All about being a hipster (not that there's anything wrong with that)

[utopia]

we have a thread on the cobrasnake polaroids: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19113&highlight=polaroid+scene
I agree there's some crude stuff on there but once in a while are some cute hipster kids with unique style.

 

[iperlchen]

caus for indie rock lovers there's not much to do here (in Belgium)

my fave 'indie bands' nowadays happen to come from Belgium

 

[8GreenEyes8]

^haha, me too. I always look through them and am just like... wow... .

 

[8GreenEyes8]

^ sorry, I meant that as a reply to fugfashion's post...

 

[fugfashion]

my fave 'indie bands' nowadays happen to come from Belgium

yes I , i like the 'belgian indie bands' too but still .. I feel like I'm missing out on something ...I don't know what ..

 

[fugfashion]

we have a thread on the cobrasnake polaroids: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19113&highlight=polaroid+scene
I agree there's some crude stuff on there but once in a while are some cute hipster kids with unique style.

thanks , I didn't know there was a thread B)

 

[iperlchen]

yes I , i like the 'belgian indie bands' too but still .. I feel like I'm missing out on something ...I don't know what ..

You always expect it to be completely different on the other end of the world, but it ends up being just the same. Obviously not if you want to compare it to the LA Hollywood kind of lifestyle. Don't ask me where, but I'm sure you can find similar parties and gigs in Belgium to those you see on the Cobrasnake.

That's my theory

 

[fugfashion]

^ ok you're probably right but I'm only sixteen so ,I'm probably "unexperienced"

 

[twilight fairy]

(I just posted a similar thingy in the scene style thread in Trendspotting).

Wow, after reading this thread, I feel like a hipster?!

Except here where I am, there are no hipsters. The more annoying trend is the fashionista/Parishiltonesque girls who are everywhere and follow any trend set, whether they like it or not. They do not care about pushing the boundaries, they don't care about anything new or different or anything that is not universally liked. Now THAT is so annoying.

Now as for the whole thing why I feel like a hipster now;

I'm a pretty much anti-mainstream person music and film (although not as much as music) wise. Fashion-wise, I wear whatever I like, which leans towards the more rock 'n' roll, grunge look buttt I like cute stuff like polka dots, stripes, etc. so I don't really fit into one category.
But I do feel a lot like people don't really get my taste in music, etc. cos I swear to you, 90% of the people I know listen to the Black Eyed Peas.
I don't claim to know much about philosophy and literature, but I like abstract-type books and I do not like romance and drama.

Hopefully I do not fall under any stereotypical category. I just find to be reading about all this so...strange. Since I've never really met anyone like that. I've always been looked at as someone who doesn't-like-rnb-omg-and-doesn't-wear-LV-bags. I think here in Europe, there's a bigger problem with over-mainstreamism than with hipsterism.

But I know for a fact there are a couple of people who listen to stuff like The Used, Evanescence and Blink 182 and whatever and think that they are all so pained-and-lost-in-this-world-and-no-one-gets-them. But maybe that's a whole new stereotype?...

 

[twilight fairy]

Some stuff I forgot to add;

I just suppose it's different in the US, people there are more ahead of the curve; there are more stereotypes.

But I kind of get now (after reading a few more pages of the thread) why people dislike hipsters; as softgrey, I think, said, they sort of force the whole I'm different from everyone and no one gets me thing on them. Maybe I was born a hipster or whatever, but I know that when I was 7 and listened to britpop and the Cure, my whole school thought I was some insane freak.

But I also don't think there's anything wrong with individuality and what fits you, right? If you're more of a pretty in pink dress up clean-looking preppy girl, be it. Not because it's trendy nor because it is rebellious, but cos it's you.


God can you tell this is bothering me? I really don't want to be a labelled a hipster if I ever visit the US for my dislike of mainstream music and (generally speaking, not all, though) trends.

 

[fugfashion]

(I just posted a similar thingy in the scene style thread in Trendspotting).
I think here in Europe, there's a bigger problem with over-mainstreamism than with hipsterism.

But I know for a fact there are a couple of people who listen to stuff like The Used, Evanescence and Blink 182 and whatever and think that they are all so pained-and-lost-in-this-world-and-no-one-gets-them. But maybe that's a whole new stereotype?...

I agree with you twilight fairy.

 

[Kimkhuu]

Hipsters are indeed annoying.... since the school I go to is especially known for being mainly "ruled" *cough* by hippies and punks.... ...no wonder tons of hipsters come to this school just to get a taste of it all.... And they s* badly.....

 

[twilight fairy]

The people on The Cobra Snake are "hipsters"...

Now that's unfair..how do you know those people are forcing themselves to like indie music/arts/philosophy/fashion just to be alternative and rebellious?

 

[Papercut Crisis]

Haha funny thread. my first run in with the word was on seinfeld when Elaine called Kramer a hipster doofus.

 

[softgrey]

there have always and will always be 'alternative lifestyles and cultures'...
but they have taken many forms over the years..
bikers, beatniks, hippies, punks, even disco was once an alternative style...etc...
the hipster is the newest version of it...
and it is separate category...
there were no 'hipsters' in the 80's ...there were punks and goths and new wave kids...very different animals...
i believe the hipster thing started in nyc around 2000...
around the time williamsburg became a 'destination'...

 

[8GreenEyes8]

Now that's unfair..how do you know those people are forcing themselves to like indie music/arts/philosophy/fashion just to be alternative and rebellious?

Well I'm not saying that that's how they are, I'm just saying that generally that type of scene has the group of people labeled as "hipsters" by the media and public.

 

[twilight fairy]

Well I'm not saying that that's how they are, I'm just saying that generally that type of scene has the group of people labeled as "hipsters" by the media and public.

I see what you're saying,.. true.

Hipsterism can be annoying in the sense that some feel they are superior than others merely because their tastes in music/fashion differ..
And I hate how some get tattoos of guns, swear words, etc...
Come on now, you'll have that till you're 80..

 

[clockwood]

wow... after reading this thread i realized i might be a hipster... except i have a full time job and kids... i dunno man...

 

[AnalogBubblebath]

T-shirts say it best..
A definition for hipster doll from threadless.com

and...

(urbanoutfitters)

 

[slackerbitch]

it's very interesting how similar the 'scenes' are.
our indie-hipsters here are exactly the same. but we haven't got myspace-blogs