Cottagecore Style Is Much Older Than You Think

creators starting with an @ are instagram accounts, creators starting with u/ are Reddit posters (mostly from r/cottagecore subreddit). there is a couple of images that I couldn't find the source of - if you can help out please let me know!
check out Abby's and Robyne Calvert's video: • How Victorians are Res...
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[@margaretwalters6757]

Finally someone discussing how cottagecore is just modern pastoralism.

[@beahgg]

Y e s

[@evapalma9899]

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

[@elise_h]

I'm holding out for sublimecore.

[@Jamesharveycomics]

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

[@audreyjoy578]

Lol I feel so called out 🤣🤣😭😭

[@charlottebuijteweg7160]

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

[@flowergirl5962]

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

[@charlottebuijteweg7160]

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

[@flowergirl5962]

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

[@charlottebuijteweg7160]

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

[@cathleenmoyle1476]

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

[@AbbyCox]

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

[@hellogoditsmesara3569]

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

[@christinacrites3828]

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

[@pamspray5254]

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

[@maggpiprime954]

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

[@ForeverEva]

My mom is from Alabama and she struggles to say it

[@WayToVibe]

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

[@annbrookens945]

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

[@mrluvpups]

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

[@maximilian6829]

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

[@maximilian6829]

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

[@magiv4205]

@@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.

[@jennystout8600]

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

[@science3816]

Rich dad

[@R83145]

I'm just here for the honey, kthxbye.

[@JM-wt4bf]

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

[@alexmacgregor9631]

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

[@phreakazoith2237]

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.

[@Heleyrine]

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

[@monkeyfan37]

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

[@isaacgray2909]

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

[@Heleyrine]

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

[@monkeyfan37]

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

[@monkeyfan37]

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

[@quexybompq]

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

[@edenjaycollins6055]

He knew what was up ngl

[@cramerfloro5936]

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

[@heliosfromacrossastar878]

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

[@jakubrogacz6829]

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.

[@sarataylor6164]

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

[@ns.kha29]

PFFF

[@macnadoodle]

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

[@cadileigh9948]

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

[@wayneparker9331]

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

[@adrenalinevan]

Pastoralism is gentrification for non urban areas

[@talosheeg]

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

[@icannotcomeupwithanything4609]

@@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. :(

[@Nosferotika]

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

[@janmelantu7490]

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

[@camillegras6942]

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

[@8784-l3b]

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

[@melissasaint3283]

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

[@brunakorsch5319]

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

[@gr3y-heron]

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

[@SkyeID]

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.

[@steadyeddie3251]

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

[@pienkunicorn]

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

[@tamarakonczal6350]

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

[@chileanyways196]

Ooh interesting!

[@dominiquepocopio777]

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

[@janushjanushewicz8740]

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

[@Poppy-]

Hot pies and chasing chicken, I did that

[@tvdsje]

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

[@rebeccac5021]

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.

[@lindafreeman7030]

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

[@smolcharlie1736]

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

[@burntcoppery]

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

[@semi-useful5178]

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

[@dawngrrrl]

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

[@semi-useful5178]

@@dawngrrrl Adorable.

[@persefoniajax]

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

[@marymills3581]

may I reply as a supplementary offering

[@stevezytveld6585]

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

[@martialme84]

Praise be.

[@cam6110]

Blessed be!

[@biancawantsbooks1904]

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[@emiliedarveau19]

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

[@jurin3016]

I would love to read your paper

[@Skykovtchai]

This feels like a reborn of romanticism

[@lobsterfren]

exactly what i thought

[@Melissa-eh9vk]

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

[@GScheele3]

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

[@kimtoannhan7275]

Escapism ...

[@slonmish]

more like sentimentalism

[@rancidkippa4589]

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

[@johannageisel5390]

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

[@villmolsmerciweg2]

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[@cupiter7864]

As a person wiht dyslexia, I hate the word rural also. (I also hate the word dyslexia, I mean, why in the hell you would identify us with a word can't spelled by us)

[@Poppy-]

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

[@maudline]

In Danish we call it ‘word blind’

[@foxarwen]

Yes! hahahaheheha! So true!

[@pheart2381]

Could be worse. My illness is called myalgic encaphelomyelitis!

