Before starting Eng 201 I have never really affiliated the word “hipster” with anything. I had never used the word in a sentence and have never really heard it used. So if I was asked what a hipster was before I had enrolled in Eng 201 I would have associated the word with “hip”. A hipster being someone that is hip, like the word “gangster” comes from the word “gang,” that is how I connect the word hip and hipster.
After taking the first couple of classes of Eng 201 and having discussed, and have read some literature on the subject, my definition of a hipster has changed. I now connect the word hipster with the word poseur, which in my mind means a “want to be.” Someone that wants to be hip but really isn’t. So if I had to make a definition of a hipster it would be, “Someone who is trying to be hip, but really isn’t.”
The criterion that makes up a hipster is vast and not concrete. Some basic ideas that hold true, that make up a hipster, is a person who tries to keep up with the new fashion of the time. A hipster would want to look the look that is most popular at the time.
Another factor that would make a hipster a hipster would be the way they talked. A hipster would use the slang of the day, and would use language that implied that they were “cool”.
Another factor that creates a hipster is age. I imagine that since a hipster means “Someone who is trying to be hip, but really isn’t.” Then a true hipster could be any age.
I remember back in the 90’s when baggy jeans were “the hip” thing to wear, especially the ones with holes in the knees, and baggy enough for your boxers to hang out a bit, I remember seeing a man probably in his late 50’s wearing the baggy jean apparel and his boxers hanging out. He to me now is the classic example of a hipster.
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