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HOW can you spot a genuine hipster from a non-genuine hipster, a square or an Aids victim?
Very tricky we know. But Lisa Pryor, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, knows how.
Think hard. Is someone close to you at risk of being considered a hipster? An art student riding an old Malvern Star along Bourke Street while wearing skinny jeans, a khaki anorak and heavy-framed glasses with massive lenses could almost certainly be diagnosed as one.
Sounds like an AIDS victim. No?
A guy who wears a $2 second-hand flannelette shirt while typing out plot points for a short film he describes as “edgy” on a $2000 laptop in a cafe on Abercrombie Street, is an open-and-shut case.
Open. Shut. Move on.
Hipsters are hard to describe because they are so full of contradictions. But like a toupee or AIDS-related wasting, you know it when you see it.
Unless, you’re wearing the toupee or have a fatal disease, in which case you try to be cool and ignore it…
Posted: 25th, October 2008 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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October 25th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I’m fairly sure I will be able to tell the difference; the markets crash will rapidly reinforce the need to demonstrate wealth by more conventional methods.
After all, the $2 shirt only works if you are sure people know that you can afford a $200 shirt…