#i was going to title this in defence of heroin chic

[owaifsis]

not to be pissy over words but i’m going to be, i can’t stop seeing posts of that very specific frilly pink pale lizzy grant ‘i’m so different’ ‘girl interrupted’ sad white girl smokes pink cigarettes aesthetic. which, to be honest? i really hate. there’s nothing there.

but besides they’re all tagged with ‘heroin chic’ cos there’s some skinny bitches pasty legs in one of the pictures wearing some little girls skirt that looks like it was bought off shein #hellokitty and it makes me mad. like you can’t just call it that… the word has meaning beyond ‘skinny’ there’s a genuine look and subcultures that influenced it being given that name in the end cos it’s like “indie sleaze” it was given the name afterwards or at least after the thing had been going for a while… it’s the 90s UK fashion scene it’s corinne day and glen luchford and juergen teller and ill dare to say davide sorrenti yk god rest his soul and then its grunge and its rock and punk… not rich girls fantasising about being white trash but in an Aesthetic™ way

anyway 99% of hyper feminine aesthetics are fucking shite, i fw proper coquette not tiktok’s and even tumblrs bastardised version but i wouldn’t even call that hyper feminine not even close

and i’ll even go as far as to say all the 2014 effie stonem posts need to remove that # too cos it’s closer but not the same at all. words have meanings just cos an aesthetic involves drink n drugs doesn’t make it fall under the category