and an oversized t-shirt and call it a day. I'm really guilty of it and this video has made me realise that I want to start 'dressing up' again :D

@jlarnold24

3 ай бұрын

I really miss it too, and I feel like I'm a millenial trying to make gen z aesthetics work but it's NOT working for me haha. Perhaps we bring it back?

@c-ev8yz

3 ай бұрын

@@jlarnold24 You should look into more of the less mainstream gen z styles right now, twee has had a comeback within the past year with modern adjustments. I find there’s a sizable community for almost every style you can think of among young people right now, I don’t think they get enough credit honestly

IU was such a twee icon too! At the time she even made retro albums, with cover versions of old songs, I miss this era sm ❤

I was a twee girl and didn’t know it was called that until recently. I’ll have these straight bangs forever.

@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396

2 ай бұрын

It wasn’t called Twee before. Even the It Girl, Zoey D., didn’t know what Twee was. I didn’t know either. :/

I think an intriguing representation of twee style is Hannah Horvath in GIRLS. She consistently hit all the marks that you mentioned in this video stylistically but is almost always overlooked in the twee analysis i've seen, which feels especially interesting as she shows the look on a body that is not thin or trying to fit into thinness.

I found it! It has a name! I swear this aesthetic invokes a really special feeling in my heart. The polka dots dresses, cute vintage heels and glasses, indie music and harry potter themed stuff, hipster coffee shops and bowties. Like trying to be fancy but also different and vintage.

Twee had me in a chokehold during the 2010s and even now I lean toward these looks

You forgot to mention the Kawaii movement in JAPAN, and twee babyish stuff was part of the explosion of Rave culture. Throughout the 90s I saw adults of all races and genders wearing candy bracelets, pacifiers, a penchant for tootsie pops(for Molly side effects), teddy bear backpacks. It was global

@ryan-sy3dl

4 ай бұрын

japanese fashion subcultures usually have a wildly different origin and history than western ones so it would be kind of weird to include it here. i think it should have its own video tho.

@bibichillieblue

3 ай бұрын

I see what you mean, there is definitely a parallel to be made? Because when I think of the early 2010s worldwide, I think among other things, of twee, but I also picture fairy kei from harajuku. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and shop for clothes then!

@Oscar-nr5lq

3 ай бұрын

@@bibichillieblue Yeah, my style was twee and fairy kei mixed together back in 2011-2012 haha

@triplehearts914

25 күн бұрын

@@ryan-sy3dl 1000000% true.

@triplehearts914

25 күн бұрын

@@bibichillieblue Fairy kei was one of the first J-fashions i decided to wear in the 2010s. I really miss it, but Im glad I took pictures!

being on tumblr in 2011 made me crave skater skirts and thigh high socks more than any other pieces of clothing the crossovers in style with japanese street fashion were especially appealing

It wasn’t a fever dream it was a life 🥲 it shaped me to this day

We called this one Geek Chic and Kitsch in the UK :) I remember first seeing it on Lily Allen around 2006

@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396

2 ай бұрын

We just grouped it all into Hipster.

I guess you can’t take the millennial out of the girl - I am still inspired by all of these styles/silhouettes 😅☺️

@oluwashinaomisanya7487

3 ай бұрын

Same 😂😂😂😂

I loved this aesthetic when I was 11-14, was obsessed with Doddleoddle, Ruby Sparks the film, Alexa Chung and New Girl, this is such a comfort style

I personally enjoyed this style a LOT as a vintage-loving teen/young adult in the 2010s, even if I didn't quite fit the mold as per media portrayals or tumblr iconography. The funny thing is that I didn't even conceptualize it as being an aesthetic at the time, just an amalgam of the things my friends and I were interested in. I wonder if the lack of non-white representation can be attributed less to the aesthetic itself and more to the fact that (even then, as recent as it was) there was less of a concerned emphasis on social issues and a comparative lack of pressure on social media towards diversity?? Really enjoyed this analysis though, and I really appreciate your historically-accurate and thorough examination of this.

I’d love to see your take on the Dark Academia and Cottagecore aesthetics… I’m impressed by your dedication to studying the connection between history, sociology and even psychology with fashion ❤ brava 👏🏼👏🏼

A lot of older millenials and younger or just physically fit gen X (at least in the UK) seem to dress in a kind of muted down Twee still

@LadyHawke78

3 ай бұрын

I’m a young X-er and I can still hang with this style. Still love owl motifs and still have cat-themed shoes. Just need to be conscious of what is age-appropriate. Mute the colors/patterns a bit, and you have a style appropriate for your 40’s.

