Today after work, I walked into a store that had a "vintage" section, hoping to find something awesome, say, from the 30s or 40s or at least fabrics I can use...
...Everything on the rack was by Arizona Jean Company and from 1995/96.
Hold up...That's within 20 years. That's not vintage, that's just hipsters being fucking lazy and charging too much for shit you can pay $5 for at Salvation Army, I thought to myself.
And then low and behold, the hipster shop girl comes over and points out things on the rack, like she's some sort of fashionista princess...
"This jumper is super cute, don't you think? It really brings out the style of the period."
"...I think had that in 7th grade. I wore it with flannel and Doc Martens. In fact I think it's in my 7th grade picture that year."
(http://kaousuu.net/images/ang_7th.jpg) <--- Photographic evidence. The bottom had attached plaid flannel skort/skorts. The one in the store was almost identical.
"But, I don't think you understand the style that this represents."
"...Grunge?"
"Well, no, it was the pivotal look of the mid 1990s."
"You say it like it was so long ago."
"Well I was born in 1991 and..."
*cough*
"Are you okay?"
"Well, it's just that you're charging $60 for this...I don't even think my parents paid that much for it when it came out."
"The price higher because of the value of the clothing."
"...Right. You keep telling yourself that, I'm going to go buy it at Salvation Army up on the Eastside for 4 bucks. Take it easy, and good luck with your store."
I swear, I'm going to go to Salvation Army, spend $50, and resell everything for 5x the price I pay for it, calling it VINTAGE, that way, the hipsters get all ironic on me and shit. Fuck them. Fuck it all. I am now going to troll every "vintage" store until I find one that I can actually praise. Gah.
MAIL ORDER PUBIC LICE TIEM
IF ONLY.
In other news, I'm going to see if Craftland will buy some of my bags. I'd rather shop at a place full of awesome handmade goods than that shit.
Quote from: Suu on November 18, 2010, 07:01:00 PM
I swear, I'm going to go to Salvation Army, spend $50, and resell everything for 5x the price I pay for it, calling it VINTAGE, that way, the hipsters get all ironic on me and shit. Fuck them. Fuck it all. I am now going to troll every "vintage" store until I find one that I can actually praise. Gah.
This is a good plan. I suggest using your profits to buy all of the PBR in your town, in order to frustrate the few joys in the small lives of most hipsters.
That's a good plan, Suu.
As a side note, I'm only 4 years older than that chick, and don't remember the 90's too well, but christ, at least I don't think of them as "that period".
What a tard.
I remember the 70s... fuck I'm old. :sad:
Quote from: Hoopla on November 18, 2010, 09:39:22 PM
I remember the 70s... fuck I'm old. :sad:
Though I was born in 80,
Last weekend I went to the video rental store and there was this one young teen complaining to his friend that he had just watched the original Jaws and he was bored cause there was no CGI
I was debating whether the jail sentence for killing him would be worth it.
really? bitching about a lack of cheap effects?
thats just sad.
Apparently I was having babies when "vintage" was being established.
WTF. No, man, no fucking way do 15-year-old clothes qualify as "vintage". Fuuuuck that. I bet that store will be gone in a month.
I don't think the 90s will ever be a "fashion period" in my mind. Neither, I think, will any decade I participate in.
Perhaps posterity will see it, somehow, but I doubt I will.
NIgel....you aren't trolling us are you? There is really a 'vintage' store selling overpriced shit from a thrift store. I don't know how I feel about that right now. I think disdain.
I thought vintage was shit from the 70's and earlier.....
I think of vintage as pre-60's.
Even "old" just isn't what it used to be.
Not looking forward when shit I wore in high school is vintage.
