Urban Culture

Just when you think mainstream culture couldn’t get any shallower along comes the hipster.

I'm kind of just holding this Monocle mag, it's not like I read…Photo: Charlie Brewer.

No, I don’t mean the hipster sub-culture that beat writers like Jack Kerouac identified with in the 50s or low riding jeans most of us shouldn’t wear, I’m talking about the new breed of inner city trendy taking over small bars, laneways and cafe\bookstores everywhere.

Somehow draping yourself in ridiculous clothes and capering around while being deliberately ironic has become highly desirable for thousands of twenty and thirty somethings.

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  • Ari says:

    04:50pm | 02/04/12

    “Somehow while no one was paying attention the previously separate sub-cultures of indie, emo, fashion victim and dilettante Lefty coalesced into a super scene where saying and doing nothing of substance is considered profound.” Saying and doing nothing of substance [yet considering it] profound = the very essence of this… Read more »

  • Dicko says:

    01:21pm | 21/07/11

    Is this why the rainbow drawers are becoming scarce in Newtown? They are morphing into Hipsters! I got a laugh out of this piece. Read more »

 

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