Oh God I was a tweet girl from 2009-2014 and I didn't even know it! I wore all of these 😂. I do want to point out that we should also consider the huge impact of the TV show Mad Men at the time, since I really think that was what drove a lot of the 50s & 60s revival of the period. I remember walking through the mall and seeing 'Mad Men' collections in the displays of Banana Republic and similar stores.

only after watching this video I realized how much of an Impact twee aesthetic had on my fashion preferences and my styling choices in high school. it still has, and I love to wear some of the beloved staples that I sitll possess. the only thing is, I don't style my clothes as twee anymore, as I feel they are too quirky and infantilizing to wear on the workplace, it's as if I outgrew the aesthetic somehow. still, wearing that as a teenager was absolutely cool, and looking at the pictures of the era brings a lot of fond memories. ps. as an ardent and hardcore admirer of twee I have to admit that I absolutely despise Wes Andersons films lol, I can't stomach them for some reason. so, new wave films of France, Czechoslovakia, Japan are an enormous source of inspiration for me personally

Omg the Miu Miu cat print from SS2010 lived in my head rent free as a teen. You just reminded me of my cheap lil Oxford brogues I had in tan and black. I was definitely a twee fan. I loved Alexa Chung. A lot of these design elements still inform my wardrobe and style.

The impact Alexa Chung had on millennials is astronomical

I had no name for Taylor swifts style in the 2010’s. I just knew I didn’t like it. Now that I understand it more I can appreciate it for what it is.

i was just a kid when twee started having a presence in the city i lived in, i loved it so much i’ve always had a twee-ish style

I gather that twee is like a reaction to the glossy no-nothing 00s, you know Paris Hilton peak era, they wanted to wear vintage inspired dresses and be sweet lil girls. Thank you for teaching the word twee, as a non-native speaker, I had no idea

I found your channel a couple of weeks ago and this is everything I could have ever wanted in recent fashion history coverage. Alot of 2010s coverage I've seen is alot of "thing bad" content without alot of interesting historical analysis. Thank you for finally scratching my itch!

I still love twee it makes me feel special, it makes me feel comfy and secure kn my own body.❤

I feel like I’ve been read for filth because apparently I’ve been out of style for nearly 10 years 😂 in all honesty, great vid!

anyone else remember the subculture that was like sparkly/fancy twee? It was twee essentially but all in pastels and black and white, and everything was pearl and/or rhinestone encrusted

There's a really great female singing song-writer, Kimya Dawson, that I became obsessed with and cry and boil by tried to do a thesis on and I also loved Belle and Sebastian's music, all of which I found from the soundtrack of the movie Juno written by Diablo Cody. In my research I kept hearing the word "twee" flung about with such anger at Kimya Dawson and I understand It's also been a monkey on Diablo Cody's back, whose work has since been more appreciated. It really makes me cry and boil by turns. Criticism of sweet, quirky architypes of innocent-seeming women matters, since we'd rather not romanticize the 50s push to box women into domestic, ultra feminine and childlike roles, or the way it bled into the trivializing of the full personhood of women of the 60s, whether they embraced more of the girlie look or it's masculinized opposite. Certainly there is a problem when vintage fashion can't be size and BIPOC-inclusive. None of this gets said by these critics, however. "Twee", whatever it meant, seemed to be a stick with which to beat these smart women in order to dismissed and trivialize a depth and content that was REALLY NOT THAT FAR below the surface of their work and should have garnered praise instead. I can't help but feel these critics, (they are largely men, but regardless of their sex) were out to make sure deep entertainment for women couldn't look trendy, non-threatening, fun.

love your in depth reading of this. the ending was tied perfectly with the video and i cant wait to binge all ur vids now ^_^!

Great video! Watched it as I was dressing up for the day - pussycat bow blouse, cropped slacks, cashmere sweater and a pilgrim-esque collar/vest with Mary janes! The twee is still strong with this one 😂

This video was rlly comforting to watch :D

i miss it so much!! it felt like a mix of the 60s and 90s somehow. there was something so nostalgic about it.

I wish someone would make a video on the weird pastel folky emo indie subculture from the early 00's that i was involved in, but idk if theres even a term for it. Its pretty similar to twee, except sad and muted lol. Gregory and the hawk and Elliot smith were pretty exemplary music examples. Meredith godreau from GATH had the quintessential look. I think its sort of a cusp subculture, when all the emo kids were transitioning to hipsters 😂 The main color palette was very muted, our myspace layouts were all very minimalist, tiny ass text, all lowercase, etc. I remember my myspace always had to involve dusty rose/mauve, that was THE color 😂 if anyone remembers this or knows the term please let me know.

@marshallsweatherhiking1820

4 ай бұрын

Yea. People who went to see Iron and Wine.

