To ask what a "hipster is?

[TheoriginalLEM]

So this term is bandied about a fair bit.

But what defines "hipster" ?

Beards

Backpacks

Dog slings

Tiny little folding bikes

Nailed it

hipsters:

Wearing brogues with no socks

I'd tell you, but you've probably never heard of them.

Read the ladybird book of the hipster

Borough Market
Micro brewery
Thin- you cant be a hipster if you are overweight

Fixed gear bikes
Checked shirts
£20 hand-whittled wooden spoons

They might run a coffee shop where one coffee costs about £15. They would look as though all their clothes came from a jumble sale but the outfit they are sporting probably cost the best part of a grand and a half. They're called things like Silas. If they don't run an organic coffee shop you'd struggle to explain to your mother what their job actually is. They probably live in Dalston and dream of a life in a NY suburb such as Williamsburg. They eat from food trucks and drink craft beer. They cycle, they don't ski.

Beard
Hat
Geeky specs
Bike
Trousers that look slightly too short
No socks
Obscure creative job

and some grow them handle bar moustaches and the ones here have brill creamed slick back hair

quinoa, avocado, fixie, plaid, beard, man-bun, ankle grazer, bow tie, braces, thick glasses, craft bear, vingtage tatoo, daper, hat, man bag, moustache... that's what I can remember from working in hoxton of the top of my head

It's Broadway Market not Borough Market!

googled it:

^hipster1
hɪpstə/Submit
nouninformal
a person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream.^

...but they are soooo mainstream now it's ridiculous

They refuse to integrate into mainstream society...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5uVdy5YmA

Can't believe no-one has posted this yet

Youngish, slim men with beards, casually but expensively dressed, single-gear bikes, relaxed benign expression. Drink expensive artisan coffee in coffee shops with bikes on the walls and eat from street food vans called 'The Wandering Yak'. Favour organic and ethical products. Probably have trust funds.

I'm sure I recognise that board. Is it outside a cafe in York?

You can find out if you are in danger of hipsteritis here

why single gear bikes ?