Aviators? Long hair? tight jeans? Retro fashion.

[StrayDog]

2005.

I thought by this time we'd be wearing tight silver leotards, fancy space boots, lightweight and fashionable crash helmets with cool visors on them, and be driving flying cars.

[Don Simeone]

what ??

retro was new...about 7 years ago...

but at the speed it's going now, the 90's will be 'back' in 2 years :)

i mean, the 70's were back...hmmm...7 to 3 years ago pretty much...now it's those despicable 80's...

[Crash Override]

Things come back in style every 20 years.

I expect grunge fashion to peak around 2014.

[Wolf]

Originally posted by StrayDog@Jun 3 2005, 12:54 AM
2005.

I thought by this time we'd be wearing tight silver leotards, fancy space boots, lightweight and fashionable crash helmets with cool visors on them, and be driving flying cars.
You mean you don't?

[Lone_Raider]

Damnit, I want my flying car to drive to my city in the clouds and a space fighter with lasers! Where is all that stuff? lol. Seriously I never expected 2005 to be that advanced, I could see we weren't advancing fast enough back in 1990, no way in hell we'd have flying cars 15 years later. But my parents really thought we'd be living in space back when they were in high school in the late 60's and late 70's respectively. Let me tell you, they are dissapointed! :laugh:

Oh wait, this is about clothes, yeah never mind :P

[ittakessome]

when is shit like this coming back...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/brokenpretzel/tehhottness.bmp
(that will be the inspiration for my husband's tux at our wedding.)

i think grunge was the sexiest. i want that back too.

[Lone_Raider]

Seeing how I never stopped listening to Nirvana, STP, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Blind Melon, The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction, I guess I will be cool again in 2014 lol. Man it will be awesome if little kids and teens were going around listening to real music like Nirvana again instead of some pop trash/crap. :mrgreen:

[Kuky]

Originally posted by Lone_Raider@Jun 3 2005, 12:38 PM
Man it will be awesome if little kids and teens were going around listening to real music like Nirvana again instead of some pop trash/crap. :mrgreen:
Amen!

[StrayDog]

Originally posted by Don Simeone@Jun 3 2005, 07:57 AM
what ??

retro was new...about 7 years ago...

but at the speed it's going now, the 90's will be 'back' in 2 years :)

i mean, the 70's were back...hmmm...7 to 3 years ago pretty much...now it's those despicable 80's...
That's what I'm saying - they kept at it! I thought it was a passing fad too!


ON a side note, I've always worn Aviators. Since I was a kid. I rode bikes and went hiking a lot. Properly sized aviators provided the best coverage when I couldn't afford sporty oakleys. When I started driving, it pretty much just came naturally. Now everyone wears it for the coolness factor?

I now wear pink driving lenses. Wonder if that'll ever catch on.

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Anyway, think back to when you were a kid. What was the shit you thought would have happened by year 2000's?

[Lone_Raider]

Originally posted by StrayDog@Jun 4 2005, 01:13 AM

Anyway, think back to when you were a kid. What was the shit you thought would have happened by year 2000's?
Laser gun, hands down. I thought that was a possibilty given that we already had laser devices like laser pointers. But oh no, they haven't done that yet. And the laser guns can't just shoot silently, they need that cool "choov" sound when they fire! lol ;)

[Crushed]

Let's hope to GOD our children never dress like this:

http://murdermysteryuk.co.uk/rocky%20horror%20group.jpg

Edit: The guy with the painted face in the middle looks angry. =d

Edit again: Not the tall dude though. ^_^

Edit once more: Is it me or do all their faces look photoshopped?

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[Kuky]

This reminds me of IRS :)

[Burro]

How is this not a Mirror Mirror topic?

And, err, grunge IS in. Where were you guys?

[StrayDog]

Because it's mostly pointless.


In Grade 3, the First Persian Gulf war erupted. Back then I already understood how dependent the whole world was on oil and how we have to wean ourselves from it somehow. In any case, electric cars was another of those things that I had envisioned we'd have by 2000. Consider, it was only 9 years after that, but there were already prototypes. Amazing how little has advanced in that department - Home gaming and entertainment has grown by leaps and bounds, whilst gas guzzling SUV's is a throwback from the wasteful Pre oil embargo years.

