So Individual that it is Mainstream?

The suburb I live in is very cultured in the sense of this modern concept of the "hipster" or sometimes known as "indies".
The streets are polluted with ugly sweaters, big boots, scruffy beards and that awful mustard colour. Correct me if I am wrong, but this look started out as an expression to be different - a scream to be noticed, to be INDIVIDUAL. To me, it seems as if this craze has spread faster then the swine flue did a couple years back, they are bloody everywhere!
Okay, so here I am walking down the main stretch, surrounded by all these people striving to be individual in their ugly clothes and I notice - suddenly, I am the individual. Wearing my mainstream tight jeans and a singlet, or god forbid a colourful floral print dress, I am standing out from the crowd.
This phase of fashion confuses me, they all look like hairy homeless people. Most of the time, I am unsure whether I should innocently walk past them or give them a dollar out of sympathy. Bloody hipsters. They are so individual, that its mainstream. Congratulations, you conformed to a craze started by one individual - now that it is over, maybe you should dress like a normal human being.


I shouldn't just pin point hipsters, its just, they are the ones that I see everyday. They are the ones looking at me like I am bizarre - well, I am bizarre but they don't know that! I am not going to buy an itchy over sized ugly mustard sweater - I am not conforming. Fashions pass, just like the seasons. For now, I will just smile and observe their faces as they take a sip of their red wine that is merely for show because you can tell that the taste actually repulses them.

I could try and explain where this is coming from, but to be honest its completely random. That is just how my mind works. Blissfully bizarre and totally random!

I hope you all had an amazing easter and are enjoying being back at work, school ect.
Welcome back to reality!

-Tessa Rose xx