If I do the same for Vancouver hipster, I get a scary article about an overwhelming amount of casting videos received for a potential reality television show entitled "The Real Hipsters of Vancouver". Holy smokes, I thought I was missing them but I may be wrong. I might not be missing them as much as I think, especially after seeing the plethora of scary hipster information available online. Ahhhhh! I'm getting sucked through the internet web of stupidity and I can't get out!
Recently, I thought I had spotted something different; a style appropriation from the past a-la-hipster . I started to notice an interesting trend aside from the 80's aerobics white knee high workout socks; thin, gold framed glasses that droop down the cheeks. I kept thinking I'd last seen them on some actor on the Rockford Files. A little more searching on the net and here's what I found. The scary glasses are Ray Bans! I suppose they are "classic aviator" glasses, hence the feeling I get that I've seen them before, but I just can't get used to them. And now that I've noticed them, I spot them everywhere!
I think I just miss Vancouver's "differentness". It's not that we're fashionable, we're not, but we're varied. I miss the Asian ladies with their face visors, stylish hairdressers, mommas in yoga wear, teenagers in droopy jogging pants and brown Uggs, bright saris and turbans, beggars in dirty layers, gortex shoe protector wearing bike commuters, recycled Value Village wear etc... Heck! All the different faces of our multicultural population.
So to feel a little closer to home, I head to Starbucks for a strangely sweet iced cappuccino and I people watch. As I sit down, I look up and see yet another woman wearing the droopy cheek gold Ray Bans! Arghhhhh! Just as I'm about to sign off on this post, I find "In case you didn't think there weren't hipsters in Rio. Guess I was wrong.
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