Words to live by....

[conuly]

Of course, I can dress however I like in a dystopia.

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[moon_custafer]

I was today years old when I heard of Christopher Wool, and I can state with confidence that this advice needs to be one of his paintings.

[readerjane]

Weekday about my jetpack?? Maybe I'll cyberpunk-up a backpack and pretend.

[dewline]

I'm grateful to not be living in the "moon torn out of Earth orbit and fusion-rocketed into the wider universe" future that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson warned me might happen.

[nodrog]

There was a Foxtrot cartoon strip at the time where the father is saying, “Well, it’s 1999.  … Shouldn’t Martin Landau be on the Moon, or something?”

On the other hand -

[nodrog]

“Revolution can be averted by strict adherence to a proper dress code!”

- Zippy the Pinhead, c. AD 1980

[sabotabby]

I'll say this for the cyberpunk dystopia: better clothing options.

[adafrog]

lol Love it.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Jeans, boots, tank-top, hoodie... accessorize with watch-cap and work gloves... ayup, good to go. The cyberpunk dystopia hasn't really made it this far yet, though - in Seattle, sure, but the Olympic Peninsula is about half a century behind.

Funny how different two neighboring towns can be. Sequim, where I've lived 11 years now, is flat and prosaic, full of white middle-class retired mundane people. Port Townsend, where I lived for the 11 years before I moved here, is hilly hippie Victorian, full of artists and activists. I just gave a whole closet-full of clothing to my coven-sisters there; all the silks and velvets and floaty swirly stuff I no longer wear, because I'm past the age where that sort of thing looks cute on me, especially in Sequim (https://youtu.be/8_4cBRrjTXY).

[conuly]

You forgot your badass longcoat, but I guess you can be forgiven.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

It doesn't usually get that cold here, and I'm always too hot anyway.

[conuly]

I suppose heat stroke does ruin the effect of the stylish coat. No cloaks either, I take it?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

No no, lots of cloaks, actually, and also shawls, pashminas, ponchos, surcoats and tabards, because in the SCA/Pagan/Ren Faire aspects of my life, I'm often out all night, barding 'round the encampments and rocking the 'Walking Pile of Blankets' look.

[conuly]

That look is a classic for a reason.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Real barbarian women don't wear chain maille bikinis, and not only because it's impossible to conceal enough knives in them. I can conceal my entire guitar under my big black 'outer' cloak, plus all the knives I might need.