Your mom probably wore one when she played tennis. Or the kid that got made fun of during summer camp. And Eminem was pretty into wearing one backwards in 2001.

That’s right, the visor. There are two basic versions: the sporty, and the beachy.

We’ve seen the sporty one cropping up ironically on your basic hipster. Michael Kors had the beachy sort all over his Spring 09 runway. Now we’re even seeing avant-garde versions.

We’re definitely steering clear of the sporty because irony usually fades after a few weeks and then it’s just plain ugly. As for the beach, we thought Lara wore a nice one for Michael Kors, and there’s a version at Neiman Marcus that we’d even consider calling elegant. But these two mostly just look like hats so…why not just wear a hat?

Is there an appeal to the visor that we’re completely missing?

—AMANDA JEAN BOYLE

If you were downtown on Saturday morning, you may have noticed Scott Schuman, aka The Sartorialist, doing an outside shoot with several underage lovelies in various stages of DKNY.

The shoot, we can reveal, was for an imminent issue of Glamour Italia, and the girls - well, you’ve probably seen them before.

The tall blonde on the left - who just shaved half her head, a la Alice Dellal - is Kay Goldberg, a RISD freshman and crush of Olivier Zham who lives in the West Village. Kay is the goddaughter of Kurt Cobain but her real claim to fame is being the first-ever Look Book subject in New York Magazine - she’s also on the cover of their book.

The redhead on the right is Tess Brokaw, a former Fashionista intern who gave us the lowdown on “real life Gossip Girl style” last year and also posed in the most recent Vena Cava show. Faran introduced her to Scott after the Preen show last year, and… well… the rest is history, with a fake ID.

But where, oh where, was Cory Kennedy?!

On Halloween, the Times reported that Goodwill is trying to change its image into more of a consignment shop rather than a place of “charity” by hosting fashion shows online, and promoting good deals on the blog DC Goodwill Fashionista.

And now, the Wall Street Journal says consignment shops as a whole are doing incredibly well right now, with about 66% of resale and thrift stores watching their sales climb, and about 85% reporting an increase in new customers. Meanwhile, more and mroe high-end stores are trying to figure out their place in the current economic climate and we’re witnessing more sales than ever, even at the good shops.

Which kind of makes this new Goodwill perfectly positioned for this new predilection towards good clothes that’s cheaper just because it’s been worn. Though we wonder about the supply of clothes there possibly dwindling for the people that shop there out of necessity rather than trends - and yes, what about all those hipsters who love to brag over their $2 Goodwill tees? Will they react to the trend by taking their dollars elsewhere?

So many questions.

“I’ve always found that word (‘hipster’) is used with such disdain, like it’s always used by chubby bloggers who aren’t getting laid anymore and are bored, and they’re just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable.” - Gavin McInnes, of Vice, giving the other side of the hipster argument, via the Guardian.

“Making fun of the global scenesters is futile, for they love nothing more than to mock themselves. Everything a scenester does is rendered in air quotes: ironic moustaches, ironic trucker caps, faux-offensive Urban Outfitters T-shirts, white guys with afros, or musical acts with names like Does It Offend You, Yeah?” —The Independent, on the global hipster phenomenon.

There’s a strange breed of New Yorkers - well there are many - but lately I’ve been noticing those so utterly committed to their style that they refuse to confront the 90 degree, eyeliner-melting weather.

A few questions for them:

How does one squeeze into skinny jeans when it’s so hot you sweat standing still?

Why do you layer a blazer above a men’s button down with a fringed scarf when it’s so hot kids are running around naked?

Are you actually comfortable in knee-high Frye’s with that barely there mini-dress when it’s too hot to wear leather ballet flats?

Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up with humidity and after six years on the East Coast I still find it to be the most miserable thing ever; maybe it’s because I’ve determined to find a way to be stylish and comfortable even in extreme heat, which means denim cut offs, t-shirts, loads of jewelry or just a romper on the really miserable days; maybe it’s because I’m actually positive I couldn’t wriggle into my jeans in my not air-conditioned room.

But seriously, are you able to wear the same outfit year round or do you succumb to the miserable heat that swallows this city from June to August? If so, how?!

Question: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

a. “You mean you don’t know?”

b. “It’s a really new number, you’ve probably never heard of it.”

c. “I was totally into that joke last year before it became popular.”

d. All of the Above.

If you find any or all of this funny, you’ll probably like this, too.

—BRETT KANE

…the trouble seems to be that they have no idea what they are.

There’s a spread in their arty-inspired Fall 2007 catalog meant to feature four young artists - presumably to show that Bloomingdale’s is a shopping mecca for young creatives as well as polished suburban babes. But they didn’t bother to distinguish between the artists and the other models in the spread, so we have no idea who paints for a living, and who just poses.

Something else that’s fun?

The spread gets titled “Y.E.S. Williamsburg,” and yet you can find the models/artists lounging by an expensive car wearing elbow-length gloves and a pinstripe BCBG suit. Another page reveals a model (artist?) wearing a cherry-red Juicy Couture coat in what appears to be Schiller’s Liquor Bar in the Lower East Side (not quite Brooklyn).

In what’s perhaps the weirdest page, a young woman struts away from the subway in a polyester Lacoste running suit - and she’s too coiffed to be ironic, or invoking The Royal Tennenbaums.

What’s happening here?

—NATALIE HORMILLA