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

[Undertow]

Did someone say Cougars! Oh heck yes!

This thread is getting better and better!

Hot cheetahs and now attractive cougars. Srzly.

 

[Flicka]

I'd rather be a cheetah than a cougar but really, if I can choose, I'd say tiger. A hipster-looking Swedish tiger, like the one thay had in ads here during WWII (part of the war effort and constructed round a pun on 'tiger' as in a cat and 'tiger' as the Swedish word for 'keeps quiet')

 

[Deco-Doll-1928]

Well No I don't. Here in Los Angeles they have caused pain and drove everything up in price.
Thrift stores started making "Vintage" racks and priced everything high. Some even just drove prices up on everything. $25 dollars for an 80s sportscoat? cmon, once i saw a 50s patch pocket sports coat with holes and stains for $50 dollars.
They also seem to believe Vintage is everything from the 70s 80s and even 90s.
It just made it harder for those now that were looking for true vintage before everyone called everything vintage, and I'm not alone.

I hear you! Every time I read a point from your post, I kept nodding my head yes.

It reminded me of this article online that read a while back.

http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/fashion/la-ig-vintage-20110710,0,5518819.story

I'm completely frustrated whenever I go to a vintage clothing shop and there will be tons of really ugly stuff from the 80s. Plus, what the heck is stuff from the 90s being sold as vintage anyways?!!

I remember once seeing a dress at a vintage event. It was affordable, but the dress was a mess! I felt bad for the dress, but really mad as a consumer. I want to be able to buy something (preferably before 1960) for a decent price and in good condition. I think there are way too many vintage items that have way over inflated prices. This is my biggest gripe about buying vintage in LA.

Whew....I'll step off my soap box now.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

And worse, the prices remain high even after the hipsters have found another fad to latch on to.

 

[Deco-Doll-1928]

And worse, the prices remain high even after the hipsters have found another fad to latch on to.

Yeah! I don't get that either!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

What is a hipster? I hear the term used a lot, but I've got no clue what it means.

The real Hipster.

[video=youtube;jODCiG-E9MQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jODCiG-E9MQ[/video]

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I posted Harry on page 5. Everyone ignored it *shrug*

 

[Gin&Tonics]

I posted Harry on page 5. Everyone ignored it *shrug*

:: pats your shoulder consolingly:: They ignored my posting of Hark A Vagrant! too. It just goes that way sometimes

 

[Amy Jeanne]

:: pats your shoulder consolingly:: They ignored my posting of Hark A Vagrant! too. It just goes that way sometimes

lol lol lol lol

Well, Harry is *the* hipster! And he's from the Golden Era, too!!

 

[ButteMT61]

Revival time...
"The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List"

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/worst_hipster_bands_all_time_c.php

 

[Undertow]

:rip:

 

[MissMittens]

Most of those bands played 2 miles down the road on the same bill.........ugh

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Napoleon of Crime.

 

[MissMittens]

The Napoleon of Crime.

It's infected Canada as well........zombies I tell ya

 

[Aerojoe]

Revival time...
"The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List"

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/worst_hipster_bands_all_time_c.php

Well, I just learned that I like a hipster band :eusa_doh: I like Black Keys last record. However, I'm not sure that the guitarist goat face makes them a hipster band. Are these guys really hipsters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADmocV25pQU

If they do, this is serious. It must be a more contagious disease than I thought :eeek: Someday you wake up and you find yourself in a tartan jacket and with a casio calculator watch on your wrist :eeek: :eeek:

 

[MissMittens]

Well, I just learned that I like a hipster band :eusa_doh: I like Black Keys last record. However, I'm not sure that the guitarist goat face makes them a hipster band. Are these guys really hipsters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADmocV25pQU

If they do, this is serious. It must be a more contagious disease than I thought :eeek: Someday you wake up and you find yourself in a tartan jacket and with a casio calculator watch on your wrist :eeek: :eeek:

They're the poster children for hipsterism I'm afraid. Vintage clothing, "ironic" beard........

