Mob Wife Aesthetic: The Dark Stories Behind The Viral Trend
The “mob wife aesthetic” has been blowing up across TikTok and other social media in recent weeks – it piqued our interest because we’ve definitely loved analyzing mob wives and girlfriends on screen, like Carmela Soprano, Adriana La Cerva, Ginger McKenna, and more. But because we’re familiar with these characters, we also know that these mob wives usually don’t have very happy stories... So why have they sparked this powerful trend? Let’s take a deeper look at the three major aspects that make these characters and their outfits so alluring and impactful, and also why (while we might want to copy their looks) we probably don’t want to emulate their lives too closely.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:51 Protecting yourself, & projecting your best self, with fashion
02:28 Euphoria's Maddy's modern version of the mob wife aesthetic
04:21 When gifts hide something sinister...
07:33 Why people looked down on the 'mob wife aesthetic' before
09:00 Why it's become such a big viral trend recently
The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was produced, written & edited by Jessica
