The past was not that cute • Otherwise
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Aesthetics are not history.
  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    3 days ago

    It’s like Socialist Realism, looks really good, but it was all propaganda.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Her mother wanted her to have a different life, I can imagine she was intentionally kept out of it.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    Not reading this because it doesn’t render in reader mode. But what is this picture labeled cottagecore 1940? Im pretty sure it wasn’t called cottagecore back then. I think they probably just called it clothing.

    Edit: lol ok, I got this to render in reader mode, so I could read it. Did not answer my question. Also there’s another picture labeled as cottagecore from a time when they would not have used that term.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I think, she’s just showing an example of the aesthetic that we would now call “cottagecore”, even though it would not have been called that back then. Lots of trends did not have a name when they were their most popular…