It's the guy with the well groomed beard making artisanal bread in Brooklyn. It's a millennial, not an oldster.

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noun Slang.

a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way;someone who is hip.

a person, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by a particularly strong sense of alienation from most established social activities and relationships; a beatnik or hippie.

a performer or admirer of jazz, especially swing; a hepcat.

Rusty

No wonder I'm confused...it is both an older person and a younger one.

So it's a younger guy with a purse and a manbun or an older guy in a polyester leisure suit.

I guess its context dependent.

But when I hear it used, it seems to be sarcastically. So is it someone who *thinks* he's cool but he's not? Or is it someone who actually is *cool*...or someone so far ahead, that his style is not yet cool?

I'm still confused.

I don't think anyone refers to himself/herself as a hipster.

The old guy in a leisure suit now is not a hipster. If he was wearing the same thing 50 years, then maybe at that time. The two do not co-exist in today's world.

Hipsters are young adults without 2 kids and a van, they dress cool and habituate the trendy coffee places.

I loosely define it as someone who is a poser. It's usually someone who has gone retro because they think it makes them cool or hip, but they don't fully embrace the ideology so they are hypocrites in a way.

Dark-rimmed glasses. American Apparel skinny jeans. A superfluous scarf. A continuous penchant for disliking anything that is not obscure. That's just the "starter kit" for becoming a true hipster.

It can also be an oldster some of which have a man bun. When I think of a older hipster I think of someone who acts like they are on display at all times. Adjusts their clothing so it is just right. Are often an aging lothario. Sadly you sometimes see them in some over 55 living complexes.

I think you usually hear the term used sarcastically because people who aren’t self-involved hipsters don’t much like them. Kind of like back in the day when people were disparaging about yuppies.

polyester leisure suits

Do those still exist?

Yes, because they will never ever decompose....

Hipsters are the style of underpants I like. More coverage than bikini underpants, less coverage than granny panties. ;)

I love Jockey's hipsters.

The word "hipster" reminds me of when I was in my early 20's and the people who dressed and acted mainstream during the normal working hours would don their headbands and peace symbols when they went out. Many of the guys had mustaches but never beards and their hair never went past their shirt collar. Really dressing up for them was a polyester leisure suit. The women donned miniskirts and heavy eye makeup and everyone used Patchouli or musk cologne.

HipsterContemporary subculture

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The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of young adults who reside primarily in gentrified neighborhoods. It is broadly associated with indie and alternative music and genres such as chill-out, folk, modern rock, pop rock, and post-Britpop. Wikipedia