To ask what a "hipster is?

[TheoriginalLEM]

So this term is bandied about a fair bit.

But what defines "hipster" ?

It turns a man into a babe magnet, surely?

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Trousers rolled up to just above the ankle and no socks.

I don't understand the nastiness. all the hipsters I know are nice people.

In fact one recently baked me an apple pie from the apples off my tree and brought it round with a jug of custard when I was ill.

Crap. I've apparently embraced the hipster lifestyle according to that quiz. But I can't grow a beard and I think my preferences are more steampunk than Hipster.

It's hardly nasty, they are the very definition of the ultimate fashion victim. If you choose to grow some outlandish waxed spitfire pilot tash, buy vintage 'destressed' tshirts for £80, think that a bowl of sugar puffs and milk is worth spending £4.90 on and that tapping up your well heeled folks to spend another £20k on a beat up vintage french pizza van (because this time this business will work unlike the vinyl shop/microbrewery/hamster dating website/coffee shop/vegan Mexican street food cart), you hangout in bars that have been furnished from the nearest skip and don't mind paying for the privilege of drinking out of a jam jar you probably deserve to have the piss taken out of you.

pan

I know loads of hipsters. I think I probably used to be one (before it was cool, obviously).

I am sitting in my office in Dalston as I type this. I recognise very little of the listed qualities as actually being 'hipster'. These are actually the symbols of hipsterism that have filtered into the mainstream, that the actual edgy ones were doing 5 or 10 years ago. The real hipsters wouldn't be caught dead with something so ordinary. Fucking jam jars, I ask you.

Oh, and a real hipster would never 'identify as a hipster'. I am appalled that anyone would. It's basically a label that is supposed to be spat at someone who rejects mainstream aesthetics etc (and thinks they are better than other people because of this, or at least appears to).

Basically, they are a lot like 90s slackers (see Reality Bites ).

And by the way, the most hipster person I know wears a lot of Boden.

Wow, lots of negativity on here. It's just a subset of youth culture and some shared tastes - why the hate? I live in hipster central in Hackney. And I seen no evidence of sneering or arrogance. If anything hipster culture is characterised by a love of creativity and a sense of fun. Yes there is a 'uniform', but most social groups do have unofficial dress codes to signal who they are.

We were all fashion victims in our own time,no? Was a Smiths fan, cycled everywhere, thought myself unique ( there were millions like me). Actually managed a studio in Hackney a few years ago and they were nice artistic sorts not unlike the boys I lusted after in my youth.

I live in Walthamstow, and I'm personally glad that 'hipsters' are setting up nice coffee places.

You'll find them all over inner city areas - Hackney, Brixton etc. which were once seen as a dump, and are now suddenly 'cool'. But only once they've driven the original residents out, of course

I don't see many in Brixton. There have been a few recent sightings and if it continues I may need to move further away.

I love hipster coffee. Worth every penny.

Skinny, diarrhoea coloured trousers and a beard that would give Mr Twit a run for his money.

Why are lovely looking young men hiding their faces in fur?

Surely fashion should be for both sexes? This is a men only club.

I love hipster coffee. Worth every penny.

Did you get to see it being made using an over the top elaborate chemistry set with big bulb bottles, whirley pipes, Bunsen burners using beans from a roaster fashioned out of WW2 era Hungarian washing machine and ground using a shire horse turning a 4 ton millstone rescued from a 200 year old Norfolk windmill?

I always find it slightly amusing how so many people 'rebel' against following the fashion herd in exactly the same way

It was always thus - punks, goths, greebos etc - all being different in exactly the same way. I am speaking as an ex-goth, so include myself in the above.

Hipsters generally strike me as a little too try-hard, but I will admit I know very few and am affected directly by none.

Pan
No, I just like the taste. And since you ask, it doesn't give me the shits like other coffee does.

Hipsters who are women generally dress like middle aged teachers.

My DP is a 'hipster' but denies it flat out, despite having beard, rolled up jeans, being a vinyl-only dj (at the weekends, in the week he works in a creative industry) and riding a fixie bike! Lolz

Ilkley now has two hipster cafe-coffee hangouts, one complete with bicycles. They never seem to be that busy compared to the nice ordinary coffee shop further along or the large chains and station up the road and round the corner.

niceup, the fact that your partner denies it makes it more likely that he is one.

my son's barber is a hipster good at his job but a real knob

the shop has old chopper bikes everywhere and there is always one of his mates hanging about,are chopper bikes hipster ?

i did burst out laughing when he said goodbye to a customer with chow, ffs

My dad rang me up a few months ago from my home town, absolutely delighted
"Positivity, it's happened. I've just seen my first hipster walking down the high street, he had a satchel and everything, we've arrived"
He's hoping an independent coffee shop will open soon.

positivity123, that's really funny .

Our hipster couple friends decided to lecture us on the existential freedom we would receive if we gave away all our possessions.

They had learnt this packing all their things into boxes... to move into the house their parents had bought them.

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