Indie guys with trucker hats....

why am I not surprised?

why am I not surprised?

mesh hats are like 1993 i'm sorry if jackass made them popular again 4 years ago

Here's what REALLY trucks me into a sheer irrational frenzy of loathing: guys who wear them off to the side. You, sir, are not a five-year-old street urchin, an extra in a Dead End Kids movie, or someone who takes the short bus. Have some diginity, please.

I always thought they were worn by punks, skaterboarders, hipsters etc. because a lot of guys really *had* to wear them at work. Or because they're really cheap and reasonably sturdy and that's all they could afford. But we can't say the same about Trucker's caps, right?

''I scanned the room and I could count 30 or 40 hipsters wearing trucker hats,'' Mr. Ellis said. ''You could have closed your eyes and thrown a stick and hit a dozen foam caps at any given point of the night.''

yeah, it wasn't flattering to the boys wearing hats. although i suppose that someone should tell the people in my hometown (small town michigan) that they're actually cool. or were cool. whatever.

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rowr.

also the dickies thing- they make nice looking basics, i mean the whoe tshirt jeans work shirt thing, and they rarely wear out-i have a few peices in my wardrobe.

except its not quasi at all

calgon take me away

i like these hats

How long does it take before they actually feel normal?

I don't know - it's not even about emulating anyone really - just that the dressed-down style of vinyl windbreaker, unfaded jeans or work-pants, plain t-shirt, nice clean stans etc always seemed like a sensible way to dress. almost like a school uniform, decision-free and unvain. it just seems funny to think that people say this is played out when it's whole strength before was under the radar unplayoutability. whatever.

(now everyone has gotten in while I was typing this and made all my points but whatever, so what, I'm losing my edge)

Do people find any other elements of hipster style class-condescending because they come from thrift stores or were once worn by people performing manual labor? I think I'll write a handbook of class-appropriate attire.

Someone please explain the qualitative difference between the following:

--gas station jacket w/stripes on sleeve and/or front + oval name/brand patch

--nylon snap-front collarlesss cotton-lined/unlined windbreaker w/ school/business/fraternal organization design printed on back

--mesh-back trucker cap

--corduroy jeans

--flea market/thrift store novelty t-shirt

--Hipper-than-thou band t-shirt

--Converse sneakers

--foldover-flap messenger bag

--terry-cloth wristband

The trucker hats are one item on a spectrum of uniform but, like Lee Harvey Oswald, they do not act alone. I think the reason people are upset about the trucker hats is that they can SEE them, and not the other items. It is a relatively crude level of style discourse.

The most redeeming thing about the trucker hats is that they lend themselves to nice graffiti customization. There should be more safe spaces for people to write graffiti.

The two people I have actually seen wearing the graffito'd ones were:

1. A street person harassing me at an outside table on Gansevoort Street. We were the suckers drinking at a bar with a circumflex in its name but who's got the trucker hat? According to the popular sentiment, I think this guy was TOO poor to be wearing a trucker hat so he should have sold the hat instead of begging us for money.

2. A moron yelling gay-bashing epithets from the passenger window of a car near Union Square. This was not cool at all. It sounded the death knell for my brief lust for a trucker hat.

converse were never the province of working class men...working class boys, maybe. ditto terry cloth wrist band, fold over flap messenger bag, cooler than thou band t-shirt.

*ducks*

why are we even comparing the wearing of trucker hats w/blackface?

re: ppl who don't know why ppl don't get over wearing trucker hats when even *the new york times* says they're over: like imma read that the times says it's over so imma stop doing it? right. besides, if it's "over" then aren't i "cool" for doing my own thing? (this is too post-modern for words.)

ppl have pointed this out, but i need to reiterate that trucker hats are different from baseball hats. i don't care what you call them where yr from, if you don't differentiate, yr wrong. it is also ok to call trucker hats "mesh hats." you won't catch me in a baseball hat except maybe on a weekend morning trip to the drugstore in pajamas type thing.

i have a trucker hat. it says "pure detroit" on it, cos i like to rep where i'm from (i now live in chicago). i think i look sexy in it. btw, i'm a girl. femme, too.

if i lived in nyc i might feel differently about trucker caps. they seem more played there then here in chitown.

hearing about posh and becks wearing them as well as 1/2 the ppl at the freakin mtv beach house = me crying, but still gonna wear my hat cos i love it. :C

my $0.02. i usually just lurk.

