[meet] The Hipster Field Journal
Like the average 20-year-old girl, I crush on a new guy about every week. Some carry over from week to week, but for the most part I like to keep it trendy. However, for the last few months I started noticing a trend in my flavors of the week. Suddenly, boys with thick-rimmed glasses and circa-1968 Jagger haircuts were irresistible to me. As I began to research this PoMo subculture, I began to see it as a full-on revolution in my generation: The Hipster Movement.
So, if this nonsense is new to you, I feel that after reading Robert Lanham’s “The Hipster Handbook,” I can fill you in.
Here is my Hipster Field Journal.
What do they look like?
A Hipster can generally be classified as someone who is non-mainstream. They watch indie movies, most definitely have a messenger bag, and may be spotted with either a cigarette or a PBR in one hand. They listen to alternative music and if their band gets big, they go around saying, “The first album was way better.” Oh, and their hair is always unkempt. (See also: white boy afros are also acceptable hipster hair.) They brought back Chuck Taylors and probably own at least one pair of old-school Pumas as well. My favorite local hipsters wear the same zip-up hoodie everyday and own several different pairs of argyle socks.
A clear indication that someone is a hipster?
If you call them a hipster and they take offense.
Where can I find one?
Lawrence, Kansas’s entire population is made of Hipsters, and the Urban Outfitters on Mass St. is full of ‘em. Here in the ICT, you can always find some at the Donut Whole or at a local coffeeshop with a Macbook. Hipsters are big in the local music scene. Many are or have been associated with a punk rock band. That being said, I never miss a First Friday. You will not find them in any chain stores, because shopping at Walmart is not hip. They also rally behind anti-capitalist causes and are grassroots and VERY liberal. Most hipsters graduated in something from the Liberal Arts and Sciences category, so I try to walk by that building on campus as often as possible. Also try: the Blank Page on Wednesday’s open mic night and any gallery on Final Friday.
Happy Hipster hunting!
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I prefer the glasses-clad hipsters (think Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo before jumping the shark). Who feel ways about things and would rather read a book than talk to me. Which explains a lot about my luck with said group.
I wouldn’t consider myself a hipster, but I also wouldn’t consider the pictured dude a hipster. He just looks like any ol’ high school skater kid.
Agreed, Dustin. He wouldn’t even make it on http://www.latfh.com/ (Look At This F*ing Hipster).
This was funny and/or entertaining when I read it the first 100 times in all the local publications. Beat the dead dog with a stick… Jesus.
Have to admit, I was definitely scoping out this “Hipster” at my place of work the other night. I’m even taken, but I enjoy nerdy eye candy any day….. LOL. He had “the glasses” too. :)
Hipsters are hot! Where are the gay hipsters. though? Finding them is like finding nemo…
First, having poor hygiene and clumsy style does not make one a hipster. That’s a misnomer.
Hipsters are all about fashion irony – and it’s a moving target. They carefully craft their style to intentionally go against the mainstream in ways NO ONE else will follow. When one of their hilarious style pranks becomes a trend, it’s uncool. See: colored or white plastic aviators, neon watches, scarves with short sleeve shirts, or anything else worn by Ryan on “The Office” recently. *To clarify, Ryan is a poser – everything he’s wearing was hipster from about 15 months ago.
Beards used to be hipster, then they became cool. So now, strange mustaches are hipster. If you look like Rollie Fingers, you’re a hipster. The picture of the pseudo emo goof above – not a hipster. If you live on a coast and have a mullet, you’re a hipster.
I think there are about 3 hipsters in Wichita. Is @Skag the guy in the picture?
I totally agree, he doesnt really look like a hipster. Check out these
hipster bikinis over at retroswimwear.blogspot.com i found. These are actually hipster lol
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