So I was watching Vertigo for the umpteenth time, and I got to the point where Jimmy Stewart retreives Kim Novak from San Fran Bay. After his adventure of jumping into the water for the rescue, he returns to his apartment and changes out of his suit and into...
high-waisted pleated blue trousers, a white dress shirt and a green crew-neck sweater...
...and I realized that he was dressed exactly like my 80-year old philosophy professor. My professor is only a few years younger than Jimmy Stewart--they share the same idea of casual clothes! When my philo professor dresses casual he reaches back to his younger days, fifty years ago.
And I immediately flashed forward and imagined a future where distinguished, wrinked and liver-spotted judges, professors, ambassadors and politicians are gathered around discussing the Israel/Palestine problem and the race toward anti-matter death-ray orbiting satellites...
...dressed in artificially faded boot-leg jeans, polos with popped collars and flat-brimmed baseball caps. And I said to myself:
"Let the apocalypse come now."
high-waisted pleated blue trousers, a white dress shirt and a green crew-neck sweater...
...and I realized that he was dressed exactly like my 80-year old philosophy professor. My professor is only a few years younger than Jimmy Stewart--they share the same idea of casual clothes! When my philo professor dresses casual he reaches back to his younger days, fifty years ago.
And I immediately flashed forward and imagined a future where distinguished, wrinked and liver-spotted judges, professors, ambassadors and politicians are gathered around discussing the Israel/Palestine problem and the race toward anti-matter death-ray orbiting satellites...
...dressed in artificially faded boot-leg jeans, polos with popped collars and flat-brimmed baseball caps. And I said to myself:
"Let the apocalypse come now."