We Need More Science: Gift Guide: 9 Retro Presents for the Hipster in Your Life

Gift Guide: 9 Retro Presents for the Hipster in Your Life

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Crosley Bermuda Turntable It would be way more legit if you cruised thrift stores until you found a vintage Califone that spent the last 30 years in a Maryland church basement. But since this is a gift, it's OK to go retro. The Crosley Bermuda is a gorgeous portable record player that also can be set up on legs in the home. Perfect for the friend who's hipster-curious, but not quite ready to invest in mustache wax. $250 Crosley

Crosley Bermuda Turntable

It would be way more legit if you cruised thrift stores until you found a vintage Califone that spent the last 30 years in a Maryland church basement. But since this is a gift, it's OK to go retro. The

Crosley Bermuda

is a gorgeous portable record player that also can be set up on legs in the home. Perfect for the friend who's hipster-curious, but not quite ready to invest in mustache wax. $250

Crosley

Best Made Enamelware Mugs Next time you build a small campfire on your fire escape, step outside in your union suit while sipping thoughtfully from one of these gorgeous mugs by Best Made (the same people who brought you the fashionable Best Made axe). They're built using real WWII-era machinery, and the rim and handle are double dipped in enamel. Be careful not to spill any coffee on your beard! $32 Best Made Co

Best Made Enamelware Mugs

Next time you build a small campfire on your fire escape, step outside in your union suit while sipping thoughtfully from one of these gorgeous

mugs by Best Made

(the same people who brought you the fashionable Best Made axe). They're built using real WWII-era machinery, and the rim and handle are double dipped in enamel. Be careful not to spill any coffee on your beard! $32

Best Made Co

Field Notes Ambition Edition Philistines will ask you about your Moleskine, as if you'd be caught carrying one of those mass-market scribble sheets in your saddlebags. Field Notes are the real deal. This set gets you three notebooks: one with ledger lines, another with graph paper and (most excitingly!) a third that serves as a weekly calendar. Bury your smartphone in your garden. $10 Field Notes

Field Notes Ambition Edition

Philistines will ask you about your Moleskine, as if you'd be caught carrying one of

those

mass-market scribble sheets in your saddlebags.

Field Notes

are the real deal. This set gets you three notebooks: one with ledger lines, another with graph paper and (most excitingly!) a third that serves as a weekly calendar. Bury your smartphone in your garden. $10

Field Notes

Williams Sonoma Hori Hori knife You know you're using the right tool for the job if it's something most people have never heard of. Like this Hori Hori knife. What's that? You were going to use it to cut through an apple? Ho, ho! It's really for growing apples, not eating them. Yes, this gardening knife loosens soil and serves as a decent spade, but also saws through tree branches when it's fruit picking time. $35 Williams Sonoma

Williams Sonoma Hori Hori knife

You know you're using the right tool for the job if it's something most people have never heard of. Like this

Hori Hori knife

. What's that? You were going to use it to cut through an apple? Ho, ho! It's really for growing apples, not eating them. Yes, this gardening knife loosens soil and serves as a decent spade, but also saws through tree branches when it's fruit picking time. $35

Williams Sonoma

Filson Restored Computer Bag There is literally nothing more hipster than this backpack. Filson takes worn-out bags and restores them in "limited quantities by expert craftsmen" before selling the old bags for more than a new one costs. Even better, it only sells ten per week because false scarcity is incredibly appealing. You can practically smell the beard! $585 Filson

Filson Restored Computer Bag

There is literally nothing more hipster than

this backpack

. Filson takes worn-out bags and restores them in "limited quantities by expert craftsmen" before selling the old bags for more than a new one costs. Even better, it only sells ten per week because false scarcity is incredibly appealing. You can practically smell the beard! $585

Filson

Fisher Moon Landing Space Pen Growing up, you wanted to be an astronaut. You can't go to space any more, though. Space is lame now that rich people have gentrified it. What you can do is write a note with this commemorative pen bemoaning the current state of the space program by listing all the ways it was better in the '60s when you had to really want to go there and couldn't just buy your way in. $88 Fisher

Fisher Moon Landing Space Pen

Growing up, you wanted to be an astronaut. You can't go to space any more, though. Space is lame now that rich people have gentrified it. What you can do is write a note with this

commemorative pen

bemoaning the current state of the space program by listing all the ways it was better in the '60s when you had to really want to go there and couldn't just buy your way in. $88

