The Sleepover Club: Is The Coquette Aesthetic Just Lolita Style In Gen Z Clothing?

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sugar, spice and everything nice; thats what coquette girls are made of. But is the trending aesthetic as innocent as it seems? While self proclaimed coquettes love frills, heart shapes, Lana del Rey, all things french AND all things Americana — and want everyone on TikTok to know their aesthetic is totally unique — the saccharine style reminds us of one thing, Lolitas.

But has this new wave of ultra-feminine girlies managed to shrug off the damaging stereotypes associated with Lolita style? Or do coquettes also fetishise youth, whiteness and skinniness, creating yet another unattainable standard for women? Ione and Halima discuss!

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0:00.0	Hi, Halima.
0:01.3	Hi, Annie.
0:22.8	And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm also the author of Poor Little Sick Girls, which is available now. And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Scene and the co-tox, the Polyester podcast. 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.
0:28.4	And before we get started, please like, rate review and subscribe. I need. Do we have any reviews to read out this week?
0:36.5	We do, and it's so cute because we're getting so many reviews that we're like behind by a month on reading out reviews, which means we have loads and I just love it.
0:37.8	So keep sending us some.
0:44.3	Anyway, this is five stars. Listening to Ione and Halima Cackle is the highlight of my week.
0:51.9	The only people permitted to discuss the discourse by Sharon Carle by Apple Podcasts in Great Britain.
0:52.6	Thank you, Sharon.
0:53.5	We love you, Sharon.
0:54.4	We love you. Cool, cool. We'll be talking about this week, Iani. Thank you, Sharon. We love you, Sharon. We love you.
0:59.5	Cool, cool. What are we talking about this week, I mean? We are talking about will the low-liter aesthetic ever fuck off and its latest reimagining as coquettes. Yes, coquette.
1:08.2	It's a terrible word, I think. Why? I just think it's awful. No offence to the French.
1:13.4	It's quite like oldie-woldy. Yeah. For those who don't know,
1:17.3	Coquette, the definition of Coquette from Oxford languages is like, it literally just means a flirtatious woman.
1:25.2	And the word was first used in 1611 so the reason why we are
1:30.7	talking about it now is because on tic-tocquet is the new aesthetic the new lifestyle the new
1:39.5	everything it is everything there's always a new everything on TikTok.
1:45.1	It's actually exhausting.
1:47.2	It's tiring, but also it might not, like,
1:50.1	how do I word this?
1:51.8	So I feel like it's not that there's a new everything.
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