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Something I have wondered, are tastes kinda cyclical? New cool things eventually fall out of favour and then have a resurgence decades or more later on (think
by smcl 9y ago
Something I have wondered, are tastes kinda cyclical? New cool things eventually fall out of favour and then have a resurgence decades or more later on (think skinny jeans from the 70s reappearing in last few years, semi-ironic appreciation of Journey and other 80s music and so on).
And if so does this will this style come back into fashion? When all the laptops or PC hardware are sleek black or brushed aluminium will a nicely executed beige finish look bold, different and interesting enough to take over again?
As an example, Sony have a retro-style PS4 which is similar (but grey and not beige) - compared to the normal black one it looks really nice to me
- grapeshot 9y agoWhite desktop PC cases seem to be popular again, and with no more 5.25" drive bays you don't have to worry about color matching your optical drive any more. For other devices, there's still the problem that white or beige plastic gets grimy fast and will turn an ugly yellow after it's been exposed to sunlight for 10 years. If you look at photos of old iBooks or white DS Lites on eBay, some of those are looking pretty horrid.
- Theodores 9y agoIt is ultimately technology and legislation driven rather than 'fashion'. If a new pigment comes out that enables pure white or black or silver or any other colour at a cheaper, better price then that sets the fashion. If that new pigment later turns out to be a fire hazard or toxic on some way then it goes, for some other colours to be used and therefore 'the new fashion'. If you look at aluminium finishes, the smooth, polished look fell out of favour just around the time that a variant on the shotblasting process became cheaper. So aluminium became less shiny. There are many other factors but a surprising amount of what dictates fashion is a new industrial process or chemical discovery.
- blue1 9y agoMore helicoidal than cyclical. Things come back in slightly different forms, or as hybridized citations. Because the awareness is different anyway.