@Chamomile369

3 ай бұрын

@@marshallsweatherhiking1820 exactly

omg this video is so good

My new favorite channel please keep making videos!

Love this style but does remind me of my peak tumblr ED as a young teen.

Wow! This was so detailed and informative.

Your channel is like masterclass

so glad to see you back ✨

@aestheticsexplained9639

Жыл бұрын

thankyou!! so happy to be back!

Loved this video!👍🤩

im not gonna lie i clicked on this in my recommended videos expecting to be mad and defensive (i was a teenager in the late 00s-early 2010s and very on tumblr, this style was formative for me) but wow i loved this video so much, i learned a ton and the way you present fashion history is so enjoyable and comprehensible and unbiased ❤

Perfect video… love this look 🌹

I remember when new girl was my favourite show and all i wanted was to look like jess

Where have you been girl? 😭 please never leave again

@aestheticsexplained9639

Жыл бұрын

thankyou SO much for sticking around

this video is so underrated!

incredible videos! so thorough! i cant help but wonder how you dress hahaha knowing abt all the history of trends

Another perspective here: (while also seconding the comments here about the the late 90/early 00s indie pop fashions), there is a whole genre of Japanese fashion called "otome kei" which is exactly this, too-- farther-deeper rooted in the fashions of the 1950's and 60's children and young person clothing. As someone who grew up in poverty and was raised by their grandparents, much of this 'aesthetic' wasn't an aesthetic, it was my every day life. We used vintage things because they lasted and were made to withstand the test of time. I wore thrifted clothes and hand me downs because those were the only things available to me. (A LOT of this 2010's twee was rooted in fast fashions cheaply and badly recreating these clothes of the 50's and 60's.) Poverty greatly slowed down my access to things like mp3s, cd's, digital cameras, and the internet, so, yes, I have a much deeper rooted attachments to things like my old walkman, my records, developing film (my grandpa had a darkroom for developing film in our house), and vhs tapes and cassettes. But because so much of these aesthetics are rooted in a look and consumerism--and not a lifestyle built out of necessity, it was quickly discarded for the next thing.

I was a twee girly as a teen and didn’t even know it until now

I was all for the peter pan collar shirts, cardigan sweaters, all the coats that were in this video, etc. What a fun time ❤

Pls do 2010 Facebook swag era, idk what the aesthetic is called but i lived it and wanna bring it back ironically but also… where’s my obey box logo

@paulaluzuriaga9416

4 ай бұрын

YOLO swag

Just found this channel and love it ! Only 10.000 abos? How?! Your work is amazing!! 💖

love your channel !!

@aestheticsexplained9639

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

Still my go to esthetic as well as the indie/hipster vibe .

This is such a stellar video- very inspiring for my own research. The depth of every element that was spoken for... wow! One item to consider in terms of generational influence (and its often overlooked, so mentioning it to contribute to the topic) is that the 1960s styles, while consumed by boomers, were a product of silent generation icons/trend setters. Modders were in the 20s in the late 50s to early 60s, meaning they were born before wwii. Part of the youth fixation they had was a trigger response to wwii reparations and the pendulum of post war grief to nihilistic optimism. Boomers really started to get into their own in the late 60s into 1970s. Your 1980s yuppies were younger boomers, which means The Smiths (i dont exactly think them as yuppies, but they were of the same time period) were boomers as well, participanting in that wave of twee. So yes, all these generations were twee enthusiasts, but had their own spin at different times. Also- love your coverage on the ED issue with this subculture. This look glorified a body type (500 days does this satirically) and genuinely bothered me as it was extremely normalized at the time (early 2010s). It bordered on infantilizing. Thank you for calling this out. Anyways, love your content! Can't wait to watch more! ❤

Oh man you made me realize how much Twee has me on a chokehold!!

amazing video! ☺

Omgggg i remember seeing this style in high school!!!! 😍

I dressed very similarly to this in high school (2014-2018) when I wasn't doing J-fashion. Im so happy it has a name!

I was obsessed with both loving and hating all things twee in that era..

Twee timeless imo/ nice vid appreciated the history lesson as well xD

my we heart it was filled with this aesthetic

I was a teenager in the 90s and I dressed in a aesthetic known at the time as "kinderwh*re" (yes, problematic name). My look then evolved to twee, but I do it goth. I wear dresses in black or grey and have black hair and goth makeup, wear tights with spooky prints or bright colors to contrast. What I like about the twee aesthetic is it is very feminine and honestly easy to afford and comfortable.

Hi! rewatching some of these again I feel so nostalgic seeing all this footage as a tumblr girly although it wasn't really -my- aesthetic. I only leaned into this a bit back in 2013 but it was unfortunately bc I was trying to impress some guy 😔 I still have a cozy fox dress though from that era I quite like and I still see this type of clothing (and hipster-y things in general) around in stores here in Portland sometimes.