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on November 18, 2010, 09:49:30 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on November 18, 2010, 09:39:22 PM
I remember the 70s... fuck I'm old. :sad:
Though I was born in 80,
Last weekend I went to the video rental store and there was this one young teen complaining to his friend that he had just watched the original Jaws and he was bored cause there was no CGI
I was debating whether the jail sentence for killing him would be worth it.
there isn't a jury born before 1975 that would convict you. They're probably still scared shitless of going into the water at the beach because of that movie.
(http://imgur.com/iY3X7.jpg)
:lulz: :lulz:
(http://imgur.com/VMXEf.jpg)
I fail to see anything funny here! Unless you're like, seven years old! Hrrumph!
I'm speechless.
Oh hey, my winter jacket is Arizona Jean Company from 2002. It's 8 years old! Maybe I could sell it to that store on consignment?
OHNO my kid's gonna be a hipster when he grows up? :x
:lulz: j/k Though I find it interesting that I wear vintage that I thought was just old and comfy after so many years of use... :lulz: But then whenever I go into an Aardvark's or whatever resale barn around town, I'm reminded of that all the time--"ohey this lame sweater is back IN?"
Last time I visited my 15 year old daughter, (Eris) we were looking at some photos, and her mum found one of the day she was born, and I was sat there, with my newborn daughter in my arms, wearing the same fucking hooded shirt that I happened to have on, that day, nearly 16 years later! "Dad, please tell me that's not the same shirt as you're wearing now". Couldn't lie to her, "What? I only kept it because I'm a fucking hipster! it reminds me of the day you were born my precious angel"
(Now I remember why me & her mother split up!) :lulz:
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
I understand completely. It's a sentimental thing, yeah?
It's nothing to do with any "Hipsterish" notions of retro cool, so let those haters think whatever they like, they'll be 'approaching middle age' one day, and I shudder to think what terminology
their kids will insult
them with.
Quote from: BadBeast on November 19, 2010, 02:35:55 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
I understand completely. It's a sentimental thing, yeah?
It's nothing to do with any "Hipsterish" notions of retro cool, so let those haters think whatever they like, they'll be 'approaching middle age' one day, and I shudder to think what terminology their kids will insult them with.
Actually, it's mostly that it fits and smells nice when I wash it and is just fucking comfortable as hell. The fact it's seen me through the surfeit of my teen years, my early adulthood and the birthing of 2 babies is probably just the icing on the cake... ;)
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
I have a sweater that my dad owned in the 1970s. I've been wearing it since I was 15. In the 90s, it was grunge, in the 00's, my friend's called me Kelso when I wore it, and now, I could sell it for $150 on Etsy to some hipster as vintage. I won't though, because it's comfy as all hell. The cuffs are all stretched out and it reminds me of the 3 or 4 cold days out of the year in Florida when I could wear it. I'm wearing it actually in my senior class picture, as in, the whole class sitting on the bleachers in the stadium. It was probably 60, but we were all freezing.
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:38:00 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on November 19, 2010, 02:35:55 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
I understand completely. It's a sentimental thing, yeah?
It's nothing to do with any "Hipsterish" notions of retro cool, so let those haters think whatever they like, they'll be 'approaching middle age' one day, and I shudder to think what terminology their kids will insult them with.
Actually, it's mostly that it fits and smells nice when I wash it and is just fucking comfortable as hell. The fact it's seen me through the surfeit of my teen years, my early adulthood and the birthing of 2 babies is probably just the icing on the cake... ;)
Mmmmm, Cake! :lol:
Quote from: Suu on November 19, 2010, 02:49:04 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
I have a sweater that my dad owned in the 1970s. I've been wearing it since I was 15. In the 90s, it was grunge, in the 00's, my friend's called me Kelso when I wore it, and now, I could sell it for $150 on Etsy to some hipster as vintage. I won't though, because it's comfy as all hell. The cuffs are all stretched out and it reminds me of the 3 or 4 cold days out of the year in Florida when I could wear it. I'm wearing it actually in my senior class picture, as in, the whole class sitting on the bleachers in the stadium. It was probably 60, but we were all freezing.
