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Hipsters in Winter

Has the culture of “white 20-somethings dressed in skinny jeans and lumberjack shirts, and wearing thick-rimmed glasses” begun its inevitable decline?
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Despite the publication of a new book by Williamsburg comedian Joe Mande making fun of the culture of “white 20-somethings dressed in skinny jeans and lumberjack shirts, and wearing thick-rimmed glasses,” the age of the hipster seems to be winding down. Thomas Rogers talks to Mande about his book, “hipsters’ self-infantilizing style, the homophobic nature of the backlash, and the impending end of hipsterdom.”

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