What is a hipster?

If you are like me and live in Toronto (aka the center of the universe), you are very familiar with hipsters. They're everywhere. The two places that they are most focused in the city are The Beaches and downtown. Of course, hipsters are too cool to hang out at the beach, actually they're too cool to "hang out", so instead they lurk Queen Street and all of the independantly-owned coffee shops and niche stores along the way. Popular hipster haunts are grassy fields, small, inner-city forests, thrift stores, Urban Outfitters, and your local Starbucks.

So now that we know where hipsters go, how do we pick them out?
It's really quite simple, once you get the hang of it.
The standard female hipster

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- Comically large glasses, regardless of whether or not the wearer has/needs a prescription
- Tight, high-waisted mom jeans
- Vacant/displeased stare
- Patterned shirt
- Brightly painted fingernails
- Vintage jacket with shoulder pads
- Obnoxiously large belt

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- Vacant stare
- Probable future cat-ladies
- Dramatic eye makeup
- Headband (?)
- Too many patterned fabrics to process
- Outfits entirely from Value Village


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- Hideous scarf
- Coffee
- Leggings
- Made-up words, such as "probablistically"
- At least 1 Apple product in background
- Colourful, clashing, hipstery home


The standard male hipster

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- Vacant stare
- Shaved chests
- Douchey moustache
- "Interesting" haircuts
- Androgynous apparel


- Large, plastic-framed glasses
- Douchey moustache
- Printed shirt
- Cardigan
- Overall appearance of your dad in the 80's/a pedophile



- Large headphones for listening to obscure music with
- Plaid shirt
- Tight pants
- Vacant/displeased stare
- Cigarette
- Dirty beard


Now that we've seen some examples of what hipsters look like, it should be much easier to pick them out on the street. Train your eyes. Soon you'll see them everywhere. You know why? Because they ARE everywhere.
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