Cottagecore Style Is Much Older Than You Think 

Rich dad

I'm just here for the honey, kthxbye.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

Use lavender!

Counter with blue birds (they eat mosquitoes)

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

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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

I'm holding out for sublimecore.

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

Lol I feel so called out 🤣🤣😭😭

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 😂

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

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

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.

Beat them to it!!

@@bohemiandecadence omg do you have an etsy

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

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.

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

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 😭

@@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.

@@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!

@@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.

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

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

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.

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!

@@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.

@@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!

AHHH THAT MOVIE WAS SO GAY

But yeah same

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

LMAO why do I relate

DO YOU GUYS WANT BREAD AND JAM OR JAM AND BREAD

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

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

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.

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

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

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

what is boccaccio’s decameron

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

my mom fits that

Yep pretty much.

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

It's so hard to say :(

Or you could say Royal but pronounce it royoil

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

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

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

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

@@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

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

exactly thats why its called COTTAGEcore

Totally 😂

@@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.

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

Exactlyyyyy!!

Which kinda sounds like Konstantin in Anna Karenina

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)

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

@@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.

@@ducky_strawberry yea

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

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

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.

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

My mom is from Alabama and she struggles to say it

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.

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.

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

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

how right you are.

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

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

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

@@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 .

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

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!

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

@@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.

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.

@@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.

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…

My great grandparents in brazil do too!

In most of Italy, too!

Romanian here, totally relate to this post!

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

He knew what was up ngl

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

@@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.

PFFF

true! didn't think about that!

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

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 :)

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.

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

Well put!!

@@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

Moe can change

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.

@@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.

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

She would play Little Bo Peep lol

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

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

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

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.

I feel that way about Heidi

That's still too many vowels for Polish.

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

@@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

@@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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cOuTPA6ufXA.html

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

Preach

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.

@@JeromeViolist true that

Indeed

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

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

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.

Pastoralism is gentrification for non urban areas

@@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

@@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. :(

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

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

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

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

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.

Nothing says cottagecore like using salt to scrub stains out of your clothes and soaking them in a metal basin with water from the well, the same basin where you also bathe and pour your horses a drink.

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

She needs to use British accent

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

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

@@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 😭

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.

@@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!

Ooh interesting!

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

Hot pies and chasing chicken, I did that

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

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.

exactly what i thought

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

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

Escapism ...

more like sentimentalism

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...

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

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

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

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.

@@dawngrrrl Adorable.

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

@@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.

may I reply as a supplementary offering

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

Praise be.

Blessed be!

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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 *

m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-963o0wHwhEU.html

It's actually Nazi propaganda pushing women into their 'rightful place' in the kitchen [I disagree] but stuff like girls in wheat fields is a famous neo-Nazi trope and nobody is calling it out. We were shown this at school. It's a weird imposition of traditional gender roles on women while men are curiously absent (at war) and women seem to be on rations (baking bread, gathering herbs). It's creepy.

@@seabreeze4559 interesting, I'd never heard this

@@seabreeze4559 um if a wheat field is enough to evoke nazism i think you should visit a northern country. They're everywhere. Dog whistles are an issue but maybe just let people enjoy baking and frilly dresses without jumping to nazi brainwashing, it's literally the most innocent activity. A lot of images include black people in a neutral or positive light so I really don't see how that works as nazi propaganda

@@seabreeze4559 like i'd agree if they all were white blonde women with submissive themes but i dont see that

@@seabreeze4559 Whoah hold on back up a lil' bit. When there are no men, because they are at war, women are working the factories. Most of the feminist successes after world war one and two came from women who didn't want to be shoved back into those traditional roles, because they were doing work, got paid for it, and didn't want to lose that independence. You can frame everything as neo-nazi this way. And there's a whole movement in the costuming community with the hastag #VintageFashionNotVintageValues, which is also prevalent in cottagecore and other aesthetics that use historical fashion as inspiration. I do agree that there are more problematic "tradwife/tradlife" kinds of things within cottagecore, but that doesn't mean that cottagecore itself is Nazi propaganda. I can wear fluffy white dresses, petticoats, and a corset and still actively work to dismantle the patriarchy :) We should call out the people who are either silent on this issue when asked about it or actively propagating vintage values and forcing them on others, but it's unfair to classify an aesthetic label as neo-Nazi, forgetting its whole other history that Karolina explained in this video.

I would love to read your paper

That’s what I was just thinking 😂

Barbara Smith Must be our age! 😉☺️

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

Aw, that's just mean! 😂

Oh you villain! 😂😂😂

🤣 totally. I always have to check spell the word that means I CANNOT spell. Damn it. Dyslexia tssss

In Danish we call it ‘word blind’

Yes! hahahaheheha! So true!

