Stuff Hipsters Hate

Jan 15
Converses Now, I can already hear the protestations, the torches and pitchforks and cries that I’ve got it wrong. But after months of extensive immersion research, I’m forced to conclude that authentic, through-and-through hipsters hate the ol’ One Stars. In major urban areas that double as hipster enclaves, Chucks can now be seen gracing the feet of greasy teenagers, plump, bespectacled 30-year-old women and middle-aged guidos riding the subway. Hipsters know no loyalty—though Converses have long been a hallmark of the clique, the trendsetters barely thought twice about kicking their beat-up kicks to the curb the second they noticed white stars gracing the feet of the common man. Now, they’ve traded up to equally ratty Keds and Vans (each pair of which, incidentally, they’ve also “totally had since like high school”). To be sure, the childlike footwear will soon spread like wildfire among everyday losers, hot on Chuck Taylors’ holey heels, and hipsters will co-opt their next shoe de jour—work boots, maybe, or hip hop kids’ puffy white sneakers. Or mayhaps hepcats will circle back to the tan Sketchers they wore in seventh-grade—exact replicas of the skater shoes that were stolen from the locker room during gym class. Oh shit, Sketchers with JNCOs, baby Ts and Y-necklaces as the next It outfit—check back in a year, you’ll be calling me Nostradamus. (Photo)

Converses

Now, I can already hear the protestations, the torches and pitchforks and cries that I’ve got it wrong. But after months of extensive immersion research, I’m forced to conclude that authentic, through-and-through hipsters hate the ol’ One Stars. In major urban areas that double as hipster enclaves, Chucks can now be seen gracing the feet of greasy teenagers, plump, bespectacled 30-year-old women and middle-aged guidos riding the subway. Hipsters know no loyalty—though Converses have long been a hallmark of the clique, the trendsetters barely thought twice about kicking their beat-up kicks to the curb the second they noticed white stars gracing the feet of the common man.

Now, they’ve traded up to equally ratty Keds and Vans (each pair of which, incidentally, they’ve also “totally had since like high school”). To be sure, the childlike footwear will soon spread like wildfire among everyday losers, hot on Chuck Taylors’ holey heels, and hipsters will co-opt their next shoe de jour—work boots, maybe, or hip hop kids’ puffy white sneakers. Or mayhaps hepcats will circle back to the tan Sketchers they wore in seventh-grade—exact replicas of the skater shoes that were stolen from the locker room during gym class. Oh shit, Sketchers with JNCOs, baby Ts and Y-necklaces as the next It outfit—check back in a year, you’ll be calling me Nostradamus.

(Photo)

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    uncomfortable cheapness...grace but, well,...tribe has...
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    rocking my black 8-eyelet Docs...awesome yellow laces. XD
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    shoes here at Baldwin that I’ve...thrift store, so I’m guessing their from
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    Hate Hahaha we can only hope. That would crack
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    never gotten into Keds. Always found them...bit girly. I did
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