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

[William Flynn Wallace]

They're back!  My 13 year old gardeners showed up in bell bottoms and told
me it is now a fashion again. I actually have a pair that still fit. bill w

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 9:35 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Tristan Linck via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] so what's with the weird collars?
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> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 01:12 Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
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> On 2021-3-18 21:28, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> > The whole round collar business is common in future vision…
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> Perhaps it's inspired by Elizabethan ruffs.
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> >…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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> That notion is entirely plausible.  The future ain’t what it used to be.
> In the olden days, astronauts were considered futuristic, and many of us
> had the notion that we would be bouncing around on other planets in the
> future, which would always mean space helmets, which will always require
> those round rigid interfaces with the rest of the suit.
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> Well, OK that never happened and we now can reasonably extrapolate that it
> will not in the reasonably foreseeable, but look at the bright side.  The
> spandex yoga pants which brightened our day (certainly mine) didn’t just go
> out of style never to be seen again like bell bottoms, but are still with
> us a decade later.  Eventually it will occur to the fashionistas that since
> some people can really rock the spandex, they can make a spandex jumpsuit
> and some athletic young beauties will rock the top half as well.
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> On the other hand… this could be a bad thing.  Delightful sure, but forget
> productivity!  I will be hanging out in the park taking inventory rather
> than wasting time with some useful actual work.   Hmmmm…. OK, cool.  Back
> to the future!
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