2006-07-12 19:46:31 · 14 answers · asked by James 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
An ancient tradition going back to the earliest pulp SF magazines. Competing for eyeballs on a rack full of teen romance, cowboy, and true detective stories, the illustrators made the best use of anatomy to display heroic and/or sexual imagery. Girls in bikinis and space helmets wandering around on the surface of the Moon, I kid you not!
Tights are the next best thing to drawing a nude figure, when you can't get away with the "real thing" due to prevailing community standards & etc. The rest, as they say, is history...
2006-07-12 19:54:50 · answer #1 · answered by J Random Wizard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess is to convey the idea that fashion of the future will be different from the present. However, it's not universal that future people are wearing tights. I think the Babylon 5 stuck with regular trousers.
2006-07-13 02:51:37 · answer #2 · answered by Ѕємι~Мαđ ŠçїєŋŧιѕТ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect it's intended to show an organised society, where loose clothing shows a lack of harmony. Tights show conformity to the new utopia, a common theme. There could be a lot of reasons, but I believe those most often are it. It's mainly a matter of order and harmony and how to represent it.
2006-07-13 02:52:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tights are in. Dont you see them teenage girls wearing tights under they skirts like they some old grandma or something?
2006-07-13 03:49:38 · answer #4 · answered by Potathao 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, in the future, there will be less clothing. People will have to conserve outerwear, hence, the tights...
2006-07-13 02:51:10 · answer #5 · answered by Isaac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the 50s and 60s (maybe earlier) people thought that in the future, people would were thermal controlled clothing that looked, well, like underwear.
the idea seems to have stuck.
2006-07-13 02:52:10 · answer #6 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to show off their beautiful bodies. like as if in the future every ones bodies would be in perfect shape.
2006-07-13 09:24:52 · answer #7 · answered by margaret k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it helps them time travel better. It's the same concept as why a male swimmer shaves his legs.
2006-07-13 02:50:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just goes to show the more aero dynamic we are becoming.
2006-07-13 02:52:11 · answer #9 · answered by Seth R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe due to scarcity of clothing materials and overcrowding?
2006-07-13 02:51:20 · answer #10 · answered by Coring 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