cottagecore

alternative cottage-core

1. uncountableaestheticAn aesthetic that celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts associated with rural living, such as sewing, gardening, foraging, baking, and pottery.

   If you've ever yearned for an idyllic life in the country, then cottagecore is for you.

   2021, Emily Kent, The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life, page 5

   3 more examples

   Underneath the clutter, the twin-size mattress was covered with a patchwork quilt and sheets dotted with tiny pink roses. There was a ruffled mint green bed skirt to match the ruffled gingham valance above the window. It was like standing in the cottagecore Holy Land.

   2021, Susannah Nix, Elementary Romantic Calculus, unnumbered page

   I weeded and watered all while being nurtured myself. Working for Granny felt more like a cottagecore vacation than it should at times.

   2021, Willa Reece, Wildwood Whispers, unnumbered page

   Each show spans over 180 minutes, including 40-plus songs from at least nine albums; there are 16 costume changes, pyrotechnics, an optical illusion in which she appears to dive into the stage and swim, and not one but two cottagecore worlds, which feature an abundance of moss.

   2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023