hipsterland

hipsterland

English

Etymology

hipster +‎ land

Noun

hipsterland (uncountable)

1. The space inhabited by hipsters.
   • 1988, Angela McRobbie, Zoot suits and second-hand dresses: an anthology of fashion and music

     Pop hasn't been this divided since the early 1970s; there's been a revival of that progressive rock snobbery over 'that disco shit', with the Smiths' 'Panic' hit polarising hipsterland.

   • 1999, Giant robot (issues 16-23)

     The fashion has crossed over into hipsterland, where people wear nonprescription glasses to look like brains, little backpacks to look like little kids, and polyester to look like they just don't care.

   • 2009 May 29, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times‎:

     Following the nightmarish adventures in hipsterland of a young woman named Dorian, it takes viewers on a delirious bad trip from innocence to experience.