Why the bimbocore aesthetic is the path to weaponising the social performance of the ageing woman | Van Badham

Women have found a way to channel a flagrant, public up-yours to the culture of gender policing that grows more dangerous by the day

It was a search for the perfect velour tracksuit that put me on the path to #bimbocore. Work obliges me to catch many planes and I am old enough to appreciate that if you can travel with an elasticised waist, loose cuffs and a hood - as well as a mask - then you should.

Internet searches for the soft costume once beloved of early 00s femme celebrity brought me news of a retro revival that apparently started last year. Far further down in the fluffiest of fashion rabbit holes than I had ever intended to travel, I stumbled on to the aesthetic trend of bimbocore.