A new year and a new decade await us in just a few hours' time. What will our wardrobes look like in the next ten years? Will we be flying to work one day and what kind of new technologies and devices will be launched in the next decade? There aren't any final answers to such questions.
Yet, for the time being, we can guess like Vogue did in February 1939 with this photograph taken by Anton Bruehl and showing the trends for the year 2000 according to American furniture and industrial designer Gilbert Rohde.
"Gilbert Rhode banishes buttons, pockets, collars, ties," stated the magazine. "The man of the next century will revolt against shaving and wear a beautiful beard, says the designer of boilers, pianos, clocks, and metal furniture. His hat will be an an antennae - snatching radio out of the ether. His socks disposable, his suit minus tie, collar and buttons."
You may argue that some of these trends actually happened: beards became fashionable and, we may not have an antennae for a hat, but we have mobile phones that allow us to be constantly and perennially connected. So, any suggestions for the next decade? Start speculating and dreaming about the future now and...have a lovely New Year's Eve!
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