Sleeves Magazine August 2016 | Page 67

short, la passione will be gone. It is the considered opinion of this pundit, in fact, that the outfit of choice for the UK’s currently-young generation will, in ten years’ time, be a black bin bag, and black plastic armour-plating. First to go will be colour. Gone are the days when a vivacious young scamp could trot around the streets with a smile on their face and a rainbow headband on. Red, orange, and yellow will be switly followed by green, blue and violet. Indigo will hang around for a while, because no one really knows what it is, so they won’t know to scorn it, but its days are numbered. Finally even brown, mauve, and beige will choke on their own exuberance and be forever consigned to history. Finally all expression through shape and form will be implicitly outlawed as the current youth becomes the dominant social class. Tailoring can forget it. A-line skirt? What’s that? Here’s a big black bin. Wear it. Any attempt to show anything other than abject misery in the way one looks or holds oneself will be viewed as a betrayal of the cause of whiney British youth, and quietly stamped down. So is there anything posiive to say whatsoever about the inevitable fate of a once Can Read Your Nation's Future: Tick the Card :) proud naion? Of course there is. Don’t be silly! Next against the wall will be anything sot, comfortable, or (heaven-forbid) cuddly. Wool, silk, cotton, linen, velvet, leather… even polyester and nylon have had their day. It’s simple plastics all the way now. And maybe metal, if we can buy some from the Chinese. So is there anything positive to say whatsoever about the inevitable fate of a once proud nation? Of course there is. Don’t be silly! Children might be the futur