[AnonymousBosch]

(11-02-2013 11:41 AM)puckman Wrote:  

My buddy has literally had all of those looks going on, and was really into them, we started as metal rockers in a band(in high school), he danced when hiphop dancing was big in the late 80's, we were 'goths' for a bit(NIN started in my town, Industrial was a big scene in that time), became granola/hippies when we toured with the Dead, always into the punk scene and played the part at times. The motherfucker had a kid n' play haircut with flip up fake glasses, then two years later is walking around barefoot in cut off disgusting dirty jeans and a newsboy cap at Dead shows. In all of these versions of he is getting pussy(I LTR'd), girls fucking love him, and he's like a chameleon but not in a pre-meditated negative way. Now he is a straight up hipster, but married unfortunately.

Every person I've known like this has struck me as lacking any clear conception of who they actually are at their core. Scene identity creates their identity - because, without it, they're a void.

The danger in creating your identity purely through fashion is you risk ending up looking like this: