so what's the archetypal *female* hipster look?

[twentythreedom]

Next??

 

[kittyP]

hmm - i got a lot more attenion for wearing fifties clothes in birmingham than i eer have anywhere else. people were stopping me on the street to complement me. But hipsters, i'm afraid, tend to look at rockabilly types as being a bit old and past-it. it's not a popular style among 17-24 year olds, which is the real concentrated hipster age group.

rocakbilly women tend to prefer a quiff and sideburns rather than big fisherman beards. 40-skewing vintage is different to hipster, too.

Of course, they might all be friends. I know. Hell in a handbasket!

Quite a lot of hipster looking men are 30s and early 40s I reckon...

 

[oryx]

That is such a hipster thing to say. So hip you don't know any hipsters

According to my students being called a hipster is similar to being called gay in a derogatory way.

I always think of it as a derogatory term nowadays (read too many articles on gentrification!).

 

[Thimble Queen]

I always think of it as a derogatory term nowadays (read too many articles on gentrification!).

Yeah as in "you hipster cunt"

Not actually you tho Oryx x

 

[oryx]

Yeah as in "you hipster cunt"

Not actually you tho Oryx x

 

[oryx]

'Xxxxxx (insert name of once rough and ready, now 'up and coming' area) was much better before the HIPSTERS moved in!'

 

[Boudicca]

What's the difference between a hipster and a young person just following current fashion?

Hipster is a word used by old people no longer able to follow fashion, to describe young people who can.

 

[butchersapron]

Hipster is a word used by old people no longer able to follow fashion, to describe young people who can.

What does follow fashion mean please?

 

[Kanda]

Hipster is a word used by old people no longer able to follow fashion, to describe young people who can.

by 'Urbanites' with their own eliteist views of what should be. It's all ridiculous to be fair.

 

[spanglechick]

Quite a lot of hipster looking men are 30s and early 40s I reckon...

and there's the rub... Hispster means something very specific to me, beyond. "Beard and red trousers". And part of that is youth.

 

[Idaho]

What's the difference between a hipster and a young person just following current fashion?

Ordinary people follow fashion at a distance. They pick clothes from high Street shops and try and look unique while looking like everyone else.
Hipsters define themselves by their careful and coordinated consumer selections.

 

[andysays]

is that not Clare Danes at some point in the 90s

She was a hipster before it was even a thing...

 

[oryx]

Ordinary people follow fashion at a distance. They pick clothes from high Street shops and try and look unique while looking like everyone else.
Hipsters define themselves by their careful and coordinated consumer selections.

 

[NoXion]

Thing is, how old you have to be in order to not be able to tell the difference between hipsters and say, goths?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I rather like the female hipster look

Me too. The male hipster look on the other hand...

 

[dilute micro]

So if that is how a hipster dresses then what do you call the 40-somethings I see at the coffee shop - the ones with scarves tied into a big knot around their neck?

 

[ska invita]

Me too. The male hipster look on the other hand...

 

[dessiato]

So if that is how a hipster dresses then what do you call the 40-somethings I see at the coffee shop - the ones with scarves tied into a big knot around their neck?

I do that, especially when the weather is a bit cool but sunny. I like to drive with the roof off and this is one way of being comfortable.

 

[dilute micro]

I do that, especially when the weather is a bit cool but sunny. I like to drive with the roof off and this is one way of being comfortable.

I've always been wrong about what a hipster is from the wikipedia definition. Apparently its young folks.

 

[Chilli.s]

That blue twosie is a bit fuckin special.

 

[Libertad]

That blue twosie is a bit fuckin special.

*Ordered*

 

[BigMoaner]

yes. that's more the norm core thing now tho, no?

i was in macondalds in the east end yesterday. two 20 ish year olds looked very "estate-chic" - tracksuits, big trainers, large hooped eerings, little sovereign ring.

had accents like Margaret Thatcher.

 

[BigMoaner]

nothing is real anymore.

 

[BigMoaner]

the age & grouchiness of the viewer.

ha!

 

[sim667]

I'm totally into a musician called grimes at the moment. She's an archetypal hipster (of the American/Canadian style of hipster - she's Canadian I'm pretty sure)

 

[Thimble Queen]

I'm totally into a musician called grimes at the moment. She's an archetypal hipster (of the American/Canadian style of hipster - she's Canadian I'm pretty sure)

I fucking love grimes

 

[sim667]

I fucking love grimes

Apparently she did a boiler room set and just played stuff like the vengaboys etc. the boiler room refused to put it online

 

[twentythreedom]

...

That dude in the cardigan, I swear that's you in a wig

 

[JimW]

And he's got an enormous digestive.

 

[ska invita]

And he's got an enormous digestive.

i do