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The pejorative implication is that it applies to someone whose tastes/fashions are outside the mainstream merely for the sake of being outside the mainstream.
by waterlesscloud 14y ago
The pejorative implication is that it applies to someone whose tastes/fashions are outside the mainstream merely for the sake of being outside the mainstream.
There's a further implication that those tastes are just as much a result of groupthink as the mainstream tastes.
- dionidium 14y agoThis is the only comment so far that gets at the actual pejorative connotation. That's also why particular sartorial and recreational commonalities are picked on. Seeing a guy on a fixed-gear bicycle in skinny girl-jeans, a v-neck tee, and an ironic mustache produces the same sort of feeling you might get if you saw somebody dressed as a newsboy from the 1920s. It's a costume, in other words.