h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The fashion houses of today should think long and hard about how to keep a trend going. They should look into the work of the the late JC. He was wearing the now famous sandals nearly 2000 years ago (allegedly) and people still buy them today! Still he should have issued a statment about the wearing of socks with them and the church could have made a mint from the patent!

Hmmmm...

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I don't know if this constitutes unfinished business as such beacuse it has only started, but when I was out shopping for runners the other day, there were some in the shop from Nike which looked as if they'd just come out of H.R. Giger's wardrobe of creation!! They were green and slimy looking and cost about 120 Euros (no working euro key on the board here...).

I just think that we should get them and burn them all...and to heck with the pollution!

Well, that's my 2 cents for the moment.

Anyone who's concerned enough about fashion isn't going to wait until the turn of the Millennium to deal with it, they'll have to change about every year or so.

While fashions travel in 25-30 year cycles, I'm beginning to think that the turn-over rate has sped up to keep up with the caffeine-driven pace that people in cities want to travel at.

Aside from that, fashion's always been about your opinion of my dress being more important than my own, and your refusal to accept me as my own person instead of the way you think I should appear; THAT'S something that should vanish with the turn of the Millennium.

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In a way it does constitute unfinished business. Fashion recycles itself. I find it particularily disturbing to find what I wore as a teen (dating myself aren't I) the fashion today. So..... that means that 20 years from now we'll be wearing what we are wearing today. Hopefully not exactly what we are wearing today. I plan to get new knickers by then

How H.R. Giger managed to sneak in those runners.... Green and slimy you say? You'd slip and fall on your bum. Hey, maybe the runners are recycled....... ah, never mind.....

Well, I don't think that the whole judgement of people by what they wear is going to go out with the turn of the century. But I don't necessarily find that a bad thing. I mean, I sometimes wear all black and a BIG black heavy coat (nicknamed "the coat of death" or "the horse blanket" by my mates) and people show me a lot more respect and give me room to walk in the street! And I like that. Lots...hee hee.

A couple of times I've had people cross the road so as to not walk past me, but that's only ever been at night-time.

As for the shoes being slippery, I have NO idea. I wouldn't try them on myself.

Enjoy your hols Aoibh.

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The wearing of black, especially black rain coats (sounds like your coat might be what we'd call a duster) is being judged in the states. I'm sure you've heard of the killing spree that happened at a high school in Colorado? Many, many High Schools now prohibit the wearing of dusters (especially black) in the school. Or coats of any kind. Many more schools prohibit the wearing of gang "colors".

People seem to forget that psychopaths can wear business suits and some of the nicest people wear black dusters.

But as Gridreign741 says, it's about being comfortable and being who you are. I don't really care what other's think, that is thier problem not mine.

Remember when you were a kid and you were promised that by the year 2000 you'd have a spiffy flying car, meals in pill form, and glitzy silver Buck Rogers jumpsuits? We don't really have a practcal flying car design yet, and the only meal pill you can get is Dexatrim, but dammit, we can do something about post-space-age fashion. I, for one, am looking forward to silver metallic overalls replete with fins, glow-in-the-dark piping, and bubble helmets. Get with the program, Calvin Klein.