Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

[Flicka]

I don't see anything particularly ironic or problematic about the marketing of this particular shirt. Even the price isn't too astronomical - it is Etsy, home of ridiculous prices, after all. Dude dares to have a beard and curly hair is all.

He's also wearing a ghastly Hawaiian shirt (apparently I am the only one around who doesn't like them, no matter how they are worn).

But even if it was something I adored, I wouldn't be upset just because I don't like his hair. It seems a waste of perfectly good outrage to me.

 

[Mario]

Man, I just hate all those people who have different personal tastes than my extremely esoteric one.

:arated: :eusa_clap

BTW: The guy reminds me a bit of Jerry Garcia in his younger days...

 

[lolly_loisides]

But even if it was something I adored, I wouldn't be upset just because I don't like his hair. It seems a waste of perfectly good outrage to me.

We get a lot of that 'round here

 

[Deleted member 16736]

Oh my God, I think I'm a hipster...

1. White earbuds that came with my MacBook (almost never used in public except when downloading tracks from the library -- vastly prefer my Grados).
2. Horn rim glasses (brown 50's vintage-style and they were just $60 from Optometrist Attic).
3. Messenger bag (which I hide in my closet because I'm too poor to replace it - it's over 10 years old)
4. I wear Converse (don't care for them either and I'm eyeing a pair of PF Flyers).

On the plus-side:

1. I don't wear ill-fitting blazers (or any blazers) or flood pants.
2. I've never had a cup of cappucino (sp?) in my life. Hot chocolate is my drink.
3. My hair is neat and combed.
4. Who is Wes Anderson and Pablo Neyada?

Am I a hipster?

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

The important thing about hipsters is irony. But the bad kind of irony. They wear some things everyone would consider ugly and eventually they just declare it is cool now.
Hipsters in germany also wear neon colors and 80s t-shirts. Attention seekers.

 

[herringbonekid]

3. My hair style is traditional.

trad short back and sides is hip right now !

4. Who is Wes Anderson and Pablo Neyada?

ah don't worry, you're safe.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

4. Who is … Pablo Neyada?

Pablo Neruda …

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Man, I just hate all those people who have different personal tastes than my extremely esoteric one.

lol
Kinda sums up this place a lot of the time!!

As for hipsters -- I've been one since the 80s. I truly like horrible stuff, though. Unironically. From the 80s (the decade I grew up in). I even like the trashiest stuff from the "Golden Era." I can't get into pseudo-intellectual garbage. I see right through it. I don't pretend to be "better" than I am because I truly am just a working-class stiff with low-brow taste!

 

[Flicka]

Elliott Smith is awesome and my BIL went to school with Wes Anderson who makes terrific films. I also have white earbuds and couldn't be less concerned with what phony subculture someone ascribes to me. I'm an adult, not in highschool after all.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Real hipsters pose and preen, but the fact that's been missed in this discussion is that the definitive characteristic of real hipsters -- "real" being an ironic term here -- is that their posing and preening is financed by their parents' money, not their own. "I'm an awesome supercool rebel against conformity, man, as long as my check from home holds out."

We had an event at work last week populated entirely by hipsters, and I had to hide in the projection booth until it was over. Well, except for when they set off the fire alarm with their unauthorized smoke machine. That's coming out of their security deposit.

 

[Feraud]

When I read the first post I was expecting a post with a great piece of vintage clothing being wantonly damaged, not just some guy who has a beard.

bk

That was my first impression too. I expected to click the link and see some guy wearing a vintage Hawaiian shirt as a loincloth.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

A soiled, loincloth.

 

[Feraud]

They say vintage soiling brings a premium but I won't pay for it.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Real hipsters pose and preen, but the fact that's been missed in this discussion is that the definitive characteristic of real hipsters -- "real" being an ironic term here -- is that their posing and preening is financed by their parents' money, not their own. "I'm an awesome supercool rebel against conformity, man, as long as my check from home holds out."

We had an event at work last week populated entirely by hipsters, and I had to hide in the projection booth until it was over. Well, except for when they set off the fire alarm with their unauthorized smoke machine. That's coming out of their security deposit.

lol
In this case, I am not a hipster. lol My parents don't give me a damn dime

 

[MissMittens]

lol
In this case, I am not a hipster. lol My parents don't give me a damn dime

Same here!!! Although my iPod music list would probably get me nods from hipsters anyway....

