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post #16 of 21
2/20/09 at 9:49pm
If you've ever gone to their domiciles, it's Apple-Mania.
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post #17 of 21
2/20/09 at 9:53pm
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I've noticed a lot of female hipsters (and girls that identified themselves as "hardcore" and "metal" in 2003) tended to move on to high fashion and lost that angsty disposition they used to be so proud of. Maybe todays hipster chicks are tomorrow's SF members' wives.


I hope not. hipster girls are for banging not marrying.
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post #18 of 21
2/20/09 at 9:59pm
My niece is 29 years old, and she's still a dedicated hipster. I think she'll sell out when she gets tired of working two jobs to support her hipster boyfriend. He's the same age as her, and he describes himself as a "professional vinyl disc appraiser" -- in other words, he has a part-time job in a used record shop. Whenever I see him, the words that come to mind are "lazy slob".

She finally decided to go back to college, and is taking a few courses this semester. Hopefully she'll find a better boyfriend and dump the other guy -- it would be hard to get any worse.
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post #19 of 21
2/20/09 at 9:59pm
I shop at Whole Foods several times a week.... does that make me a hipster?

I think hipster women sell out in the late 20's.... once they evolve to soccer mom status. But then again.. i think this evolution is contingent on where the woman lives. If she lives in Williamsburg or on Smith Street.. she could be a hipster until she is a member of AARP. But if she lives in the burbs... her fall from grace will be abrupt and without warning.
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post #20 of 21
2/23/09 at 2:30pm
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i think this evolution is contingent on where the woman lives.



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post #21 of 21
2/23/09 at 3:06pm
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Fuuma is completely correct. The rest of you guys don't seem particularly knowledgeable about the whole "hipster" culture. What it is in essence is a specific form of consumerism, and the "counter culture" aspect of it is not a rejection of capitalism but a rejection of normative consumer habits. So, as Fuuma said, never. I've known very successful, forty something hipsters who run the gamut from banker to university professor to lawyer to boutique owner. Interestingly, those professionals who play more at being a hipster but do not need to benefit from their consumer habits seem, ime, to be more fully immersed in playing the part.

I agree, it's an oppositional consumerism. Which, as I maintained, they don't sell out per se, they outgrow it. They lose the opponsitional POV in their consumerism.

This reminds me of a great short story I read in a collection of cyberspace stories. It deals with a near future, highly networked society, and the story is told in the first person by a guy that monitors consumerism. The goal of all people like him, is to identify an emerging niche market, as it will make them wealthy. Hipster fits right in with that. The story took place in Seattle, btw, and I don't want to say more, as it will ruin the story if anyone should ever read it. I'll post the book later, when I'm home.
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