Fashion freeze. Have some things stood still?
Discussion
You know when you watch an old TV show you see how fashion has changed.
Take The Sweeney - it's all kipper ties and flares. Miami Vice from a decade later is white suits and shoulder pads. Even the later editions of Minder have period fashions with Ray's blazers and Paisley ties.
Has day-to-day fashion largely remained the same in the last decade?
I ask this because lately I've been recording and watching The Bill from - guessing by the cars, 'phones and other tech - 2005.
That was some time ago. Like the time gap between The Sweeney and Miami vice, but despite this, the clothes and styles seen in The Bill are more or less what we'd wear today.. I'm not just talking formal suits, but the way other characters dress. The tie for example has been dead a long time. You don't see many in The Bill. Even the scrotes they arrest are dressed like chavs of today.
I know fashions come and go, blokes sporting beards, girls with massive handbags or whatever - but if it wasn't for the fact characters on The Bill are driving 2004 Toyotas and using pre-smart 'phones there is very little change today from the way most people dressed ten years ago.
So much has changed in the last decade. CRT screens are virtually extinct as are VCRs. Most of us have finger print recognition mobiles that do lots of things. And hi-tech in cars is far more widespread.
But that's all technology, the accessories if you like.
What we wear day-to-day has more or less stayed the same. Or so it seems.
I wonder if it is down to the global crash of 2008. Austerity meaning people - or designers - didn't want to take risks.
Take The Sweeney - it's all kipper ties and flares. Miami Vice from a decade later is white suits and shoulder pads. Even the later editions of Minder have period fashions with Ray's blazers and Paisley ties.
Has day-to-day fashion largely remained the same in the last decade?
I ask this because lately I've been recording and watching The Bill from - guessing by the cars, 'phones and other tech - 2005.
That was some time ago. Like the time gap between The Sweeney and Miami vice, but despite this, the clothes and styles seen in The Bill are more or less what we'd wear today.. I'm not just talking formal suits, but the way other characters dress. The tie for example has been dead a long time. You don't see many in The Bill. Even the scrotes they arrest are dressed like chavs of today.
I know fashions come and go, blokes sporting beards, girls with massive handbags or whatever - but if it wasn't for the fact characters on The Bill are driving 2004 Toyotas and using pre-smart 'phones there is very little change today from the way most people dressed ten years ago.
So much has changed in the last decade. CRT screens are virtually extinct as are VCRs. Most of us have finger print recognition mobiles that do lots of things. And hi-tech in cars is far more widespread.
But that's all technology, the accessories if you like.
What we wear day-to-day has more or less stayed the same. Or so it seems.
I wonder if it is down to the global crash of 2008. Austerity meaning people - or designers - didn't want to take risks.
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