delet... Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Im old. Id say there was hipsters. It was attached to music more. I guess film /art students termed 'artfags' would fall into hipster. I liked i better then. We just bought everything at the goodwill and salvation army. There were no H&M;s or american apparels. I wore a lot of army shirts Yeah, this. And term hipster was applied, at least by '98 or so. And there was a lot of deliberate post-Kramer-style hipsterism; the fucking lapels. THE FUCKING LAPELS. It was so much more authentic back then. It had integrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 hm http://www.inthe00s.com/archive/inthe00s/smf/1146368747.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 In a modern sense, they came about at the same time as yuppies (in the early '80s), but they're descended from the Beatniks and before that the "Lost Generation" types of the '20s and '30s, so not necessarily. Hipsters force gentrification and overdevelopment because their presence in an area attracts yuppies, who then force them out to continue this cycle until a real estate crash, when the hipsters oftentimes come back, along with less desirable elements, and force out yuppies. Though hipsters these days are in and of themselves somewhat gentrifiers, by forcing out the area's original population. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 am i the only one that would totally sex up elaine from seinfeld? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 vintage clothing, as in actual old used clothing. in the 90s you could be poor and a hipster. Bingo like doug from doug (tv series) Skeeter!! It's hard because "hipster" to me means somebody who genuinely thinks they are cooler than everyone else, whereas a lot of 90s fashion was "we look fucking crap and we know it" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzikgftKHIE The 90's were pretty damn ironic though, which is a staple of hipsterism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 in the early 90s i had a type of GQish haircut and dressed a little like morrissey. mid to late 90s i sported that ceasar do and wore those addidas style soccer shirts with the 3 stripes on the sleeves that go up to the collar, track suits, north face bubble jacket and some vintage ski jackets and vintage puffy vests. when i was feeling edgey, i'd throw on some ski googles on my head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 i totally regret those big ass jenco jeans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 vintage clothing, as in actual old used clothing. in the 90s you could be poor and a hipster. Bingo like doug from doug (tv series) Skeeter!! It's hard because "hipster" to me means somebody who genuinely thinks they are cooler than everyone else, whereas a lot of 90s fashion was "we look fucking crap and we know it" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzikgftKHIE The 90's were pretty damn ironic though, which is a staple of hipsterism. I can't say I agree with the irony thing. comedy in the 90s was all about irony and sarcasm, but when it came to the music, it was all about sincerity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 I've come to the realization that the reason I hate today's hipsters is because they are wealthy people feigning being all about art when they're just as materialistic as the mainstream and even more fashion conscious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretstik Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 doc martens oh no's .. I owned a pair of these too, if only i knew that they were really pwning me. I had a pair in navy blue. Why did noone take me to one side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 docs will never go out of style. hope yall dint chuck em' out cos you was afraid to be unhip... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 am i the only one that would totally sex up elaine from seinfeld? no you are not. she still looks good too. docs will never go out of style. hope yall dint chuck em' out cos you was afraid to be unhip... i agree. docs are timeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 I never had a pair of Docs because so many posers had them. Instead, I had a pair of these bad boys... I was the only kid in school with a pair and they went well with my Danzig t-shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 I never had a pair of Docs because so many posers had them. Instead, I had a pair of these bad boys... I was the only kid in school with a pair and they went well with my Danzig t-shirt. i had a pair similar to those... the toe was rounded though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 when i was feeling edgey, i'd throw on some ski googles on my head! LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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encey Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Juno precursor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiddleBot Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 i kind of thought that 90's goth and punk (especially early 90's) were the polar opposite of hipsterism. it wasn't yet a mass-produced fashion trend, there was no pitchfork, it was completely DIY, and the people into it were living it as a lifestyle (and the real ones still are, i <3 them). You didn't just wear docs and diy chains, you actually went out train-hopping and did fucking tree planting in the summer and traveled with no money and wore docs partially because back then they lasted a very long time. you didn't just wear black, you went to crazy parties where people tie each other up and do other wild shit. alternative lifestyles were genuine, not for posers or wusses. the music was provocative and about social issues, unlike today's industrial which bastardizes the entire concept of what punk and industrial were about hipsterism in my books is all about posing and faking it, pretending to be underground as long as it's 'safe'. it has fuck all to do with what you wear, although yes, there does seem to be hipster fashion trends, and they are typically less than glamorous and very forgettable also, docs rule. so do motorcycle boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundwave Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 aren't hipsters parasites of the internet age? i have no real taste so i'll read a few forums so i can blag what's cool back in the day all we had was Q magazine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tht tne Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 back in the day all we had was Q magazine spin used to be pretty tight when i was coming of age... that's where i got the idea to buy maxinquaye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 docs will never go out of style. hope yall dint chuck em' out cos you was afraid to be unhip... i wore my docs till they died in about '95. After that i migrated full time to skate shoes, which seemed more practical/cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest enxyme Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 It's funny. The whole "hipster" thing was totally different. I feel like back then, people divided into many more varied cliques. There really wasn't such thing as a "hipster". Instead, your style was more directly linked to the music you listened to. You were either a punk, a metalhead, a goth, a raver, a hip-hopper (or yo-boy), a houser (anyone remember that? I was a houser in 6th/7th grade) an grunger, a skanker, an alternative rocker, a dead-head or a stoner. If you were trying to be any one of those things, you were called a "poser" (also known as a "poseur"). I remember calling many people "posers". With whatever you were, either you were living it or you were a poser. Posers -> Now, from what I gather, either you are a punk, emo, hipster or a juggalo. Also, jocks listen to heavy metal now. Fuck that. This world is going to shit. When I was in High School in the early 90's metal was still totally fringe... I remember how shocked I was the first time I saw a US Army commercial using metal as the soundtrack? :facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 oh shit I had totally forgotten about "poseurs". But yeah it was totally music-related. So did the 80's. 70's was more school-type related. It all died with the end of Grunge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirch Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 hmmmm, early 90's hipsters were very different from late 90's hipsters.. same with the 80's. nowadays it's all just one big amalga-gamma-mation of the past, hybridized bullshit, and 'whatever'. the same as it ever was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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