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One thing I fucking love about this is the man’s hat. Like it fits so well with his speedo/loincloth thing it is perfect. The artist probably had a lot of fun with that.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Minoan sensibilities to come back into fashion.
Processed food killed that immediately.
We should start dressing like that by the 2050’s. We have 25 years to make the transition. It’ll be hot as fuck by then, so the lack of coverings will be helpful for staying cool.
We will just be wearing fluids, a shit tone of sunscreen.
1914 artist: will carrying canes ever go out of style? No, of course not, that’s insane. It’s pants that are a fad.
Don’t forget the great hat! I wouldn’t want to be seen without one.
Or the time consuming up-do
And a pipe, only a buffoon would walk into a museum without one
Ok, but it had to be difficult to imagine in 1914 that basically everyone in the 50s would be smoking cigarettes. The inciting incident for the change had begun (WW1), but it’s “they’re giving the soldiers shitty poor people tobacco so they can at least have some comfort and because it’s more logistically convenient than to give them pipes”. And idk if they had started issuing cigs yet in 14.
This is the equivalent of predicting that in the 2060s wealthy people about town will rather than enjoying a nice whiskey on their nights out or on a lovely night in, they’ll be (like everyone else) maintaining a solid drunkenness on malt liquor the majority of their waking life because the trump administration got so bad that it took free malt liquor to keep people productive in the majority of the developed world and now everyone there is an alcoholic with shit taste.
They were off by a few decades. The 80’s didn’t want to let this guy down
It seems like futuristic utopia fashion predictions always feature less clothing. Whether something like this or sci-fi like Star Trek TNG.
Maybe, they’re prescient shades of the coming global warming or people’s imaginations are just unavoidably horny.
What I picture as future style now is baggy clothes and layers and maybe LED masks, and I can’t wait. I want a big flowing cyberpunk trench coat
Nah, since fashion has been cyclical, pretty soon we’re going to bring back those big frumpy denim dresses with a long sleeve white shirt under them that got weirdly popular in the early 90’s, and then bell bottoms are coming back for a third time.
If fashion is cyclical, when are we going back to togas and sandals??
Frats tried in the 80’s.
Personally I want great coats from the mid century to come back.
What future style?
You can get those clothing right now!
Just search Etsy or make your own
Hey, I won’t shame your kinks. Enjoy your MC Hammer 1980s future.
You, I like the way you think friend.
cyberpunk tench coat
I don’t know what makes a trench coat cyberpunk, but if it’s being reminicent of *Blade Runner, where Deckard wore a trench coat:
https://www.amazon.com/blade-runner-coat/s?k=blade+runner+coat
1-48 of 173 results for “blade runner coat”
It looks like there are also clothing companies that will tailor Blade Runner replica coats:
https://www.magnoliclothiers.com/deckard-trenchcoat-overcoats-p-286.html
Horny, nerdy, sci-fi writers.
Based on TV shows in the future everyone on the planet will wear the same jump suit and boots uniform or the woman will wander around in silk robes. The show Buck Rogers said everyone will wear spandex, especially the female officers.
Unless Zapp is in charge, then no female officers.
Zapp still forever be my only captain
Why was a cane ever considered essential accessory? Was it related to needing a weapon?
It’s a device that can be made fancy and beautiful that serves as a weapon when needed, and is an assistive device for the disabled. We’re talking 1914, so it’s not the most disabled the men of the western world have been, but four years later will be.
And even without the war, you’re in a time where there’s no joint replacement, and there’s a lot of people with injuries from industrial accidents and people who’ve had diseases of industrialization. You have the beginnings of recreational sport (a good way to get injured if you don’t know how to prevent it) and not much other exercise except walking places. The newfangled “safety bicycle” is still a death trap by modern standards but compared to a pennyfarthing without pneumatic wheels it earns its name. Also there’s no antibiotics so you’ve got a lot more people sporting a single leg than in modern times, especially if you’re in America where veterans of the Civil war are still around at the time.
At some point in the 19th century and maybe towards the early 20th century a cane was a common accessory for well-to-do individuals even if they never needed it.
The first ever mixed martial arts system, bartitsu, made heavy use of walking canes as weapons specifically because of how often people carried them.
Class symbol with the added perks of beating the poors and mobility aid.
I think navigating an urban landscape a century ago was just generally more challenging than it is now.
Having a stick to fend off rats, dogs, or livestock would be essential.
Also muddy streets, gutters etcetera, are easier to navigate with a walking stick.
Finally just carrying a cool stick around with you while you conduct your affairs doesn’t seem terrible. I find myself kinda wishing it was still a thing.
Why isn’t a cane considered an essential accessory? We could all use personal lightsabers at all times.
