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anachrosims · 10 months

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I had an epiphany about the greige luxe aesthetic disk horse and I’m here to share it:

Aesthetics are (mostly) neutral things, provided the aesthetic itself isn’t evoking/promoting an ideology that’s rooted in bigotry and/or harming other people. You’re allowed to like greige luxe, which is what I am personally going to call it from now on. Basically, an aesthetic on its own is not good/evil, it didn’t kill your sensei, etc.

Trends, however? Oh, my friends in Christ! My Dear Honeys and Bunches of Oats! Here’s where it gets fun, because trends imply a group of instances within a period of time. A trend is something you can chart out using a graph to say, “this style is being used X (how much it’s used) over Y (a period of months/years).”

When people gripe about the greige luxe nightmare, it’s because we’ve been experiencing it in a gradual crescendo for well over a decade. When a person gripes about a trend, it isn’t a personal attack against people who happen to genuinely have that personal taste, though I’m sure it can often feel like one.

The problem in this specific case is that greige luxe has a lot of cultural baggage rooted in classism (this aesthetic has been promoted by companies sponsoring overpriced brands--looking at you Magnolia Home) and the diluting (literally) of other styles into being watered down. It’s taken the sleek and often fun pop of midcentury, Scandi, and midcentury modern and even rustic styles and literally neutralized them, sanding off the “rough” edges to make it all more appealing to a wider audience.

Don’t believe me? Check out this article from the Guardian from 2022, which discusses that “... the origin of this great wave of grey goes back through centuries of western culture to a longstanding prejudice against bright colors, as explored by the artist David Batchelor in his 2000 book Chromophobia.” It goes on to explain, “Goethe’s Theory of Colors, published in 1810, maintained that bright colors were suited to children and animals, not sophisticated adults. ... Still today, words such as ‘lurid’ and ‘garish’ have negative connotations. ‘Color is often represented as feminine, or Oriental, or primitive, or infantile, rather than grown-up and philosophical and serious … and it’s clearly indexed to issues of race, culture, class and gender,’ says Batchelor.”

The article further elaborates on this by comparing the trend to what is associated with “’refined taste’”-- “’...a desire for the muted, the minimal, the sparse...’ Over the past 15 years, ‘what we have seen is a move from the yellow end of the spectrum to the cooler one – from beige, to greige’, amounting to what Fox calls ‘a desaturating effect’ across culture.” (Context: British art historian James Fox, author of The World According to Colour.)

As for the Sims community? Well... I personally associate the greige trend with permapaywallers and even well-known early access (but contraversial) creators following it excessively, leading popular builders to make lots based almost entirely around this greige luxe nightmare. In addition to cultural baggage, it’s now got community baggage heaped on, and I expect that’s what’s led to the visceral reaction we’re seeing. Basically in the Sims community, greige luxe is a whole thing associated now with appropriated styles that have been watered down, commodified, and associated with “upper class refinement”, especially to the detriment of variety and vitality.

The article does also point out that as society has become more and more polarized, the trend has grown, “...[s]ince the mid-2010s especially, people have sought not to be energized by their homes – but soothed.” And yeah, that tracks-- people want calm, want simple. And that’s okay! I myself genuinely like soothing rooms, color schemes that are softer--neutrals and pastels and washed-out rustica with a soft pop of color here and there. Absolutely lovely.

I also think there’s merit to wanting something more uplifting, and the article references things like recent tentative trends toward more color, like interior designs leaning for warmer tones, red dining rooms coming back into vogue, and even Apple’s more colorful line of products: “It suggests that post-pandemic people are prioritising not serenity in their homes, but joy.”

To bring it all back home: Yeah, like what you like. Just please try to understand that trend fatigue and changing times can and will lead people to yearn for something different, and it never hurts to branch out into new palettes and decor styles. While I understand the “mass appeal” of simple neutral colors and sleek styles, my own personal happiness needs a bit more levity, more vitality, lest I feel washed out and uninspired.

(I do recommend reading the article; it isn’t an actual indictment of greige, but rather a discussion illustrating opinions both for and against and the history of the “neutral” trend.)

Further suggested reading: How Are Color Trends Decided? Article from DraperyStreet in 2017, & Color Trend Predictions for 2023, from LuxeSource in 2022, & Greige, the Color That’s Taking Over Pinterest, from Business Insider in 2015.

