likes wearing candy-apple red ([info]cette_vie) wrote,
@ 2009-08-06 01:22:00
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A lady's honor is at stake.
Steve and I are really on opposite sides of this argument, but I have faith that my LJ friends will grasp the correct evolutionary mechanisms.

Moleskine: hipster or yuppie?

And if both, which came first?


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[info]hkitsune
2009-08-06 12:05 pm UTC (link)
Both, but yuppie came first because hipsters are just yuppies who don't know it yet.

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[info]cette_vie
2009-08-06 02:31 pm UTC (link)
See, I KNEW IT.

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[info]dives
2009-08-06 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Yuppie, yuppie came first.

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[info]cette_vie
2009-08-06 02:31 pm UTC (link)
Now I'm wondering if my interview sample isn't biased because I don't really know any hipsters. Hmm.

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[info]dives
2009-08-06 03:21 pm UTC (link)
Modern hipster-ness as a subculture, I believe, didn't really start until maybe the late nineties at the very, very, very earliest. Yuppies were using Moleskines before that, so, earlier.

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[info]roseanna
2009-08-06 03:26 pm UTC (link)
Yuppie. Without a doubt.

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[info]redatdawn
2009-08-06 08:31 pm UTC (link)
Both. Hipster came first.

But it is often hard to tell the difference, see, because there are at least as many yuppies who wish they were hipsters as hipsters who are yuppies who don't know it yet...

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[info]gongtowlo
2009-08-07 03:30 am UTC (link)
Fuck no. Yuppies came first. Yuppies embraced all that was obscure and out of the hands of the masses.

Hipsters on the other hand embrace things because of their irony, their inherent uncoolness. The use of the moleskin by hipsters is only because the act is dated and modernly irrelevant. And yet, these people deny adamantly that they are part of this subculture.

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[info]redatdawn
2009-08-07 05:21 am UTC (link)
Yuppies embraced all that was obscure? You definitely have a different definition of "yuppie" than I do.

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[info]cette_vie
2009-08-07 01:13 pm UTC (link)
Well, I think he means that yuppies liked obscure stuff, but the act of liking it brought it out of obscurity and into mainstream yuppiness. Hence, Stuff White People Like documents the "unique" taste of millions.

I do think yuppies came first. =)

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I fear you're wrong ...
[info]jdiggans
2009-08-07 02:38 am UTC (link)
It really depends upon a) which moleskine and b) which hipster you're talking about -- the original moleskine-like notebook was likely used by these hipsters long before yuppies graced the Earth. But our moleskine was likely first adopted by yuppies because hipsters seemingly by definition are never early adopters (it's hard to make early adoption ironic, you see).

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