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.
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).
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.
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.
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Date: 2020-01-18 12:10 am (UTC)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 -
Date: 2020-01-18 12:07 am (UTC)“Revolution can be averted by strict adherence to a proper dress code!”
- Zippy the Pinhead, c. AD 1980
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Date: 2020-01-18 08:25 pm (UTC)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).
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