Mutton's guide: Unhappy Hipsters

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Thursday, 20 May 2010

Unhappy Hipsters

Courtesy of TN 29 (Tracey Neuls' shoe company - article to follow), I would like to recommend this very funny blog. Adding subversive captions to pictures from Dwell magazine, Unhappy Hipsters sends up "über cool" lifestyle.

She’d perfected the post-breakup stoic stride.
(Photo: Dave Lauridsen; Dwell)

http://unhappyhipsters.com/

Mutton's philosophy

Generally mute on her actual age for fear of rejection, the middle aged woman needs to develop a split-personality. Not longer projecting youth, she still feels very much a woman. Not yet the wise old woman that she might never be anyway, she is not ready to disappear. Fashion presents her with clothes cut for prepubescent girls, shown on the catwalk by skeletal amazons and on fashion pages by teenagers. Through extraordinary mental gymnastics, she needs to imagine how those clothes and styles would hang and feel on her, a woman who looks nothing like the girls for whom the clothes were designed nor those who model them. Caught between two equally unattractive fates - fading into greyness or the ridicule of "mutton dressed as lamb", she needs to skillfully navigate the treacherous fashion waters.

Help is at hand! This guide intends to look at fashion and life through the eyes of a middle aged woman exploring the issues of ageing and identity in our youth obsessed culture!

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