I feel like maybe around 2012 the whole concept of eras died.
Like I can clearly visualize items/people/media from the 60s/70s/80s/90s/00’s, but everything is homogenized now and there’s really no “style of the time” either. I think everything from 2013+ will just be remembered as a malaise era, if anything. Maybe the style of the 2050’s will be post cyberpunk apocalyptic? I have no idea.
In the late 1970’s bell bottoms went out of style.
In the 1990’s a different style of bell-bottoms became fashionable again for women in particular.
In the 1990’s a popular look was the giant baggy jeans like JNCOs, which were technically a type of “bell-bottom.”
In the 2020’s, big giant baggy jeans like JNCOs are back in style again.
Further, did everyone forget the entire scene kid/emo kid styles of the early 2000’s because that style was very unique and I don’t see anyone who looks like this these days.
Haircuts like this were the thing in the early 2000’s for women and men until about 2010ish when everyone put their three wolf t-shirts up in the closet and cringed at why they thought being ironic cringe was so great.
Both the 1980’s and early 2000’s were “skinny jeans” eras.
Just like how the broccoli headed boys are a thing for the 2020’s.
And even the broccoli head boys are a natural re-occurence of the permed haircuts in the 1980’s
I can think of plenty more examples but these are just a few.
Scene girls were my favorite.
Just had to keep them away from razor blades.
Oh emo’s gonna come back someday. And along with it, I fully expect these to comeback to.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Trosor-bakifrån.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_tail
Very astute and the whale tails themselves were a consequence of the low rise jeans era for women where now we are in a high waist jeans era for women.
Low rise jeans are making a comeback, I bought a couple pair recently because I prefer the low vs high rise, I hate high rise so much. They are definitely not the ultra low rise of my youth, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this style also comes back eventually.
The early 2000’s style you like is still very much alive… In the furry community.
“Under this fursuit, I have an amazing haircut.”
Chances are equally good their fursuit character will look like a 90s/2000s kid, too lol
But actually having just spent a whole week with 4 suiters with hella good hair: I have no idea how they do it. You’re wearing a balaclava and a big foam head for several hours, sweating like crazy, but when you finally pop that shit off, you look like a shampoo model. How?!
Are they actually sweating? There are systems for doing active cooling from fans running off battery power.
https://fursuitsupplies.com/fans
Or liquid cooling, including ice and evaporative cooling?
https://archive.ph/MiMVI
Hmm. Also, while I’m no expert, my understanding is that animals that are in a cold climate, tend to have underfur to reduce convection. Like, dog breeds aimed more at warm climates don’t have that. I bet that one doesn’t need a lot of dense, short fur at the base. Even if there’s long fur, it might not be as insulating as one might expect relative to an animal.
considers
If the fabric isn’t actually visible — and for furred areas, I guess it isn’t, because all someone can see is fur — maybe one could use something like burlap at the base, stuff that has a lot of room for air to flow through.
I dunno what any issues with using carbon fiber are, but my understanding is that it’s pretty thermally-conductive. In some uses, carbon fiber is made into rigid surfaces, is a composite, has resin, but I believe that you can get it as a resin-less fabric.
kagis
https://www.ngfworld.com/en/fiber/high_thermal_conductivity.html
I mean, if you figure that it’s possible to use a fabric made out of that, that’ll probably conduct a lot of heat away from hot places.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8867053/
According to this, carbon nanotube microfibers have thermal conductivity hundreds of times greater than nylon.
kagis
Apparently you get get fabric made from the stuff — though this example looks to be awfully expensive, so carbon nanontube-based fursuits probably aren’t practical for general use yet:
https://dexmat.com/store/galvorn-carbon-nanotube-fabric/
https://dexmat.com/carbon-nanotube-fiber/
https://dexmat.com/industries/e-textiles/
I doubt that people are actually going all the way to carbon nanotube fabric, but if we can get costs down, I imagine that they could.
The best these guys have is a fan you hold that looks like food you shove into the head’s mouth to blow air in your face. Sometimes maybe 120-240mm computer case fans are built into yhe head (none of my friends had these tho).
I have wondered since seeing a Technology Connections video about refrigeration if those heat pump panel things (they’re just a square of some material that gets hot on one side and cold on the other; forgot what they were called) would work well for fursuiting. Turn the inside of the suit into a straight up fridge.
Also alive and well in the rave scene, but we’ve always dressed funny
Edit: also, these communities probably overlap a lot…
Hell yeah they do. I just got back home from a furry con that was basically a 5-day long rave.
Marc Almond?
Yep, Soft Cell.
Good, thanks :)