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Future fashions
Technology sometimes influences clothing fashions. This is certainly true in
2050 AD. That year’s costumes clearly reflect the influence of technology.
Anti-gravity technology allows people to fly as freely as birds. Naturally, then,
‘flying’ is popular, and clothing designers create fashions to suit various types
of ‘flying’. One popular flying invention, the ‘hover boot’, allows a person to float
slightly above the ground. To match the anti-gravity footwear, clothing designers
create costumes they name as ‘flight suits’. Priya, to the left above, wears one.
Critics say, ‘The costumes are merely motorcyclists’ garments decorated with “fins”
on the helmet and gauntlets!’ The same technology powers hover scooters. Hover
scooter riders, however, prefer to wear eclectic fashions. Usually, they wear an
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elongated helmet, goggles, scarf, gauntlets and a long overcoat. In 2050 AD, every
building mounts either a bar antenna or a web-like satellite dish. Reflecting this
technology, the fashionable girl right of the hover scooter wears a skirt flaring like
an open umbrella, mesh leggings, horn-rimmed sunglasses and a skull cap with a
high mantilla. The open umbrella she holds has an anti-gravity drum at its base.
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