Thinking about how Hipster fashion ultimately is any pre—1960s fashion with a modern twist and that’s it.
Thinking about it now I was actually a mix between a hipster and weird girl in school and realized it years after the fact because my mental health was in the gutter back then. My parents ran a boutique that had a lot of drag customers and tbh I low key regret not getting into goth during that period because my stepmom legit had amazing vintage and alt pieces I would’ve loved.
My stepmom was a rockabilly who also had hipster traits and it showed in her music taste and some of it I would up getting into then and others later.
In my sophomore year of high school I became known for wearing a blue beret that I wore all the time while dressing in all black (just black tee and athletic pants with white stripes) and I distinctly remember while walking to the next class someone pointing at me and saying “Hipster, I like it!” Which I actually remember fondly now especially since my dad always hated hipsters and even once told me about that hipsters on food stamps article (which btw aged like milk).
My observations on hipsters based on my experiences was that I really liked movies from the 1930s and 40s especially if they were horror, I loved comic books (still do btw) and one of my fav artists was cab Calloway (still is too) and loved going to antique stores and flea markets before that became trendy. Thinking about it now I had interests in things goths liked that I liked then like Jhonen Vazquez’s Comics, Aurelio Voltaire and universal horror but I never had that paradigm shift to that until I saw flight foot warrior dressing rockabilly in 2018 and it literally caused that shift into alternative culture and fashion to happen.
Nu goth from what I know can be a type of Hipster goth but imo how Jack White has always dressed since his solo career imo is more representative of Hipster goth and that’s the type of look I try to imitate.
