I just started reading Dress Code by Véronique Hyland this evening and it's opening chapter, Think Pink, explores similar tensions - of embracing and subverting girlishness versus that ever-present fear of succumbing to tricks of marketing that want to sell your nostalgia back to you, in a system that is still deeply sexist. Reading that chapter and this article back-to-back has given me lots to think about!! 🖤
Thank you Holly!! I’ll have to check out your book rec - a lot of my feminist lit background is in politics & global development, but I’m trying to learn more about it in relation to beauty/fashion
Brilliant, as usual. You never disappoint.
I just started reading Dress Code by Véronique Hyland this evening and it's opening chapter, Think Pink, explores similar tensions - of embracing and subverting girlishness versus that ever-present fear of succumbing to tricks of marketing that want to sell your nostalgia back to you, in a system that is still deeply sexist. Reading that chapter and this article back-to-back has given me lots to think about!! 🖤
Thank you Holly!! I’ll have to check out your book rec - a lot of my feminist lit background is in politics & global development, but I’m trying to learn more about it in relation to beauty/fashion
thank you for writing and articulating how weird i’ve felt about this
so weird!! And I don’t want to hate but I feel wrong loving it too! (thank youuuu🥹)
THIS IS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!