The Sleepover Club: Recession Core Is As Depressing As It Sounds
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We've been cursed with a new 'core'l and this one may be the bleakest of them all. Celebrities are no longer wearing necklaces on the runway, minimalism is back, and a new trend dubbed 'recession core' is the latest fixation of TikTok trend forecasters. But does fashion really change in times of economic uncertainty? Rich people certainly aren't getting any poorer, so is this new conscious aesthetic just another attempt to glean relatability from the masses? Or do socio-economic theories such as the lipstick theory and the hemline index really ring true? Ione and Eden delve into the politics of fashion and frugality in this weeks episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm |
| 0:05.4 | I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Pliester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls, which everyone |
| 0:10.2 | should be. It's a great book. And I'm into the book. I'm the managing editor of Polyester. I'm the co-host of |
| 0:16.9 | this 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 podcast. This is The Sleep of a Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the |
| 0:21.8 | hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, please like, |
| 0:26.4 | rate, review and subscribe. I only do we have any reviews. We do, we do, we do. This one is five |
| 0:32.7 | stars, such a nice vibe. Love this podcast because I feel like it's one of the few these days to bridge the |
| 0:38.6 | gap between feminism and capitalist critique. Remains feminist in nature without focusing only on |
| 0:43.6 | identity politics at the expense of class consciousness. The hosts are edgy and clever without |
| 0:49.1 | being obnoxiously provocative or outrage baiting. A great filter for the current events, |
| 0:54.6 | celeb hijinks, that doesn't leave me exhausted or too pessimistic. Thanks so much. |
| 0:59.8 | That is by O'Bella 89 in the US of A. I love that. I love that I'm edgy. And you're |
| 1:06.3 | edgy. Obsessed. Without being too provocative. |
| 1:11.6 | Because someone of the girl at you see these days, |
| 1:14.0 | you know, they push it a little bit too far. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, I will never be found outrage baiting in my life. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.6 | We skirt the edge. |
| 1:23.3 | We're also going to critique capitalism today. |
| 1:26.8 | We are. |
| 1:27.2 | So we are talking about recession court if you have seen We're also going to critique capitalism today. We are. |
| 1:30.1 | So we are talking about recession core. |
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