VSCO Girl
VSCO Girl / 2018–2020 / Style / Internet Aesthetics
A late-2010s teen internet aesthetic in which VSCO and short-form media standardized oversized shirts, shorts, scrunchies, shell necklaces, reusable bottles, and bright seaside color into a recognizable bundle of dress and objects.
Oversized shirt, shorts, and Birkenstocks or slip-ons / Scrunchies, shell necklaces, and friendship bracelets / Reusable bottle and straw as environmental-signaling objects / Natural light, beaches, and pale blue-peach phone photography
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Recording late-2010s teen social media through a bundle of everyday objects · Uniting natural summer light and ordinary accessories for a seaside campaign
- Type
- Use a small rounded sans-serif and one natural lowercase caption.
- Composition
- Crop at the waist and distribute objects across bottle, wrist, and neck.
- Material
- Photograph washed cotton, elastic, shell, and translucent plastic in pale blue, peach, and white.
- Caution
- Do not mock or classify young people and women by products. Do not reduce environmental action to consumption, and mark its brief historical period.
- Further study
- VSCO photo editing and TikTok parody / Hydro Flask, scrunchies and branded object bundles / consumer identity and environmental signaling
Related entries
- Normcore (ノームコア)Shared effects: Intimacy.Compare VSCO Girl and Normcore
- Cottagecore (コテージコア)Same Internet Aesthetics lineage.Compare VSCO Girl and Cottagecore
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