Thread: Hipster vs old school

i can honestly say i dress and act the same (well A LOT less wild) and personality wise the same as i have since the 5th grade !( settled down a bit after my first child was born.lol. ) i even wear a couple shirts still that i got in 8th grade , i just turned 34 , everyone who knows me says i should have been born in the 1800-1900's do to my hobby's and manors ect (and that was before the wet shaving )

My wife always says that my taste in clothes is an old man's.
She vetoes much of what I would buy, so I tend to wear Gothic t-shirts every day, and always wear hiking shoes. I am of course well groomed and always clean. I just like angels and grim reapers.
That is also my work attire (I am a systems engineer).

Originally Posted by Bruno

My wife always says that my taste in clothes is an old man's.
She vetoes much of what I would buy, so I tend to wear Gothic t-shirts every day, and always wear hiking shoes. I am of course well groomed and always clean. I just like angels and grim reapers.
That is also my work attire (I am a systems engineer).

thats funny , my x wife started a kick where she is starting to dress like an older woman with a mix of a teenager ...lol... but i must say she ALWAYS looks classy no matter if she is at home or out and about ...

I have 2 corn cobs and 2 reg pipes ha ha Yah SWMBO vetos a lot of my clothes too! I like classic that sounds better then old school ha ha

Get a tattoo of teardrop or two by your eye. That will put an end to a lot of that kind of talk.

Originally Posted by gooser

i can honestly say i dress and act the same (well A LOT less wild) and personality wise the same as i have since the 5th grade !

I think a lot of us probably feel that way. I'm 64, and I have photos of me in high school wearing khakis and white t-shirt. When I went to college, I traded the khakis for jeans, and eventually they started making colored t-shirts, so now I wear black ones. I feel like pretty much the same person, too.

Originally Posted by DGilloon

Get a tattoo of teardrop or two by your eye. That will put an end to a lot of that kind of talk.

And quite possibly get you killed....probably not a good idea.

lol yah i didnt say i wanted to look gangster ha ha

It's not so much about doing it to be cool, it is doing it to make yourself feel cool, which is pretty much what people to generally definable sub-cultures do. Of course everyone says "I dress like this because I like it, I make it look good." But if you're sporting handlebars, dressing distinctly 'old school', smoking pipe or whatnot to distinguish yourself from the masses, that is basically what hipsters do. And metal heads, goths, 50-s revivalists, you name it. The point is that it is not that terribly original, as you distinguish yourself from the larger mass to still blend into a smaller mass (a specific sub-culture). Now you may not care about that, I don't, but indeed, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, dresses like a duck...

As long as you refrain from saying "This is not just about the way I dress, this is a lifestyle, this is who I am," you'll be fine. Clothes do not define you as a person, they don't say that much about your character, moral fibre and backbone. Please don't start believing they do, that way lies damnation.

I'm 28, shave with a straight, smoke my occasional cigar, sport big ass chops and buy half of my stuff at army dumps. It's what I do, mainly because I enjoy it and I get away with it. I used to be more in the industrial/metal corner, but I found it a very limiting way to express myself. Now I broadened my musical horizon, listen to mostly everything but world music, most modern pop and rock music and jazz (swing and big band is not jazz!). These days I don't really have this terrible need to dress a certain way just for people to notice I am who I am.

But I'm not doing any of the things I do to be different, old-school, defiant of mass culture or any of that BS. On certain occasions I do enjoy to be a bit more flamboyant, but in general I'm pretty casual Joe average. Loud and annoying half of the time, but not in a "Hey look at me, I'm different!" kinda way.

I often feel there's a general lack of authenticity in most of the people I meet and see. That goes for special people (sub-culture people) and Joe averages who take a ridiculous amount of pride in being down-to-earth, honest, 'real', working class folk discussing the latest episode of Fifth Gear (which makes me cringe in several places simultaneously). I'm not saying there's anything wrong with expressing yourself or with being down-to-earth, working class (there is something seriously wrong with Fifth Gear though). People put too much stock in how they appear to other people and distill some weird, misplaced sort of pride from that. People take themselves way too serious, in general.

I mean, if you're really down-to-earth, 'real', trying to define yourself as an individual as opposed to being part of 'the masses', that's all fine and dandy, but you don't actually have to hit that home with everything you do in order to be that.

Okay, rant over, back to hipsters and their evil ways.

the difference that I see between hipster an old school is the mentality. you can be a hipster doofus all you want but old school is a mentality. I know what you mean hipster doofus are those guys with a fake horn rimmed glasses just for the hell of it with sports jacket and the beard but old school is a mentality that 1 Carries. I consider myself old school but I'm not a hipster doofus. sometimes I dress old school sometimes I dress hipster sometimes but I'm not a hipster doofus I'm old school. from my 2 cents I think it's all about the mentality ones a mentality and ones a way of life.