Your Mother's Fashion Sense
So yesterday, two of my friends were having a deep, meaningful discussion on whether the clothes one of them was wearing could be considered "hipster."
And by deep and meaningful, I actually mean "who the fuck cares."
But on the other hand, we all do, to some degree, I guess. For example, I recently started taking very careful measures to not buy any clothes with swastikas on them. Apparently, the swastika symbol isn't really popular among the cool Jewish kids these days, and they may pick on you if they find you wearing a Nazi brand T-shirt.
I actually remember back when I was in middle school, the cool thing to do was wear a T-shirt with your favorite band on it. So I would go to the closest shopping mall, and buy some excessively expensive shirt with some band logo on it, and go back to school with it on.
Me: "Hey, guys! I'm cool like you guys now! Look at my T-shirt!"
Cool Kid #1: "What is that?"
Me: "It's fuckin' Vanilla Ice, man!"
Cool Kid #2: "Get the fuck out of here, ya loser!"
I soon realized that not only did I have to know what the latest fashion is, but I also had to be keenly aware of what music the other kids were listening to at the time.
Me: "Hey guys! Look at my new Megallica T-shirt! Awesome, right?"
Cool Kid #1: "What the hell is a Megallica? Are you mispronouncing the name of the best band ever in the whole world? Get the fuck out of here, ya poser!"
Fortunately, when I was young, there wasn't that much else to consider fashion-wise. But from the little that I understood from my friends' discussion, dressing like a hipster is a little more complicated. See, apparently not only do hipsters dress in a unique fashion, they must also be unique in the same fashion as everyone else. And something about irony. As in, they have to incorporate the idea of irony into their clothing. Like being mainstream in a non-mainstream fashion. Or something.
But here's the thing. From the tone of my friends, you don't want to be a hipster anymore. It's uncool to be a hipster now, so you HAVE to dress in the exact opposite way as those hipsters. So in order to be properly non-hipster, you want to avoid any irony. In fact, jam as much non-irony as possible, and at the same time make sure you are conforming, but not in the same way as how everyone else is conforming.
It's apparently easy once you get the hang of it. Yeah, dawg.
And by deep and meaningful, I actually mean "who the fuck cares."
But on the other hand, we all do, to some degree, I guess. For example, I recently started taking very careful measures to not buy any clothes with swastikas on them. Apparently, the swastika symbol isn't really popular among the cool Jewish kids these days, and they may pick on you if they find you wearing a Nazi brand T-shirt.
I actually remember back when I was in middle school, the cool thing to do was wear a T-shirt with your favorite band on it. So I would go to the closest shopping mall, and buy some excessively expensive shirt with some band logo on it, and go back to school with it on.
Me: "Hey, guys! I'm cool like you guys now! Look at my T-shirt!"
Cool Kid #1: "What is that?"
Me: "It's fuckin' Vanilla Ice, man!"
Cool Kid #2: "Get the fuck out of here, ya loser!"
I soon realized that not only did I have to know what the latest fashion is, but I also had to be keenly aware of what music the other kids were listening to at the time.
Me: "Hey guys! Look at my new Megallica T-shirt! Awesome, right?"
Cool Kid #1: "What the hell is a Megallica? Are you mispronouncing the name of the best band ever in the whole world? Get the fuck out of here, ya poser!"
Fortunately, when I was young, there wasn't that much else to consider fashion-wise. But from the little that I understood from my friends' discussion, dressing like a hipster is a little more complicated. See, apparently not only do hipsters dress in a unique fashion, they must also be unique in the same fashion as everyone else. And something about irony. As in, they have to incorporate the idea of irony into their clothing. Like being mainstream in a non-mainstream fashion. Or something.
But here's the thing. From the tone of my friends, you don't want to be a hipster anymore. It's uncool to be a hipster now, so you HAVE to dress in the exact opposite way as those hipsters. So in order to be properly non-hipster, you want to avoid any irony. In fact, jam as much non-irony as possible, and at the same time make sure you are conforming, but not in the same way as how everyone else is conforming.
It's apparently easy once you get the hang of it. Yeah, dawg.