Boho Ohno

Hannah Betts laments a wet and drippy summer

I WON’T BORE YOU BY cataloguing the drab banalities of summer. They are only too apparent. As I write, 2024 is an improvement on most by merit of its unseasonal gloom. However, brace yourself, the outfitting looks set to be worse. For boho’s back, baby, meaning droopy, limp and dismal is the name of the game, plus a side order of damp macramé. As for the irony of free-spirited flower-childness signalled via Gaia-imperilling fast fashion, it ain’t exactly lost. Frankly, this shit has been rumbling away for a while. Twenty years on, the Noughties has stopped qualifying as “last week” and started officially being categorised as “vintage”. Thus slip dresses, “artisanal” quilted jackets, fringing, dodgy crochet, turd brown, Birkenstocks, straw bags and questionable jewellery have been doing the rounds. Borecore has…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2024

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