What is a hipster you say? Well, my definition of a hipster is a mid 20′s person who claim to dislike all that is mainstream or popular. They really like indie music, which seems similar to emo kids. However, unlike emo’s they are quick to shun a band/artist the moment they end up on a soundtrack, TV commercial or on the radio. Hipsters also dislike mainstream fashion which makes them easily spotted since guys tend to wear tight fitting high water pants with their flannels or accessorizing with their bandannas worn as scarfs. Emo’s are similar in respect to their love of tight pants, but hipsters usually dress in a lighter shade compared to an emo’s dark bleak colored wearing selves.

Hipsters hairstyles usually range from medium to long and is usually a little messy and parted to the side. Hipster can usually be found riding fixed gear bicycles, aka fixies, that they built from scratch. Some are painted some flamboyant colors to draw extra attention to them. Hipsters are usually seen shopping at thrift stores, while your emo kid can be found at your local Hot Topic.

So what do you think, are hipsters just plain jane emo kids? I think not. It is a whole separate subculture, who isn’t focusing on their life/world sucking as the emo kids are stuck on.

I just hope the culture does not catch on like emo has.

Another example of a group of hipsters

Fixed Gear Bike aka Fixie

Another Hipster fixie bike

Example of Hipster Flannel love

It doesn’t even look good on the girls. Well that may be in part because most of the girls I see wearing emo pants have huge asses or their hip to ass ratio is way off.  But even it they are skinny, it just doesn’t look right ( see exhibit a)

Exhibit A

Handkerchief code or hanky code (also known as bandana code and flagging) is a way of indicating, usually among gay male casual sex-seekers or BDSM practitioners in the leather subculture in the United States, Canada and Europe, whether they are a top or bottom, and what kind of sex they are seeking, by wearing cotton color-coded handkerchiefs (bandanas), usually in the back pocket. Hanky code was widely used in the 1970s as a gay code, however it is increasingly mainstream.

Today the bandanas are worn almost exclusively in the rear pocket, on the left side of the body for tops and on the right for bottoms, just as tops wear their keys on the left belt loop and bottoms on the right. In the past bandanas were also worn tied around the neck (with the knot positioned on either the left or right side); around the ankle (when wearing boots or when undressed); hung from the left or right side of the belt, or on other parts of the body.