it's easy to tell who's into music and who isn't. it's all in the details and usually the creative side of dressing. the fashionistas act more like sheep and copy each other.

i'm all confused. not that i need to look indie CAUSE I KNOW I AM IN MY HEART AND SOUL AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS ;)

once, i approached a girl i assumed looked like they knew music because you know. they looked ...that way. turned out they were big scouting for girls fans and didn't realy know who the Smiths were. This is unacceptable.

the 'indie' guys i know think pavement is something you walk on!

my opinion; talk to none of them.

at all.
It confuses me sometimes when I go to the UK though.
I was talking to this girl who looked really interesting and like she would have had good music taste or something, and she told me her favourite bands were The Twand and The Long Blondes.
Terrifying.

I think it's probably because nobody really listens to MOR Indie here. Well, it doesn't get into the charts or anything. And shops don't really sell "indie" clothes.

when i a guy comes up to me and tries to talk to me about music. unless it's good music. but it's usually lame-o fakeindie boys who want to talk to me about Coldplay.

apart from the ugly ones obvz

Its not like they'll go out with me anyway.

real indie people don't dress it, like how real vegetarians don't ever mention it.

(making enemies on the social board)

I live and work in Kent. And the default look is 'Chav'. Huge hoopy earrings, scraped back hair, massive makeup, burberry - the whole thing.

I can only dream of what it must be like to reguarly see girls who look indie. Even my wife has hung up the indie look for the yummy mummy one :(

I wanted to start talking to a really indie girl I saw in Starbucks cos she was holding an explosions in the sky album but my friend said you're no allowed to approach strangers no matter how good the CD they're clutching is :(

Because I can disassociate myself from all of them instantly. I tend to find people who dress "indie" either do it because they buy whatever crap they're told to, or really are "indie" and seemingly consider more or less their entire identity to be such (a good indication that they're impossibly uninteresting).

i don't think the way i dress has a direct relation to the music i like. i wear dresses all the time without fail day in day out but that doesn't reflect on the music i listen to at all because most days when i am wearing tea dresses and a little beret with some dainty shoes i'm listening to some screaming monstrosity. it doesn't have any correlation.

but it makes it all the sweeter when you actually meet the genuine article.

who aren't really indie rock, but 'just working a look'.

it used to be that whenever i saw them, i'd get all excited and dream about the collection of swans vinyl she has stored in her bedroom. then i'd spend the whole night working up the courage to talk to them and when i finally did, i'd save myself the excitement of finding out her favourite band. but, the excitement couldn't hold out.

"so, what's your favourite band?" i would tentatively ask, knees shaking in anticipation. 'please say weezer. or dinosaur jr. or queens of the stone age. or at the drive-in. or-'

"i really like razorlight."

MAJOR FAIL HOT GIRL

it brings together things i love (pretty girls) and things i hate (cretins).

there should be a special badge that says 'not faking' :(

but growing up (16 or 17/pre-uni) me and friends used to go to indie/student nights or whatever in manchester, looking the part as dirty students despite being underage.

i don't know if it was my impressionable age or me romanticizing about this period in my life but i used to be in awe of how beautiful, different and individual some girls looked back then...they had depth, were obviously there for the music and looked truely different to the average girl around town or whatever.

these days things seem somewhat diluted and samey and for me its hard to tell who hasnt a clue and who has...but i tend to look at where i actually see a girl as opposed to specifically how she dresses before making a judgement...

yeah i kind of know what you mean...dont know if its just me feeling bitter

but yeah, everything gets bastardised eventually doesnt it?

round where i live have obviously missed the 'dress indie' memo. chav central.

but then it just makes the ones with the berets and ramones t-shirt from HMV, hadouken! fan sort of girls at school feel unique. and they're the ones all the indie boys misguidedly go for, while me and my lack of vintage leather jacket are painfully ignored :(

What the bleedin' 'eck does it matter? Why on earth should a certain style of dress be attributed to a certain type of music? Yes, it's true that in the majority of cases a natty cardigan sporting, floral welly shod, hairslide bedecked lass is indeed likely to possess musical leanings somewhere along the indie spectrum. But isn't it refreshing when that stereotype is bucked to reveal said jaunty hat wearing individual actually rather enjoys a bit of top 40 and simply dresses like that because, controversially enough, they simply find that style aesthetically pleasing? Why is that style not the "genuine article" if worn by people with different musical tastes? Why should certain musical genres own styles? What on earth is the difference anyway?

(Case in point: me jokingly suggesting to my fella that a mowwie would really suit him. Cue him responding, "I don't listen to the right type of music for that." AAAARGH!)

I don't know, I just rather like the idea of being surprised by people. Of actually having to initiate conversation in order to discover their leanings, of any variety. Of people not having invisible little tags attached stating their exact music taste, dietary preference and social class. For this reason, I applaud these so called "fakers" who've chosen to adopt the style without giving two hoots about musical connotations.

Band T shirts worn by non fans, are obviously wrong on all levels, but that's a different issue entirely.