Hipsters: Scourge or Irrelevence

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
While we're shooting everyone's favourite fish-in-a-barrel: who exactly decided topknots are fashionable now? They used to be the sole preserve of rather severe middle-aged English teachers and dowdy maiden aunts but now every other 25-y-o woman is sporting one. It must be pretty much the least attractive hairstyle going, with the possible exception of white-girl dreads or cornrows.
 

muser

Well-known member
im imaging some poor kids getting lumbered with geometric shapes as names aswel, or abstract concepts, possibly with the use of specialist ascii characters such as crucifix's and arrows/triangles.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
There are no hipster baby names in the UK? It's already quite common here I think. Hmm coming to think of it, it's rather the trendy yuppies living in posh Amsterdam neighbourhoods who are giving their babies ridiculous names.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Ridiculous names in the UK are more associated with footballers' kids and people who aspire towards that lifestyle, rather than 'hipsters' per se.
 

Pestario

tell your friends
I thought Vauxhall had, if not hipster cache exactly, at least a certain amount of default cool because of its gay clubs? Or do only really unfashionable gays go there these days?

IMHO the gay scene has its own trajectory independent of the hipster scene. What's considered alternative in gay world doesn't necessarily align with the equivalent in the straight world. Vauxhall's placement on that graph would be accurate from a straight hipster viewpoint but I'd bump it a bit further right on the gay equivalent of that graph with soho upper left, clapham lower left maybe...
 

BareBones

wheezy
What Was The Hipster?
http://nymag.com/news/features/69129/

"One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts."
 

Leo

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/t0ph3r/the-most-hipster-hipster-youll-ever-see-5bwv

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