Just a more streamlined pair as I plan to wear the old ones sans socks all summer, and since they already have 2 huge holes in the soles, I figured I'd spring for a little nice jonks.

Just so long as you don't venture into the boat shoe realm, then you're definitely treading on hipsterdom.

No, no, never, ever, don't you even think it!

From the comfortable distance that my dotage offers me, those are ironic. Trust me here.

I was told after I bought my desert boots that, they too, have been co-opted by the hipster culture.

Yeah, they are quite fashionable these days.

And tentoze, it's hard to be ironic wearing tailored trousers and a Rollie, no matter how hard you might want me to try.

whereas the name Rollie is definitely hipster.

And so is the Rollie Fingers mustache!

At least we can have fun with this thread.

I had a great-uncle named Rollie. Guy was an ex-Marine. Even when he was 70 he was in better shape than anyone I knew.

...let's be honest about your realistic options otherwise, here.

...and I own a pair of those Carharts, but mine are made for my 6' frame.

And, seriously, that look would complete the impression of Sasquatch at Pebble Beach...

I fucking love my carhartts, but just the carpenter pants. I don't dig the overalls.

I don't wear the overalls unless I'm running around outside in the snow, or in the woods in the winter. Then, you'll dig them. For hard-as-nails britches I prefer Dickies.

I had 4 pair when I was an electrician, and they lasted 8 years, and I used them crawling under houses, dragging ass over rafters, shit like that. So I got 2 more.

Looking at the pictures in this thread I don't understand the difference between emo and hipster, is hipster what emo kids grow up to be?

Well the last thing I'd ever want is to be "tolerated".

Not custom made, asshat, just brought in here and there, cuffed, etc.

Might want to check into it...

You think I don't know about having pants tailored?

Actually in all honesty I really wish for a deeper bench in the upper end of the clothes spectrum. It's so fucking hard to find tiny people shit that's nice, and I so rarely need it right now, that we just don't spend the coin on it. I wear goddam motorcycle boots under nice jeans 8 months of the year.

The older we all get, the more likely it is that we'll all need hipster replacements.
But then, of course, The Replacements always have been hip, and most-likely always will be.

You don't know the half of it! I can be the most (intentionally) UNfunny person in the universe when I want to be!
But I usually only save those jokes for my family.

I think that's a good strategy.