There’s this running gag about hipsters and their love of workwear. The brand Carhartt is especially valorized among this set. The idea is simple: hipsters are usually well-off people by way of their parents’ trust funds, but pretend to be poor as they believe that being a “real artist” is being poor. Cue them buying as much workwear as possible as they romanticize the idea of being a blue-collar man at a manufacturing plant while simultaneously looking down on actual trade work.
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