Very much the same I think WM unless we have some big technological break thrus with new fangled materials or transportation..every generation has been influenced by the past so I still think a sense of tradition may still run through it all...

Sport seems to drive fashion more than music nowadays...Surgical appliance etc seem to be the ones bringing new street fashions to the masses..and women in weird yoga leggings will be the new formal dress for weddings and other functions

Last edited by Bop (2015-04-28 11:35:50)

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And a decent rise at that!

The suit will endure, modified constantly. I think as Anne Hollander said, the suit is a new garment and it is quite versatile; capable of severe modification.

It will also settle into local modifications and that means it will have a general look and many specific looks. If you interact with people all over the world, your suit will look differently than if you exist in one place all the time. Probably not different than before but the details will constantly change.

At the moment, the suit is all about individualistic expression and also what constitutes a suit vs. a sports jacket has become quite blended. Sometimes when I see someone on TV wearing something that I think would be a suit turns out to be a sports jacket and sometimes when I think the reverse, it's a suit.

The big loser at the moment may be shirts which have become plainer because suit patterns have so much more expression. However, plain colored shirts have changed and are now textured or jacquard-ed in ways that keep pace with underlying patterns or textures in suit cloths.

Shoes have likewise become an area of individual expression with styles and colors which were unthinkable a few years ago diversifying in mind numbing ways. I myself am waiting for a pair of blue calf and charcoal suede wingtips; something that goes with the very "blue" age we live in for mens suit and jacket colors.

I think jeans will be big and trainers very popular. I also think, as mad as it sounds now, that men will be wearing socks with dress shoes. I also predict that casual shirts will be worn with one full sleeve and one short sleeve. The chaps on TI will be claiming this has its roots in 1950s Ivy because these shirts will have a BD collar.

Will the tie go the same way as the hat I wonder? It's not far off being discarded anyway.

Also think the cache of vintage items and the provenance of these will increase, even more so than they are now.

Suit cloth will continue to become thinner in response to perceived global warming and the continued over heating of public transport, offices and homes in winter. Unless of course, the mini-ice age hits and this trend will reverse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBS7bGJaDA

Clothes that are considered formal now will mostly be worn for specific occasions instead of for daily life, or by groups who have adopted them as a statement, like the old-fashioned clothes worn by certain Jewish groups today. Everything else will receive a corresponding bump in formality; the business casual of today will be the business formal of 2045.  For general wear, that will mean things like collared shirts and heeled shoes will become less common. Europe and Asia will move more slowly than America with this, and the East Coast will move more slowly than the West Coast. This assumes no major war or other catastrophe shifts world fashion trends. Truly casual wear will be a mash-up of several dozen fads, some stupid, some less so, just like today, and after a few years, the ones that have some fundamental appeal will get pulled into the circuit and perhaps eventually make their own way towards formality.

Last edited by katon (2015-05-03 23:52:28)

"informality" has nothing to do with it really as it's a relative concept that is only applicable in a specific range of years. You can't place mid-15th century peasant wear along side 19th century evening wear or 3rd century Visigoth garb on a formality scale.

What we have known as basic fashion will probably generally be around, just because the aesthetic has been refined to this point.