I hear you. 60'F is considered butt-cold out here in SD. :lulz:
And yeah, I wish I'd kept more of my mom's 70's stuff, but I only kept her jewelry that she tossed off. Oh wait, I just remembered--that pic of me in the French restaurant eating French onion soup in an Eiffel Tower t-shirt? THAT HAT is from the 70's. It was my mom's newsie and she didn't want it anymore. I still wear it and get compliments on it. But I just have a habit of picking up what I like rather than what's in fashion--if the two happen to meet in the middle, it's all good.
Quote from: BadBeast on November 19, 2010, 02:51:11 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:38:00 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on November 19, 2010, 02:35:55 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
I understand completely. It's a sentimental thing, yeah?
It's nothing to do with any "Hipsterish" notions of retro cool, so let those haters think whatever they like, they'll be 'approaching middle age' one day, and I shudder to think what terminology their kids will insult them with.
Actually, it's mostly that it fits and smells nice when I wash it and is just fucking comfortable as hell. The fact it's seen me through the surfeit of my teen years, my early adulthood and the birthing of 2 babies is probably just the icing on the cake... ;)
Mmmmm, Cake! :lol:
I know, I fucked up that analogy, probably, :lol:
:wink:
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 03:55:12 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on November 19, 2010, 02:51:11 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:38:00 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on November 19, 2010, 02:35:55 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 02:17:52 PM
The oldest thing I own as an article of clothing (and I wear it almost daily) is a pink cardigan I got from Lerner's when I was around 13. I'm 37. :lol:
I wear it like a slouchy robe.
I understand completely. It's a sentimental thing, yeah?
It's nothing to do with any "Hipsterish" notions of retro cool, so let those haters think whatever they like, they'll be 'approaching middle age' one day, and I shudder to think what terminology their kids will insult them with.
Actually, it's mostly that it fits and smells nice when I wash it and is just fucking comfortable as hell. The fact it's seen me through the surfeit of my teen years, my early adulthood and the birthing of 2 babies is probably just the icing on the cake... ;)
Mmmmm, Cake! :lol:
I know, I fucked up that analogy, probably, :lol:
It works for me! :)
Who is the loser asshole who decided that "deck" was the new word for cool? That was forced and an obvious miserable flop.
I just retired my favorite hoodie from when I was 18. :( I miss it.
I'm wearing a newer hoodie that isn't as awesome, a Natalie Dee T-shirt, and a pair of Juniors department jeans I got on eBay for $5. Also my bangs are pink. As far as I can tell, I'm a hipster.
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:02:18 PM
Who is the loser asshole who decided that "deck" was the new word for cool? That was forced and an obvious miserable flop.
I just retired my favorite hoodie from when I was 18. :( I miss it.
I'm wearing a newer hoodie that isn't as awesome, a Natalie Dee T-shirt, and a pair of Juniors department jeans I got on eBay for $5. Also my bangs are pink. As far as I can tell, I'm a hipster.
:D I think you're just a really cute dudette who wears the stuff she loves most. You'll always be in style, for that very reason. People who don't go by what's going to be out of style in the next 10 minutes but instead what they love and makes them feel good on the inside by wearing it on the outside--those are the people who are ALWAYS in fashion, and ALWAYS cool.
ALSO: NATALIE DEEEEEEEE!!!
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 05:07:25 PM
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:02:18 PM
Who is the loser asshole who decided that "deck" was the new word for cool? That was forced and an obvious miserable flop.
I just retired my favorite hoodie from when I was 18. :( I miss it.
I'm wearing a newer hoodie that isn't as awesome, a Natalie Dee T-shirt, and a pair of Juniors department jeans I got on eBay for $5. Also my bangs are pink. As far as I can tell, I'm a hipster.
