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There’s also been more separation from the version of coquette that drew controversy for sexualizing innocence, taking inspiration from the controversial 1955 novel Lolita. The definition of coquette has expanded over the years, especially with the aesthetic’s rebirth on TikTok being more diverse and less exclusionary than previous iterations. If that’s babydoll dresses and cherry cola, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. There’s power in embracing who you are and what you like.

But femininity should not and does not preclude you from being intelligent, capable, or mature. (We should all remember that Disney princesses, as beautiful and idealized as they were, were hardly damsels in distress.) The allure of the aesthetic is in how it teaches us to take pride in our femininity - something that has often been taught to signify deficiency or fragility. But we’re now enjoying a time of reclamation with the resurgence of Y2K hyperfemininity and Barbiecore.īeckett says coquette is “the more adult version” of the doe-eyed, girly-girl Disney princesses she adored when she was a child. “Being girly and embracing femininity were seen as not cool” in the past, explains Beckett.

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She gives advice on everything from how to shop like a coquette on a budget to how to pee like a coquette girl. Kellen Beckett, TikTok’s self-proclaimed “Coquette Big Sis” with over 160,000 followers on the app, breaks down the coquette rulebook with her educational but slightly satirical videos on the coquette lifestyle.

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