The Sleepover Club: Blokecore, The Legacy Of Ladettes, And Why We Should Be Worried About The Co-option Of Working Class Culture
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
All of the girlies, from Bella Hadid to Kim Kardashian herself, are dressing like they love the football. Blokecore is the latest microtrend to sweep the internet - and suddenly, going to the pub with a footy scarf round your head (the style itself now christened the 'litty scarf') is a personality type. This week, Ione are examining the history of how we treat working class aesthetics - from the demonisation of ladette culture, and the knowing irony that so often infiltrates blokecore, to whether this new iteration of popularisation signals the return of a dreaded, populist type of neoliberalism that demonises the working classes at every opportunity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm Ioni. I'm the finding everyone |
| 0:08.0 | chief of Pliester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. And I'm Eden and the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
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| 0:35.2 | I enjoy how they get straight to the point and it's not an hour long. I'm not sure if there's a transcript on Spotify or Apple podcast because sometimes it's hard to understand the accent with that like emoji that's a smiling crying face. That is by Winnie Perez in the Philippines. Thank you. Thank you. And it's also very understandable. We are working on transcripts and they should be on our website very, very soon. And our website is redesigned. So you should look at it because it's |
| 1:00.6 | gorgeous. It's lovely. Really is. Okay. Today, a new core has swept the world. When will the |
| 1:10.3 | cause stop. They will never stop. This is just life now, okay? You've got to get on board. I kind of love it though. Yeah. I'm into it. If I see one on my Instagram, like, stop corifying everything. We don't make the cause. I would love to invent a core, but no, we just report on them. Also, it's |
| 1:28.5 | happening before. They just didn't call it a car. They called it like a trend or... |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Should up. Old man shakes fist at cloud. Today, we're talking about |
| 1:38.8 | Bloke core. Eden. What is bloke core? Bloke car is mainly like an American trend where you basically dress like, you like football. |
| 1:50.4 | So a lot of football shirts. |
| 1:52.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:53.9 | So you wear like... |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah, soccer. |
| 1:57.0 | You wear like niche, like, fucking West Ham 2003 strips with like jeans and it's like emulating |
| 2:07.0 | the style of like someone's dad in like 2003. |
| 2:11.6 | So where did the trend start do you think? |
| 2:16.0 | I think it definitely. |
| 2:17.1 | I mean people, football and fashion are like really |
| 2:20.7 | closely linked and I think it's very interesting but I think this trend started on TikTok when |
| 2:26.4 | American teenagers started like I guess not appropriating but like, English culture, like English football culture. |
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