danw: What The Hell Are Hipsters?
The panel doesn’t answer the question, so I’ll give you one. It’s a complete lie (and joke) that hipsters were born in Williamsburg. They in fact came into being in Sydney around 1996/7, around about the time that indie rock, fashion and surf culture met at Jed’s and Brown Sugar and Waverly Bowlo and decided to suck face.
Skinny jean-legged, converse or flip-flop footed, ironic wife-beater and artfully distressed shirt wearing, mullet-y headed, expensively (and historically or pop culturally significantly) tattooed, soy latte toting, “I enjoy country music (but only semi-ironically)” listening, my-best-mate’s-in-a-band and my girlfriend makes macro wholefood cupcake types were born in Bondi: Ed Devlin - you’ve got a lot to answer for. You too Reich.
The only difference b/ween the Sydney and Williamsburg variations on the hipster is that The Sydney variant cares a good deal more about their hair (well, uses more product in it anyhoo). And that’s the truth. I love that the interviewer is English - b/cause you know, they’re too cool to care.
Bondi people tend to be more trendy (in the tanned, boobs out/shirts off, Good Vibes attending way) than hipster these days. Now the ultimate Sydney hipster suburbs are Surry Hills and Darlinghurst. And (how could I forget?) Paddington.