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There are many factors that define a hipster in our minds. Glasses always seem to be at the top of the list, but clothing matters too, and, of course, there is their obsession with the latest, coolest music. And it's that quality that a new study from Harvard University sheds a little light on. The researchers found that it's a quest to have unique tastes that drives people into being hipsters. They analyzed the Facebook pages of 200 college students over four years, and they concluded that "students who shared similar tastes in music bonded, instead of those students passing on tastes to each other." More »
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For 30 seconds' worth of enjoyment, perhaps check out Hipster Dress Up, a web app that allows you to dress a hipster "paper" doll — boy or girl — in a variety of fashions straight out of an Urban Outfitters. Though if you live in the right neighborhood, it might be more entertaining to just sit on your stoop, staring and pointing. More »
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Non-Italian non-murderer Amanda Knox is slowly but surely readjusting to free life stateside after spending nearly 4 years in Italian prison. She dressed up as a mustachioed cat burglar for Halloween. She's speaking English again. And now it looks like she's got herself an American-style boyfriend, complete with a beard worthy of a sea shanty. More »
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Being both religious and cool is difficult in a society that increasingly scoffs faith, and being religious and cool is especially difficult if your religion demands that you do totally uncool things, like eschew beards and tattoos or wear religious garments under all of your outfits. So, how do young Mormons cope? More »
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Maybe it's supposed to be a running gag. Maybe one of the LA-based writers thinks Brooklyn is chock-full of hipsters (FYI: many, many other people live there — 2.6 million residents!). Whatever the case, 2 Broke Girls has made a choice to have its characters relentlessly mock hipsters. Oh, there are jokes about rich people and sex, sure. As well as the groan-inducing racist character stereotypes (making the Asian man a virgin seriously taps into the vile, pervasive untruth that Asian men are not sexual; these people should be ashamed). But most of the "laughs" come from hipster jokes. How very mid-aughts! I know I said I kind of liked this show. I may have spoken too soon. More »
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It's true. Jennifer Aniston has "evolved" into a hipster. The Cut claims, "She's gone from a boot-cut Lucky Brand poster girl to a slouchy, oxford-wearing, cool Manhattanite." Boyfriend Justin Theroux is to blame/thank, of course, for Jen wearing fedoras, tank dresses and long pendants. More »
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After home canning, chicken husbandry, and fixed-gear bicycles, what old practice is next in line to be revived and embraced by hip young urbanites? Answer: typing on typewriters. More »
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Three weeks after the first complaints, Etsy has revised its prohibited items policy to encompass the rape congratulations card, though seller "YouStupidBitch" remains online. The announcement implied the company had initially been reluctant to appear to be censoring its members. More »
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HLN current affairs show host Jane Valez-Mitchell sounds positively pissed as hell as she discusses those hipstery-horrible greeting cards with a prosecutor, a rape survivor, and several other women. Video inside! More »
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The caption for this Etsy greeting card reads, "Get creeped on, get raped? Know someone that has? Then this card is for them." What more is there to say when the seller's name is "youstupidbitch"? More »
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Here's a depressing thought: According to this chart, in about 20 years my theoretical spawn will be begging me to buy her Uggs and trying to leave the house with her thong hanging out of her jeans. [Flavorwire via Buzzfeed] More »
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• Penelope Cruz is replacing Kate Winslet as the face of Lancôme's fragrance Trésor. [People]
• And Diane Kruger will be the face of a new Calvin Klein scent, Beauty. Kruger is accompanying Francisco Costa to the Met Ball, too. [WWD]

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• "She's not involved in this collection," said Ungaro owner Asim Abdullah just before his show commenced this afternoon, Paris time. He was referring, of course, to "artistic adviser" Lindsay Lohan, whose future at Ungaro had long been in doubt. [WWD]

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German artist Adrian Riemann has created a series of drawings depicting Masters of the Universe characters modeling hipster clothing. She-Ra looks good in H&M and April 77, but where will she hide the Sword of Power? [The Awl] More »
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Potbellies are apparently the must-have accessory for the smart set. We'd say we were ahead of this curve, but the style is only de rigueur for men. More »
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American Apparel faces important questions every day. Like, how to stay in business! And how to market an indispensable accessory like a unisex bow tie made from only the finest factory off-cuts. Strangely, the answer always seems to be: Nipples. More »
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I reach you reporting live from my station in line at the official Topshop clusterfuck. Because what the hell else do I have to do of a sunny Thursday afternoon? More »
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Here's a list of the most popular "hipster baby names" as defined by aging-hepcat areas like Brooklyn, Madison and Austin. As one might expect, the rents either kick it old school (Olive, Orson, Violet, Sadie (ugh), Silas), literary (Atticus, Dashiell), musical (Lennon, Kingston) misleadingly ethnic (Leopold, Stellan) or frankly pet-like (Butch, Ike, Elvis, Dixie, Duke.) Oddly, "Sarah Palin McCain" has not made the list. We just can't wait until all these poor tykes are doctors and lawyers — not that their parents would want such a square fate for their offspring. [Nameberry] More »
