babies: the new hipster accessory

I'm not the only guy walking around the hood with a baby strapped to him in an Ergo.  And the more I look, the more I look like everyone else. And I'm not even trying to say I'm a hipster.  I've never been comfortable with that term.  In my mind, I took an unconventional path in life in becoming a musician and hipsterism is just a look, not an identity. Even things associated with baby have become hipster accessories.  Like the Ergo.  But as any hipster can tell you, your hipsterism can backfire and go into unknown and unwanted terrain.  Like when I wanted to buy new Vans the other day but they didn't have my size.  So the shoe girl suggested I try wearing Toms. I told her I already wear an Ergo.  That's just going a little too far. I'm still a man.

But like the stroller, the ergo has definitely become a hipster accessory.  (We use the Baby Jogger City-Mini stroller which I highly recommended).  And these babies, these hipster accessories can also spark conversation with other hipsters in public.   Like when hipster girls come up to me when I'm wearing Harps and just start talking.  It's like babies are the new dogs.  And these hipster parents are carrying around their hipster babies wearing mini chuck-t's and everyone is trying to outdo everyone else.  Sounds like hipsterism to me.

DZ