:D I think you're just a really cute dudette who wears the stuff she loves most. You'll always be in style, for that very reason. People who don't go by what's going to be out of style in the next 10 minutes but instead what they love and makes them feel good on the inside by wearing it on the outside--those are the people who are ALWAYS in fashion, and ALWAYS cool.
ALSO: NATALIE DEEEEEEEE!!!
Actually, since the
entire premise of identifying who is a hipster is based on assuming you can tell a person's motivations by looking at them, my actual motivations for dressing the way I do don't matter at all.
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:02:18 PM
Who is the loser asshole who decided that "deck" was the new word for cool? That was forced and an obvious miserable flop.
I never even heard that word... shows how out of the loop I am.
I hadn't heard about it since I saw that recipe. I think it's queer.
Quote from: Hoopla on November 19, 2010, 05:15:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:02:18 PM
Who is the loser asshole who decided that "deck" was the new word for cool? That was forced and an obvious miserable flop.
I never even heard that word... shows how out of the loop I am.
Me neither, and I usually have my finger right on the pulse of what's fresh, and happening!
Dat's whai they call me Mr Superfly guy, when ai is hanging wit mai cru, ai is teh main man, cuz we is rollin' deeper than deep! Nawatti mean?
(Fuck knows where that came from, I must be channelling some right bunky shite!) Got to remember to get a fucking grip on meself! :fap:
As far as I can tell, "deck" is a forced meme some internet asspack made up and it completely failed to take off.
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:35:09 PM
As far as I can tell, "deck" is a forced meme some internet asspack made up and it completely failed to take off.
Like the Windows Vista of Memes?
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:10:33 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 19, 2010, 05:07:25 PM
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:02:18 PM
Who is the loser asshole who decided that "deck" was the new word for cool? That was forced and an obvious miserable flop.
I just retired my favorite hoodie from when I was 18. :( I miss it.
I'm wearing a newer hoodie that isn't as awesome, a Natalie Dee T-shirt, and a pair of Juniors department jeans I got on eBay for $5. Also my bangs are pink. As far as I can tell, I'm a hipster.
:D I think you're just a really cute dudette who wears the stuff she loves most. You'll always be in style, for that very reason. People who don't go by what's going to be out of style in the next 10 minutes but instead what they love and makes them feel good on the inside by wearing it on the outside--those are the people who are ALWAYS in fashion, and ALWAYS cool.
ALSO: NATALIE DEEEEEEEE!!!
Actually, since the entire premise of identifying who is a hipster is based on assuming you can tell a person's motivations by looking at them, my actual motivations for dressing the way I do don't matter at all.
I can't indentify them, myself. But then I couldn't do emo either. I fail at these distinctions.
Quote from: Hoopla on November 19, 2010, 05:15:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:02:18 PM
Who is the loser asshole who decided that "deck" was the new word for cool? That was forced and an obvious miserable flop.
I never even heard that word... shows how out of the loop I am.
Huyup, I'm with the rest of y'all--never heard of that "deck" term, and thanks to urbandictionary.com and this place, it reminded me of this definition instead:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=upper+decking
Ah, the Urban Dictionary! I went through a phase of sending definitions in to them. Got 8 published. Put BadBeast in their search box, and up they come.
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Oh, it's a really obscure number, you've probably never heard of it...
:lulz: :fap: :lulz:
I thought I was fashionably downturned until I had to dress up and found I couldn't because all my clothes were shit. Turns out I'm just poor. It's a fine line.
I tend to go for a more of a 'Low Style Post-Downturn Retro Crusty' look, that I've been working on for about 20 years. 8)
(http://i53.tinypic.com/2qmoief.jpg)
:lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on November 19, 2010, 05:35:09 PM
As far as I can tell, "deck" is a forced meme some internet asspack made up and it completely failed to take off.
Ive never once heard of the word "Deck" being used as an adjective before this thread.
Also, while were on the topic of hipsters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lmvX00TLY
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/emo-scene-hipster-dont-read-my-diary.jpg)