"huh, I think this describes how I dressed" *ModCloth clip shows a dress that I own*

I've low key always worn stuff like this so I didn't realize it was a trend 😮. This is pretty interesting to learn about. I still wear this stuff even tho I work from home. It's comfy AND it looks nice. I mix it in with preppy, goth and kinderwhore. I never moved past the 90s mentally 😂

This is so well researched and accurate! I have felt very strange today after watching a few of these videos because I think I was maybe a hipster without realising it. It wasn't intentional, it was just I moved back home in 2010 after an illness and got into crafty hobbies, baking and gardening to recover. At the same time I was friends with a hippy/goth family and started wearing vintage dresses and lace up leather boots. I was clearly inspired by the hipsters and twee girls without realising it at the time. I remember going into town around 2017 and suddenly realising the young women were dressing very differently to me. They were and still are wearing high waisted, short, baggy trousers, big boxy oversized jackets, big white trainers and had harsh looking 'severe' haircuts worn with thick gold hoops even if their skin tone was cool-toned. It's a somewhat harsh, non-feminine, unisex look. I wouldn't dress like that myself because to my eye it looks very unflattering, and they are committing what in the 90s we would have thought of as fashion crimes (let me know if you have a name for this style of dressing). I also don't want to look like I'm trying to dress young when I'm now an older millennial. I am just not entirely sure how to dress anymore, ageing is a strange experience. It's been interesting watching a few videos analysing the trends from when I was younger. I will add that in terms of colour palettes, duck egg blue/teal plus mustard yellow was the dominating colour palette I remember from about 2010 - 2013 ish.

@TheYoungKilljoy

4 ай бұрын

This is late, but I am 19 and honestly looooove seeing mature women wearing playful and feminine clothes. I am kind of petite and rectangular, so I tend to look better in those "child-like" styles, which I love, but it makes me self-conscious about my womanhood. But then I see adult women expressing their womanhood this way and it feels me with so much joy. Don't conform, do what makes you happy. Others can dress however they want, but you are you.

I was at high school in the 00s and this style was totally ubiquitous, but we didn’t call it anything, or think of it as a style movement with origins in earlier eras. It was just…what we wore! Super interesting to look back and see it contextualised like this.

This is fantastic, I love learning the history behind these trends/pieces (who knew that Cardigan was a guy??)!

I still love twee and have vintage-style dresses that I wore 7-10 years ago and now I can't get rid of them, but I feel ridiculous dressing that way in 2024.

I always liked this when I was a teen because it meant I could raid my mom’s closet and write it off as “vintage.” It was so fun!

I think women who feel dainty young whimsical and innocent etc should be that way. It’s nothing negative.

@esikazemese

4 ай бұрын

I find it a very feminine yet comfortable and not too "slutty" attire. Still love it

@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396

2 ай бұрын

⁠It always gets compliments and seems appropriate dress no matter where you are. :)

I owned so many Oxford shoes when I was a teenager during these times. I loved the Zooey deschanel look edgy but also stylish

Great video!

I remember this type of style, never heard the term twee.

I've always loved the 60s dolly look. Didn't know about Twee.

Twee was so good! I still wear certain things from it

I was just thinking about this aesthetic (Jesus I hate this word😂) and indie sleaze as I was growing up in this era thinking when some trends Will make a comeback.Will you make more videos? Your observations are spot on!

she birthed a coquette daughter and dark academia son

thanks for this video explaining this!! everytime i saw “twee” i was SO confused on what it meant, like i couldn’t distinguish any one part that made it ‘twee’ because it all looked so incohesive to me. now i know it’s basically 2010’s nerd and vintage we saw back then

ohhhhhhh so i was that, but in a more post punkish/goth/witchycore (there where a lot of phases who added up in a huge blob of influences, like everyone lol).

Please post more videos please huhuhu i love your channel. Im a new subscriber

WTH I'm from Belgium and I didn't know this! Thanks for educating me!

Wow I never realized that style had a name. I thought it was just indie girls trying to be an American version of 'kawaii.'

Never knew there was a name for this style, just thought it was hipster early 2010 fashion? Makes me nostalgic though, it was my vibe throughout my 20s.

Wait, Twee is over. No one told me! :) I love whismical dresses. I guess if you are a kindergarten teacher, it doesn’t matter. I lived through the 90s and never heard the word Twee until now.

The good old days. I really was feeling cool wearing those back in the day

Ugh finally Talulah Gosh and the Field Mice, etc, getting their flowers. That music changed my life, i didnt even know twee was mainstream at the time