Two wee things: I apparently forgot how to word at some point and said one shouldn't overestimate sewists who were housewives in ithe 70's because they can fit folded sheets properly. I meant so say they shouldn't be UNDERestimated because they can FOLD FITTED SHEETS properly. Bit of a difference... 😅 Also...Cronecore? Or Cottagecrone? Because both sound intriguing, mysterious, and a little bit fabulous...
I had a neighbor that grabbed a kitchen towel for me from the hall linenry. She hollered down the hall, "where do you keep your fitted sheets?" I was confused as I had asked for a hand towel. I walked down the hall to find her staring at my linen airing closet. She was floored that it was all organized and neatly stacked. I explained they were in there with all the other sheets. She was flabbergasted after I showed her. THen I showed her how easy it was to fold a fitted sheet. You'd have thought I just showed her the holy grail. LOL.
So cute! I was discussing “core” aesthetics with friends the other day and we decided absolutely anything goes and if it doesn’t exist and you want it to? Bam now it does! Let this be the beginning of cronecore! 😁
I find that IKEA sell Linen fabrics at a reasonable price, at least in my country, it's at least half price compared to fabric stores. IKEA also have cheap cotton. Okay, they don't come in many colours, but I dye them myself using things like plants, coffee etc.
I'll have to take a more thorough look next time I'm at IKEA...though our store is usually so busy we wind up bypassing the textiles on the way to the door 😳
@@MaireColclough oooh, always check the “As Is” returned goods section when you first get to the store. At least in the stores in my country, people return a lot of curtains, sheets and upholstery covers that are deeply discounted and begging to be turned in to Costube worthy clothes. Also check the IKEA Sale items. (My country has the IKEA Sale twice a year and it coincides with the giving of bonuses from an international hi-tech company I used to work at. Our bonuses went straight to Billy bookcases and whatever was on sale.). There are always a few pairs of curtains in random colors on sale that really want to be dresses.
Cottagecore has this habit of painting all as being of the Magrat Garlick persuasion. This is a shame, because there's definitely room for the Granny Weatherwax, the Nanny Ogg, the Mrs Gogol, and even the Hilta Goatfounder aesthetic persuasions. Cottages, even quaint little English ones, come in as many different and peculiar shapes as people and cottagecore would do well to remember that.
I'm a great fan of Granny Weatherwax. I've stalled my reading of Pratchett because I'll never get a second chance to read his books for the first time. 😰
But oh do remember! There's the first second reading and that's a wonderful thing with Pratchett's books. Said from someone who's all time favourite has been read 5 times.
AMEN! I made my traditional Norwegian Bunad over one winter, because, let's face it, we're not exactly tripping over Bunad shops here in the USA, and the closest shop where I could even start to get kitted out was a two day Amtrak train ride, and that's if it even bothered to run on time.(HA!) I can sew and alter and design. So I could do this. I was making it for myself and myself only. Wearing it to my first event, a local purist who is also a fashion history graduate, commented. I was already self-conscious about the whole thing, being my first foray out with it. Her first comment was, why is it blue (my region has blue bunad, and why wasn't it in wool - nose up and walk away) Well. That DID IT. I'm allergic, highly to wool protein and have a dispensation for wearing a heavy cotton twill in place of wool. So having known nothing of my region in Norway, and nothing of the need for cotton over wool, I was judged and sent to the cornfield as incorrect, stupid, irrelevant, and ignorant. Now I do it they way I want, when I want, and to heck in a handbag with what other think. Who's to say that's NOT the way it was done then? Where you there (royal you)?The same goes for others. If you did it and are proud of it, flaunt it. Have a great time and be creative. Show off your work, your creativity, your inspiration, and your process. At least you're not at home being a couch potato all day.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that! It sounds like there's some sort of bunad police out there, because you're not the first to talk about gatekeeping in the Scandinavian dress community. @Daisy Viktoria got to the point where she made a bunad from IKEA. No joke 😁
@@MaireColclough There actually IS a bunad police, of sorts, but I understand it. It's to keep the cultural purity within accepted bounds as it represents a period of time in a specific region. My problem arose with someone local, who had deemed herself an expert, but who had not actual knowledge of MY country, my region, or my exemption. We all come across those who declare themselves the ultimate authority on fashion and fashion history, when they really no little more than the great web, the books on the shelf, or their professors have taught them, regardless of another person's experience on the matter. Another point in fact: I have also discussed with this woman that in the 1860s-1800s and beyond, women in the middle of the open prairie, with nary another neighbor around for miles and miles, would wear their shifts on those days where the heat index reaches 110 degrees here. She said that women wouldn't be caught dead doing such a thing and would be fully kitted out at all times, in case someone stopped by, or that they were too pious or modest to do such a thing. Well i'm here to tell you they did, my great grandmother did in the 30s, and told me of her grandmother wearing only shifts on the farm in the heat. This was do to both the dresses they did own being to constricting and hot, to the point of distraction in the heat and humidity, and the fact that what one or two dresses were too dear- being irreplaceable in the middle of nowhere. Another argument on her side, was that women were have done everything in their means to keep on top of the latest fashion trends and being 40 miles from the closest trading post or place where goods were delivered would not have been an excuse. I see, so they're modest an pious, but that somehow doesn't include financial modesty, thrift, and vanity. Gotcha. This, like most farm/ranch country, is make-do country. Fashion isn't the point. If it works in your situation is the point. If it isn't functional and practical, either financially or work-wise, it really doesn't fly here. Sunday morning rant from my sewing room over. LOL.
