Quilt coats by Kathleen McVeigh If 2020 made you crave a simpler life, you re not alone. The pandemic year motivated Americans to take up embroidery, install chicken coops in their backyards and, for those who could afford it, buy property sight-unseen in rural states, including Vermont. Aesthetics, both in fashion and home design, quickly followed. News media documented the proliferation of the nap dress, a flowing dress-nightgown hybrid. Pressed and dried flowers proliferated. Hand-knitted sweater tutorials abounded on social media. Terminology sprang up around the trends, too, and words such as cottagecore and cabincore quickly became part of the online lexicon. To better understand the style and whether your clothes fit the definition you can ask yourself: