AHC: Hipsters are Mainstream

whitecrow

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Wouldn’t that be ironic?

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is making hipster style part of the mainstream culture rather than a counterculture/subculture it is today. If you want to, you can make the obscure music/hobbies/whatever OTL hipsters like mainstream too but this is mainly a fashon-based challenged. I want you to find a way to make the majority of young people dress like this:

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Bonus points if you find a way to get people to dress like this in the mainstream :D:

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Have fun :D
 
Argh, my mind. It's imploding at the very thought of this.

I'm not a knowledgeable man when it comes to culture, but a few thoughts come to mind. Maybe have a few celebrities or movies highlight hipster culture, make it more 'commercial' as a result? Somehow? I mean the whole basis of Hipster ideology is not being a part of the mainstream, but I can see it being commercialized so that attitude is popular. Thus creating a fad that is so self-contradictory that the world, nay, the universe would just keel over and die from the madness of it all.
 
There are at least 18 different styles in those pictures. How is this classed as a single style? I don't understand any of this!
 
Looks to me like a copy of the New Romantic fashion of the 1980's, moving to the outer fringe, "youth dresses to shock" shock :rolleyes:

edit I also want to know how my dog is being walked by the lad in the last picture!!!
 
Money

Well, Hipsters are basically those whom have rejected current social standards of dress, borrowed parts from the past, and have self identified as rebels.

It is a matter of timing, and money. Just as blue jeans and variations of T-Shirts have come to dominate current clothing patterns among the masses, while at one time being the attire of the rebel, (think James Dean in Rebel without a cause), so could hipster style.

The fashion cycle needs to have been sped up, or diverted from where it has gone, and the hipster style needs to have become romanticized, then commercialized.

Here is my point of departure:
Kurt Cobain does not die, and for some unknown reason, Hip Hop fails.
No one knows anything about Rap, except that some people like to make up contemporary poetry and set it to music, often in little coffee shops.

Designers looking for "street fashion", look to Grunge Rock, Punk, Alternative, etc.

In part this is also propelled forward by their being no Human Imuno-Virus, so the erosion of gender roles occures earlier, and there are more active members of the "Creative Class", as Richard Florida refers to them, alive, innovating, and changing society (Those whom died early in the AIDS Epidemic being largely White Male & Gay).

So you get a more active, vibrant Fashion Industry, which looked for fashion innovators, did not find the in Urban Contemporary (Without Hip Hop, Jazz continued to morph, the Blues became stronger, and the people whom in OTL became Gangsta stayed in school and latter got jobs, or focused on developing their musical talents. The real Gangstas simply died, but in a less public manner after committing a variety of petty crimes.

Yes, it would take some people living whom died, and an entire cultural current to be still born, but, it could have happened.
 
Parker51, the absolute latest POD you'd have to kill off rap/hip-hop as a major musical genre is 1979, with the release of "Rapper's Delight". Even then, I'm not sure it could work.
 
This looks like it's just a matter of having the '80's culture last about twenty years longer.

But, this would be difficult in an area of culture as volatile as fashion.

Seems to me that fashion got incredibly conservative/non-flashy in the '90's (do a google image search for 60's fashion, 70's fashion, 80's fashion, then compare to 90's fashion). Maybe that was a byproduct of the grunge phase adding in more low-contrast flannel clothes.

Can you get rid of grunge? Or... at least make it less influential? Except that I think the zeitgeist of the time was leading this way even without the grunge.
 
Well, Hipsters are basically those whom have rejected current social standards of dress, borrowed parts from the past, and have self identified as rebels.

The problem is, Hipsters aren't so much a coherent subculture, as an amalgamation of every emerging and individual subculture. They are rebellious in that they don't wish to be identified as either part of the mainstream, or more importantly as part of a distinct subculture. Given this there is a rapid tendency to abandon behavior, style, and culture as soon as it becomes popular or mainstream and the term "Hipster" is in itself used a perjorative.

Its the conundrum of those who would most readily be identified as a hipster, being those quickest to decry fashion/behavior as being "hipster" Despite this, "Hipster" couture pretty much is just an extension of 90's casual with heavy grunge and 80's accents.
 
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