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It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, Rich, the Trig to my Piper, helps me answer questions about nipple hair, vasectomies, and heartache. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.) More »
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Planned Parenthood has launched a new sex education website called Take Care Down There that spreads the message about sexual health with hipsters in t-shirts. • The number of child brides in poor countries who marry before the age of 18 will double to 100 million in the next decade, putting them at risk of AIDS, death in childbirth, poverty, and lack of education. • A new report by the Poppy Project has found that there are over 921 brothels in London being advertised in newspapers with a "large and growing" number of young women who are trafficked as sex slaves. • More »
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Uber-nerds threaten to quit video game after female characters lose their enormous boobs, game creators promise to amend racks ASAP. • State-wide drought is declared in California, conserve your water, Cali Jezebels! • Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is releasing a memoir about her husband's 'remarkably irrigated' '5 or 6 brains.' • Oh, and she is releasing a new album. Smells like publicity overload! • Topsy-turvy tomato planters have been recalled after complaints of collapsing. Some things are just better right-side up! • A Shot At Love contestant was told to stop kissing lesbian lover at Seattle ball-game, sparking outrage in the community. • Female workers oversee sewer developments in Karachi slums and rise up in power using their modesty. • Lily Allen's drunken shenanigans at that Glamour Women of the Year party may have been the result of some spiked drinks! • British mother convicted of neglect after leaving her toddler alone and penned into the kitchen of the apartment (that later flooded) for a weekend. • Turkish court upholds the ban on Islamic head scarves for women in universities. • A Sikh student is attacked by a classmate in Queens after school officials ignore reports of bullying. • Salary.com conducts a "study" that reveals stay-at-home moms could earn $117k a year for child-rearing work and working moms could earn $68,405 a year. Oh, if only this were true. • Bahamian blogger laments her government's lack at stopping violence against women after Amnesty's 2008 report on international women's rights. • A "variety" of couples have approached Virgin Galactic about being the first couple to have sex in space. More »
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On July 26, 2007, Nike will unveil its first limited-edition retro sneaker designed in collaboration with a female designer. Think of it as the Susan B. Anthony dollar of our generation. Graffiti artist and designer Claw Money, whose "PMS" tag in the East Village we enjoy seeing on those rare occasions we leave our house, is the trail-blazer here. (Funny because it's a Nike Blazer, not that we'd respect you for knowing that.) We entreat you not to spoil this moment by wondering what took them so long, how many dozens or hundreds of male graffiti artist/DJ/designers were awarded this distinction before Claw; it took us time to gain suffrage too. Just remember: Nike was the name of a Goddess. And one day the Universe, too, will come back into alignment. More »
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How will you replace Jane? (Or as a newly jobless Jane alum just mused to us, how will Jane replace its jobs? "Do they write about diets now? Do they turn themselves into fashionistas?") Yesterday we took a poll as to your feelings on the matter, and last we checked the vast plurality of you said Nylon. Really? Nylon? We'd never actually read it. Until today! And we must conclude: "meh." The magazine really seems to like MySpace, which makes sense because it's sort of the less-unruly Myspace of paper, in that it might be fun for us if MySpace had not renedered all of hipsterdom (and the world) functionally illiterate already, so instead it reads like a braggy self-consciously dumbed-down menagerie of hipster references set off by pictures of hipster kids in hipster poses and ew there's Leigh from Misshapes. (Do you know who Leigh Lezark of the DJ collective Misshapes is? Did you only know because you read Gawker? We actually knew who Leigh from Misshapes was before she landed herself on Gawker, because we went to her party, "Misshapes," which would have probably been the most forgettable party we had ever in our lives attended if she didn't insist on reminding us of her incredibly substantive and influential existence so often). Anyhow! Onto the magazine. More »
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"American Apparel...operates antithetically to industry norms" Gee, ya think??? The New York Times runs a story today on how Lindsay Lohan was wearing an American Apparel hoodie when she puked out that very last morsel of "this-is-still-funny." And American Apparel posted the picture on its blog, not because they had any of those hoodies left after every last Hot Chip listener got hold of them, but because, you know, they're American Apparel, which is to say a microcosm of our very nihilistic-dogoodery, party-for-Darfur conflicted times. For one thing, can we even write about them? Not only did we used to work there (file under department of long stories we will tell you about sometime) we apparently still do, from the looks of the ad at left. And speaking of that ad, is it weird that we're more put off by that it, because it seems all professional-y, than we are by some of their earlier work that was more in the vein of amateur child porn? Is it okay that they are responsible for Lindsay's hoodie, which looks very comfortable and practical and employs thousands of workers at a living wage, but also such specimens as "Maggy" to the right, and legions of other Cobrasnake-scouring hipsters like her? More »
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