Dig out your cardigans and ballet flats, twee is back!
On TikTok , twee has emerged as both the antithesis and antidote of the last nostalgic microtrend we briefly enjoyed, indie sleaze. The hashtagcurrently has nearly 26 million views on the app at the time of writing, with creators breaking the aesthetic’s historic popularity down while others herald its glorious return.
Not everyone is so convinced though. On Twitter over the New Year, people old enough to remember twee’s first reign are lamenting that they’re not ready to return to some of its more problematic aspects. For some, it’s the fact those ballet flats offered absolutely no support, and smelled really bad. For others, it’s a little deeper. The twee trend at its inception was dominated by thin, white, cis female bodies. The childlike, gamine aesthetic, popularised by celebrities with those same body types, is not exactly a bastion of the same inclusivity the fashion industry and social media celebrates today. Reporting on the end of the BBL era last month, i-D writer Banseka Kayembe touched on how its demise, despite being a problematic body ideal in itself, is not necessarily a fully positive development. “For many women, the idea the BBL era might be ending is cause for both celebration and anxiety,” Kayembe says. “For those of us with curvier bodies, the rise of the BBL aesthetic initially came with a relief at not having to live up to the stick-thin body championed in the 2000s. A trend that for many created a dysmorphic view of teen girls bodies and a perpetual drive to lose weight that continued into adulthood. While the BBL style was in itself still out of reach, it paved the way for a self-acceptance of natural curves, no doubt at the expense of other women then feeling more inadequate about their bodies. Ultimately, liberation from these trends requires a dismantling of the notion of body standards completely.” While yes, of course twee is itself a fashion, not a body aesthetic, we can’t ignore that one doesn’t come without the other, particularly when it comes to the stick thin physicality that was championed in the early 00s and still throughout the dark, triggering Tumblr days of the 10s. We can hope for two things then: firstly, that if twee does make its fabled return in 2022, it’s an updated version on the archetype . A kind of nu-twee that’s more inclusive and has more podiatric support. A happy go lucky return to nicety that we are clearly yearning for after the dark days of the pandemic, without the annoying underbelly. Secondly, we can hope that if twee returns, as annoying as ever, that the endless churn of the microtrend cycle swallows it up by February anyway. Next up, a nu-rave revival! Or something.
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