[@Poppy-]

@@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)

[@murphygirl4782]

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

[@gh4939]

I grew up with my dad being a farmer, so I’ve seen a few of the struggles people in the countryside face- I don’t think people realize how badly local generational farmers get treated if they aren’t commercialized. That said, I remember I went to this work retreat at my boss’s house that was also in the country (albeit a lot close to the ‘city’ where I live, which is actually a college town), and the vibe is soooo different. Beautiful parks, nicely kept orchards, lavish houses. Not a single rundown barn to be seen, or beat up trucks, or trailer parks. It didn’t look like people used their fields much. People actually taking strolls and riding their bikes lmao, that was new for me 😂 It was just so shocking how different one countryside was from another.

[@littlewammity9896]

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.

[@liaharmony9195]

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

[@Nenebeautyy]

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

[@neonxvices]

are you kidding me the word bucolic is incredibly ugly

[@patheticmortal373]

@@neonxvices sounds like a disease

[@charleswade-smith7263]

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

[@liaharmony9195]

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

[@demilovatofaith]

Cottagecore fashion is History Bounding PROVE ME WRONG!!!!

[@seabreeze4559]

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.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

@@seabreeze4559 interesting, I'd never heard this

[@petronellataube2986]

@@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

[@petronellataube2986]

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

[@BlitzsieLDiscoLSnow]

@@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.

[@tumblefluff2496]

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

[@fighttheevilrobots3417]

Lolita is just pdofhilia

[@DoodleDoo2]

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

[@PotatoTrain]

I love with cottagecore people entirely forget the huge amount of s*** shovelling and frostbite that happened.

[@samanthascarcella526]

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

[@Trees...]

Agreed, its definitely romanticized.

[@MC-ko2mx]

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

[@malec56]

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

[@songbird377]

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

[@snazzypazzy]

As a local cottagecore lesbian I was just briefly attracted to Marlow in a strawberry dress and I'm a bit confused right now

[@ns.kha29]

Yasss cottagecore lesbian gang hereee

[@NoiseDay]

You've been conditioned by that dress

[@ItsYaBoiV]

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...

[@mitsulvr280]

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 :|

[@villmolsmerciweg2]

Heart of Darkness Marlow?? color me confused.

[@ksplatypus]

As someone who was partially raised in the country side, it's not really a fun place to be in unless you're privileged enough to not have to worry about things like manual labor, transportation, social life, discrimination, and lack of access to necessary services. The aesthetic is cute tho!

[@tvdsje]

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

[@destinytroll1374]

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

[@brunamota8865]

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

[@ksplatypus]

@@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.

[@ksplatypus]

@@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.

[@stefka9156]

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

[@emma7933]

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

[@SL-lz9jr]

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

[@SteamFaery]

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

[@need_more_kittens]

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

[@Terri_MacKay]

@@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. 😂

[@MrShivshank]

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

[@O2BSoLucky]

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

[@luciacuevas611]

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

[@Katharina-rp7iq]

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.

[@randomdreamer5429]

cottagecore is pretty much my favorite aesthetic, cool to have a little history class about it !

[@vandomka8464]

we should bring back chłopomania as a polish word for cottagecore

[@rosacentifollia]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Madiannereid]

“Living with your sheep and chasing your lovers” 👌🏼😂💛

[@MedorraBlue]

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

[@rolom3]

I got so obsessed with cottagecore and now I feel like the trend is already old. Does anyone else feel that way? It is definitely still relevant and I appreciate it but somehow feel like I’m kind of over it. Maybe it’s cause 2020 was such an intense year.

[@corrienotcorey]

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

[@samanthascarcella526]

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.

[@xakirax_8864]

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

[@hideakisorachi3953]

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

[@greyfells2829]

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.

[@julecaesara482]

Karolina: complains about Rs and Ls Japanese watchers: ExAcTlY

[@lolymop333]

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

[@DrFranklynAnderson]

“Idealized rural life.” “Idealized” is the key word there. Yesterday I met with an old college friend who married a farmer. She spent the whole time trying to keep her two young boys from bothering everyone else in the coffee shop as they fought over their John Deere toys, and among the things discussed was how difficult it is for her to do online work because of the poor Internet connection out in the boonies. So yeah… people who live in big cities/suburbs sure do have funny notions about country life!

[@aimee-lynndonovan6077]

MAINE

[@cannibalbananas]

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.

[@asymptotax]

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.

[@cannibalbananas]

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

[@JeromeViolist]

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?

