1.   Fashion

Hipsters can be easily spotted by the way they dress.  A hipster is someone who looks like a hipster.  Their fashion style is a deliberate pastiche, a hodgepodge, jumble, collage, mash up or melting pot of style items borrowed from surrounding ethnic cultures and from fashion styles that were once popular, but now are no longer en vogue.  They reject the, in their eyes culturally ignorant, attitudes of mainstream consumers and are often seen wearing vintage and thrift store inspired fashions.  Male hipsters dress in tight fitting “skinny” jeans and t-shirts advertising obscure bands or b-movies, covered by flannel shirts or v-neck sweaters, with accessories of painted old school sneakers, thick non-prescription horn-rimmed glasses, truckers hats and big belt buckles, while sporting a conspicuously prominent mustache.  Female hipsters tend to wear retro-style dresses and racer back tank tops without bras.  In addition, both have a penchant for androgynous hairstyles like messy shag cuts and asymmetric side swiped bangs.  Finally, and in spite of misconceptions based on their aesthetic tastes and looks, hipsters tend to be educated, often have university degrees and not infrequently come from relatively well to do middle class families.