This little cold snap in LA has been tremendously validating for all the hipsters & their woolie beanie hats.
— Dave Dameshek (@Dameshek) January 5, 2013
More twits tweet on the subject; above was the best.
Is there a difference between a "woolie beanie hat" and what we here on the cold coast have always worn at this time of year, and called "(woolen) ski caps"?
Okay. I'll admit my most recently acquired one is from Streb, and it is way cool. BUT IT WAS A GIFT.
Fashion Editor: The official guess here is that it's these w/ the knit strings being referred (they're certainly the silliest thing hipsters sport) as opposed to what we know as a Navy-style watch cap.
Thanks, MB. Yes, those dangly things confuse me, as they appear to be without function or form. However, since I have been of the opinion since I was a young person that 95% of young people's fashion choices are made with the conscious intent of irritating us Olds, I try not to let them win.
To add to your reply to Dave: or if you want to look like you play in the NBA. And apropos of the picture, I would say that Dave only has to wear such "glasses" if he has already made a certain other fashion choice:
...the lensless phenomenon is novel. As it turns out, that trend may have infiltrated the NBA from halfway across the world. Larry Leight, the creative director at the designer eyewear company Oliver Peoples, noticed for the first time a certain set wearing lensless frames on a recent trip overseas. The trendsetters: Japanese teenage girls. For them, lenses would have gotten in the way of long eyelashes, another accessory of choice.
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It's kind of hard for me to take a position on this. See, I was a young man in the seventies and we wore some weird-ass shit.
ReplyDeleteBut no. I don't get the point of the beanies...
I can't FIND my wool beanie hat, dammit!
ReplyDeleteIs there a difference between a "woolie beanie hat" and what we here on the cold coast have always worn at this time of year, and called "(woolen) ski caps"?
ReplyDeleteOkay. I'll admit my most recently acquired one is from Streb, and it is way cool. BUT IT WAS A GIFT.
Fashion Editor:
ReplyDeleteThe official guess here is that it's these w/ the knit strings being referred (they're certainly the silliest thing hipsters sport) as opposed to what we know as a Navy-style watch cap.
Do I also have to wear glasses without lenses?
ReplyDeleteFour-Eyed Ed.:
ReplyDeleteOnly if you're trying to look smart(er).
Thanks, MB. Yes, those dangly things confuse me, as they appear to be without function or form. However, since I have been of the opinion since I was a young person that 95% of young people's fashion choices are made with the conscious intent of irritating us Olds, I try not to let them win.
ReplyDeleteTo add to your reply to Dave: or if you want to look like you play in the NBA. And apropos of the picture, I would say that Dave only has to wear such "glasses" if he has already made a certain other fashion choice:
...the lensless phenomenon is novel. As it turns out, that trend may have infiltrated the NBA from halfway across the world. Larry Leight, the creative director at the designer eyewear company Oliver Peoples, noticed for the first time a certain set wearing lensless frames on a recent trip overseas. The trendsetters: Japanese teenage girls. For them, lenses would have gotten in the way of long eyelashes, another accessory of choice.