# Fashion Trends of the {echo}FUTURE!{/echo}
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 27, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870 "2004-11-27T14:29:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/1 "2004-11-27T14:29:37Z")
So now that tats and piercings are no longer somthing that threatens the establishment, I’m trying to figure out what the youg’uns will do next to shock The Man.
I’ve narrowed it down to two things:
1. Internal organ piercings. Here, lemmie show you my xrays.
2. Cosmetic surgery: Buttcrack lowering. You can tell she’s had work done when you can see the back of her knees, but no workment’s cleavage.
Unintentionally _“Hoping Ward and June Cleaver become the rage for my kids”_ Blank
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/2 "2004-11-27T14:34:08Z")
Well, branding had a brief popularity It hurts a lot. No personal experience, except caring for patients in the Burn ICU
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/3 "2004-11-27T15:25:36Z")
I read a story–I think it was by Robert J Sawyer, the one about the flash forward-- where the “shock the 'rents” fashion was transparent skin and tissue so that part of the face looked like a living anatomy cutaway.
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/4 "2004-11-27T15:28:03Z")
> [@picunurse](#):
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> Well, branding had a brief popularity It hurts a lot. No personal experience, except caring for patients in the Burn ICU
Well, I guess since kids these days don’t have to worry about being attacked by marauding Huns or Sabertooth tigers, they need to get their RDA of pain _somewhere_.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/5 "2004-11-27T15:39:53Z")
Scarification.
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/6 "2004-11-27T15:57:50Z")
How about forehead sub-dermal teflon “horn” insertion, a la The Enigma from the Jim Rose Circus?
[Here’s a little piece on it.](http://www.ambient.ca/bodmod/implants.html)
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/7 "2004-11-27T16:43:21Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Scarification.
Ah, I thought you wrote SACrification…I figure that would be a self-solving problem. 😉
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### Author:  [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/8 "2004-11-27T16:46:16Z")
“Darling, are you _sure_ that blue, glowing skin suits you?”
There was a Connie Willis story where the latest fashion was eyebrow lights.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/9 "2004-11-27T16:53:29Z")
Implanted flash cards and other technogimmickry. To heck with wearing your TV watch _on_ your wrist. Imagine having it _in_ your wrist, or, even better, built into your head with a HUD so you don’t even have to take your eyes off the road!
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### Author:  [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashion-trends-of-the-echo-future-echo/276870/10 "2004-11-27T19:44:10Z")
There was a picture of a guy on BME who had an transdermal implant in his wrist that he could attatch a watch too. Pretty awesome, if you ask me.