steveo Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Ooh, all the experts are here; could you advise me what to buy a nostalgia ridden ex clubber father of three for his fiftieth?I was thinking a Kangol deerstalker Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Well, let's see - getting into the spirit of the thread to date: you might as well just buy yourself a coffin and wait patiently for the inevitable. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Pipe & slippers. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 1/10 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 "Well, let's see - getting into the spirit of the thread to date: you might as well just buy yourself a coffin and wait patiently for the inevitable."..or emigrating as i called it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I think there must be a period of at least a few years between "too old for skinny jeans" and Victor Meldrew. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 There is - it's the period that comes just after you've acquired a paunch and hence need to re-assess your trousering. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 and your coffin i guess. Hopefully they take refunds. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveR Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 "I think there must be a period of at least a few years between "too old for skinny jeans" and Victor Meldrew."Roughly 23 - 73 yo, I reckon, so a few years.The annoying thing about hipsters (or any other tribe adherents) post 30 is that the combination of contrivance and conformity obscures the individual completely; it makes is easy to conclude (probably completely unfairly) that someone is probably a bit of a bore and a bit of a nob, which is not a winning combination.And the great thing about being 40 something is that you can do the stuff you know you like, get nostalgic about the stuff you used to like, and still look forward to the stuff you plan to try. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 DaveR Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> And the great thing about being 40 something is> that you can do the stuff you know you likeSuch as listening to Huey Lewis and The News, cutting stilton with a "shovel", and the annual ski trip. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 It's just fashion - contrived and conforming maybe - but that's always been a large part of fashion too hasn't it?Is 29 the offical cut-off for not being interested in fashion? I didn't realise. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 "We are the goon squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep!" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Aaah, there's your problem, after 30 you should try to be stylish*, not fashionable.That's just a fools errand!!*If you care about that sort of thing Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 "And the great thing about being 40 something is that you can do the stuff you know you like, get nostalgic about the stuff you used to like, and still look forward to the stuff you plan to try."Nicely put.I might fantasise about the baggy straight flares I made from my parents' 70s curtains. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 RosieH Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I can't help feeling it's kind of> pathetic to rail against people half your age (or> a third your age...!Rail against is a tad harsh - take the piss maybe? When I dressed as "an autonomous individual who aint conformin' man" I was fine with old duffers mocking me and/or tutting under their breath. Good. They didn't 'get it' - and I didn't want them to. I certainly didn't want them to "Get with it, daddy-o." If we (old gits) didn't mock and tut and shake our sage-ly heads at the young they will be denied the warm glow of satisfaction that we cardigan-wearing coffin-dodgers can only get with a Horlicks when it's at just the right temperature. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveR Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 "It's just fashion - contrived and conforming maybe - but that's always been a large part of fashion too hasn't it? Is 29 the offical cut-off for not being interested in fashion? I didn't realise."I've always thought fashion pretty much amounts to "last year this shirt was cool, but now it's shit. This year this shirt is cool, next year it will be shit.". In that very simple way, you're never too young to not be interested in fashion.Similarly 'lifestyle'. As far as I can see, lifestyle means that there is presumed to be some invisible correlation between where I live, what music I listen to, what car I drive, and where I buy my pants. No thanks.I just like trying new stuff, and I'm grateful when some new trend wheels around and whatever it is turns out to be great. But I'm very happy to p!ss all over stuff that's fashionable but crap, because that's another pleasure of being 40...give or take a few years. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Being unfashionable is of course - quite fashionable - these days. So many people love to shout about how they don't follow fashion - and yet most people's current crop of clothes still follow certain trends. Maybe not seasonal 'magazine' trends, but general trends. That's what most shops stock.. general trends.Personally when I see someone - anyone - of any age - wearing something that generates some sort of response in people that see them in it, I generally think "good on 'em". They make the world more interesting, one way or another. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 *wot *Bob* said.Except me of course, I wear a bowler, a sheepskin tanktop, kilt and black plimossols to spit in the face of fashion junkies**my missus buys me the tanktop, the rest is all my choice Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salsaboy Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 It's true he does wear this. I've seen him in Hoxton, Shoreditch and Peckham, hipstering.???? Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Except me of course, I wear a bowler, a sheepskin> tanktop, kilt and black plimossols to spit in the> face of fashion junkies*> Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc97 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 "Being unfashionable is of course - quite fashionable - these days. "Ah, a normcore fan. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyDeliah Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 El Pibe Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> At 14 is to be encouraged, at 24 its to be> tolerated, in your 30s...seriously, grow up.> It's the older ones that really annoy.Why?Is there a rule book somewhere that says you have to start wearing beige at a certain age? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 No, you do what you want whatever age you are. But hopefully you don't feel the need to do what you want because everyone else is doing it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyDeliah Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I'm not fashionable anyway in clothes or lifestyle, but I think I am unusual. I don't generally give a toss what other people want to wear or how they want to live (if it doesn't negatively impact on other people's lives). Most people seem to follow fashions though and the hipster fashion is all the same thing really. There will be someonething else to come along and moan about soon.It's not your fashion so you hate it.Kind of stupid really. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Don't think anyone actually hates it. Hate is a bit much. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/5/#findComment-742976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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