Could be worse. My illness is called myalgic encaphelomyelitis!

@@pheart2381 since it's mostly latin origin, makes more sense to me because I can cut it in smaller words encephal (brain) myelo (nerves) is/itis (inflammation)

I love the word, "bucolic"1

Sounds like bubonic plague.

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

And rustic

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

Yes please

yes

yes i need it

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

Agreed!!

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 RU-vidrs. I, for one, am smitten like a kitten (lol)

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. 👌

Internet opium.

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.

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

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!

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

@@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. 😂

It's similar with all European folk costumes, I think, none of them are "authentic" in that sense. Many were based on more or less accurate reflections on what peasants would have worn as their best outfits, like in Finland, but they are ideals frozen in time.

surprised nobody is mentioning the Nazi propaganda because that's way more specifically what this is conspicuously absent men? check. ration jam and bread? check. traditional femininity for women? check. the most literal and mocked Nazi propaganda was girls in wheat fields and they're even doing THAT so idk, ew and it's kinda hipster in that they don't want traditional life, they want a glam version

I do actually think the " folk costumes" were a more formalised concept of what people wore when they dressed up for church on Sundays or for holidays. These style are mostly quite similar all over Europe and would have been more casual for everyday work with the addition of hand-me-downs and repairs, and minus embroideries and oramentation( lace, ribbon and trims). That was reserved for Sunday best and festivals, because it was costly and took much time to create.

@@hi-ve1cw Exactly. Soviets used propaganda like that too. How come they never get called out?🤔. Women "hanging out" is simply how it traditionally happened when visiting together, they'd often do handwork together or support one another with sharing the cooking duties while there might be a "barn-raising" etc.

@@hi-ve1cw absolutely, folk costumes dont have to be specifically for one gender. I could wear a dirndl or a lederhosen if I so pleased. And I've heard in Finland and other places, they have folk costumes for people who are nonbinary (tho the label is new, the presence of nonbinary people are not).

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

are you kidding me the word bucolic is incredibly ugly

@@neonxvices sounds like a disease

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

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

Do you speak latin?

@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 Not really, but I've studied it so I could muster up some writing.

@@flaviarusso1313 I had latin for 2 years in highschool. I have forgotten it. It was still usefull to know what some things we learned in college meant. That is why I had easier time remembering names of things.

@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 Oh nice! I've studied it in high school as well, for five years, and in University too I've followed some Latin courses.

Lolita is just pdofhilia

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

They were beautiful. And let's not forget "Gunne Sax". Such gorgeous dresses.

I bought a ton of those old sewing patterns and have been making them for my kids 😂

I didn't know Laura Ashley made clothing, my mum sold decorative pillowcases and stuff made from Laura Ashley fabric like 10 years ago. It paid our downpayment for our house, that style was super popular in interior design.

I am bemused. My clothing has never been fashion inspired, just practical for my (suburban) vegetable gardening, housework, caring for chickens, cooking, craft work, sewing home maintained enough.. . But here I am with a wardrobe made up of garments made of natural fibres and matching this new-again aesthetic. Chuckling

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.

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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 :(

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

@@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.

same here in southwest England. where I used to live, there were a few farms, dairy I think, that were old with nice stone farmhouses, but were messy, unorganised working farms which is the norm. five minutes away there is a village inhabited by rich city slickers primarily from London that own stone cottages and a few acres with occasionally a pony as decoration for the housewives to use when they're bored. due to this, house prices are insane so local people cant actually afford to live there unless they grew up as farmers or managed to buy their parents' house after death. during covid, it was suddenly common for these rich city folk to actually live in their cottages as they had to work or were furloughed from home - meaning every day you would see them cycling around the village or going on walks because that's what they were allowed to do. now the restrictions are eased no one walks around there which is ironic.

Well it’s meant to be taken as a form of escapism and romanticism, not literal agriculture

Agreed, its definitely romanticized.

Cottagecore is about as realistic as Marie Antoinette going rural at Le Petit Trianon.

I think a lot of people just like the style not the lifestyle and i think thats completly fine.. they can just dress in what makes them happy without liking cottages or farming or agriculture at all

I’m a cottagecore girl and have shoveled a good amount of horse manure in my life 😂

That depends hugely on the country you live in to. In mine you can't get further away than max an hour drive from a city, if you do your best so 'rural' is different things for different people

Idk about that, I love living in rural Alaska. 100 miles from the nearest stop light 👌 nice and quiet here.

