This may have something to do with yesterday's post, which touched on why hipsters never have any money, or it may have something to do with the fact that hipsters love looking like they've time traveled into 2011 from 1975. Of course, hipsters would never actually survive in 1975, with the lack of internet and iphones and all.
Maybe thrifting is about being "green". Fashion goes in cycles, and there's no cycle like recycle. I hope you're holding on to those awesome JNCOs from your angsty days in high school, they'll come back in style around 2025.
Aw come on, who am I kidding? Thrifting is about finding something so unique, something so vintage, that you know nobody else will have it. It's the ultimate validation tool of hipsterdom. Finding a one-of-a-kind article is true affirmation that you are one-of-a-kind as well.
Who needs therapy, anyway?
if its in a thrift store then odds are at some point it was mass produced. making it by definition not one of a kind, proving that these people are not unique. I dont shop at thrift stores, not enough plaid, plus any man who wears jeans made off of mass production looms instead of hand made shuttle looms, well he is hardly a man.
ReplyDeleteHipsters stole thrifting and veganism from me.
ReplyDeleteThey ruin everything.
I almost always go to thrift stores and flea markets to buy my clothes. Because I generally cannot afford even to spend $20 for one single shirt. At a thrift store (usually), you can find a dress, 3 shirt, 3 skirts, and... like a mug or something for $20. Bam. Christmas shopping done.