No, seriously: they both came from small towns (Baudette, MN and Elmira NY) and went exceedingly urban to compensate. We're talking dressing for dinner, gloves and pearls, Dior, cashmere and camel hair, and fashion-buying trips where they'd camp out at the Gramercy Park hotel.

Because we think out of the box, buster! Because 'we were never being boring'! In fact, we even disdain being sane! Just think, any other board would have discussed trucker hats in the pedestrian manner of the New York Times. But we discussed them in the manner of Bill Hicks debating Italo Calvino. And you sat there at work and read all 900 posts! Of course you did! Then you lost your job and had to join the welfare line with a trucker hat pulled low over your eyes to stop people recognising you.

Actually my grandparents' high aestheticism, refined social circle and liberal political opinions combined with let-him-eat-with-the-nanny approach to child rearing probably resulted in their nevertheless spoilt brat of a son embracing Hank Williams, Jr, tractor pulls, feed caps, going 'on the road' to live on farms and look after horses, voting Shrub and generally apeing all good ole boy behaviour ever invented. He is also a charter member of the Fart Lighter's Club of America.

i also asked him about the two recent music exports from the area in the last few years had been the toast of NYC/williamsburg over the past 12 months and he just smiled and said "good for them!"

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BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!

(Alex's increasingly HSA-like beard is really starting to worry me.)

anyway thnx for listnin MWAH xx

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apparently justin timberlake wore them first!

Two dumb men fighting over a hat

good thread

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SexyDiamond

This thread is funny, I wear caps at work when I'm not wearing a hardhat. But think only indie guys call them trucker hats.

god, remember indie?

This thread is nearly twelve years old! What are the "trashy" / slumming it fashions of today - "indie" or otherwise?

The current American "I look like I would know who Dinosaur Jr. are but in reality my favorite band is Imagine Dragons" trends include:
-darted flannels
-extremely clunky red wing boots
-holes where gauges used to be
-extremely tight denim jackets

Kings of Leon x Crypto-Crunkcore

urban lumberjack is pretty big

ya, it's an awful time for those of us who actually always wore flannel/'lumberjack'-style clothes

Wait, am I cool now? Is this why Sierra Trading Post's prices have gone up?

A few years back Pointer (coverall company in US, not UK sneaker company) had the most basic website I've ever seen, and all their clothing retailed for under 30 bucks. Now all their jackets are 200+ :(

I feel like what I call the "drycleaned outdoorsman" look has become so pervasive for so long that it's already left behind most of its traces of slumming it.

So the obv question is: what working class goods which were formerly inflated in the trucker hat regnum are now back to being affordably priced bc they're so over?

you just need to know where to shop. buying the real deal workwear stuff has always been pretty affordable. carhartt and dickies wear are both pretty cheap. by contrast the specialty store's "our take on the classic heritage workshirt, updated for the modern age" will always cost you

yeah, pair of basic dickies pants costs about $25

can't remember the name but there is also a whole other clothing company very similar to carhartt and dickes but sells even cheaper than they do

red kap?

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today at the salvation army i offered a hipsterish young person the vintage pendleton field shirt that was too small for me and he didn't know what pendleton was. i didn't how to proceed from there because i had assumed he'd be primed for apeshit but it was a good and quality american garment of fine workmanship and i felt that there was an outside chance that it would find a way into his rotation because of intrinsic qualities and not hey look i'm in fleet foxes now.

pendleton is what happens to your balls when u get old, right?