Hipsters

Mougar is a hipster.

http://www.healthdiscovery.net/links/calculators/ideal_bw_men.htm


according to this 170lbs for someone 5'10" would put them in the "large frame" category.

not really what i'm shooting for...

WOW-- what a mean crowd! Let the hipsters live and dress as they like! I love the research that went into some posts.. charts and stuff--- very impressive. I'd rather deal with hipsters then old folks like myself (40+) who have new babies and an allowance from mom and dad.
OH no-- now I'm bein' the mean one......

except for those whose knots won't fit.

bobbybrummel wrote: [quote=RockerGirl77]The classic Buddy Holly (Sol Moscots) frame

Didn't moscot only start their frame line in the past few years? And I thought they were going more for Woody Allen than Buddy Holly. I think for Buddy Holly your best bet are Shuron Freeways. They also make a frame that is the precise Malcolm X frame, or the incorrectly named "horn-rimmed glasses" of Noah Bennett on Heroes (i.e. browline).




compare to:




You know, I think the thick black frame, save for a few details is pretty similar from Woody Allen to Buddy Holly to the modern hipster asshole. What does it matter - thick black frame = classic.

"The newly-made frames are based on styles from the MOSCOT archives from the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's, retaining all of the authenticity of the original frame style right down to real glass lenses in our sunglasses traditional hardware, and lens colors that precisely duplicate the true old school colors first fabricated by the company in the 1940's."

And I wasn't around back in the day so I'm not here to argue who invented what, but my b/f has been stopped by (and interviewed by) multiple people (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/01/fashion/20081002-RUNWAY_5.html including the New york Times ) who have asked him "Are those real "Moscots" - and they are. So I think its safe to go with it.

Irony? Here's irony, the wearing vintage stuff was big 30 years ago (and it was way cheaper too). There is no more rebel fashion because it's all been done before.

There's a character in Christian Kracht's book Fatherland who only wears t-shirts with corporate advertisements on them---he does it to irritate all the hipsters around him at parties. that's brilliant.

prospectus wrote:
The really great thing about Brooklyn is we all think we're the innovators when really we're just early adopters of (hopefully) growing trends (voting Democrat, organic food and green markets, locally made clothes bought at 5th Ave. shops, funny hats, reading, etc. etc.). It's like being the second or third guy in a pyramid scheme (at least as far as feeding my tiny little ego...)

Yeah, and the shitty thing about Brooklyn, for those of us who are actually from here, is that we have to overhear the know-it-all newcomers talk ignorantly about Brooklyn like they were the first (white) people to discover it--feeding their tiny little egos, over.. and over.. and over..

Another link to add to the mix.

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

Xlize, Obamanut is just jealous. Ignore him.

xlizellx wrote:

...I think that's how NYC works. People come and go. There is always a change in people or else there would be nothing special about New York City - it would just be people living. No ebb and flow of people coming and going.

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years” -- Thomas Wolfe

Just because some people weren't born here, don't hold that against us. We didn't get to choose that -- we DID get to choose to move here.

Right, "people come and go," that's why when I grew up here, almost everyone that was here was FROM here.. EVERYONE. Either that, or they were from ANOTHER COUNTRY, i.e. an immigrant.

When some kid was from another state, e.g. California, it was like this big exotic deal.

See, that is exactly what I'm talking about. You have no idea what Brooklyn was "always" like, because you just got here. Some of us have been here for generations. Yet you feel the need to tell me "how New York works."

Apparently you're not grasping this, but you should know that it's not the transient, long-term tourists that give a place its character--it's the NATIVES. Name one good thing that New York is famous for that is the product of suburban kids coming here on parentally-funded trysts? New York became world-famous because of its accent, its spirit, its attitude, sense of humor, etc. etc. etc... Funny, but I don't recall any of that being the product of Dylan or Caitlyn from Eagle Ridge Drive.

It has nothing to do with being "lucky" to be from New York. It has to do with the difference between this once being a place where real, genuine, people lived and died, as opposed to a movie set used by hordes of media-brainwashed followers to act out a television fantasy on mommy and daddy's tab.

excellent verbal sparing !!

we should all meet and debate this.. well you should..

i'll watch & listen

this is such great stuff

and i wont say my hood got fucked up due to "hipsters" but my hood is DEF fucked up !!!