Styles of the Future
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I don't know, I always found those neckties kind of interesting. Certainly they only turn out to be a fad, since more traditional neckties are seen throughout Enterprise's run (most notably with the Admiral's uniform) but still, those Past Tense ties are kind of cool.
I actually think Jadzia's outfit looks pretty good.
http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3x12/pastense2_424.jpg
It's just her hair cut that doesn't look so great. But then what do I know about style.
http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3x12/pastense2_424.jpg
It's just her hair cut that doesn't look so great. But then what do I know about style.
I have a very strong feeling that sometime around 2370 that the master replicator pattern for hair gel was accidentally deleted from the Federation database. That and metallic eyeshadow.
Possibly. It seems hairspray is still in there though, although if I existed then I would probably overload the life-support system with my usage.
Those are the posh people in their ivory towers, with access to the net. They dress like they've got more money than sense.
I'll be in the Sanctuary District, with the gimmies and ghosts huddled around a trash can on fire.
Like Ron Howard's bro said... WHOOSH! I'm invisible.
I'll be in the Sanctuary District, with the gimmies and ghosts huddled around a trash can on fire.
Like Ron Howard's bro said... WHOOSH! I'm invisible.
Her "style" looks hideous. Especially the hair and jacket.
The suits worn by Dulmur and Lucsly (the operatives from the Department of Temporal Investigations) weren't half bad, actually.
We like to think fashion of the future will look just as cool as most everything else seems to, but in reality that's not likely. One can't help but wonder what people of generations past would think of today's fashions.
People of the 18th and 19th centuries would surely think we're usually underdressed. Outside of winter they'd think many women are practically naked (from their perspective) or at best walking around in little more than underwear. From past perspective many contemporary men's casual attire makes them look like bums or at best low working class only cleaner.
People of the 18th and 19th centuries would surely think we're usually underdressed. Outside of winter they'd think many women are practically naked (from their perspective) or at best walking around in little more than underwear. From past perspective many contemporary men's casual attire makes them look like bums or at best low working class only cleaner.
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^ That's just one of the reasons I'm very, very glad that I'm living today and not in Victorian Times or even the 1950s. I positively love causal dress and hate anything that is too heavy or restrains movement. Let alone that the Victorians (in my eyes) looked like the biggest tools since the Baroque/Rococo. How they devolved from the fairly cool Regency Style into the hideousness of the late 19th century I'll never understand.
On the point of future clothes, I always was kind of a fan of early TNG fashions. Sure they are hideous, but they also look like people are walking around in their pajamas/nightgowns all day, must be really comfy
On a more serious note I am a huge fan of Bajoan style: very breezy, nice Earth tones and cool fabrics . I'm particularly fond of this dress of Kira's
However I rather take even the most hideous future fashion over having people in space run around in contemporary wear like on the re-imagined BSG. That was just stupid imho.
On the point of future clothes, I always was kind of a fan of early TNG fashions. Sure they are hideous, but they also look like people are walking around in their pajamas/nightgowns all day, must be really comfy
On a more serious note I am a huge fan of Bajoan style: very breezy, nice Earth tones and cool fabrics . I'm particularly fond of this dress of Kira's
However I rather take even the most hideous future fashion over having people in space run around in contemporary wear like on the re-imagined BSG. That was just stupid imho.
Quite the opposite, IMO. After years of the ugly civilian attire on the various Star Treks, I found BSG's use of contemporary outfits quite refreshing. It gets the point across that they're civilians and you don't feel sorry for the actors for being forced to wear something hideous and in some cases uncomfortable.
Just wait 20 years and then they'll look like the civilian outfits do on seaQuest.
I have to admit I hate the whole series and if I was an extra in a sci-fi show and told that instead of something alien and outlandish I have to wear a standard business suit or a T and jeans I would be very disappointed.
It makes no sense for a culture completely un-influenced by our own and/or at a completely different point in time to look exactly like people from the 2000s without even the tiniest bit of variation to somehow remind us that this is an alien culture.
And I don't care if it was a "conscious decision" by the showrunners, I just put it on the long list of things I don't like about that show.
And scifi attire need not look ugly, look at Kira's dress in my post or the robes the guy next to her is wearing. It is a fine line, but just rolling over and putting your characters into stuff you bought at the Gap in an attempt to look "more serious" is uncreative in my opinion.
And uniderth has a very valid point it will date the series even more than the original is dated and I hate it for starting that trend of contemporary scifi wear.
The future of Haberdashery is in dire straits! Crikey ... that looks like shite.
Money for nothing and hankies for free.
It doesn't need to, but it usually does. Hell, half the time I think the main reason so many join Starfleet is because only Starfleet seems to have any half decent looking clothes.
What's interesting is that the fashions in "Past Tense" look very 90s in a way — baggy suit jackets, etc. So it's very possible that will be the fashion in 10 years, after all the 80s made a resurgence these past few years. Fashion is cyclical.
For obvious reasons everything about Past Tense has a very 90s look. CRT screens are omnipresent, cell phones are big and bulky. In many ways it is a very dated episode.
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