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Style can vary depending on the neighborhood in Chicago. As a whole Chicago is conservative in their dress. When walking around the upscale urban areas of the city the women tend to be better dressed.
In other words Minneapolis has 300% more facial hair.
Haha, it probably does. Beards are all the rage right now in the Twin Cities, as is the overall lumberjack look. There was even a local story a few weeks ago about how men are increasingly going in to get hair transplants...for their faces!
Chicago definitely has plenty of hipster fashion, but I feel like the average fashionable Chicagoan is going to skew more towards the preppy end of the spectrum. Granted, for hipster/street fashion, there is a Chicago company that's trying to make "meggings" a thing. Personally I plan on sticking with my skinny jeans, but it's still there.
Also the rich who work and or live in downtown Chicago are definitely the high end shoppers who are off in a tier of their own in terms of designer labels, as others have stated.
Haha, it probably does. Beards are all the rage right now in the Twin Cities, as is the overall lumberjack look. There was even a local story a few weeks ago about how men are increasingly going in to get hair transplants...for their faces!
My impression is that the lumberjack hipster look is alive and well across the nation, as is the well-dressed lumberjack + bowtie look. In Chicago it's pretty obvious which neighborhoods are hipster: you just look at how the people are dressed when the enter/exit the train/bus.
Nowadays -- Chicago. If this was 25 years ago, it would probably be closer. As someone who grew up in Minnesota - I never once thought of Minneapolis as stylish in anything. They have gotten better though in the last handful of years for sure but still behind overall.
As far as this hipster thing goes - Chicago has a bunch of them who're doing those fashions. A lot of cities have them..
You clearly experienced the Twin Cities of another era. To the contrary, I think you have that exactly opposite. 25 years ago, Chicago would have absolutely been the more fashionable city. Minneapolis was crime-ridden, emptied-out, and not a fashionable place to be in the late 80s.
These days, the fashion playing field is much more level in terms of sophistication, although Chicago wins the "ultra-wealthy fashion elite" trophy, and only because it's three times the size of the Twin Cities. You'll see a fair amount of that here (particularly in Kenwood/Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, Cathedral Hill/Summit Ave. in Saint Paul, and and Lake Minnetonka). Chicago just has a lot more and thus caters more to that crowd.
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