Fisher

Muji Wooden Hexagonal Mechanical Pencil No one uses pencils anymore, which is great, because you can bring them back. Muji is among the finest pencil-makers in the world and this cedar-bodied mechanical will set you apart as a gentleperson of real taste and sophistication who would never deign to use a pen, unless it was a pen other people don't have. $6.50 Muji

Muji Wooden Hexagonal Mechanical Pencil

No one uses pencils anymore, which is great, because you can bring them back. Muji is among the finest pencil-makers in the world and

this cedar-bodied mechanical

will set you apart as a gentleperson of real taste and sophistication who would never deign to use a pen, unless it was a pen other people don't have. $6.50

Muji

Pendleton Glacier National Park Blanket Within your lifetime, the glaciers will recede away into memory. Go see them now, or at least imply you did with Pendleton's boldly designed wool blanket. It looks great on your bed, and it can be cut up and fashioned into trousers that, paired with your enormous beard, could lead others to mistake you for Jeremiah Johnson. Don't forget your fiddle. $189 and up. Pendleton

Pendleton Glacier National Park Blanket

Within your lifetime, the glaciers will recede away into memory. Go see them now, or at least imply you did with Pendleton's boldly designed

wool blanket

. It looks great on your bed, and it can be cut up and fashioned into trousers that, paired with your enormous beard, could lead others to mistake you for Jeremiah Johnson. Don't forget your fiddle. $189 and up.

Pendleton

Chemex Six Cup Coffeemaker There is only one way to be seen making coffee, and that's in a Chemex. Keep the Keurig under your counter, and leave this sitting out. You don't even really have to know how to use it (Stick some flowers in it!). But it will genuinely make a wonderful pot of coffee. Just don't let that ruin it for you. $42 Chemex

Chemex Six Cup Coffeemaker

There is only one way to be seen making coffee, and that's in

a Chemex

. Keep the Keurig under your counter, and leave this sitting out. You don't even really have to know how to use it (Stick some flowers in it!). But it will genuinely make a wonderful pot of coffee. Just don't let that ruin it for you. $42

Chemex

Crosley Bermuda Turntable

Crosley Bermuda

is a gorgeous portable record player that also can be set up on legs in the home. Perfect for the friend who's hipster-curious, but not quite ready to invest in mustache wax. $250

Crosley

Best Made Enamelware Mugs

Next time you build a small campfire on your fire escape, step outside in your union suit while sipping thoughtfully from one of these gorgeous

mugs by Best Made

Best Made Co

Field Notes Ambition Edition

Philistines will ask you about your Moleskine, as if you'd be caught carrying one of

those

mass-market scribble sheets in your saddlebags.

Field Notes

Williams Sonoma Hori Hori knife

You know you're using the right tool for the job if it's something most people have never heard of. Like this

Hori Hori knife

Williams Sonoma

Filson Restored Computer Bag

There is literally nothing more hipster than

this backpack

Filson

Fisher Moon Landing Space Pen

Growing up, you wanted to be an astronaut. You can't go to space any more, though. Space is lame now that rich people have gentrified it. What you can do is write a note with this

commemorative pen

bemoaning the current state of the space program by listing all the ways it was better in the '60s when you had to really want to go there and couldn't just buy your way in. $88

Fisher

Muji Wooden Hexagonal Mechanical Pencil

No one uses pencils anymore, which is great, because you can bring them back. Muji is among the finest pencil-makers in the world and

this cedar-bodied mechanical

will set you apart as a gentleperson of real taste and sophistication who would never deign to use a pen, unless it was a pen other people don't have. $6.50

Muji

Pendleton Glacier National Park Blanket

Within your lifetime, the glaciers will recede away into memory. Go see them now, or at least imply you did with Pendleton's boldly designed

wool blanket

Pendleton

Chemex Six Cup Coffeemaker

There is only one way to be seen making coffee, and that's in

a Chemex

Chemex

Sigh. Buying all those exemplars of modern technology and giving them as gifts is pretty much like going to see Arcade Fire now. Why would you want to do that when you could have seen them in a little club in Montreal back in 2002 when they didn’t really have any good songs yet? I mean, you wouldn’t. So just buy these gifts instead.

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