is hippy a lifestyle or a fashion?

It's all about whats inside, not what you wear! :cheers2:

 

I would not call someone that does that stuff but is a complete asshole a hippy.

It's a lifestyle and belief

 

And hippiedom is not only about drugs. I know people who say they are hippies to avoid word junkie.

 

I say it's a religion and an obsession. And anyone who tries to break away should either be shunned, flogged or burned at the stake. But I might think differently after I've had my medicine.

 

definitely lifestyle. . . that's brought together by music and a fashion true to individual character. talking about hippy as a fashion seems to automatically put a stereotype on the term and who wants to be part of a stereotype? hippy fashion in my eyes varies too much to put it on that platform.

 

I think it's a lifestyle, coming from within your heart. Now a days with the kids dressing like "hippies" it seems to be more of a fashion- that is what angers me deeply.

 

But in the 60's there were way more hippies only in for fashion cause it was popular fashion. So i say people today are propably very much in to morale and hippie way of life

 

I never thought of it that way, good point brother. I guess I just have a bit of a problem with people who dress like a hippie, but have no idea what it means to truly be one.

 

Being a hippy is like being a muslim or a christian. But not one of the fake ones. Its somethin' you gotta breathe, live, an' love.

 

It doesn't matter how you wear your hair its whats inside your head.

 

Right on brother, right on

 

It can be both, just depends on how you see it

peace and love
Jane

 

lifestyle. i love the style of the hippies but thats only incidental.

 

I would say so too.

Good to see you back on the forums erzebet1961. Hope you're well.

 

if anyone thinks hippie is all about the fashion then they are not a hippy. I may have tie dyes, hemp, and long hair, i might play hacky and disc but that is notttt why im a hippy. hippy is deeep inside me, rooted into the very core of who i am. It is the building blocks of my entire mindset. Anywhere i go, anything i say or anything i do passes through the hippie filter

 

To be honest i see hippy as a lifestyle.

Hippy is (to me)

1. Spiritual realization (thru meditation, yoga and other things)
2. peace and love
3. pure freedom and creativity.

 

It’s a fashionable lifestyle!

 

i dont consider myself a hippie really,although i am often mistaken for one because of my looks/"fashion" and my lifestyle.
its been my observation that most who claim to be "hippies" really are farther away from what i and many older "hippies" ive met would define a "hippie" as being than me in many ways..

in the end i feel its just another label,and labels only serve to divide in todays society.

 

I really am thankfull to this thread , and the starter thereof , I have never given the question much thought..and also the other question , what is a hippie...I guess when you grow up as one you never really have to think about the definition and you just take who you are and what you stand for for granted.

 

I think its a way of thinking. and acting, i dont always dress "hippie' its the way i act,interact and think