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Acc-sesh-ories: The Sesh has inspired a dance music fashion movement

Wear your sesh on your sleeve

  • Patrick Hinton
  • 4 October 2017
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And out of this split has emerged a new tribe, The Sesh Community. People who define themselves by their love for getting out of their minds rather than for the music. Fuelled by generation-defining internet meme pages such as Humans Of The Sesh and Ketflix & Pills, a massive and ever expanding group of like-minded sesh gremlins has come together and formed a cultural movement. As the community grows, their aesthetic uniform is being established, forming a new crusade in fashion: acc-sesh-ories, the incorporation of sesh materials into outfits.

For people who spend a significant stretch of their weekends not knowing who, where or even what they are, the creativity on display has been impressive. There’s been functional costumes, such as the Rizla bucket hat, an altruistic festival essential. Handy work fit for an Art & Textiles degree show in Amber Leaf full body get-ups, bucket hats and belts, a meta Buckfast spectacle, Strongbow cape, hard, raw, living art piece. Extreme dedication to ‘bags of cans’ and ‘the lads’ with tattoos, more tattoos, so many tattoos. Even religious symbols, homely ornaments, flags, tabloid-baiting cakes.

For those lacking in imagination or innovation, a market for acc-sesh-ories has also been established. Etsy is packed full of drab slogan tees, and laughing gas necklaces (a metal cannister on chain, £22.91 + shipping). Ketflix & Pills runs an extensive online store with their own KP clothing line, parodying well-known brands and characters to create absurdities like Seshame Street, Ketpreme, Nice Tripsies and a full Biggie On A Ciggy range, taking a feeble pun to blood from a stone levels.

 
 
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