@@weatherlady9666 Nope, your concerns are definitely valid. It's like someone saying that an Edwardian woman wouldn't be caught dead in anything but perfectly starched shirtwaists without a hair out of place...and I have family photos that disprove it. But then again, maybe my slightly frazzled and windblown exterior is a family trait? ;)
I think far too many times experts, professional or self-declared, are locked onto, fixated if you will, a mythical set of ideal standards that have somehow survived the ages and have managed to define a period as a whole as the only, proper way things were done. This would be like future fashion historians judging us on what was found in a few magazines or thumb drives that were pulled out of an old hard drive or dumpsite. ::Shudder:: It completely ignores, personal choice, availability, class, religion and so many other factors that go into fashion of a region of a certain period. To think everyone even strode around in wasp waist corsets, walking skirts, and had the perfect silhouette of the 1900s is a fantasy, as you well know. Oh to live in such a world. But alas, there were those that made the fashion that didn't dress like that. Those that worked to make that fashion that didn't dress like that, and those that plain didn't want to dress like that, and wanted a more practical set of togs . That said, I'm chucking on a pair of old knit shorts, a tank top, sneakers and headed out to feed the alpaca herd. LOL.
My daughter still tells me it is a miracle that I can fold fitted sheets properly, I tell her it just takes practice (and working in a laundry for years). Very cute eyelet material, I am finding that I like working with cotton more and more.
As a Noughties Goth who is now older and grumpier, I feel this in my bones. I have met many lovely people - but cliques are intimidating, and it took me Seven. Bloody. Years to be accepted (-ish) into my local 'scene'. By which time, the clubbing clothes of my 20s are now Terminally Too Small, and I'd prefer a cup of tea and a cuddle with the cat over an all-night club. I love the crafty, earthy aspects of Cottagecore (being something of a foraging hobbit, be it for wild herbs or in bargain bins), but a lot of it's too light and floral for me. I hereby declare myself WitchCore CottageCrone. Damn kids, get off my law, etc.
I really love listening to your video essay while watching you sew. I'm knitting a scarf at the same time! As soon as cottagecore came onto the scene almost immediately came the criticism of it. Part of me is like "let people enjoy things" and part of me is "This is silly, gardening is hard and so is house-keeping. Add kids to that and there is no way living in the country side would be this relaxing". Most of the aesthetics I see are like this, like dark academia. They fit well for very young adults who have no children or many responsibilities, but as these people age, they most likely will age out of it. But I still think its fun and pretty to look at. Maybe it just makes me feel old.
I had a lot of the same reactions, with a few tacked on. Like... Let folks enjoy what they like. But it's colonialism. It brings more attention to simple rural life and agriculture! Um...glorifying the peasantry is a sure sign of elitism / classism. But it's really pretty. Only if you're conventionally attractive. But Sustainability! ...at a price. History. History is.. Context. History has context and most of the historic analogues have been stripped of context for the sake of entertainment. But people like to be entertained! So...yeah. You can go around in circles about it all day. And hence....three days of going down the rabbit hole to decide to just say "Let folks do what they like, and screw anyone who would say otherwise." Because that's ultimately what felt right 🤓
That cover turned out beautiful. Hmm Cronecore... My Wiccan heart would definitely sing with that. As for these "CLICKS" Who died and made them Gods ... or Goddesses and WHY have I never heard their names before?? I guess thats the benefit of growing up on a Joint Defence Force Base in the middle of the South Australian Outback... We were all our own WEIRD and we couldnt escape each other ...well not easily the nearest town was over 250 kilometers away....so we just learned to accept each other. *Adds Corset Cover to the rapidly growing TO DO LIST 😁 *🤔🤔🤔 Wonder if I could manage some linen out of my tax refund this year ( Tax time in Australia)
Fitted sheets. I… roll them up and shove them in the drawer they live in. Well. Honestly I strip the bed in the morning, start the washing machine, hang it up when I get home from work - and put them back on the bed at night. Saves on the folding something awful… ;)
I remember being very proud of myself as a teen for being the only person I knew that could perfectly fold a fitted sheet. And this was prior to RU-vid tutorials. It was something I figured out on my own, as no one in my family was particularly “domestically gifted”. But I was a neat freak, and I wanted perfectly folded fitted sheets in my (my parents’, but I did all the cleaning) perfectly organised laundry closet. So I just kept trying until I got it. And there was one of my friends who was impressed, at least. She is also a neat freak, and was happy for me to share what I’d learnt. I can’t say anyone else cared. Certainly not my family, whose idea of folding sheets involved balling them up and chucking them toward the back of the closet, hoping they’d not fall back out before they could get the door closed.