 

[Deleted member 16736]

Elliott Smith is awesome and my BIL went to school with Wes Anderson who makes terrific films. I also have white earbuds and couldn't be less concerned with what phony subculture someone ascribes to me. I'm an adult, not in highschool after all.

My post was tongue-in-cheek.

 

[Deleted member 16736]

Real hipsters pose and preen, but the fact that's been missed in this discussion is that the definitive characteristic of real hipsters -- "real" being an ironic term here -- is that their posing and preening is financed by their parents' money, not their own. "I'm an awesome supercool rebel against conformity, man, as long as my check from home holds out."

We had an event at work last week populated entirely by hipsters, and I had to hide in the projection booth until it was over. Well, except for when they set off the fire alarm with their unauthorized smoke machine. That's coming out of their security deposit.

Working in the projection booth is my dream job. AV club in grade school was the highlight of my academic career.

 

[scottyrocks]

I was actually on the A/V squad in college, back when we used to run filmstrips, oftentimes synced to an audio cassette that would beep when it was time to go to the next frame, and 16mm projectors. I actually learned some stuff in classes that I was not enrolled in while showing A/V.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've been around projection booths since I was five years old. Hipsters would actually hate the work -- you can't smoke in the booth, and it's real easy for beards to get caught in the sprockets.

 

[Edward]

At least the shirt fits him.

I thuoght it was a little small, but then I've most often seen these being worn on the jive scene, where a somewhat looser shirt is a plus for dancers...

When I read the first post I was expecting a post with a great piece of vintage clothing being wantonly damaged, not just some guy who has a beard.

bk

The image that sprung to mind for me was one of those awful things that were big on Brick Lane a few years ago - a nice tweed blazer with the sleeves replaced with those of an eighties tracksuit. I hope whatever fashion student did that failed their degree for lack of creativity.

To be not worn is the death of the piece. To be tossed in the bin, or sitting in some attic until rot and mould and moths have their way. To be worn in one way or another is part of the piece's life cycle, and who knows how many owners it's had or will have?

Yes, very true.

the only 'golden era' vintage i've seen (male) hipsters wearing is workwear; chambray shirts, shawl collar cardigans, mackinaws, French work jackets etc.
and yes, prices for those items have gone rather mental in the last few years. i don't like it, but maybe that's because i can't afford a shawl collar cardigan anymore.
the poorer hipsters can usually only afford the 70s - 90s stuff. it's the rich hipsters i don't like.

Ha... I've got a couple of shawl cardigans, had no trouble buying them... but I did buy new, over the past couple of years.

The important thing about hipsters is irony. But the bad kind of irony. They wear some things everyone would consider ugly and eventually they just declare it is cool now.
Hipsters in germany also wear neon colors and 80s t-shirts. Attention seekers.

The eighties thing is big with them over here now too. Yes, it's a subculture based around Irony - "look at me! I'm wearing awful clothes! Look at me! I like this music - I'll bet you *hate* it!" et cetera. I've never seen the joy in it, myself - everything they do seems to revolve around stuff they don't actually like or think is any good. That must be a strange way to live.... though I suppose if you weren't feeling brave enough to like something openly in case other people pointed and laughed, you could claim irony.... maybe that's part of it? Shades of that episode of New Girl where one of the guys went out with a girl who he could never tell when she was being "ironic" or for real.

lol
Kinda sums up this place a lot of the time!!

Don't it just.

As for hipsters -- I've been one since the 80s. I truly like horrible stuff, though. Unironically. From the 80s (the decade I grew up in). I even like the trashiest stuff from the "Golden Era." I can't get into pseudo-intellectual garbage. I see right through it. I don't pretend to be "better" than I am because I truly am just a working-class stiff with low-brow taste!

no, you're not a Hipster. You just have questionable taste.

Elliott Smith is awesome and my BIL went to school with Wes Anderson who makes terrific films. I also have white earbuds and couldn't be less concerned with what phony subculture someone ascribes to me. I'm an adult, not in highschool after all.

Ha, I hate white earbuds, especially as its often virtually impossible to buy any other kind at the cheap end of the market. Everybody wants to be bloody Apple! Gah.... Ironically, my current MP3 player is actually an iPod, but I really don't like the brand.

That was my first impression too. I expected to click the link and see some guy wearing a vintage Hawaiian shirt as a loincloth.

Yes!