So You Think You're A Hipster

Product Description

50 insightful entries examining the self-proclaimed urban elite. Skinny jeans? Check. Charity-shop clothing? Check. Non-essential prescription glasses? Check. Beanie balanced artfully on the back of your skull? Check. These items have become the uniform for a new breed of young people
- hipsters
- determined to take over cities with their alternative" ways whilst overloading on irony & striving to be original & creative. So You Think You're a Hipster? examines what it takes to become one of this ever-growing tribe of middle-class urbanites just as desperate to be accepted by their peers as they are to receive the next rent cheque from mum & dad. Over the following pages a series of hilarious case studies will identify typical examples of the subculture helping you to avoid any future encounters with them. Take thrift-store guy who at 35 still works selling worn sneakers & threadbare t-shirts for extortionate amounts & still dreams of one day getting his latest album reviewed on Pitchfork. Or the aspiring author who lugs around an oldfashioned typewriter to write down her inspirational musings at a moments notice. Then there's ironic moustache man whose facial hair makes him feel like a highly individual fashion maverick despite the fact all his graphic designer friends have one too."