Scotty was "beamed up" and futuristic fashion chat

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Scotty was \"beamed up\" and futuristic fashion chat

James Doohan, best known as "Scotty" on Star Trek passed away. He was 85 years old.

Oddly enough, his passing turned my mind towards fashion.

According to the original Star Trek, hundreds of years from now, women would be wearing minidresses and large geometric earrings. This differed of course if you were not an earthling and wore "goddess style" gowns which all ladies on other planets prefer. (green hair optional). Especially to invoke a culture stuck back in time. Very in tune with what had been currently going on in the fashion world concurrently with the show. I am not sure how the slightly "pajama with insignia" related for men, unless this was showing a streamlined fashion influence.

In my workshop about Joe Famolare in August, interestingly enough, you will learn folks in centuries down the road prefer to wear his shoes on alien worlds (the wardrobe folks for Star Trek: The Next Generation frequently used the company's later than platform era clog shoes for futuristic humanlike alien types) That's not why i picked the subject, but just thought it was an interesting tidbit.

Chris
 
Chris, it is really interesting to think ahead and try and guess what
fashion will be - you can go off on some pretty wild fantasies!

It's also interesting to look back at vintage magazine articles, old shows etc, that have
"futuristic" costumes for this era. I don't think I've seen any that
accurately forecast today's fashions.

Sue
 
I think for a while that trends are going to be repeated but changed at the same time. This era in time seems to be determined to look at the past and change it to thier advantage and style......

And "scotty" will be missed over here. My dad loves Star Trek and it was something that was dad and daughter time, no mom.

And you guys now have the mind thinking too what fashion trends the future holds.....
 
I think the biggest factor/unknown is

1) who can predict what new materials will be invented

2) and then whatever is going on socially/culturally at the time...standards of modesty of course, but so much more..

Jamie, that reminds me of my dad. We used to watch the B monster movies on Saturday afternoons. Then we graduated to alfred hitchcock and the thin man, etc. but i remember all those crazy movies very well. Anything with "Attack of the..." or "Return of the..." or the " Giant something or other" was always on the menu

Chris
 
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