Marie Antionette was the OG Cottagecore Girly 🌸✨🍄🧺🌼
For the soft era sweeties who just want to have cute dinner parties and wear colorful girly dresses 🫧 PLUS an exciting announcement!! 📣✍️
Marie Antoinette had her fake Hamlet. Roaming with her friends, dressed in plain clothes, glorifying normal chores like gardening and caring for animals. Being on the palace grounds she had access to some pretty dreamy landscapes that gave way to iconic modern aesthetics.
The modern girly may not have French Palaces, but she does have Cottagecore. 💁♀️
Cottagecore is primarily a trend for the girlies to feel like they’re living their book-girl-childhood-fairy-nature-witchy-forest dreams. Much like Marie Antionette’s fake Hamlet, this trend comes with decor, aesthetic vision and fashion. The aesthetic is an extension of the current campy Y2K fashion craze happening–but cottagecore takes the aggressive Y2K aesthetic and raises you a soft girly existence frolicking through the freshly bloomed flowers. Basically, instead of serving cu*t you’re serving sexy cottage wench.
Stick to neutral colors that look worn in. See a cute white dress you love? Be That Girl and search for the eggshell version. Today is not the day to argue whether or not there’s a difference–it’s the day to know there is and which one is for you. Think Sleeping Beauty but without the fairy godmothers. 🌳 Matter of fact… one woman in particular is having a MOMENT this summer. Envision the tales of folklore & evermore by Taylor Swift. During quarantine she ran off to a woodsy world of her own as she wrote these albums, creating entire, soft melodies that floated about like leaves.
You may have been inspired by cottagecore without knowing it!
Overall the trend is giving soft, delicate escapism just as it did when Marie Antoinette started this trend. The times may have changed–but the girlies still want to frolic through a field of flowers and gather things in baskets. 🧺 Tie a cute ribbon around the handles if you’re feeling extra-frolicky 🖼️🌼
Let’s dig into Cottagecore:
🍴 Food
😎 It’s not cool, it’s a lifestyle
📚 Book Girly Aesthetic extreme
📣 Exciting News from theBlogStack
This article was co-written with our newest writer at theBlogStack: Erin Konomos. 🥳 You’ll hear more from her soon–but here are a few facts so you can get to know Erin:
👗 currently works in Brand Marketing as a Graphic Designer & Stylist
💅 are currently baby pink
🎤 has seen the Eras tour
Stay tuned for more trends, pop culture and more from Erin and theBlogStack soon! 🤩