What Is Cottagecore? Meet The Biggest Trend During Quarantine.
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These past few months have been about going back to our roots. For some of us, that’s literal, as we’ve been staying at our parents’ houses. For others, it’s all about turning to at-home DIY projects and refining our green thumbs.
To pass some of the quarantine time, you might have tried your hand at making your own decorated focaccia garnished with green peppers. Maybe you’ve taken up letter writing or taken a stab at embroidery to ease idle hands.
You wouldn’t be alone in trying out such hobbies, or “micro-trends,” as Vox describes them.
These “micro-trends” aren’t so small after all — they’re part of a much larger trend that’s actually been around for a while. But it’s been growing in popularity as many of us have looked for a much-needed escape.
That trend is called cottagecore, and it’s all about looking and living like you’re in some sort of pastoral painting — even if you live far, far away from a farm. But where did cottagecore come from? And why did this trend that seems to be so traditional become so popular in 2020?
What Cottagecore Is
Cottagecore — also known as farmcore or countrycore — is an aesthetic above all, like what grunge was in the ’90s and normcore became at the beginning of the last decade.
Unlike the modern VSCO girls with their scrunchies and e-girls born out of scene subculture, cottagecore is not about being contemporary — or even cool, for that matter. The trend is best summed up by how its subreddit, r/cottagecore, explains it: “your grandma, but like, hip.”
Cottagecore is centered around what you would imagine living in a cottage in the countryside would be like — gardening, greenery, floral prints, flowy dresses, and animals. You want to feel like you would fit in on a farm.
It’s best illustrated by items like radish gardening gloves,
