Casual clothes TNG to PIC - from terrible to far too 2020s?
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Not my favorite, but honestly I kinda like it. Does feel dated.
Side note ... the "civilian" clothes in PIC/DIS will feel dated in a much worse way, because the shapes. tailoring, silhouettes are all basically the same as contemporary real-life clothes, save for perhaps "new" fabrics. Really? Same outfits in the 32nd century that you could see on Earth today?
Way too many Tunics / Spa attire for casual civilians.
Looks a lot like what a lot of people are wearing today.
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Same! It was my first Star Trek video I owned. My mom and dad got it for me as a birthday gift. I still have it.
[sweating nervously] Listen, uh ... fashion is ... cyclical, okay? It's the future! It should be weird. (Nah, just kidding --- I cannot defend Little Lord Pavelroy.)
But! Any missteps are made up for by Sulu, who consistently wears the best fits in ST.
Still have mine, too! But not a VCR...
Thank you, this made my day.
I think Pushkin's shirt collar in historic portraits is just fine. It's a high-neck shirt meant to be worn with a cravat/ascot type of thing, so if it was buttoned up all the way then the "wing" portions wouldn't actually be very wide at all. If Chekov's white collar was supposed to be based on that, then they got it all wrong.
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Yeah how droll. It’s almost as if futuristic materials don’t actually exist today. And Hollywood directors — and fans — care more about actors looking cool than characters appearing realistic of their time.Well, in that case they clearly weren't trying hard enough to be futuristic or imaginative.
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Look how cool the other three look in that picture. Or Kirk in this and the next movie. Or how cool Chekov looked in the next one. They realized this one costume in the minority was a stinker and fixed it. But I guess the people have spoken so it’s button downs and khakis for the next two thousand years. Minimum. …how about no.Even Buster Brownovitch?
How about variety? That's my biggest thing when it comes to any future fashions is they are all extremely uniform, which strikes me as not only intensely unrealistic but also poorly thought through. Even if I could accept the TNG outlandish materials as future fashion (some I can, some I can't), the lack of variety and the move towards one type of clothing is more unbelievable.
More so, have fashions that feel they grew out current fashions, not just outlandish for outlandish sake.
More so, have fashions that feel they grew out current fashions, not just outlandish for outlandish sake.
And what materials would those be? Something shiny? Metallic? Plastic? More togas, robes and tunics?
It’s a fictional setting. “Realistic” is what ever the costume designer comes up with.
Except it really isn’t. Realistic is a judgment based on how well you think the unreal (the future) is being presented today.
Yes, and no. Realistic doesn't always flow from the costume designer because designs can be thoroughly impractical. One need look only at fashion shows to see how painful unrealistic some fashion designers imagine clothes.
Which is why I put it quotes.
Like how our fashions grew out of 17th century fashion?
I can follow that lineage better than some TNG stuff from now.
