The cult of modern hipsters was birthed by the gentrification of New York’s Williamsburg. The men wore vests, plaid shirts, new jeans, and bushy beards. The women dressed normal. Beards got longer. The look was popularized by TV and Hollywood. The peak period lasted from 1999 to 2009, however the hipsters remained in hipster drag and recently I’ve been asking hipsters on the street, “Are you a Civil War re-enactor?”
“What do you mean?” they ask in a befuddled state.
“Just that you look like you spent your weekends celebrating old Civil War battles.”
They don’t tell me to fuck off, because hipsters are notoriously pacifists. They even say, “OMG.” like a Valley Girl.
No one at Gettysburg said OMG.
But they were soldiers and not hipsters, who look like they fought for The South.