I learned from my mom how to fold fitted sheets properly. No one in my life today, save my mom, seems to have any appreciation for that knowledge and it bothers me. Like, I know y’all have voluntarily tried origami at least once but refuse to learn how to fold sheets?
The folding of oddly shaped scraps into perfectly normal looking pieces of fabric powers of sewists of certain generations is definitely not to be underestimated. *Remembers childhood perusal of mother's stash thinking that I had found amazing treasures only to be met with sadness when said scraps were just shy of being large enough to make a doll's dress.*
I'm glad I'm not the only one descended from a sewist with a perverse sense of humour. Honestly, I think she's just getting me back for swiping 2m of blue crinkle cotton in the 1980s 😁
@@MaireColclough, I suspect that my mom would have loved your mom. This was the woman who made her own suits and dresses for work (she could sniff out a sale on Pendleton across three states), made almost all of the clothes for my sister and I, took 10 years to make a wool braided rug from old coats and scraps that fit under our dining room table, and taught me to sew. I still have the 1920 Singer she bought for me when I was 8. Sadly she died just after her 66th birthday. I still miss her.
Love your corsetcover! And let's face it, sometimes following instructions might not be the most "punk/goth" thing but a wise crone core thing to do 😉... and the fish issues led to snorting my tea towards the not being amused hound... 🤗
Unless there's a really compelling reason, gatekeeping really only stifles innovation. I'd rather have folks feel free to put their own twist on things 😃
As all aesthetics come from somewhere, if Cronecore has not yet existed, you have just invented it, my friend. Now define it, and we'll have ourselves a glorious and glamorous apolitical MOVEMENT. I'm there. As a former Punk and then Grunge goddess, I need Cronecore in my life! Hugs
Thanks for the explanation I had mostly got it but it is always nice to get confirmation without asking one of the kids. She rolls her eyes and lectures. Your mother is a folding master!!! I actually do know how to fold fitted sheets but I don’t fold my fabric that well! Your corset cover turned out very nicely. It’s great that you have the look of combinations but the usefulness of separates.
True story: I found leftovers from the bridesmaid dress I wore for my sibling's wedding, and thought they would make a gorgeous corset....and then I unfolded it to find scraps that were WAY too small! Piecing is period, but that would be a new sport: Extreme Piecing! 😁 I'm enjoying the versatility of the corset cover /drawers. They make a great base layer 😁
@@MaireColclough lol extreme piecing I love it!!! I will have to remember that one. Or add to it and put it on a shirt!! Piecing is period extreme piecing is a sport!!
I am proud of my rare ability to fold a fitted sheet beautifully, and even had it cheekily on a dating profile as a conversation sentence. I love the idea of cronecore, because witchcore is being made into a very trendy style lately, and not how I imagine it to be, thinking of the aesthetic i remember seeing growing up in the 90's. Im now almost 34 and what the early 20's lasses are wearing in that aesthetic group, just doesnt quite fulfil my dreams like im imagining cronecore would.
I envy that fitted sheet mojo. I can do a barely passable job because someone filmed it on RU-vid 😉 As for Cronecore...I like the idea too, as most of the internet aesthetics seem a bit young for me. I guess it's a matter of doing a little research....maybe for an upcoming video ... 🤓
It has LONG been a dream of mine to make this beautiful, aesthetically-pleasing cottagecore video on my farm and then cut to scene of me cussing at the broken tractor and chasing that stupid calf back under the fence before it runs onto the highway lol. It’s a wonderful life and I wouldn’t change it for the world but it definitely ain’t pretty lol.
