What You Should Know To Begin

      Hipsters may possibly be, although not to their liking, one of the most fashionably, musically, and trendily impactful subcultures among the youth and early twenties crowds today. Their group is considered a blend of different styles of the same type of person. For example, some hipsters are teen girls who like to walk around town in high waisted shorts and sunglasses and bandeaus and Dr. Marten shoes, clutching their records dearly to their chests. Some hipster girls prefer to wear pants and shirts and conservative clothing with little to no makeup and oversize glasses, reading their feminist zines and sipping a Jones soda. Hipster men come in many different shapes and sizes as well, including the beanie wearing, guitar playing, hoodie clad 22 year old who will probably ask if his original band whose name is in French can play in your basement, and the 25 year old hipster with a handlebar mustache and a plaid shirt on, mouthing the words to a Bon Iver song from before he sold out as he scowls at you from his Prius.
     However, all of these people have things in common which link them to their subculture, things deeper than the material culture. They have a distaste for consumerism, for the unfair treatment of the environment, for the mainstream culture that their small (but rapidly growing) group sits in the middle of. Hipsters are considered to be a blend of other anti-establishment movements from the past, such as hippies and beats and punks and grunge kids. They are a thriving body of hatred for the "uncool, mainstream" things around them. Hipsters prefer the fringe, and will walk as far away from the mainstream American culture as their pleather combat boots will take them.