/fa/ - Fashion

>>15632384
JFC this was the shit.
Literally the rise of microbreweries, pop-up coffee bars, army surplus stores, vinyl record stores, hackerspaces and revitalization of old commercial buildings in Chicago. Rickety old warehouses and factories turned into lofts and old-timey "industrial" aesthetic was on the rise, with peaked caps, cardigans, vests and penny loafers, ironic pre-ww1 machinery and heavy butcher block tables with cast iron legs, and everyone was into making their own vaping flavors and craft beer. Bitcoin was in its infancy and people were getting hyped on it along with all sorts of libertarian schemes after the 2008 crash. People were trying to be happy, but it kind of felt forced, not unlike squeezing your dick into a tight virgin art girl because you two think you love each other. The problem is that now she is a depressed art hoe two xanny bars away from killing herself because she couldn't keep a man. This is my Chicago, which tried so hard to be the new tech city,but somehow can't hack the transition away from being just a agricultural finance/transport hub.
You want to see an exploitation of this, go play the first Watch_Dogs. It's annoying as fuck to see them mangle your city aesthetic, but the shit still smells like it, so I roll with it.
20 years ago this shit started in the Wicker Park/Humboldt Park-to-UIC/Halsted near west neighborhoods and kept growing outwards towards Brighton Park/Bridgeport on the South side and Logan Square, Ravenswood and Avondale/Jefferson Park on the N/NW Side. Now the minorities got smart and took out mortgages so the rental companies won't simply push people out for new hipster growth and now its a bit of a standstill. It might leapfrog the neighborhoods but who knows if Chicago won't simply drive out all the white/asian creatives for gibs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Po3sLIiJU
This is what some of the hipster neighborhoods felt like, when Rahmbo was mayor trying to court tech and finance. Sad, really.