[@yeyejoijoi]

As an urban geographer the first association I have with the romanticization of rural life is "this is how the suburbs were invented"

[@queergarments8223]

YES

[@Pollicina_db]

As a person who actually lives in a village I laugh every time someone wants to ACTUALLY live on a farm without living on one prior. Gurl/boi you wouldn't last a DAY out here😂 I know that cottagecore is an escape to a lot of people, but it just paints the countryside as being ideal and it just makes me wanna laugh. P.S. ok just to make it clear I don't live on one of those huge farms (me and my stupid english, ain't my first language), I basically live in cottagcore kind of setting, a fairly huge garden with vegetables and fruits, 30 chickens, 20 turkeys and sometimes 2 pigs + vineyard, huge corn fields and two apple, cherry and nut fields. It's tough work, but honestly I'm glad I live here. I can walk on grass barefoot, hell I can just go outside and have a picnic, find some peace. I just wanted to say that it ain't only sunshine and rainbows.

[@tvdsje]

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

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

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

[@shushia1658]

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

[@alejandrarodriguez8410]

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

[@Pollicina_db]

@@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.

[@dessieangel1021]

What’s so funny about this is that I used inspo from paintings from this era. It’s really cool how far back fashion can cycle. I didn’t think we would get this far back, but here we are!

[@TheMetatronGirl]

Karolina: WTF am I wearing? Meme Mom, you, like Marylin Monroe, could wear a burlap sack and look absolutely fabulous. Itchy, but fabulous.

[@isabelleskiss]

I've never had illusions that cottagecore represents the harsh reality of traditional farm life, but rather the idealized, heavenly version of it. (No dirt, no slaughtered animals, no back pain). It's a form of escapism, no question. BUT...I still think it's a good way to spend your free time. Imagine if instead of going shopping, hanging out in front of the TV, or surfing the Internet for hours, many people would rather plant vegetables, walk in the woods, bake cakes, and sew their own clothes...not because they have to, but for their own sake to feel, to enjoy and to come to rest. I think that would be a good development, especially for the over-engineered west, because it reminds us of our roots in nature and harmonises our souls.

[@FitMedic]

Learnt a new word today, didn't know this aesthetic had a name

[@candyqueen0064]

Meme mom: I don't think we need to go way back to explain nowadays trends and aesthetics but... *proceeds to make one of the dreamiest, most enchanting videos about fashion history that have ever been made*🌼✨🦋 Now my dream is to own a nice little cottage and go spend weekends or whole weeks there if I please, and I don't care what ANYONE has to say;)

[@Katharina-rp7iq]

I saw a dress my great grandma, who was a real simple peasant, got married in. It was one of 3 she owned at the time. One was apparently a shapeless black dress, which was what everyone wore every day. Then there was her better dress that was basically the same, but newer and without patches - she wore that when she wasn't in the field, for church on Sunday and he she went to the city. And then there was her special dress, a blue dress she wore with a white apron she embroidered with leaves and flowers (she was not the best at embroidery but she followed a how to from a newspaper). So no, she didn't have a white wedding dress, almost nobody did - she just wore her best dress. She only wore this dress for big celebrations like easter, christmas, weddings (her own and other people's) 50th birthdays of close relatives and such. So her best dress was rarely worn and still in pretty good condition even when she was almost 90. Idk what happened to it later on - I was 7 when she died. But back then no peasant had a white dress, people married in their best dress, and the white veil was something several families in our village shared and passed around from bride to bride - I remember how she told me about those things because I was so surprised that traditional weddings really aren't traditional. Also - she told me her own granny had her wedding in front of a small pilgrim chapel without a priest. Since there was no church and a wedding with a priest in the city or the church a few villages away was expensive and inconvenient for the old ppl they just celebrated where they wanted with a cross or chapel or shrine nearby.

[@justine4387]

As someone who has always longed for a lifestyle like this (but could never put into words) I was extremely happy to find cottagecore last year, also as someone who is too a historical nerd (though my era and focus of choice lies more in the ancient times, classical Greece, Rome, and all the respective neoclassical historical periods that followed such as the renaissance) it also allowed me to dive deeper into not just aesthetics but research and learning. I found the dark academic aesthetic as well and that gave me an opportunity to discover my love for philosophy and knowledge (and also snazzy clothes lol) and the idea of Arcadia and romanticizing nature speaks close to my heart, and if it wasn’t a for the cottage core movement, which was the start to all of this change of thought for me, I would not be the same. So I totally get what you mean by referencing the fact that cottagecore has many layers and it’s roots lie deep in many topics all eventually leading back to life and nature and enjoyment, it’s part of the reason why I live things like this so much and it honestly came to me in just the right time in my life

[@christiesanchez4013]

My dad lived on a farm until he was 10 and visited his grandma in the countryside every summer. He HATED it, especially having to spend all afternoons picking mushrooms and berries. On the other hand, my mom is totally in love with the "country life"--she even wants to raise a bunch of chickens in the middle of nowhere--but has ALWAYS lived in a city.