#greige #color theory #fashion trends #sims 4 #sims community #feel free to rb if you want #I know it's biased I'm not pretending it isn't #but I hope this can bring a little perspective to the whole discussion

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volfoss · 9 months

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It's really funny comparing the sims 4 retail experience to the sims 2 retail experience because the sims 2 has it beat easily

#twist rambles #like ok..ive been getting notifs for the thrift tea store in 4. was super excited about the concept of thrift shopping and maybe they had #like unique clothes there that u cannot find anywhere else. would have been super cool. first off i have to look up where the fucking store #is because it came w high school stories and i havent played w that pack for a while. then i get to the lot. i am immediately lost on what #to do. stores in ts2 had a VERY clear register area that u could buy stuff. so i try and find the owner since thats how ts4 businesses work #she does not want to sell me anything she just wants to talk about fashion trends. i click on the racks. i see you can make an outfit with #“kawaii” aesthetic. which my god ok sure sims team. then i see cottagecore and dark academia. like this is gonna age like SHIT.#its just like not a clear or fun experience to go clothes shopping in 4 because in 2 u had to shop to makeover ur sims but u dont have to i #4 so like. why would i ever go. also ofc well 2 is FAR less buggy for ur own businesses lmao. im never not petty abt how bad businesses are #in ts4 because its legit unplayable.

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sanssouci-sims · 3 months

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now just what in the hell is this guy thinking with this career outfit

#NOT THE VICTORIAN FLOWER HAT 😭#i don't believe i've introduced this guy yet but maybe i will soon #he's quite a doozy lmfao #mccc to the rescue #what is up with this game and absolute shite randomized outfits #pls you do NOT want to get into the bad townie fashion trend #even though you're kind of a bad character but that's besides the point #the sims 4 #sims 4 #the sims community #ts4 #sims 4 gameplay #ts4 gameplay #the sims 4 screenshots #sims 4 screenies #sims 4 screenshots #ts4 screencaps #sims 4 screencaps #san's sims

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lizzsimzz · 1 year

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mosquito-cove · 11 months

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local agonizingly indecisive person subjected to several choices in quick succession (real) pics under cut :3

#im fashionably late to this trend :)#also the music is not important i was just listening to modern baseball when i made himb #lore: hes from just outside san myshuno and moved further into the city after community college and is the insufferable women's 4th roomie!#anyway the preview pic is of his most boring outfit but i wanted to see his tattoos #speed cas #sims 4 #simblr #create a sim #sims 4 cas

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warmmilk-n-honey · 11 months

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just watched Alias Grace and, what do you mean the 1840s sucked for women and poor people and Irish immigrants??

no but I srrsly enjoyed it, def recommend it to my fellow kuro victorian era nuts if you want something kind of depressing that will make you feel rage for the female characters, oh and if you want a morally ambiguous female lead who is based off of a real woman who may or may not have been a murderer but was definitely an accomplice to murder, also they call her a murderess in the show which is so slay

#can't tell how accurate the 1840s costumes were since I don't know much about 1840s fashion but I can say there were some good bonnets #which is always a plus #tho they didn't do those face framing curls that I see on fashion plates from the era which is disappointing I feel like period pieces rlly #hate proper historical hair for some reason #like even the wealthier women who would have wanted to keep up with trends didn't have it #it's 4:00 am and I should rlly go to bed now lol #victorian era #historical drama

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omm-prakash-chandra-mallick · 1 year

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kwakurichblogger · 1 year

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oshaviolater · 1 year

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no pls it's literally so embarrassing to explain like no im not christian no no im just a gen z who accidentally got influenced by instagram fashion trend im so sorryyy

#like. whatever it makes me feel hot lmao i like this fashion trend thing #once this aunty asked me why im wearing just One dangly cross earring nd i was in hell that time #a) fashion b) i broke the other pair its fun to play with the cross 😮‍💨#i want a new pair i also did not shop 4 winter clothes this year #so im kinda excited to go this particular sector market nd get those really sexy oversized sweater/vests omg #ive been eyeing some online but eh too overpriced #but i do have that black white diamond pattern sweater similar to that of what key wore for shinee's dont call me promotions in my mind #ah im itching to buy pretty sweaters #life update

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akuncloudflare · 2 years

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heybeedesigns · 1 month

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lizzsimzz · 1 year

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pick an everyday outfit <33

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alpha-mag-media · 6 months

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