Defining trope: government enforcing clothes to being ultra-practical and possibly not wasteful
Setting: rebuilt post apocalypse
Climate: temperate, with capitol that thanks to good metro and underground connections is possible to stay indoor, while going from home to work and for some recreation
Technology: early 21:st century equivalent
Public nudity is technically speaking not forbidden; breastfeeding a baby, even in public, is encouraged;
Rather secular society, mostly from people with roots in western civilization. Serious about equal rights
Rather egalitarian society
Big share of vegan population, some of them may feel uneasy concerning using leather for clothes
Accessible government tools:
- regulations concerning clothes for public employees, including politicians
- regulations concerning school uniforms
- values passed through public education
- government owned media that dominate the market
- regulations concerning health and safety
- regulations concerning public health, like encouraging people to bike to work, and enforce that employers would be required to provide access to showers for office workers
If something is impractical and wasteful, but is not possible to show any health or safety threat, then government has no power to ban it in private setting; nevertheless it has the power to make the person look like an eccentric.
So the question:
How would such cultural approach modify the clothes that are being worn in comparison to clothes that are being worn right now?
The question asks only which things would be eliminated/introduced because of practicality, not any fashion
(my types)
velcro instead of shoestrings and buttons
no business suits / dresses, instead of this all formal clothes look like training suits, similarly looking clothes for both genders, such clothes are being considered as OK for all occasions
high heel shoes are forbidden as too dangerous to be wore in public, are being allowed as erotic gadget
no jewelry
no changing fashion (at least claimed so, in practice presumably the millage would wary)
no furs, no belts, but leather part of shoes would still remain
Do I miss anything?