Man looking ridiculous in cheap iPod suit
Monday, 11 June 2007
Marks & Spencer is launching a £150 suit that allows you to control your iPod using a controller hidden in the lapel and wires concealed within the lining, reports the Daily Mail. I can’t possibly imagine why anyone would want such a thing, other than to mark themselves out as the biggest prat in the known universe and, potentially, a suicide bomber.
Is bringing the iPod out of your pocket in order to turn the volume up and down really a major problem for car salesmen, insurance clerks and others who wear M&S suits on a daily basis? Why would you want wires inside your suit? The suit also contains lycra. Lycra, I ask you.
The picture in the Mail is priceless and goes to show that male models in suits should probably be outlawed, especially when being forced to pose in a way that “demonstrates” the workings of the world’s most hi-tech but least fashionable garment. If you look closely, you can see it’s basically a suit with some rather shoddy slashes on the inner lining in which wires and iPod are shoved. Genius.
I also love the way the Mail goes on to report in some wonderment that, come the year 2020, we will all be wearing Buck Rogers-inspired tin-foil (I paraphrase), containing “TV screen technology using materials so thin and flexible that they can be worn like clothes”, which “could display moving images, changing colours or designs to match the mood of the wearer”.
Yes! And all our household chores will be done by robots wearing aprons.
Via Gizmodo.
