Why do people karate chop their cushions and pillows?

[Bob104]

When did this become a thing?
Why do people think its posh?
What am I missing?? I much prefer to just see a lovely plumped cushion?!
Someone please explain😂

I can't explain because it's inexplicable.
Looks stupid and trying too hard.
I'm in the plumped up cushion camp with you OP.

No idea. It looks shit.

They look like upside down vulvas. Vile and fashion slavey. I’m in the plumped camp too.

I know what you mean.

I don't get it either. I think the dent in the cushion looks silly.

But I suppose, everyone is different and some people quite like the karate-chop look.

I don't like it either. They look the opposite of nice plumped up cushions!

I'm guessing that it shows that they're feather not a foam cushion pad?

One of my friends (who aside from karate chopping cushions I do like) has loads of followers on Insta and made a video of how to karate chop a cushion 🤷‍♀️

It doesn't look posh, it looks the opposite! I think it was made popular by the vacuous Mrs Hinch who's almost as far from posh as it's possible to be.

I don't like the look -I prefer a full pillow. I've only ever seen people do it on Instagram, never in "real life".

I'm so glad it isn’t just me!
I mean each to their own but I don't need to prove my pillows have feathers or spend time watching youtube videos on karate chopping.
I guess it could help with anger management though?! 🥋👊🪶

Your OP made me laugh, but I am as puzzled as you are.

I don't get the hoover lines on carpet either. But then I hate carpets, so what do I know.

@Screamingabdabz

"They look like upside down vulvas"

Speak for yourself!

Because Instagram told them to I think

I assumed it was to make them bow- like 🎀. My cheap cushions couldn't manage it. [Pleb]

I don't like it either I like plump looking cushions

The cushions in this house are used to make dens by our children.
I will never have the time or inclination to situate a cushion nicely or make it look like a bow or a swan. I don't put any on the bed and I definitely don't karate chop them. That would be weird.

No idea either!

I saw an advert pop up the other day for dog beds. It was one of those huge comfy looking ones and it even had a karate chopped cushion!

Weird isn't it? It seems quite a new thing, my mum was right into naff decor in my youth (she'd definitely have had a silver crushed velvet sofa and mirrored furniture of those had been a thing then) and I never saw her do that to a cushion.

I do put my sofa cushions on the diagonal though and apparently that's wrong, so what do I know!

Also hate hoover lines in the carpet, I think it looks like the hooverer is unhinged.

Now I do love hoover lines.
But thats just about everything being done neatly.
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I see it like decorative cushions on the bed, just weird.
My sofa cushions spend most of their time on the floor, toddlers are awesome 🙄

Mrs Hinch started it all

Yes! what is with the decorative cushions on the bed?!?

Admittedly, i did try it once and put lovely cushions on my bed.
But after one evening of taking them off and one morning putting them all back on, I was already sick of them and thought what's the fucking point. 🤷‍♀️

Same as any other trend really. For ages single cushions were placed in the corners of a sofa, then they covered the entire back of the sofa in a kind of fan, then they were placed face on, then multiple cushions stacked face on, then the chopping began. Timeline might not be exactly right but that's how I remember it.

It is a trend from the 80s. I recall reading that it was done as a joke, or random idea, and people thought it was "the thing to do." I absolutely hate the look. If there's many pillows on a couch with the choo I think they pissed off the cat and this is the cat's way of getting back, to just jump onto each pillow and make its mark.

Because insta told them to.