[@margareteedithottilieleonore]

Cottage core always reminded me of Marie Antoinette and like the chemise de la reigne which reminded me of my favourite summer so I love it haha

[@letiziaros5407]

as always, amazing video. and omg i can relate SO much with your struggle with “r” and “l” sounds. *cries in portuguese*

[@saturnine9148]

Christopher Marlowe was a well-known cottage lesbian.

[@getout9728]

The shepardess style is so pretty!

[@buckyharris9465]

When Karolina started talking about the 1970s (starting around 18:00), it reminded me of a style in vogue around 1975-1976: the Peasant Look. It was an extreme alternative to other competing styles, from glitter to punk, and I remember seeing it in little boutiques around New York City. It seemed to disappear pretty fast. Check it our, Karolina!

[@just-a-fangirl3333]

Me: She looks like she's about to milk a cow lol 1 sec later: "I look like I'm about to...milk your cow" Me: :0

[@ninabritschgi]

When you were talking about 1970s does Edwardian, I immediately thought of the 1967 Swedish film "Elvira Madigan" about a tightrope dancer - a tragic but beautiful film, with edwardian-inspired fashion and amazing 1970s hair & make-up. The film is set in the late 19th century. Not sure how influential this film was, but my mom (born 1951 in New York) bought it on DVD in the early 2000s because she remembered seeing and loving it in the 70's (I think), so it's possible it was well known at the time and helped inspire the Edwardian trend!

[@ManuelRodriguez-oc5uf]

Karolina: RURal life Me: ruwrur life

[@Choinkowiec]

Btw, gardening in a dress hits different. Like, I tried it once (because the mosquitos are awful and will eat me alive if I show them my ankle) but walking around your veggies in a white flowy dress felt so nice. Like, watching Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice nice. :D

[@brianthesnail3815]

Very good video. So "rich people in the cities imagining what rustic life is like" is the essence of cottagecore which is of course a harmless hobby. However, that is also the root of the problem with the whole environmental, organic food, rewilding the countryside idea that has taken over the UK. Rich people imagining that real farmers do cottagecore for a living. I grew up on a farm which was a mile outside a village and very remote really. Our farmhouse was Elizabethan and used to be inhabited by monks. We had an orchard and a forest and meadows with a stream and sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens. We had goats which I milked by hand to get our milk every morning. When my father was a a child (maybe age 8) he really did use a shire horse to pull a harrow and ride the horse home. When I was a child I had a pony and people would think I had an idyllic childhood. Sounds like cottagecore in real life? The reality was that by the 1980s I was working a 12 hour day, my mother hardly ever wore a dress and my father used to grow potatoes for a frozen oven chip factory and his tractors were burning through more than 1000 litres of diesel a day. Now farm machines are controlled by satellites in space and high speed data links communicating with computer servers on the other side of the planet that move the food in a never ending river of nutrition from the field to your plate.

[@jamesmcgrath23]

Yeah cottagecore is romanticized. So are all fashions and lifestyles. That doesn’t mean it’s somehow wrong. People need to get a grip

[@rebeccastephens6087]

"So next time your mom doesn't want you to get a cottagecore dress, just tell her that you could've wanted to build a village instead... but you didn't... so..." 😂😂

[@BookishLovely]

"Rural" and "Calla Lily" are words i cannot say

[@DarkLordGanondorf190]

Listing all the cottagecore garments made me realize how feminine this aesthetic really is. Where are the male cottagecore enthusiasts? They can't all be cabin boys. On the topic of r's and l's, I tremble in the face of the Polish array of sibilants.

