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Let's start June with something fun.  The very popular Hipster style.

Natalie Portman - celebrity Hipster

What is a Hipster?
* Sub-culture
* Young people (typically 20s or 30s)
* People that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence and witty banter


Hipsters try to be an avant garde culture who pioneer and lead cultural trend and ideas.  For example the Indie music they like will be the pop music of tomorrow after people catch on to what "real" music is.  (See Mumford & Sons for an example of the rising hipster culture).

Hipster Fashion

Hipsters were easy to spot in 2004.  They were those thin 20-something well-to-do children wearing a fedora, converse sneakers, green fake ray-bans, plaid shirts.

Now those are commonplace and the Hipsters were forced to find the next cool fashion statements because the sheep-like masses adopted their old styles (now that's avant garde more than the McQueen, Galliano, or Jean Charles de Castelbajac rip-offs).

"..the goal of the hipster is to display an authentic persona to the world. Their entire style and all their mannerisms should reflect some unique inner core of their personality, the bit of them which makes them the special little snowflake they truly are. In practice it just means that a good hipster should always be adopting new fashions just-before they are popular and dropping them just after they are actually popular..."  

"The goal is to be permanently avant-garde. A hipster has to always be ahead of the curve, they can never be fashionable by, well, just being fashionable! So this also means there is a permanent pressure to make it very clear that you are not doing what the herd are doing."

- From An Introduction to Hipsterdom http://lastpositivist.blogspot.ca/2013/05/a-post-so-uncool-it-is-cool.html

Hipster Stereotype

Knowing this, let's look at the Hipster Stereotype.  Or how to pretend you're Hipster to the Non-Hipster audience.

Head

• Vintage Hat.  For men especially, wear something that looks like you stole it from a senior citizen or Thrift shop.
• Knit Caps.
• Trucker Hats.

Some Hipsters wear glasses even if they have perfect vision.  So you can pop out the lenses of some Hipster frames.

In Second Life, find an editable pair of funky glasses.  Edit > Edit Linked Part and click on the lenses.  Then either:

• Click the Texture tab and set the transparency to 100%; 
• Replace the texture with a transparent texture;
• Unlink the lenses and then delete the prims from the glasses.

original glasses

edit glasses set lenses (and nose and moustache) to 100% transparent

Resulting Pseudo-Hipster glasses

ctrl+alt+T to see that they are still there, just transparent

Hair

• Crazy thick beards or weirdly styled mustaches, 
• Hairy girl legs and armpits (..ew)
• Bed Head -- messy hair
• Tiny Pigtails (short hair with tiny pigtails)
• Bangs
• Natural Hair -- it should not look overly fussed over.  So lots of the "couture" hair are un-hipster.