I read somewhere that if you can fold a fitted sheet or a map, you could be accused of being A WEETCH! (get the duck!). I am pleased to be able to do both 😊 I was a thrift and yard/tag sale International-mix pagan goth during Heart and Fleetwood Mac's early years and am loving dark cottagecore and your newly coined cottagecrone. Get off my lawn and outta my garden indeed! Thank you for the inspiration and good company you share in the fiber realms 🖖
I dig the idea of snap together combinations. I too enjoy a good Rachel Maksy binge. She's so resourceful! And I didn't realize you said *crone*core I thought you said chromecore...ENTIRELY different aesthetic! 😂
If cottagecore is “Madian” there should 100% be mother and crone versions. I’m not a fan of cottagecore because it feels too young but if there was a “mother” type that was more practical and showed the hard work of the country life, that would be my jam!
Also glad I was a 80, 90s, 2000s (and sometimes now because I relapsed) goth. Made me a lot more impervious to some of this current round of aesthetics and gate keeping. As well as amused when it intersects with my own befuddled style, which is kinda a hard edged minimalist goth cottage core sans frills. Ish.
Ah, yes, those damn fish issues! (I won't tell you that I can fold a fitted sheet -- I can, but I'm not going to tell you that.) Yer undies are SUPER CUTE!!!
Great video! Really enjoyed your discussion on cottage core and gatekeeping. So glad you had this discussion it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while and you articulated it so well!!!
It took a while to get to a point where I *could* articulate my feelings on the subject. I didn't want to sound like I was calling anyone out or discouraging folks from enjoying Cottagecore. But something just didn't sit well with me and I felt it needed to be addressed. 🙂
I just hit my 50s, so put me down for Cronecore or Cottagecrone. I garden, bake, craft. Sewing skills are lacking though, so I watch you, Rachel, Abby, Morgan, Bernadette etc.
I am not a great sewist. And I continue to try, because I think its important that folks see the other side of Bernadette, Abby and Morgan (even though she's now had a couple of years of practice, I still identify with Rachel's hesitancy). I also want pretty and / or historic, antique, or cosplay clothing...and this is the best way to do it. I'll be 50 in....2 years? Gosh. I want folks to remember that life doesn't stop or get boring just because you hit another decade. You just get more experience. You level up. 😃
Cottage core has been my pipe dream all summer long. Sadly my daughter jammed my trusty singer. Sadly the one part that I need to fix her, is no longer available. Singer has discontinued making parts for the millennium series machines. So that leaves me with the over lock machine and hand sewing. This after I spent a small fortune in getting her serviced. Still after talking about lounging in your Edwardian underwear I have been determined to make at least that for lounging in at the end of the day. Especially since it is now monsoon season here in the desert the bob sweat is real. There nothing more satisfying than ditching the bra. Since there is a house full of people wanting their dinner and all sitting in front of the AC naked isn't an option. Anyways I went online and found some free patterns. I found one for making a corset cover out of handkerchiefs. It sounds simple in theory. You take some 12 x 12 hankies cut them into triangles do a little bit of piece work and you got a corset cover. I couldn't find any lace I liked last time I was in town so I opted for some cute ribbon instead. Lets just say I have spent the last week contemplating my life's choices over this. Its a hot mess right now. I'm thinking I'm gonna scrap this project and just make a chemise that I can tie under the bust to hang out in. Especially after spending most of yesterday with out AC due to the rain bomb that dumped on us Friday night. While we desperately need the rain I could have done without the debris that came from such storm. Spending the night with out power is no big deal. Spending it with out AC with no relief from the humidity is another. So having a chemise to hang out in might be a better option at this point. At least then I can make a skirt to slip on over for working in the garden with. Real cottage core, lol. Guess while I'm at it I had better make an apron 😜
Sorry to hear the sewing machine drama continues! I definitely think a cool chemise and skirt is a good place to start. Eonder if they carry sewing machine bits at Pick-Your-Part...?
@@MaireColclough actually its the little metal bobbin placement part the needs to be replaced. It holds the bobbin casing in place that is bent and broken. I have been looking online but so far the only place I have seen it is sewing parts online and they say its been discontinued. I'm still looking though. Still in the mean time I have my over lock that I can do some straight seams with and do a hem with so I'm not totally without a sewing machine. Just after spending a week of trying out this hankercheifs corset cover, reminds me why I don't do more hand sewing than I do. I want instant results. I want it and I want to wear it yesterday. Which is why I am still working on my crochet shawl. I can only sit still for so long.
