This site has good pics and info for over 100 SF movies.
UFO:
https://www.vintag.es/2019/01/shado-girls.html
Very realistic. (NOT)
This one may be a little too realistic. Or maybe just a little tight.
Ouch, indeed.
Gotta love the 9-track tapes in space! Not that I blame anyone for not seeing those go away: they seemed like they’d go forever, until all of a sudden they didn’t. I remember when 3480s came in and we were all like “Oooh, weird”.
Also, why does she have four unfired rounds and a men’s washroom key on her belt?
OK, sure, we’ve been lucky that it’s 2021 and we still did not all get the damn jumpsuits. I’ll even grant you that as an excuse for not getting the jetpacks. 'cause I look around at the BMI of the population and that would have been one damn unflattering trend. (When at the store I see that most OTR clothes claim to be “slim fit” or “athletic fit”. Most of the buying public is neither.)
I suppose those who expect to use stairs, sit in chairs, get in and out of cars, reach for an object in a high shelf, operate office equipment, stoop to look through the bottom drawer, walk more than two crosstown blocks at a time, carry packages, run for cover, etc. while wearing the clothes, in hot or cold weather. And not spend more than one minute putting on and properly fastening each garment.
Though at times they only leave the Normals scratching their heads and wondering WTF was that and exactly how do you manage to move in it or use the restroom while wearing it.
This is the future, that’s a unisex bathroom key, only available to their top people. As for the bullets, I choose to believe they are fashionable lipsticks. Who needs bullets when you have all those lasers, phasers and blasters?
Ah. Now the only remaining question is why the washroom key is on a wood block.
(My emphasis) Aah - plebs.
run for cover
That, I think, is mostly a concern in active war zones…
That’s kind of the point.
You’ll always have outliers who dress different from everyone else. The deeply religious, the isolated ethnic minorities, the rich, the homeless, the rebels, the weirdos… there will always be exceptions. In general, though, people seek comfort and convenience, within the limits of conformity.
Fashion and what hoi polloi wear “in general” are orthogonal concepts.
Not where I live.
Fashion isn’t “what rich people wear”. I’ve seen “fashionable” rich people. As far as I’m concerned, they’re just another weirdly-dressed minority group that has nothing to do with me.
Isn’t Hoi Polloi just Latin for “regular people”?
I’ve seen how the average Israeli dresses. Yes, it is.
No. It’s what people of taste wear.
It means “the many”, but I’m using it in the “the riff-raff” sense.
Tip: anyone who claims to have “taste”, doesn’t.
It’s not our fault we’re ahead of the curve. Now I admit, it takes talent to look this good, but I think other people can come close, if they try hard enough.
Stop buying into the class system, MrDibble. Rich people don’t dress better than anyone else, they just think they do, and the rest of us mock them for it.
Taste is a real thing, and some people have it, and others don’t.
It’s not a class thing. Many fashionable people are not in the least bit wealthy or upper class. There’s a thriving vintage fashion scene, and a streetware fashion scene. Various subcultures also with their own fashions. And there’s stuff like the Le Sape and Izikhothane.
I’m not talking just about haute couture (although that is one - just one - of the subcultures I mean)
Note - I’m not claiming to personally be fashionable, most of the time I’m a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy and when I’m not, I dress in distinctly un-fashionable subculture clothes - like, I am not a fashion-plate Goth, I’m a boring Goth, and I’m a boring Steampunk, and I do not stick out at Pride. But I can recognize style and taste when I see it.
If that were true, then over time fashion would have gone from less comfortable to more comfortable, which is demonstrably not true.
In general, people want to convey their social standing at a glance. Either their actual status or the one they aspire to emulate. If, tomorrow, a new visually identifiable fabric that costs a fuckton to produce and a second giant pile of money to manipulate and construct into wearable clothing, and felt like tiny little pins pricking into your skin - it would be insanely popular. The even more uncomfortable, but very much cheaper knockoff would sell like hotcakes, because a lot of people want to convey that they are wealthy or have wealthy tastes.
This discussion started with me claiming that people mainly dress for comfort and convenience, and both vintage fashion and streetwear are by definition comfortable clothes. They may have unusual cuts, fabrics and patterns, but they’re still basically the same thing everyone wears. That vintage fringed 60s jacket you’re wearing may look amazing, but in purely practical terms, it’s no different than a windbreaker from the Gap - it covers your arms and keeps you reasonably warm in the winter. The only people who intentionally wear uncomfortable and impractical clothing are the religious, the rich and the stupid.
Really? Compare old pictures of people in those horrible wool suits and strangling neckties to today’s jeans and polo shirts. Can you really say that we’re less comfortable? Humanity has been on a slow but steady march towards sane sartorla habits in the past century, and good for us.
Could you give me some examples?
Agreed. And once you’ve had comfort, you don’t want to go back.
Star Trek-style jumpsuits are in again (for women), but they have the major drawback that you have to pull down the entire garment to go to the loo. It takes too much time and is impractical if you’re at a pub or whatever. It’s why they’ve never caught on in a more widespread form - the need to be able to poo and pee is not something we’re likely to get past.
Dresses don’t have that hindrance. I can see dresses becoming more gender-neutral over time. So more dresses, long in winter, short in summer, with sort of tracksuits to wear at home. Wait, that’s just me.