So the reason I was awake at 4am this morning was because I was thinking about textile production in utopian/dystopian futures. Dystopias are always brown and leather, and utopias are lighter materials in white and beige.

Now the dystopia thing makes sense. Leather is tough and hard wearing and there's probably loads of cows around since society collapsed, and some larper chump is bound to have learnt how to tan and work leather pre-apocalypse.

But utopias make me wonder. Light colours imply they've invented a spoon that means you can't spill soup, but they NEVER MENTION IT. EVER. But what are those materials? If it's cotton or flax, who's harvesting it? Historically that's not been a happy story

Also, why not dye it. If you've got a climate for cotton, you've definitely got a climate for indigo and madder. Hell, you can get a nice yellow from onions.

Now I suppose it might all be synthetics, but that implies chemical factories or maybe 3D printing...but why they hell has a supposedly advanced culture like that gone with BEIGE? I refuse to believe that the future is beige.

And that's why I didn't sleep