[@petrichorbones]

all i have to suggest is . waistcoat vests, still more puffy sleeve white shirts (or rolled up white shirts) and maybe suspenders. also leather boots. or just go all out and have every gender wear flowy one pieces lol

[@raspberryjamus287]

im no fashion historian but i think if i were to create a male cottagecore image it would include very youthful fashion, inspired by boys clothes, as well as drawing from the feminine counterpart with billowing sleeves and pastels. id have to figure out what that means tho lol

[@cheyennepetersen3417]

your description of some guy peeing at the bus stop is literally my commute in chicago everyday

[@moononthewindynight27]

Cottagecore is popular again? It was huge in 2014-16 too then it kinda died out. I'm amazed it made a comeback really

[@carolynwilliams5918]

One thing those folks who love cottagegore may not realize - it ain't great if you have allergies. Especially pollen allergies. Some of those nice green lawns and flower gardens need maintained and ooh boy, that would suck without modern allergy medication. Also those cute little cottages people seem to want would need a lot of work to make sure you don't freeze in the winter. Plus you have to make sure things like the drainage ditch near the house doesn't get overgrown, water doesn't drain onto your house and that any trees that may be near your house don't actually have branches over your house. Source: Literally bought a house in the middle of the woods. It was chosen because it's a homestead property, but is 20 minutes from the grocery/booze store and has good enough wifi that my husband and I can work remotely. Currently doing lots of property maintenance that the previous owners left for us.

[@danone2414]

fucking love you mention Lope de Vega because he was one of our most famous writters

[@Nadia1989]

I just realized my fifteen birthday was in new romantic/cottagecore aesthetic with a riverside touch. A pink dress with puffy sleeves with matching straw hat (that mom kept since the 70s), white flip flops and invitations in the shape of origami boats. And ridiculously cheaper than the standard quinceañeras of the 2000s (the remaining money was enough for a trip to the UK)

[@leekestner1554]

You should check out how this tied into the founding of bantam breeds of chickens that were originally bred and kept by the wealthier people. For instance here in America Thomas Jefferson raised Pyncheon Bantams. The regular chickens were the province of his farm manager but these tiny chickens were his.

[@kellabdjfoo]

i feel like cottagecore is a nice fantasy or escapism to dream about when you're stressed from city life. i'm pretty sure you can't do farm work while wearing a giant flowy dress and flowers on your head. it's nice and comfortable to think about, but life sucks and you can't just sit around and do nothing. :,) even though i really like cottagecore and it's nice and warming idea, it's more like a fantasy ;(

[@Jojopie]

I became obsessed with this aesthetic when the Marie Antoinette movie came out in 2006. The scene where she's in the field in her flowy linen dress reading poems, rolling around in flowers, and playing with baby goats did it for me. Anyone else?

[@jensboettiger5286]

Cottagecore is basically just cosplaying the daughter of a Renaissance era country noble

[@hollyjb]

My partner thanked me for introducing him to your channel. He says you bring him so much joy after a hard day of work. He loves watching your videos. We both do! We love your take on things. Keep up the awesome work!

[@QueenShireen]

I hoped you would mention Mori in this video, I love the different Mori styles, especially Hama Kei. That means a beach/sea inspired style.

[@sisi2654]

I regularly say “I feel like a glorified 17th century peasant” whenever I’m in my best cottagecore fits

[@ewgross2200]

this is gonna be good

[@kstar1489]

So, in short, 18th century said to the 21st century “We’re not so different, you and I”

[@science3816]

I can't believe some people think this is a new thing, not mentioning all the historical aspects, I've also seen this style around online for a decade at least

[@Eteana94]

"in my undergarments but not really cuz it's a sheperdess costume so it doesn't count" has the same energy as Halloween in Mean Girls

[@MinervaWasHere]

I realized that I stopped to listen to you, because I was so busy appreciating credits next to photos XD THANK YOU! People should credit others' work more, so thank you so much for doing this.

[@heatherdeladurantaye3121]

Huh, I'm cottagecore and didn't even know it.

[@091nanni]

Cottagecore, marie antoinette, picnic at hanging rock and lolita. Everything i love in one video. 😍😍😍

[@TheK3vin]

LMAO I love that you left in the stomach growls. That was hilarious!

[@steventumulak976]

ok but fr your dress looks like a filipiñana (i think you should make a video about it q-q)

[@stuartpatterson1617]

As a 52 yr old dude that wears a corset like thing for my sore back, I can totally understand why they were worn. It helps with posture which helps with heavy lifting (and even breathing properly). The multiple skirt layers originally for warmth and keeping the main bits of clothing clean cause washing was a sore back waiting to happen too and I'm going to guess that petticoats etc were again warmth and a need to keep skirts and aprons from getting caught up in ones feet and legs. Lets face it, a pencil skirt isn't cutting it on the farm.

