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Post by robeiae on Apr 11, 2017 17:44:54 GMT -5
I was talking with some moms at the school field day for my youngest. Somehow, the subject of the late 70's/eraly 80's Buck Rogers tv show came up (I swear, it wasn't me who brought it up). Anyway, they were trying to remember who was in it and I did remember Gil Gerard, but could only remember the "chick in the skin tight white outfit" for the co-star, Erin Gray. Anyway, they laughed and I remarked how so many movies about "the future" always seem to have women walking around in skin-right outfits, more often than not. I laughed and said something like "what were they thinking." The moms laughed again, as well. But then I looked around and realized that every one of them--there were five--was wearing yoga pants and a relatively clingy top (two had on tank-tops). And I've noticed that yoga pants have become standard fare across the board in Miami, unless one is in a suit-wearing kind of job or has a uniform. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. Maybe I should start wearing bike shorts all of the time... ETA: Yoga pants, right?
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Post by Don on Apr 11, 2017 19:47:05 GMT -5
So what were the moms' reactions to your amazingly sexist observation? Or did you not notice the skin-tight clothes on Gerard and the skirt on the other guy?
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Post by robeiae on Apr 11, 2017 20:04:54 GMT -5
Women are ahead of the fashion curve. As always. But they laughed. Because I'm funny.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 22:57:21 GMT -5
My casual uniform is skinny jeans and a form-fitting black t--shirt. (yes, nearly always black. I like black.) The silhouette isn't really so far off from the sci-fi thing.
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Post by Don on Apr 12, 2017 4:46:23 GMT -5
Smartass pseudo-sexism snark aside, I live in shorts and tee-shirts, almost all of which are either pure cotton or (increasingly) dri-fit. I also live in south central Florida, where anything else, other than swim suits, is plain stupid most of the year.
What sci-fi got right: comfortable, form-fitting clothes with a simple cut and limited adornment for normal attire, with elegance and/or outlandishment reserved for special occasions.
What sci-fi got wrong: lack of diversity. Far too often it seems there's one central authority somewhere that decrees color, cut and adornment.
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Post by Vince524 on Apr 12, 2017 11:41:14 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Apr 15, 2017 14:58:09 GMT -5
Next to Princess Leia, Erin Grey was one of my childhood crushes (I grew up in the 80s and 90s). One thing that's weird to me now is that her character's name was Wilma. What kind of futuristic name is "Wilma?" Wasn't that Fred Flinstone's wife? That's not a futuristic name, it's prehistoric!
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Post by robeiae on Apr 15, 2017 16:16:54 GMT -5
Princess Betty Organa?
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