06-04-2016, 12:48 PM
in a post-postmodern world there isn't much that's anachronistic; not much that doesn't fit in this time. i noticed they're selling walkmans and cassette tapes in the urban outfitters. £13 for nirvana's bleach on cassette! is nirvana's bleach anachronistic? well, i don't know, but paying £13 for a cassette seems all too present.
i mean, the concept of the anachronism [over the last 20 or so years] has been woven into the very fabric of fashion. for example, when i was at university there was a young chap there, about 19-20, who would wear a bowler hat to class. now, despite what you foreigners think of english people, we generally don't wander about in bowler hats. it could have been perceived as old fashioned; but, far from that, he seemed like the coolest dude, on the cutting edge, in a class of, admittedly, shabby looking philosophy students. i suppose the, somewhat trite, moral of this story is: fashion is shite, style is everything - a fact that fashion has come to acknowledge [and try to capitalise on]. and along with what most others have said, as long as something is done well, it will always have a place in modernity.
i mean, the concept of the anachronism [over the last 20 or so years] has been woven into the very fabric of fashion. for example, when i was at university there was a young chap there, about 19-20, who would wear a bowler hat to class. now, despite what you foreigners think of english people, we generally don't wander about in bowler hats. it could have been perceived as old fashioned; but, far from that, he seemed like the coolest dude, on the cutting edge, in a class of, admittedly, shabby looking philosophy students. i suppose the, somewhat trite, moral of this story is: fashion is shite, style is everything - a fact that fashion has come to acknowledge [and try to capitalise on]. and along with what most others have said, as long as something is done well, it will always have a place in modernity.