Oh yeah, Shoreditch is a hipster's paradise nowadays. Honestly, you can't move for Edwardian beards, plaid shirts and sockless shoe wearers.
You're kidding me, right?
Oh yeah, Shoreditch is a hipster's paradise nowadays. Honestly, you can't move for Edwardian beards, plaid shirts and sockless shoe wearers.
You're kidding me, right?
Nope.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thin...-Shoreditchification-of-London-must-stop.html
I have to say, I quite enjoy going to the area, because it's got some very cool restaurants and shops, but I get that some people feel it's been ruined by the hipsterfication. Thankfully, it hasn't quite crept up to Brick Lane, which remains old school - still serves the best salt beef bagels in London.
Buy the wife a dirty cocktail, let her drink her sorrows away!
Alas, no. With all the beards, East London looks like a Gettysburg reunion these days. I expect the gangsters all live in the Cotswolds now.
There has been of sorts, but I think hipsters are resilient because it is all about being 'ahead of the curve', so if you say 'you look ridiculous', they take that as a badge of honour.
With all the beards, East London looks like a Gettysburg reunion these days.
pipvh;1816149Where the [I said:tucked vs untucked[/I] thing gets really messy, though, is T shirts...
The word "hippie" was derived from the word "hipster". It's an old term.
Do you mean Shoreditch in Hackney? Last time I was in that neck of the woods, the locals were definitely too "well 'ard" to be hipsters. North London 'gangsta' chic was all the rage. Has it gone upmarket?
I have to say, I quite enjoy going to the area, because it's got some very cool restaurants and shops, but I get that some people feel it's been ruined by the hipsterfication. Thankfully, it hasn't quite crept up to Brick Lane, which remains old school - still serves the best salt beef bagels in London.
There is nothing new under the sun.
They sound like they all need a bloody good slap. I used to hate pretentious people when I was a student.
Nah, dead easy.... underwear always gets tucked in. Unless you're a super hero that wears it on the outside, of course.
Some areas - Brick Lane, Whitechapel - do seem to have managed, thus far at least, to have the best of both worlds: the benefits of gonig up without having their very soul ripped out and destroyed (contrast this with Camden Market, for instance).
Nah, dead easy.... underwear always gets tucked in. Unless you're a super hero that wears it on the outside, of course.
The term goes way back, yes, though the meaning has evolved a long way away from the Beatniks and such. In a sense, at least (some of the habit and habitat of the present-day hipster species would be entirely familiar to the hipster of old).
Everywhere in London is subject to gentrification. Hackney's come up a long way. A lot of folks have long bemoaned it's lack of authenticity, though personally I'm rather fond of being able to go for a pint there without a high risk of being glassed.
Some areas - Brick Lane, Whitechapel - do seem to have managed, thus far at least, to have the best of both worlds: the benefits of gonig up without having their very soul ripped out and destroyed (contrast this with Camden Market, for instance).
My social circle felt much the same... course now we look back and realise we were just as bad....
Trick is never to wear a t-shirt that could pass for a bell-tent. A well-fitted t-shirt looks very cool tucked in.
Trick is never to wear a t-shirt that could pass for a bell-tent. A well-fitted t-shirt looks very cool tucked in.
I tend to think that Camden's main drag is the definitive answer to the question: how many shoe shops on a high street is too many?
Why? What's happened to Camden Market?
To tuck in, or not not tuck in, that is the question—
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep—
And so on and so on ....