One may have noticed the general decline of scene kids in recent times, and the rise of a new sub-culture. Well not exactly new, but definitely becoming more popular among teenagers. The hipster fashion seems to have taken over from scene. What is hipster you ask? Hipster is basically to Indie what scene was to emo.

I've gone through the origins of emo and scene in other articles on the site, but as emo gained mainstream stardom many self-proclaimed emo kids converted to becoming an 'Indie kid', where the criticism wasn't quite that bad. If you look at bands like Bright Eyes, which have been referred to by many as 'emo' while in fact folk/indie you can see the connection between indie and emo music. Numerous emo bands have used indie elements in their music so turning into indie as plan B was first choice for many emo kids.

What happened after that is that scene started gaining the same popularity as emo did, and as such many scene kids turned to hipster fashion. Hipsters incorporate more of an 'open minded' view on music genres and listen to anything from electro and indie and underground independent hip hop bands. Hipster kids, like indie kids are often into the arts, though some hipster kids can often be found on the sides of roads together, think of it as the street gang of white suburban artists.

The look itself is a lot different to scene's look, with a slightly more conservative look. Hipsters can usually be told apart by their colourful stockings, beads, shortish hair or checked shirts. They have also incorporated large glasses into their arsenal, a feature that was present in the early emo styles.

Hipster will likely become the next big thing and leave scene and emo in the dust, as tends to happen in these situations. Retail clothing shops are already stocking up on hipster fashion style clothing and when you go to gigs now days you are bound to see more hipsters than emo kids. Don't be surprised if we start catering for hipster kids on scenestyles too. After all, they used to be our brothers and sisters back before mainstream ate up our culture.