Hi,I like your cronecore aesthetic idea, I'm not baking bread, but gardening is my jam ,and I do mean that litraly,I've got a pot of home made jam on the stove.💖
Gosh I want to sew with silk and wool (im not sold on linen), until I see the price, and then need 10 yards for a dress. Back to the poly cotton and bedsheets I go.
@@MaireColclough Agreed! I'm only 4'11", but a chonkabelle, so the only way I get a full length circle skirt without seams is huge honkin' sheets! After your tartan pinafore I have also branched out into round table cloths and thrifted the most darling one in white with delicate flowers in browns and yellows around the edge! I found a brown sheet to turn into a petticoat to go under it! I can't wait to finish that I've and start wearing it!
you are so freaking awesome and your creations are super cute, and you look super cute in them. I also love your fantastic sass! (also, yay for Canadian content)
Cronecore and cottagecrone are both too good to pick one and let the other go. Therefore, I propose making both but have distinguishing features that make something one over the other. Like, maybe cronecore is what “wiser” interesting women wear (cross between The Red Hat Society, cosplay, Cindi Lauper and history bounding) and cottagecrone is how those same “wiser-aged” women spin cottagecore.
You hit the nail on the head with "what is cottagecore" there -- cottagecore is in fact shabby chic, but ironic. And with a thick coating of zennial ennui and a dash of the ex-british-colonial idolization of complete self sufficiency. (She says, looking at her own cottagecore wardrobe and putting tongue firmly on cheek.) Edit: f.u. autocomplete
Yup. And as an aesthetic that's fun to play into now and then, I really don't have any issue with it. Sorta like Disneybounding - don't think to hard about it, just enjoy your princess cosplay. It's just that lately there's been some buzz about the historical side of cottagecore that's really attempted to divorce it from its greater context - and context is really important to a historical perspective. Which is why one can dive down the rabbit hole of "Oh, gods, what the heckity-heck are we doing?" while producing historic replica garments that fit the aesthetic... 😉
@@MaireColclough "expressing yourself through deviation from Prescribed Fashion because you're mad about Injustices" is an extremely wide net--i'm not surprised it caught both 1880s aesthecism and 2020s aesthetic fandom. I *am* surprised it *didn't* catch punks, hippies, flappers, Scotsmen who wore kilts as an act of defiance against the occupying English, libertines, and Joan of Arc. The thesis is so all encompassing that the thesis becomes meaningless until you zoom back in, and at that point you're left with a big ol pile of confirmation bias. It's p-hacking, humanities style. Apropos of I don't know where else to put this, but I've been reading the little house books for the first time as an adult, and whooboy are they perfect fit for cottagecore. Except with, y'know. Tons and tons of anti-indigenous racism. (I'm not mad at the hobby, either! I swear I'm not! I *am* a little mad that it's apparently possible to get a graduate degree making spurious claims, but that's not actually something new or different about academia in general. (A year or so it came out thay the leading expert in prosocial spiders *made up all of his data* and let me say it was not a fun time in the field of arachnology. ))
@@CandiceLemonSharks Remember: science is about making a statement then proving it wrong. Who pays for the work and who you show your proof to can determine whether the science is good or bad (diet studies are a GREAT example, as they're often sponsored by commercial ventures trying to back up their food products with scientific evidence.)
I think there are some good cottagecore groups- specifically ones that are fat positive, because they tend to be a lot less gatekeep-y. You won’t find people looking down their nose at someone buying SheIn because that’s all they can afford in something that fits, and fits their style. There’s also a bit more disability friendliness there too. No one is going to judge me for only wearing cottagecore, because I’m too disabled to cook or garden. I tend not to follow any groups or pages that aren’t fat positive- because then all you see are very expensive linen dresses on thin, white, abled women. And that gets old pretty quickly. I tend far more toward the historical side of cottagecore- more history bounding that happens to also be sometimes floral or ruffled. My personal favourite “cottagecore” eras are the mid-late 1700s (because is there anything more cottagecore than a chemise a la reine? I think not. I haven’t made one yet, but I do have a lovely working class outfit with a poofy-sleeved chemise and a very pretty set of floral stays (as seen in my pfp). I also love the “prairie” work dresses of the later 1800s. And the small floral fabric used in working class dresses of the 1830s through 1860s are very lovely too. Then there’s the Edwardian and 19teens era- with the white, light, floaty dresses. I tend not to be interested in anything post WWI, but if I were, it would likely be ditzy floral prints and 1930s style day dresses. So it’s not so much that I like cottagecore, more that I like historical clothing that fits (or mostly fits) that aesthetic. And having cottagecore around does mean that I’m less likely to get strange looks when I’m wearing an 18th century outfit to the doctors (though my doctors office is well used to my “eccentric” style by now).
