POLLY VERNON
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR
HAVE YOU HEARD of TikTok trend #BobDylanCore? It’s the young people’s modern spin on the young people’s ancient habit of wearing teeny, tiny, too lightweight jackets on way-too-cold days. It’s inspired by That Pic of a young Bob Dylan, looking cool but terribly cold in a brown suede ‘shacket’ on a bitter New York day. It is relevant now, given the average Instagram influencer’s lack of regard for punting ’fits that can be worn outside of the house (no pants? Puddle trousers? All friggin’ white?) but most especially now when it is (not sure you’ve noticed) so. F** king. Cold.
This brassic weather is inspiring novel looks among the general populous, all of which deffers have trending-on-TikTok-# potential. Let’s send them viral, team!
1 #DownOnHerLuckDowagerCore
In which: you wear all your finery, incongruously, suddenly and at once, as a Down On Her Luck Dowager might wear all the couture she got when she was young, fun and wealthy, only now, she doesn’t quite have the dosh to heat the estate. Chanel tweed’s as warm as any, top it off with The Good Fur, a cape, an Hermès scarf, a flying hat and a handbag for sundries.
2# BabushkaCore
Central to this is a long, fat scarf, looped round the top of the head, ends pulled back down and secured in a firm swaddling formation at the throat, so as to make the wearer’s upper silhouette one smooth, neckless, Matryoshka-doll-like progression from torso to hairline. (Not to be confused with #LennyKravitzCore, where the fat scarf is not swaddled – but rather: loosely coiled.)
3 #ToddlerCore
In which, you attach your
