[ SECRET POST #4972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4972 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not an expert but "country" aesthetics and "cottagecore" aesthetics seem totally different? Like at least in the US country means something very different?

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Well that's my bad I guess. Where I am in the UK country and cottagecore are identical aesthetically.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - It's an easy mistake. In the U.S., "country" is more... Southern culture, as in cowboys, boots, bbq, country music, pick up trucks, etc. We don't have the same English cottage culture or village life as the UK does.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT In retrospect that is obvious. Still, something about the term 'cottagecore ' makes me grind my teeth lol.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I don't blame you. Anything with -core at the end just makes me roll my eyes.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt: -core is one of those suffixes that really need to be retired, along with -gate and -punk.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I'm also in the US, but it's different in my experience.

What you've described with the cowboy boots and country music and pick up trucks is just...redneck, not country.

Country is more like...upper class, grand estates, horse farms, rolling green hills, mint juleps, fancy outfits, everything very prim and proper...kind of rich and snobby, honestly.

At least that's how the people I know use those terms.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt: Well, specifically a commercialized product that's been bent to selling conservative politics to middle-class white people along with their beer and mostly-unnecessary-in-suburbia big trucks. Unfortunately there's Southern Culture(tm) and southern culture, the lowercase version is a lot more diverse and rocks harder, but usually gets erased in these discussions.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

Probably.

We've got "western" country as the anon noted below. Cowboy style, which given that was maybe 30 years of our history, out of control.

There's "New England" country. Think hills and autumn leaves, pine forests, covered bridges, clapboard stick frame houses and red barns with rounded aluminum tops silos. Overalls. Berry swags. Hearts, lots of hearts. Painted milk cans. Rubber farm boots, sheep and dairy farming. Fishing. Hunting. Deer motifs. Pheasants. May have "seaside country."

And then there's "Prairie Farm" Country. Which is more open spaces, carpenter gothic, more barns, water towers, and windmills. Sunflowers. "Prairie" dresses like Laura Ingles Wilder. Meat cattle farming. Gingham is more associated with this one but yeah. That's everywhere. Burlap. Every "rustic" wedding you've ever heard of. Weird faceless rag dolls.

Both do Quilting.

Like, can we beat back against the mason jars? (Sorry, I grew up with this stuff.)

We even have a "Country" magazine (where they hide this needle picture in it.) It's kind of a companion magazine to Taste of Home. (I swear they hide a spoon... it's been a while.)

The fun of being 50 states in a trench coat pretending to be a country.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

whoa wait Country magazine is still around? I remember that from when I was a kid in the 80s and my mom wanted to give me something to read that had farm asthetic in it (to tame the horse beast in me, as you do).

anyway you have a good breakdown of the types of country. above anon whose contemporaries use country to mean rich people stuff is a new one on me tho.

Re: Sort of inspired by the mood board secret

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on where you are in the US, honestly. Northeast, Northwest and Great Lakes Region will probably hear "country" and think "countryside." You know, cottages/gardens/orchards/etc. The South, much of the Midwest and Greater Appalachia is more likely to hear "country" and think "country and western." So, boots, trucks, and cowboy stuff.

Everyone in between could go either way.

The US really is a bunch of smaller countries in a trench coat trying to get into an R-rated movie.