I think I know why we stopped using canes. Also from the depth of my madness I just remembered that Dudley in had a cane in the Harry Potter books.
Weapon, balance wet cobblestone streets, ease on your legs from a long day waiting on the trolley. Pick upreach device. Also, another thing for people to sell, i.e. hat, pocket watch, bracelet, necklace, etc… that’s mostly what “fashion” and “fads” are, a new gimmick to sell and distract people from the horror of everyday life.
Seriously though, a walking stick while hiking is a game changer. I’m not talking ski poles, those are mostly useless outside light balance stuff. I do so much with my walking staff and have never had a fall or trip while on the trail. A third leg can be a godsend sometimes, especially in muddy swampy sections. Creek crossings are a breeze.
Its actually surprisingly on par considering the clothing at the time. The bikini came about in the late 40’s and the miniskirt was around by the late fifties although the term had not been coined.
Well the first problem is we let the abrahamic religions control the media.
So imagine this but with a 40% obesity rate.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00404-9
Dozens of new obesity drugs are coming: these are the ones to watch
Next-generation obesity drugs will work differently from Ozempic and Wegovy — aiming to deliver greater weight loss with fewer side effects.
The 1950s can still happen!
Weight loss drugs don’t immunise you against food though.
And usually the people who are on drugs for weight loss arent exactly close to the figure represented.
Weight loss drugs don’t immunise you against food though.
The new ones like ozempic literally kill your cravings and desire for snacking, so in a way they do.
And usually the people who are on drugs for weight loss arent exactly close to the figure represented.
You’d be surprised at the figures of some of the people I see at the doctor’s for weight loss drugs.
In a way, they attempt to moderate the hormones that usually are the cause behind snacking. But it won’t eliminate habit.
You’d be surprised at the figures of some of the people I see at the doctor’s for weight loss drugs.
I don’t think I would, but if some anorexic person gets weight loss drugs instead of a referral to a psychiatrist, somethings gone wrong.
But it won’t eliminate habit.
Obviously anecdotal, but from what I’ve seen and heard it actually does. Those using it have almost no cravings, you can stick their favourite snack in their face and they’ll politely decline.
some anorexic person gets weight loss drugs instead of a referral to a psychiatrist,
Didn’t mean it that way, but slim and shapely.
I mean, it will help eliminate the habit.
The person doing the snacking is addicted to a feeling usually associated with eating because of a hormone that your stomach releases which makes you hungry. (Ghrelin iirc) This medication on either ocunteracts that or helps it’s counterpart, leptin, which signals satiation.
Usually people with severe obesity have those signalings all fucked up.
But like with smokers, nicotine patches will help people quit, but some just like still smoke on them and don’t even reduce, you know? Those people are more addicted to smoking than dependent on the nicotine, really.
Similar thing goes for food addiction. It can be either or, addiction or “dependence” (I put it in airquotes because it’s still not “really” required but your body certainly will make you think it is because it doesn’t know we live in modern times and a bit of fasting is completely safe).
Usually it’s a mix of both, obviously, like with everyone. But if the psychological component is far larger, than these sort of meds perhaps won’t help as much, and you’d need something combined with therapy perhaps.
but slim and shapely.
Yeah eh, if they’re being cautious and abiding by the instructions on the medications, I guess why not.
Obesity in the 50’s was more like 10-15%, today it’s closer to 35%, but 40 is close enough.
Interestingly, the spike started in the mid-1980’s, timed too closely to the low-fat craze to not make me suspicious, especially since that adds up metabolically.
Yeah, many products had (and still have) reduced fat but added sugar. Sugar belongs in desserts in my opinion. Eating fat doesn’t make you fat.
Eating sugar doesn’t either unless you’re at a calorie surplus but yeah sugar does mess with you hormonally in a way that you’re more likely to put yourself at a calorie surplus vs fats.
Pretty sure fat digests pretty easily for humans, while we are omnivores we lean more towards the carnivore side of things. Remember our big evolutionary advantage is our ability to throw things good and just keep walking, persistence hunting was our big fuck you advantage.
Another advantage that we developed later on is our ability to seamlessly shift from small to big team organizations, sometimes working without any apparent hierarchy. Gobleki Tepe is one of the prime examples of prehistoric cities
Too bad the world as a whole kinda stuck with super rigid top down hierarchies for the past 500 years
I’ve seen some burning man attendees wear shit like this
You’re just not going to the right clubs.
clearly
I went downtown and saw people who looked like that
Huh. So, on another timeline, without WWII getting in the way, society just goes straight to Burning Man. I like it.
Nowadays burning man is just like the tech bros corporate retreat, so if it’s today’s burning man we just skipped some steps toward technofeudalism
