‘A very weird hybrid’ of comfort and constriction has developed a cultlike following.
There is a certain futility in making sense of fashion trends of late. Just try to follow the path from naked dressing to stealth wealth without taking the pink-drenched detours of cottagecore, balletcore and Barbiecore. They all have a tendency to contradict one another.
For example, both lingerie and loungewear, clothes for revealing and clothes for concealing, sold particularly well in 2020, during the earliest months of the pandemic.
Three years later, one consequence of this convergence has emerged: the corset hoodie. The garment is a fashion Frankenstein — cozy hoodie on top, restrictive corset on bottom — that
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