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http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/mar/17/nu-lads-on-the-block-post-hipster
"Nu-lads are the opposite to hipsters – they’re about looking young and real "
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The lol thing about that is that being a hipster also used to be about looking young and real - "looking real" especially, but hipster skinny jeans and such was also a way of keeping oldies away. Are the nu-lads really just the new hipsters, and although there is some veneration of SportsDirect in the scene, isn't this really the creation of a trend that is very label and money focussed? The hipster look can be bought, but it certainly doesn't have to be expensive. The whole point of sports luxe is that it costs money to wear - for all the moaning about hipsters (and I've done my fair share), isn't a token, superficial rebellion against consumerism bet better than no rebellion at all? I don't know.
Of course, sports luxe never really went away in the towns and cities that aren't London, so really this is a very Londoncentric thing. And actually, Copenhagen hipster females have been pretty sports luxe the whole time. So what's being presented as a reaction looks suspiciously like a capitalist refinement of the existing hipster culture.
In the meantime, I just wear my jogging pants to the gym now whereas before I would have worn trousers and changed. LOL.
"Nu-lads are the opposite to hipsters – they’re about looking young and real "
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The lol thing about that is that being a hipster also used to be about looking young and real - "looking real" especially, but hipster skinny jeans and such was also a way of keeping oldies away. Are the nu-lads really just the new hipsters, and although there is some veneration of SportsDirect in the scene, isn't this really the creation of a trend that is very label and money focussed? The hipster look can be bought, but it certainly doesn't have to be expensive. The whole point of sports luxe is that it costs money to wear - for all the moaning about hipsters (and I've done my fair share), isn't a token, superficial rebellion against consumerism bet better than no rebellion at all? I don't know.
Of course, sports luxe never really went away in the towns and cities that aren't London, so really this is a very Londoncentric thing. And actually, Copenhagen hipster females have been pretty sports luxe the whole time. So what's being presented as a reaction looks suspiciously like a capitalist refinement of the existing hipster culture.
In the meantime, I just wear my jogging pants to the gym now whereas before I would have worn trousers and changed. LOL.
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