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Old 07-05-2010, 07:07 PM   #139
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Originally Posted by octothorp View Post
I somehow missed this thread the first time around. I tend to think of hipsters as people who are extremely style-conscious but at the same time very interested in experimenting and playing with ideas of style. The street photos from the sartorialist are pretty much what I think of as being great hipster style. Of course, the other end of the spectrum is people who just try to look like American Apparel ads (and incidentally, AA is the most prominent ad on the sartorialist site).
That look is way more Euro than what we see as Hipsterism in North American culture which is much more 21st century geek bohemianism overlapping with remnants of emo subculture.
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