An Old Tshirt Blog

Clinton from Headhoods brings us another brutally honest tee with his I’m a Fucking Hipster T-shirt. In the early days of this blog (…the very first day, actually,) I featured his I Can’t Afford to Love NY T-shirt — a tee which draws comments almost every time I wear it. I’m sure this would draw even more. While the term “hipster” is a dubious one, I believe there are certain staples that have become synonymous with the hipster lifestyle. Tight pants, big sunglasses, fixed gear bikes…and of course, Pabst Blue Ribbon — just to name a few. While I don’t consider myself a hipster (and yes, I’m aware that hipsters don’t consider themselves hipsters, either…but if you knew me personally, I think you’d agree) I have no problem with the label itself. I don’t own any of the aforementioned things but I have had a PBR or two. [That's hipster slang for Pabst Blue Ribbon, the cheap beer that this shirt is referencing.] There is an animosity towards hipsters that stems mostly from other hipsters. Is that, perhaps, another trait of the seemingly ubiquitous hipster? In any case, they (we?) love irony…but so do a lot of other people. So I’m unclear as to whether or not wearing this Hipster tee makes one more of a hipster or less. Does it really matter, though?