Let’s face it hipsters, the time of the skinny jeans over. Passé. Nice shoes might save us a bit, but actually it is out for a longer time now, because acutally we look the same for five years now, and in a way that it isn’t even retro. It is just annoying. Ups. Well, most of us hipster got aware of that, but here comes our dilemma: The skinny jeans is out, but there is nothing to replace it. The fashion uniform of the hipster reached a blind end. We wear something that is over. Out. Just not fashionable anymore. But we can’t help it. Brandnew, you’re out! Well, we take it on the chin.
Indeed, skinny jeans are still the internationally acclaimed uniform of the hipsters. Male hipsters, female hipsters and Kate Moss wear them. We can spot each other in New York, Berlin or London easily. Okay, we like to wear funny glasses at the moment, a bit like Ugly Betty. But that doesn’t help us. You think that is a made up problem? Well, style is attitude, and life is hard so it needs some design, don’t you think?
So on a recent evening in the delicious restaurant in Barbican me and my friends aka three skinny trousered hipsters were looking out into the London night getting excited about our fundamental problem. Sure, there are some experiments to replace the skinny jeans with a loose trouser, but let’s face it, they don’t really have a chance on the hipster mass market. They are exceptional hipster fashion, made for moments when we hipsters dress up. Not a choice for everyday hipster life. And the mass market for hipster knows that, too.
I tried to buy trousers today. Two of the pullovers which I stole from the wardrobe of the fashionable mum want to be worn with white trousers. First of all, I thought of the classical skinny jeans, but then I changed my mind to one a little bit wider and maybe made of wool. In fact, I am so out now, that I couldn’t find a light trouser at all. So please, if you have any idea where to get one help me. If you have an idea how we get out of this dilemma help all of us.
the “boyfriend jeans” is a real option for me right now. i buy them vintage (i havn’t worn levis for ages but now i am back to 501 cuts….). i already own two of them now. plus they are so much more comfortable than skinny jeans. and they are nice with a pair of oxford shoes! :-)
What about wearing no trousers at all?
Seriously. Maybe – at least we girls – should wear more skirts and dresses?
Still worrying about fashion? That’s what’s old fashioned, in the first place.
Worrying about REAL problems, that’s fashionable. E.g. our polluted environment, our economies, those fucking gangsters we call “bankers”.
boyfriend jeans sound like a nice idea, as skirts and dresses do, too. but the main problem is that we need a new uniform. here girls wear tights and no skirt/trousers, but that is no option for me.
good thing about the british anyway: wider understanding of style. here stylish people dress more eclectic. a bit like Jan Joswig. :)
and hugo, you miss my point. you can’t worry all the time about real problems. there has to be a time when you worry about problems you invent yourself. important. and: they are not less real, by the way.
Aren’t tapered pants the official replacement? Karottenjeans? I’m already getting bored with it since everyone in our studio tries wearing them, but I guess they’re still harder to get. Anyway, also try Bundfalten, as long as it’s tight at the bottom. I think tapered jeans have a good chance becoming the new uniform, we’d only need a big company pushing it (like Cheap Monday did for skinny fit)
Who needs a uniform? I do consider myself rather hipster, and I definitely don’t need a uniform, even if you understand “uniform” in the broader meaning of “something to be recognized by”. I’ve been gazing at those hords of hipster wannabes in skinny jeans (hardly looking any good of most peoples’ legs, by the way) throughout the last years, wondering where the point might be. Being an individual, being capable of making your own choices, developing a personal view of life, art and the universe (and sometimes shedding a thought on real stuff, like Hugo Hangman wants us to) – all this should result in a style of your own, rather than wearing a uniform. If you want a way out of the dilemma, I guess it would be “put on something you like, something that looks good on you, something that’s unique to you, something that might make pseudo-hipster fashion victims cringe with disgust, maybe even something that hasn’t been manufactured under outrageous conditions, or second hand, or make it yourself, or whatever, then go and wear it with an attitude.”
Whenever all of the ‘hip’ people start wearing the same things, it’s boring to me already. I hate uniforms.