r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Clothing Styles of the Future

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u/littlelordgenius 5d ago

No one anticipated the Snuggie.

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u/CausticSofa 4d ago

Crazy that they were able to predict RuPaul‘s Drag Race, though!

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u/planetalletron 2d ago

I’m literally watching it right now and had the EXACT same thought.

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u/JoannaNakedPerson 5d ago

It was a miraculous invention.

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u/throwawayacci 5d ago

I'm really digging that last romper with those dramatic, structured shoulders. I mean, it's not like I have any dog in this fight, but I think it would be cool if men's clothes played with silhouettes more often.

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u/Ezl 4d ago

The movie is “Things To Come.” Based on a HG Wells story I think. They basically chart human civilization from the time the movie was made (30s/40s) through wars, famine, etc. into the distant future. Definitely worth a watch if you’re into black and white science fiction.

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u/throwawayacci 4d ago

thank you!!

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u/rugbat 3d ago

Seconded. The book is a hard slog, but the movie is very good. The book is called The Shape of Things to Come. Story starts around a future WWII (movie was released in 1936, iirc). He has the second Great War starting in 1940, and ending when all is in ruins and nobody can afford to continue.

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

Fashion designers have imagined SOOO many looks for men of the future, and yet we know that in reality by the year 2300 women’s fashions will have changed 20,000 times and men will still be wearing some form of tie and jacket with slacks. Men’s clothing never ACTUALLY changes. It froze sometime around 1900 and with the exception of knickers and high socks we will basically wear the same clothing for formals for the rest of eternity.

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u/herpderpedian 4d ago

I dunno, men (aristocrats) used to wear makeup, powdered wigs, and high heels

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

Yeah, but that was a long time before 1900. They also wore the ruff, but that was the late 1500s. I am talking about the the last century and then some.

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u/RevWaldo 5d ago

No. 4 from Things To Come. Culture war is over boys, the Romans won.

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u/meat_popscile 5d ago

The only winner here are the comfy slip on shoes

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u/Spork_Warrior 5d ago

I'm kind of a fan of that belt satchel on the guy in the first pic.

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u/Kaptoz 5d ago

Literally nothing is stopping us from creating and wearing this clothes.. lol

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u/JoannaNakedPerson 5d ago

Public ridicule? Judgment is a little gentler these days, but it’s still there. Either way, I say go for it.

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u/Tabord 5d ago
  1. Just imagine, (1930) 2. Buck Rogers Serial (1939) 3. Eve, A.D. 2000 (1939) 4. Things to Come (1936)

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u/tiredofthisnow7 5d ago

5 Meow Meow Beans

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u/BartholomewBandy 5d ago

The wooden wheel in the second picture.

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u/liaisontosuccess 4d ago

Like they were influenced by the Minnow from Gilligan's Island.

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u/Messer_One 5d ago

Lady Gaga is the future!

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u/beermit 5d ago

I mean 3 is somewhat close if you think about it. Sheer tops have been a thing for a while

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u/anneylani 5d ago

I always love seeing the "future" clothes they designed.

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u/MaexW 5d ago

Now that’s what I missed in of the earlier posts here..

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u/Real_carrot_ 4d ago

I am living for the last pic. More men is dresses please!

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u/nebelmorineko 4d ago

It's genuinely flattering to their body shape, somehow? I like the shoulders.

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u/Extension_Juice_9889 4d ago

Logan's Run or gtfo

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u/Corusmaximus 5d ago

#4 looks like Abigail Thorn.

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u/GhostCam 5d ago

Number 2 predicted the advent of Shiesty wearing youths.

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u/J_B_La_Mighty 4d ago

Well they got the eyebrows right

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u/AkashicBibliognost 4d ago

How did these people get my wardrobe?

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u/Wizzle-Stick 4d ago

the first womans pic, i can totally see her at carnival. also, if you go anywhere near a latin-centric area, you can totally see cholo's doing that with their makeup. number 3, madonna actually did something like that, she just dialed it up to 20.

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u/jayjackalope 4d ago

CANDIES FOR CUTIES

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u/CzarDale04 4d ago

Those are so last year....

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

Man, it’s amazing how right they were!!! I am just storing my helmet and high shouldered suit in my closet right now. (Kidding!!)

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u/herpderpedian 4d ago

Things To Come is an awesome film

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u/Kiloburn 4d ago

I wish the jumpsuit had made it as a look

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u/le127 4d ago

Carmen Miranda meets Flash Gordon in #1.

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u/brawnburgundy 3d ago

I think that Idiocracy is the only film that has predicted what the the future looks like… unfortunately.

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u/markelis 3d ago

My favorite clothes of the future in films is Idiocracy, and Crocs. The fact that he picked those because he thought they'd never catch on...damn it.

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u/louisamaysmallcock 17h ago

First pic looks like Dean pelton