@@hi-ve1cw funny you say that because I mostly associate cottagecore with english countryside and imagery

@@tvdsje Not everyone can drive and public transportation in the US, especially far away from large cities, is absolute shit if existent at all. But yeah, it really depends on the area you live in. You could drive for an hour here and reach a mid-sized city of around 20-60k people, but big cities are much farther away.

@@hi-ve1cw I suppose that's also another issue I have with cottage core. I think natural spaces should stay as natural as possible meaning lacking humans. It's ultimately better for the environment to have people living in large population areas instead of increasing urban sprawl. But I get that keeping natural spaces untouched is harder in countries like the UK.

My mom was married in a Gunne Sax dress.

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

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

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

Yasss cottagecore lesbian gang hereee

You've been conditioned by that dress

seriously, they could put The Rock in that dress and I'd still be like "Madame, please join me for tea." just because it's _that_ dress...

my dream is to become a cottage core lesbian then i think of my crippling fear of any and all bugs including ants and the fact that it's why i don't go outside, i have settled on becoming the hot masc lesbian that owns way too many suits and now i just want either a goth gf or a cottage code gf :|

Heart of Darkness Marlow?? color me confused.

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.

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Hahaha true. I took a Russian literature class ages ago (so I don’t remember it very well) and I remember reading the books and the rich men are talking about going off and starting a farm. I remember picturing them running away to live a simpler life but then it turns out that they just meant starting a plantation basically and managing serfs and profit margins. Very quaint lol

So true, when Natasha and her brother went to hunt and passed the evening dancing and singing in a cabin in the woods in War and Peace? Peak cottagecore. The Sorrows of Werther by Goethe also

Russsians basically invented Cottagecore. I mean, dachas????? Dachas are OG cottagecore

anglo french relations can be summed up with ‘i hate you but you’re still sexy’

great video btw, you're literally my lecturer on fashion history

and I'm all about being lectured

YES

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I had to do that too and I couldn't make it more than a chapter in 😂

@@bean7468 i did political theory as part of my degree. After reading some extracts from Rousseau I found he was so far removed from reality that I couldn't bear to go near him. Voltaire, who also had a big ego, gave me a lot of laughs and many nods in agreement.

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My mom has wonderful internet where she is, which is good cuz they just stopped providing cable by her. That said, she does not dress in pretty linen white to tend to her dozen gardens or when she's out in the heat mowing her property on a riding lawn mower swatting at mosquitos, gnats, no-see-ums and horseflies. So I agree. City people think of rural differently than it actually is. Also, a lot of rural people don't own farms but do probably live close to one.

Exactly, as a part-time-village-girls, cottagecore screams "I've never spent a day at a village". We have ants everywhere in the house and neighbour's geese hiss at you. Still, cute aesthetic. I love this princessy style.

@@asymptotax I do agree that is a pretty look 😍 despite it not being how rural people actually dress.

For some reason, people in cities who go for the cottagecore thing seem to forget dirt and bugs and sweat and smells. You want to be a shepherdess? Have you ever smelled a flock of sheep in summer? You want to milk a cow to pretend you’re a milkmaid? Ever been slapped in the face by a cow’s tail?

That's so true! fast fashion hopped on the train but now I can find that stuff either on clearance or goodwill

I’ve actually become more interested in it now, but it also fuels my love for historical fashion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Its like a good in-between sewing cottagecore style clothes since I don’t yet have the skills to sew a historical accurate Victorian era dress.

That's the thing now with trends, they begin and end so fast but that shouldn't stop you from wearing the clothes that you love and are interested in,it'll probably come back in fashion within 5 years.Trends are too fickle for me personally but they do inspire me and help me discover style features that I like e.g I've discovered im into summer/spring midi dresses with a sweetheart neckline thanks to cottagecore

I havent really lost intrest because cottagecore is really similar to things I already admired before, but I definitely see a decline in people posting about it

Well, that's what trends are. None of you actually started gardening or sewing so it didn't have any substance, it was just your capitalistic instinct to spend money to be different, and now that spending the money doesn't make you different, you want another style. Simple animal psychology.

Ha

I mean I haven't seen anyone wanting to be in agriculture who loves cottagecore. A house, garden with some flowers, some vegetables, an apple tree and 5 chickens is hardly the equivalent of a modern farm

Arisa Ari Yeah, this is more rural life with money, not farm life.

Lol all those garden pictures make me just remember my childhood full of weeding

But they don't want to be farmers... Just live near nature :v

@@tvdsje Oh hell nah I didn't mean an actual big ass farm, man I would be so dead☠ I basically live a cottagcore life (what you descripsed) and it ain't easy. We have a huge problem with a fox, it killed 5 of our chickens which is A LOT.