[ExI] so what's with the weird collars?

[Tristan Linck]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 01:12 Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 2021-3-18 21:28, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> > The whole round collar business is common in future vision,
> > but I have never seen it or understood why anyone would want
> > to make their head  appear to be on a dinner plate.
>
> Perhaps it's inspired by Elizabethan ruffs.
>

My working guess is that it is a visual echo of the attachment point for a
space helmet, in keeping with the broader space-age esthetic of
astronaut-inspired fashion.

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