I think

[james_davis_nicoll]

I am going to start watching all current movies and shows as period pieces. "Wow, look at that! They totally nailed the fashions of 2016!"

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[nelc.livejournal.com]

Bearing in mind production schedules and recalling that we're still only in April this year, you might be granting them too much prescience.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Fashion is weird. Hammer pants, gone. Saggy pants that reveal your underwear? Still in fashion. Going to out of my way to compliment anyone I see wearing this trend, has to be the fastest way to get them to reconsider.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Saggy pants have been around so long that I'm thinking the best thing to do is enthuse about how you look JUST like your Great-Uncle Henry in that outfit, isn't it SWEET.

+3, Funny, Insightful

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, brilliant!

[narmitaj.livejournal.com]

One recent film where this works over a fair period of time is Boyhood. Though it's a 2014 film and there are scenes in it from 2002, the production designer & set decorator didn't have to source or build new-looking but actually obsolete bits of kit like pear-drop Apple computers and old phones, or in 2008 bits of Obama-McCain election bunting - this stuff was just sitting around them as they filmed a couple of weeks each year for 12 years. As the film says, it's always Now.

My favourite film-makers are Powell & Pressburger, and their A Canterbury Tale is a WW2 film. But they didn't need a lot of production design work to recreate scenes of Canterbury in ruins after the "Baedeker" German air raids of May/June 1942; the film came out in 1944 and was filmed in 1943, so all that production value, as it were, was just stuff sitting around as holes in the ground. In fact, they had to fake things the other way round - they couldn't film the Cathedral in all its normal timeless majesty, as its stained glass windows had been removed for safety for the duration of the war.