It goes without saying that the problematic and exclusionary aspects of the aesthetic were amplified by the fact that Tumblr romanticised eating disorder culture in such an unapologetic way that you could quite literally scroll for hours on the #proana hashtag until you thought eating a slice of bread was akin to a war crime. While the style was also popular among plus-sized fashion bloggers, the vast majority of the ModCloth and Princess Highway outfits that flooded our Tumblr blogs rarely came in anything above a size 16. In an incredible display of irony from the trend that denounced the idea of being conventionally “cool”, the twee aesthetic was just as dominated by skinny, white, cis women as the low rise jeans and Juicy Couture tracksuits of the decade prior. It’s Not All Ballet Flats, Cardigans And RainbowsĪs is the case with most of the trends we’ve seen revived in recent years, twee culture is shrouded in nasty things (no, not just the ballet flats from Cotton On that gave you blisters). The trend has taken off so much that even Zooey Deschanel herself has jumped on the bandwagon. Not to mention, the trend has absolutely blown up on TikTok, with users sharing their 2010s twee to the sound of twee anthem Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? The resurgence of twee - and other Tumblr subcultures - was first predicted by trend forecaster and fashion writer Mandy Lee, who also notes that “clowncore” will be big in 2022.īut while clowncore may not have taken off just yet, twee certainly has - with a huge spike in Google searches for topics like “twee” and “twee fashion” in the last week alone. Zooey Deschanel, Alexa Chung and Zoella were the queens of twee and while you’d never admit that your style was a carbon-copy of a popular celebrity, you secretly wanted to be them. You’d tell everyone about how much you loved The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - the book, not the movie because you liked it way before then - and your Tumblr was filled with Wes Anderson quotes you’d written on your vintage typewriter while listening to shitty ukulele covers of popular songs. To embody the twee aesthetic meant you’d never be caught dead without a quirky patterned shift dress (bonus points if it was cat print) layered over a collared shirt with a cute cardigan and some cat-eye glasses that were barely visible under your thick bangs. While the aesthetic dates back to the 1980s, it really found its footing in the mid-2010s, when it was deemed “the most powerful youth movement since punk and hip-hop” - according to journalist and cultural observer Marc Spitz in his 2014 book on the topic. I don’t post my own photography on my tumblr blogs, because I prefer to post my work on this blog.“You’re Twee if you like artisanal hot sauce,” The Atlantic’s James Parker wrote in 2014. “You’re Twee if you hate bullies Twee’s core values include ‘a healthy suspicion of adulthood’ ‘a steadfast focus on our essential goodness’ ‘the cultivation of a passion project’ (T-shirt company, organic food truck) and “the utter dispensing with of ‘cool’ as it’s conventionally known, often in of a kind of fetishisation of the nerd, the geek, the dork, the virgin.” This tumblr blog consists of reblogs of mostly travel photograpy, because photography is my biggest hobby and travelling being my passion. Whenever I notice my first name is still available on any kind of social network, I have to grab it! Hahah, no seriously, I could have thought up an artsy, hipster kind of name, but that wouldn’t feel right. I love to see designs that challenge traditional conceptions and transform them into modern ideas. Brainy Blueprintsīrainy Blueprints is basically a collection of creative, innovative and functional design. I don’t post my own “creative outbursts” (let’s just call them that), I just reblog any kind of art that speaks to me or inspires me. I felt like sharing these blogs, so they’re listed below, take a look!Įclectic Symmetry is my “art blog”. Throwing all images I liked into one blog just wasn’t an option for me, so I created seperate blogs. This is mainly because I don’t use tumblr to get visitors or anything, for me they’re like online scrapbooks for when I need some inspiration or when I just feel like looking at them. Well, since then, after I discovered that tumblr is truly the best way to collect and share any kind of visual media (in blog format), I’ve started up a few other blogs and have been posting for a while, but I’ve never really linked them anywhere. I started my first tumblr blog July 2010, called june28, just because I wanted to collect pretty fashion photos for inspirational outfits and such.
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