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Jivers are the newest pop-cultural fad though truly a subculture of preps born West Coast US. Jivers were preppy kids who started getting into the club scene and I mean preps from high society! Not the cliquies of our schools. Jivers went clubbing crazy as did our young teen idol celebrities did. As they realized they were given weird looks they decided to redesign their appearance to be more club like. They took up fashions such as the fedoras because Michael Jackson supported fedoras as a fashion item for his acts on stage and music videos. Justin Timberlake wore fedoras too making it extra popular to do so! They took their usual school uniforms adding flashy wristbands and then wore converse shoes. However by the late 00's Martin Margiela decided to redesign the old classic mobster shoes into a tennis shoe ordeal creating his own brand of hip shoes. Preppy clubbers also get the newest dress shirts and neck-ties that were graphic made. Then along came dress slacks to increase their newest fashion! People referred to their look as 'jiving' thus the name was adopted and they called themselves Jivers, this subculture had been happening all last decade but only known in the high society. Now it is worn by all preppy hipsters, cliquie Jivers which some cool kids might call 'the new Preps!'

A strange history lesson is in order:

in 1870 at the opening of the industrial era known as the post-modern times, pop-culture was born in a small way. The first major pop-culture fad was Cabaret, women wore corsets and fishnet stockings as well as top hats, silk long gloves and early hooker boots. Sometimes they wore dresses over the bottom half of the corset to be a little more modest. Men wore the early pimps outfit otherwise known as the 'townie' look. After the 1870's decade the fad wore out its value and people moved on to something else.

in the 40's the zazzy look was basically the cabaret look redesigned and recycled but in a more puritan fashion sense. The zoot suits were introduced then for all men to wear, women did a dancer's dress and flapper skirts. Not only the most romantic decade but also the most culture sensitive decade of all! What's funny is that 7 decades earlier, the cabaret thing was a big deal.

now in the 010's as we live, 7 decades after the zazzy craze died out we have the Jiver fad. It does seem a revived version of the zazzy look only more of a new century look. Girl jivers again dress in skirts but nothing that is short enough to be sexually inviting. Just short as most casual short skirts we have. It is certain once this decades wears out so will this fashion!

The look:
Head - A fedora with a ribbon or a glittery head band attached.
Torso - Graphic dress shirt, generally featuring angel wings with dragons or what have you. Most often a brand name shirt. The neck tie is also graphical but more a cascade of colors.
Wrists - Very flashy wristbands, some may be the old 90's snap-ons, some may the be button ons, some might be the clip on hard plastic ones; they also range in feature, from glittery disco ball look to glow in the dark to mood band to laser light ups.
Bottoms - dress slacks as introduced, bearing the sturdy and hard jean material while being light and silky as pajamas or slacks. Most of them are a remake of the khaki cargos from the 90's, a poor immitation.
Feet - the Martin Margiela brand shoes that cross classic mobster shoes with tennis shoes of today, just more hipsterness for them!

There you have it, the ironic coincidence of preps adopting a lifestyle and fashion sense they don't normally roll with! Personally it beats the wigger look by a true long shot, not even girls have an excuse to look like ho's nowadays!

The true Jiver culture is like preppy culture except they aren't snobby or culture sensitive. They like outrageous fashions like Lady Gaga who is their idol! They love clubbing every weekend or on special holidays. Some even like to run and host public school raves! They like shopping for flashy things even for some futuristic gadgets... After all the future age is upon us. A trend spawned from this culture called Flashies are basically chicks who are poking fun at manly nature as Emos did toward femnine nature. Flashies are also into lesbo liplocking, doing guy activities, wearing body paint on their arms and showing off their accessories. Jivers drink wine from the bottle and not from a glass since they aren't trying to be fab in etiquette. They are overall the new conformists, they gain popularity and become popular through in-school dance-offs. Basically the hottest/best dancer gets status in the 'in-crowd' while the suckers get ignored. They become prom king and queen also through their skilled dancing abilities.

My view is that they are another annoying teeny bopper conformists culture. Yet at least they won't be nearly half as annoying!

Jenn is one of the nicest, sweetest, lovely lasses that I've been lucky enough to shoot with. She is intelligent, fun, photogenic, and knows a lot about garlic. We did this shoot on a late afternoon in September 2009 at Cuddy Park in Midtown, Anchorage, Alaska. The lighting was really strong at first but mellowed later. Excellent shoot - even when my flash unit fell into the water! Can't wait for the next shoot!

By the time we took this shoot it was almost dark. I had to shoot at ISO 1600 (waterlogged flash units aren't much use), hand held, and was worried about graininess and blurring but I liked the way they turned out.