Hipsters are agents of social change
The ranks of the skinny-jeaned get endlessly knocked – but I'm grateful for their part in making the lives of gay people easier
- Guardian UK
'The tide will turn and skinny jeans will be swept out of fashion, but hipsters will have brought gay to the mainstream, and made it part of our cultural vocabulary.' Photograph: Hackneyhipsterhate
You can always tell that a young man doesn't belong in Belfast when he has green and pink flower tattoos up his arms, a light brown moustache and shrink-wrapped skinny jeans. You can tell where he does belong – Shoreditch – which was why I wasn't surprised that the only time I saw a man dressed like this in Northern Ireland was when I was waiting to board the plane back to London. Clearly the young man was a hipster.
Described by Time Out as "zombies" who must be "buried for cool to be reborn" and by Adbusters as "a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion" that "represents the end of western civilisation" – hipsters aren't the most feted of subcultures. Blogs abound on the subject of just how annoying they are. Well, a Guardian writer defended hipsters back in 2008, and I think it's time to do it again
Read the full feature here - guardian.co.uk
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