[Burro]

Guaranteed they have the technology, but think how much money governments are making off of having big gas guzzlers. Sure, they're horrible for the environment, but they make a pile for the government.

Especially Canada Think of how much Canada makes off of the riches of the Fort McMurray oilsands. If they were to develop cars that didn't need gasoline, think of how much Canada would lose in oil and gas sales, and on the same side, think of how much the USA would lose in taxing gasoline.

Just a little food for thought. ;)

[StrayDog]

Oh no man, I am by no means of radical views - I don't propose on giving it up completely. I am afterall, a very big fan of the piston engine. But I won't miss it if something better comes along. Just some musings on how nothing has really replaced it yet... perhaps those prophesizing doom and gloom for the oil based economy - and we have every reason to be worried - is getting to me.

[Crash Override]

All the money put into developing new technologies would stimulate the economy quite a bit, offsetting the loss from oil stuffs.

[Burro]

Tell that to the patsy's for the higher ups.

[MuthaFranka]

Ah fashion, the most confusing bunch of self-absorbed garbage I've seen to date.

Do you all realize that rich people are actually paying hundreds (that's the multiple folks) for jeans? JEANS!? What the fuck is wrong with people? Where are the priorities?

I see people that are so utterly concerned about their looks, and spend so much money on such useless shit and I laugh. People wasting their hard earned money on stupid stupid vacuous shit. Oy.

$200 for shoes? $600 for shit like purses? THESE ARE CLOTHES! You're supposed to wear them to protect you from exposure to the elements. And now, it's hilarious because it's popular to look like shit again. Does anybody else remember the 80s? And how ridiculous people looked? Well it's a never-ending cycle. I don't know about everybody else but I don't want to look at a picture of myself from 2005 and go "jesus fucking christ, what was i thinking".

Good day.

[ittakessome]

Originally posted by MuthaFranka@Jun 9 2005, 04:44 AM
Does anybody else remember the 80s? And how ridiculous people looked? Well it's a never-ending cycle. I don't know about everybody else but I don't want to look at a picture of myself from 2005 and go "jesus fucking christ, what was i thinking".

fashion is something so hideous it has to be changed every 6 months.

i just wear t-shits and jeans. that’s always in style. ;)

[MuthaFranka]

Hell, I'm still wearing some clothes I had in high school. I'm 21.

The only things I have replace have been due to deterioration. I haven't bought a new item of clothing in well over a year, yet I seem to be doing alright.

I actually will not talk to somebody who goes shopping more than once every 2 months.

[ittakessome]

Originally posted by MuthaFranka@Jun 9 2005, 05:09 AM
Hell, I'm still wearing some clothes I had in high school. I'm 21.

sounds like my boyfriend. lol

[alegria]

Fashion tends to reinvent itself, but typically draws on previous eras and puts a new spin on the old, updating it. I personally think it'd be cool to wear space boots that were shiny, however...

as for me, i don't really keep up with the latest trends. Well, actually that's a lie. I like the aviator sunglasses. I wear comfy tees and jeans only because, as someone else said, fashion is expensive and ridiculously impractical (5 grand for a "couture" dress....pffft)

[Lone_Raider]

As for actual fashion. I wear whatever the hell I feel like, I don't care what the fashion is I wear whatever looks good to me. I always have, and in doing that I ended up inadvertantly starting several trends from elementary school through high school. That wasn't my goal, I hate those people who are always trying to be the latest or trendy, I was just trying to live man. One day I was on the Island off my state's coast, and I bought a Hawaiian shirt to remember my trip. I wore it to school a few times, tons of people said they liked it, then a week or two later everyone started wearing Hawaiian shirts, then they implemented Hawaiian shirt day! When that happened I stopped wearing Hawaiian shirts because I thought it sucked that everyone started following a trend and I didn't want to be part of it, even though I had started it lol.

[MuthaFranka]

see, I started the hawaiian shirt thing in like 8th grade, and I still wear the motherfuckers, even though they're no longer cool.

YOu should bust those out ;)

[Wolf]

I started the underwear-hat trend.

[Lone_Raider]

Originally posted by MuthaFranka@Jun 10 2005, 02:28 PM
see, I started the hawaiian shirt thing in like 8th grade, and I still wear the motherfuckers, even though they're no longer cool.

YOu should bust those out ;)
I should lol, no one seems to be wearing them anymore so once again, they'd be original. :mrgreen: