My first semester in college I had a choir professor teach me about art. Well, more specifically, how to look at art by not attaching any adjectives that carried relative weight to different people. It was an easy class. At the end of the semester he presented the comment that the current epoch of music was coming to a close. At the end of every epoch, musicians just take what people have been doing in the past, and mix it all up. With the arrival of mash-ups of a few years ago, pop-music was going to evolve into something else. It will become something not pop. As a random author from some online music magazine once said, “pop will eat itself.”
I’d like to think that menswear would evolve in such a way that music does and that we are nearing the end of an epoch. Who knows what we’ll be wearing in 30 years much less 5 months? Maybe we’ll be wearing jumpsuits in 3 weeks. One can certainly say that menswear has been a mash-up of history after World War II. From this I’d love to say that menswear is unpredictable and we cannot say where it is going: all forecasts are off.
Menswear doesn’t resemble the model I presented. Many people do not find joy in clothes. Much of society finds joy in music. Music is for most a means to happiness. For many, clothes are a means to covering yourself up and keeping warm. Clothes are too functional to resemble music and its evolution through epochs. However, I think that the menswear mash-up of the past 70 years should be observed and my model taken into consideration. It would be pretty awesome to be right.
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ReplyDeleteWell gee, let me google every single term I ever use. Sorry I read an article and assumed that Quantick wrote it himself. I'll remember to use your tool when I write a thesis for the next time I post.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that was dick of me. But it *was* a pretty popular band. Still, I am definitely a cowardly douchebag.
ReplyDeleteUndoubtably, good sir. Undoubtably.
ReplyDeleteHow did this get derailed from the more important thesis at hand? Who cares what band used the phrase first?
ReplyDeleteRegarding innovation in menswear, it seems to me that innovation has only been increasing as time progresses. We're in a very minor slump because of our obsession with classicism, but since 1965 or so, hasn't innovation (it "trends") been taking place at a faster rate?
I actually have a larger thesis that relates to your post, but will take me some time to draft up and post. I hope to get it up in about two weeks though.