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what will be The New Black?

China?
home furnishings?
the return of pink zebra-printed chest-baring spandex bodysuits?
pophyry?
the Dirty Dancing sequel?

YOU TELL ME!

― Catty (Catty), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

my money's on amphibious vehicles.

― Catty (Catty), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

polka

― daniel cheail (daniel cheail), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

and the uniting church.

once rock falls, all the people in mullets have to go somewhere!

― daniel cheail (daniel cheail), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

PROG!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i should buy some old genesis records before they suddenly become stupidly expensive. and then put together a post-rock band.

― daniel cheail (daniel cheail), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Fantasy Art (see other thread - the family Hussein's love of it is the clincher)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Brown will be cool. ha

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

guitars.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Music wise the 80s revival will move into the mid-80s as people get a bit sick of synth-pop/post-punk - ironic prettiness will be a big deal.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

brown IS cool.

― daniel cheail (daniel cheail), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

but not as cool as RISD. and I'm glad.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Rhode Island ITSELF will be cool

― Aaron A., Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

drawstring pants
bonobos

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Osaka. The artist Chiho Aoshima. Making your long print skirts into halter dresses. Turkish baths. Jerk chicken.

Nick was here a few days ago and had rattan flat mule slippers which looked great but sliced his feet to ribbons. This and other made of straw accessories eg. hats in odd shapes will also have a 'moment'.

Look, the fashion police are already into Anorak Indie Boy of the mid-'80s: Raf Simons is doing Factory and all the menswear for fall is all about Morrissey.

I reckon a real Katharine Hepburn moment is coming for womenswear, just because all designers love her.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

mutilating mules? I am glad I am only cool.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

alaska

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Flowers and band-aids Morrissey, rockabilly Morrissey, thug Morrissey -- which one?

― Aaron A., Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

velcro
mark ryden will start painting album covers.

― kephm, Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

hipsters cruising around in ironic wheelchairs

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Strangely I was discussing that just last night with another ILXor.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

god that is so *not* funny to me

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

:(

I'm sorry!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh lighten up, it's a joke at Momus's expense (and also Jarvis Cocker's, he used to do JUST THAT).

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

women:
suntanning (faux/real)
pastel pink lipgloss
pink cotton/poly blends, complimented with cream/beiges knits
[ideally a pink/cream/beige camo print - neopolitan]

i think itsus is closest to what i imagine:
http://www.urbn.com/images/p66520b.jpghttp://www.urbn.com/images/p66520c.jpg

men:
resewn/reseamed dress shirts (esp. ratty/-ed)
wallabys
irridescent sunglasses

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The long awaited amputation fad should finally kick in.

― fletrejet, Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

*piercing-piercings (example: nose ring ring)
*disillusionment
*calling sandals "Air Bin Ladens"
*"the Strongo-smoke-yourself-thin diet"
*willful ignorance
*going commando
*bigger dorkier glasses
*chess
*substituting "pardon my French" with "pardon my Freedom"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The word "gimp" will take over.

― thoth (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugliness
"Saskatchewan" as all-purpose comedic name-drop, much like Macarena or Kato Kaelin in the past.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

It will be cool to quit the Botox injections and look older than 18 (when the rest of your body looks 50).

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Morrissey trend is from the daffodil/NHS/hearing aid era.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Calculator watches
Clothing with logos of governmental departments/organizations on them
Hipsters wearing 'I Hate Hipsters' T-shirts
Coonskin caps

2004 == The year noise broke

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Industrial music (this one is true).

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

God I hope those NYC Fap photos were no indication!

― Aaron A., Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

And what are you saying?;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Pork chops are the new earrings.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

mainly commenting on the Men's Furnishings end of things. strangely I found the self-confessed frumpy and "grown so ugly" amateurist to have the best sense of style.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Any chance of unattractive short balding middle aged men coming into fashion at all?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

or men on their way to becoming such?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, Jarvis had the wheelchair due to his fall through a skylight, where I think he broke his pelvis. It wasn't an affectation.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

My debut album

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

mark ryden will start painting album covers.

He already has...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d666/d6662541r86.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f160/f160153y174.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 26 July 2003 07:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Jai Alai fashion!
http://www.clarionbeachresort.com/player_l.jpg

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)


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