How to be a Hipster in 28 Steps:

[Bamford]

[Malloric]

Originally Posted by LordHelmit

Lmao the irony in that "article" or whatever one should call it is astounding. And hilarious.

Yup. Tremendous amount of work conforming to being noncomforming. It's just way too much work for me to keep up with.

[texdav]

Originally Posted by MJ7

I don't understand why people care. In a few years they will be making fun of some new trend.

Exactly. Remember beatniks and then hippies?

[smokingGun]

this topic is like 7 years too late. Even the Brooklyn social critic who ran the Die Hipster Die parody blog gave it up a couple yrs back because "hipster" has gone mainstream and no longer indie or alternative in any sense.

[Meyerland]

Originally Posted by texdav

Exactly. Remember beatniks and then hippies?

Let's see there were

The twenties- flappers

The thirties- ?????

The forties-the Bobbie soxers

The fifties-the beatniks

The sixties-the hippies

The seventies- the druggies

The eighties-?????maybe greedy yuppies

The nineties- slackers

[baileyvpotter]

Originally Posted by tallturtle

The yuppie pays for the same clothes at a local boutique for 10x the cost the hipster does?

Originally Posted by texdav

Exactly. Remember beatniks and then hippies?

Beatniks- hippies to hipsters. I found them to be very polite and willing to listen to people over the
age of 50.

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by Escort Rider

All those words and all that space. I could have saved it by summing up: "Be self-absorbed."

That is a pretty big part of society and age nor clothing has anything to do with it.