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20 the new 10…Insights into Hipster Fashion

May 15, 2008 · 5 Comments

The other day I was listening to some Bangers with a friend of mine–

(side note isn’t it funny how “friend” takes on two entirely different meanings–like it could mean high-five pal or secretive, don’t want mom or anyone else to know, rip your clothes off, and bring sexy back type thing…I will let you decide which this is)

when we started talking about getting older. Specifically we started to talk about how we don’t feel like we are ready to be as responsible as our ages make us out to be.  Like I am 23 but really feel like a 17 year old.

At first I just felt kinda bad that I don’t feel older, but then it hit me like an angry girlfriend, if 40 is the new 30, then I am really only 13 and have no reason to feel guilty.  Hmm. Then I started to think about feeling 13 and something else dawned on me.

Hipster fashion totally is channeling this drop your age by ten years thing.  Like it seems that a lot of fashion today is best described as “dress like someone who is ten years younger than you are.”

Like it seems that a lot of “fashionable” and “hip” people are totally channeling the I am a little kid and want to wear everything and don’t care if it matches aesthetic…which i love by the way. Like I see a lot of fashion today and I cannot help but think of my little cousin GiGi when she was 8 or so and how she would roll over to our house with tangled hair, cowgirl boots, a leotard, and a poofy tutu.

I don’t know what do you think?

Do you think fashion today is of the dress like a crazy, fashionably autonomous, little kid variety?

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