Michael Smith wrote:
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> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 11:53 -0400, Blackmail wrote:
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> > Lastly, and most importantly, why do people find this amorphous class of
> > individuals we're calling hipsters so detestable?
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> Can somebody indulge an old coot, dwelling in an un-hip part
> of town, and list for me a few of the markers of hipsterism?
> I'm not sure who's a hipster and who isn't. What do they wear?
> How do they cut their hair? What's the preferred body type?
> Are there diagnostic expressions or turns of phrase?
I'm equally in the dark. I believe Hipster was one of the older phrases from which the label "hippie" developed. When I first saw this subject line I thought it must refer to some lefover cultural relic from the 1940s -- perhaps some Jazz history.
Carrol