Howdy, Hipster!
08/28/2006
As far as hipster fashion goes, this summer is the season of weird. The fellows are dressing like crew captains, wearing topsiders and leather boat shoes without socks. The ladies, as always, are using the weather as an excuse to traipse around in various states of quasi-nudity and carefully arranged disarray.
But strangest of all is the sudden and mysterious rise of the handkerchief, tied around one's neck and sometimes pulled over the face like a Wild West bandit. Ten years ago, the handkerchiefs were black and wearing them meant you were a member of the Black Block, those barbaric trust-fund anticapitalists from Eugene, Oregon who so famously shattered the windows of Starbucks in the Seattle '99 riots.
Back then, it meant something to have a handkerchief knotted 'round your neck. These days there are rainbows upon rainbows of apolitical kerchiefs lining the stools of most every neighborhood dive bar. Ask the wearers what the hell they're doing with that useless piece of cloth around their necks, and you'll get some mumbled excuse about how useful the handkerchief is, how it keeps the car exhaust out of the lungs when you're track biking, how you can use it to wipe the sweat from your raggedly beard.
Yeah. And we're sooooo sure that your cute little carabiner keychain comes in real handy when you go mountain climbing.
The Political Handkerchief People
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