[@glishev]

There was something like a deliberate cottagecore in the 15th century. Huizinga describes some of its elements in his "Waning of the Middle Ages". It was a subfashion in French and Burgundian courtly culture, and it may have influenced later forms. Personally, I believe it all starts with the re-reading and the enduring influence of Hesiod, Theocritus and (strange enough) Xenophon's "On Agriculture". Of course, Virgil was only an imitator.

[@nippleninja255]

There seems not be many videos about how historically accurate the Pirates of the Caribbean movies are and thought that you could possibly like to make one, at least on the fashion. To my unprofessional eye they looked pretty good, aside the whole "corsets are bad" thing, but would looove a more indebt video about the subject. We also often only hear about 18th century clothing and from my undertanding the movies are set in the 17th century. This is of course only a suggestion - your videos are always no matter the subject very interesting and I'm always learning new things.

[@Apledore]

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

[@burntcoppery]

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

[@ohrats731]

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

[@iseeyouineverystar]

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

[@PeachysMom]

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

[@KaliMaaaaa]

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.

[@love4cynthia233]

Im all for cottagecore until mosquitoes

[@_Lord_of_Misrule_]

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

[@emieve617]

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

[@alejandrarodriguez8410]

Use lavender!

[@adedow1333]

Counter with blue birds (they eat mosquitoes)

[@deltaflute03]

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

[@avsusky]

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

[@liv-uu1fi]

exactly thats why its called COTTAGEcore

[@hanibee22]

Totally 😂

[@InWinds]

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

[@liv-uu1fi]

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

[@helloworld2784]

Exactlyyyyy!!

[@Charlie-im9iv]

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

[@bohemiandecadence]

Beat them to it!!

[@Charlie-im9iv]

@@bohemiandecadence omg do you have an etsy

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

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

[@DaphODyl]

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

[@michellebyrom6551]

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

[@18thcenturyhair10]

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

[@petrichorbones]

🤯 u right

[@Nenebeautyy]

my thought too!

[@VanK782]

That's a cool observation

[@yaelvacacenteno1382]

mindblowing!

[@bsferguson1]

Oh wow that’s so insightful

[@LillibitOfHere]

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

[@petrichorbones]

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

[@8784-l3b]

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

[@ohrats731]

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!

[@8784-l3b]

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

[@LillibitOfHere]

@@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!

[@ForeverEva]

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

[@marionwieczorek8919]

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

[@alicjakempisty2729]

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

[@mariadumitru3962]

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

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

[@gittevandevelde2208]

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

[@MicarahTewers]

petition to end the word "rural"

signed 📝🙏🏻

[@antique.4617]

singed

[@thereal5326]

YO

[@thereal5326]

Its the queen!

[@clairebright777]

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

[@Igorcastrochucre]

Barbie and the Diamond Castle was my introduction to Cottagecore.

[@sanityidontknowher5057]

AHHH THAT MOVIE WAS SO GAY

[@sanityidontknowher5057]

But yeah same

[@Fisinocean]

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

[@pattysalazar6823]

LMAO why do I relate

[@notatallfunctional]

DO YOU GUYS WANT BREAD AND JAM OR JAM AND BREAD

[@ashleynichole8687]

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

[@SimpleDesertRose]

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

[@i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r]

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

[@Harleyxjokerforever]

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

[@SCompton4]

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

[@JodiesSideEye]

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

[@пекельніборошна-т1в]

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

[@nineteenfortyeight6762]

Which kinda sounds like Konstantin in Anna Karenina

[@ducky_strawberry]

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

[@ns.kha29]

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

[@ducky_strawberry]

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

[@ns.kha29]

@@ducky_strawberry yea

[@melissasaint3283]

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

[@giulia5184]

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

[@jakubrogacz6829]

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

[@hwlsgrl]

what is boccaccio’s decameron

[@melissasaint3283]

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

[@danone2414]

my mom fits that

[@duod7847]

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

[@blacksheep1924]

Yep pretty much.

[@RB-747]

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

[@bad_revecula]

It's so hard to say :(

[@blacksheep1924]

Or you could say Royal but pronounce it royoil

[@gudulpif264]

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