What is a Hipster?

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Ah but that's not ironic in Japan, what with the Keirin scene being big business over there.

Again, that's a level of knowledge that would actually be lost on any self respecting hipster riding a fixie.

It's also quite a flat city...

Actually, is keirin japanese? It looks like a japanese word.

 

[BuddyBoy]

You certainly get plenty of them in this place
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/12/coffee-bar-owner-row-pushchairs

"Rüller's young team demonstrate the brewing process to customers, measuring temperatures, weights, checking aromas, "taming" froth, and timing to a second the silky brown creations magicked out of vacuum presses and syphons."

Extra milk is banned? Oh that's just soooo hipster it's unreal.

 

[Stat Brother]

It's also quite a flat city...

Actually, is keirin japanese? It looks like a japanese word.

Yeah:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirin

It's not really a scene I'm too familiar with, as it's pretty unique.

The tracks are different enough to make it insular, while the racing is done to a punishing schedule.

But it does crop up, as enough good UK track cyclists have given it a go and written about it.
I'm pretty sure Brad Wiggins' estranged dad tried his hand, along with Dave Millar and maybe even a young Chris Hoy.

 

[BBassic]

I dress a bit like a hipster though I don't share their attitude.

"Oh? You enjoy music from the eighties unironically? You're no hipster"
"What's that? Your glasses have lenses in them? You actually need them to see?"

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Ironic moustaches but this season with beards. Old trucker hats or trilbies. 3/4 length drainpipe chinos, boating shoes.

Neck and hand tattoos optional. Old style camcorders. Always with rollies, never a pack of Marlboro Light or whatever. Shoreditch, Hoxton, maybe even Homerton or Hackney Wick. Always coffee, never tea. Those stupid massive things that stretch their earlobes.

Good summation.

 

[The Spanish]

Okay - never normal tea.

like communists.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Extra milk is banned? Oh that's just soooo hipster it's unreal.

"Rob MacDonald.....is learning to play the jazz xylophone."

I think this customer might qualify as a hipster.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

like communists.

Boom boom.

 

[BuddyBoy]

Can someone explain the skinny jean fad that's popular at the moment? They look rather camp but all the under 21's seem to be wearing them. Is it a reaction to baggy jeans which look equally as ridiculous? What's wrong with jeans that fit?? I have even spotted blokes in LEGGINGS which is plain wrong.

Like it or not, men in tights is fast becoming a 'thing'.

 

[Cian]

Can someone explain the skinny jean fad that's popular at the moment? They look rather camp but all the under 21's seem to be wearing them. Is it a reaction to baggy jeans which look equally as ridiculous? What's wrong with jeans that fit?? I have even spotted blokes in LEGGINGS which is plain wrong.

I thought that horror had been and gone?

Was at a gig in Leeds last autumn and it was hilarious seeing Northern men who'd consider themselves "hard" wearing skinny jeans, deep v-neck tshirts and tiny canvas shoes. Looked like gay sailors from a 1950s comedy.

Seemed to either be skinny jeans that didn't quite reach the ankle, or similarly skinny pastel coloured chinos that did.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I thought that horror had been and gone?

Was at a gig in Leeds last autumn and it was hilarious seeing Northern men who'd consider themselves "hard" wearing skinny jeans, deep v-neck tshirts and tiny canvas shoes. Looked like gay sailors from a 1950s comedy.

Seemed to either be skinny jeans that didn't quite reach the ankle, or similarly skinny pastel coloured chinos that did.

Those who dress like the above are generally chavs. The chinos are normally rolled up so they're tight round the ankle though, or worse still, it's the chinos with an elastic ankle. Hideous. Often combined with espadrilles or plimsolls. Head-wear consists of those stupid American 'snapback' hats.

 

[Guinness Boy]

It appears I don't need a guide. According to this four of my favourite areas of tokyo are in the top five tokyo hipster 'neighbourhoods'. http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/5-hipster-neighborhoods-in-Tokyo For what it's worth the one place I don't like is nakameguro a place full of pretentious nobcheeses.

That said, that website seems to call anywhere with bars and live houses and people who don't dress as salarymen a hipster haven which doesn't match what everyone else on this thread is saying.

Edit: Although there are a lot of people riding those one geared bikes in the quoted places.

Oi! My favourite yakitori joint was in Nakameguro!

Can someone explain the skinny jean fad that's popular at the moment? They look rather camp but all the under 21's seem to be wearing them. Is it a reaction to baggy jeans which look equally as ridiculous? What's wrong with jeans that fit?? I have even spotted blokes in LEGGINGS which is plain wrong.

They're called meggings and they should be illegal, along with the male onesie.

 

[glasfryn]

These were hipsters when I was a lad.

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I am sure that is a girl I went out with in the 60's

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Oi! My favourite yakitori joint was in Nakameguro!

Obviously the exception that proves the rule

 

[Mowgli37]

This should give a pretty good idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

 

[otk]

Fashion only serves to meet people's need to be a) the same as others, and b) to be different, at the same time. Remove either state from the equation, and there would be no fashion. Think on...

 

[HastingsSeagull]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk quite a good vid

 

[Meade's Ball]

It seems a number of the whicker-basketed cyclists with flyaway sideburns and seven-eighths-length slacks in my area - yet to be cleaned up Dalston - are these hipsters that are mentioned. I claim not to be anything like one - usually in by 7 unironically watching some cheap tv and refusing to mutter frencheries like au contraire - but they do seem to be about the place being late-developing arts students and their copychats.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Watch a 10 minutre episode of Dalston Superstars and you'll get the idea:

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/dalston-superstars/dalston-superstars

 

[TonyBloomsPokerFace]

As someone that lives in the hipster heartland of Hackney, I think this video provides a good description.