In the photos: inspiration for the tiktok trend The Frazzled English Woman, a micro trend that is the result of the over-accuracy trend, and I will explain:
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Conclusion for 2023: It’s time to stop getting it right
(published in my column in Lasha)
The official word for 2022 according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘gaslighting’, and the word chosen by the Oxford dictionary is ‘goblin-mode’. Two niche words (most people you know will need a long explanation if and when they come across these words) that only prove that the real official word of 2022 was ‘accuracy’. The year when the cuts were precise, the bite was precise, the enthusiastic feedback was reduced to one word plus an exclamation mark (precise!) And the national mission was to get it right. A worthy challenge in all respects, which unfortunately has been eroded by excessive use when appropriate and especially when inappropriate, just as we did in the past for the word ‘amazing’ which was pulled out in front of average objects, not to mention ‘mother and father’, a pair of words said with emotion in situations where there is no No need to bother parent 1, parent 2 and certainly not both.
while we were punctual
“Nowadays, the word accurate can be attributed to anything that seems okay to us. Therefore, “accurate it” simply means “improve it” or “do it”, and “inaccurate” means – “it’s not successful enough” or “I don’t feel like it”. Neta Hotar wrote in Mako. Well: accurate in its new meaning is at best ‘adjusted to my measurements by personal tailoring’, that is: necessarily inaccurate for many other people.
Which brings us to a notable side effect of over-accuracy: micro-trends.
General trends like “classic look” or “boho chic” no longer suit us, spoiled people like us, who need to get it right. The classic look, then, will be dismantled and divided into tiny and personalized micro-trends such as ‘grandma on the beach’, ‘plaza-core’ and ‘heiress on vacation in Sicily’, the rustic look will become ‘cottage-core’ (tip: add the word ‘ Kor’ for everything and opening a Tiktok account, success is guaranteed), the bohemian look became a ‘messy aunt’ or ‘indie-sleaze’ and even a lack of taste or pretentiousness and a desire to engage in aesthetics received its own micro-trend: ‘The Frazzled English Woman’ ). Daniela Cohen from the Cut warns against overloading the inspiration boards. “It just seems like individualism,” she says.
How did we prepare for the expected avalanche of micro trends this year? You can prepare in advance by watching all the movies and series created in the early 2000s (most of the sources of inspiration for the tiny trends that suffer more precisely come from there) or decide as a group that in this arena we function as bystanders and not as actors.
Personally, the second option is more accurate for me.
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Please give me a micro trend for the concept: “I’m cold, I have nothing to wear and anyway I don’t have time to choose from what I have in my closet.”
The ai software: Please, here’s the ‘worn England aesthetic’.
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A film in which all the characters are an inspiration for the aesthetics of The Frazzled English Woman (except for Mew Grant).