 

[Aerojoe]

They're the poster children for hipsterism I'm afraid. Vintage clothing, "ironic" beard........

not enough

A lot of guys in here like vintage clothes. And some of them sport a beard, ironic or not.

Now it's going to happen that we all are hipsters :eeek:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Someone had posted this at another forum. The original post was a commentary on a self-published hipster magazine but I thought it was an insightful analysis of the hipster mentality.

(emphasis mine)

I can understand wanting to call yourself an overgrown schoolboy if you’ve earned the right and don’t mean it literally. If that magazine were about, say, powerful sports cars, it would’ve been OK because it would most likely have been aimed at responsible adults who enjoy that kind of subject matter in their down time. Hell, I’m sure all of us on here probably enjoy something immature like that and can laugh at ourselves about it.

But the interesting thing is that a magazine about powerful sports cars would also, at the same time, appeal to actual schoolboys. Whereas this magazine you describe… wouldn’t. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

Here’s how I see it. A normal healthy schoolboy might take an interest in fast cars simply because they’re exciting and it’s fun to dream about being able to afford one. Then, when he grows up, he can remain interested in them for the same reasons, plus the fact that he can now use his childhood dream as a motivation to do well in life.

Hipsters, as we’ve discussed, tended to be utterly boring as children. They never had any idea how to be young when they actually were young, partly because their parents didn’t let them, and they’ve never had any dreams or motivations that didn’t seem to be based around sour-grapes resentment of normals who did know how to be young. So what they give us when they grow up is this disturbed, distorted, funfair mirror, loud and pushy pastiche of youthfulness. If it feels like what you get when someone programmes a computer to come up with “young” things, it’s because that’s exactly what it is.

Being childish from time to time is fine. It’s hard-wired into all men, and I’d be more worried about someone who can’t be childish and act like a teenager once in a while. But that would in fact describe hipsters. They know how to be babyish and act like 5 year olds. They know how to be pseudo-intellectual and show off their immaturity by trying too hard to be mature, like one of those teenagers who’d rather be a 50 year old. What they will never do is act like a happy, well-adjusted 15 year old, because that completely contradicts the entire nature of a hipster.

Look at the topics and hobbies they speak out against, compared with the ones they support. You like fast cars? You’re hurting the environment. Heavy metal? You’re a vulgar philistine. Conventionally attractive women? You’re a sexist pig with no imagination. They want to be anything but “grown boys” when it comes to those things… but try making fun of their interest in cupcakes, or kickball, or My Little Pony, or fixed gear bikes, or anything else that no one in the history of teenagers has ever, ever, ever aspired to, and suddenly we’re “old” and “grouchy”.

It’s like those people who become sexual perverts due to their own issues and who not only have an utterly warped view of sex, but just will not shut up about it.

The good news? It means the best way to fight them is just by acting normally. Being conventionally mature and responsible works against them; so does having a regular healthy childish streak. They’re eternal teenagers who hate actual teenagers and everything they stand for; why not remind them of those things?

It’s a shame that we should ever have got to the point where simply mentioning that an actress is hot or a Ferrari is desirable counts as a kind of protest, but at least it reminds the marketing men that there’ll always be people discussing these kind of things around a barbecue somewhere. Will there always be people discussing fixies and The Pains Of Being The Painfully Alone around a rooftop organic hummus smorgasbord? Doubt it. Because as soon as the fashion dies out, why would any self-respecting 14-year-old want to be the next generation of it?

 

[Paul Roerich]

It's strange but maybe telling that NYC's early hipsters dug the beards of their Hasidic Jewish neighbors and grew copycat beards in emulation.

 

[jamespowers]

Someone had posted this at another forum. The original post was a commentary on a self-published hipster magazine but I thought it was an insightful analysis of the hipster mentality.

(emphasis mine)

Sounds about right. lol lol