The Hipster Handbook Vol. 1 Issue 2.

The 3/4 Beanie aka The Slouch Beanie




New hipsters do not try this at home. Only the upper echelon in the Hipsterdom can pull this off. The 3/4 Beanie is the 'f*ck you gravity I am going to look cool even if this beanie looks like its about to fall of my head.' It takes months, no, years to master the balance of 'sloucheeness' with 'functionality'. Once the above is mastered, you enter a class system that even Mother Teresea wouldn't f*ck with.


Here it is: the more rolls in your 'beanie' the more influential, affluent, cool, hipster-esque you are. Like fat people the more rolls you have the bigger you are. It is a sign of power, like the rolls on the back of a bouncer's neck. If some hipster has over 3 rolls that like 20 in Bouncer rolls, meaning what they say goes.

The history of this look is shrouded in mystery. Did it evolve from a more mainstream look like the navy beanie, or did it come to be in the biblical era? We may never know.

So go to goodwill or another Hipster Approved Store and pick out a beanie in a Hipster Approved Color, something we will discuss later.