Tag Archives: style
On Style: Whose Fixed-gear Bikes?
*** In my previous entry, I focused more on using the concept of bricolage (Levi-Strauss 1966) to to discuss gender relations in the fashion of hipsters. This entry will expand on discussions of style. When I was in Seattle, I often saw hipsters riding down the hills with their “fixies” and thought it was crazy […]
Negotiating Race & Gender: Hipster Glasses, Skinny Jeans and Bon Iver
The “Sensitive” Hipster When I attended the Sasquatch! 2012 music festival in The Gorge, Washington (http://sasquatchfestival.com/) and Bon Iver was about to perform, I overheard a few “hipster” girls** conversing about Justin Vernon – the musician behind Bon Iver – and his “boyfriend qualities”. Both girls clamoured that he would make the “perfect boyfriend” because he […]
HS4013 Youth Cultures & Subcultures: "Too Mainstream" 