Videography: Kristin Bugge

Fashion for the Nuclear Age

Schedule of Collections

Campus
Styles that students might be wearing in 1985-86.
Blue Monday, New Order, 1983 (Mix: On Wisconsin, William T. Purdy, Cow)

Military Half & Half
Half military/ half civilian clothing suggesting an increase in military activity.
I Love a Man in a Uniform, Gang of Four, 1982

Scientific
What fashionable nuclear physicists and engineers will be wearing in 1986!
Oxygène (Part 2), Jean-Michel Jarre, 1976 (Mix: Star Wars/ Main Title, John Williams, 1977)

City
What people going about their daily lives might be wearing in 1985-86.
How to be a Millionaire, ABC, 1985 (Mix: Car engine, news mix, sirens)

Military
An over-militarized style suggesting large-scale military mobilization.
Nocturnal Me, Echo & the Bunnymen, 1984 (Mix: Machine guns)

Military Evening Wear
Clothing which again suggests an all-pervasive militarized atmosphere.
Tango Jalousie, Jacob Gade, 1925 (Mix: From the Air, Laurie Anderson, 1982, Air-raid siren)

Nuclear Blast Sequence

Burnt
Styles depicting the immediate blast effect.
I will be a Good Boy, Gang of Four, 1982 (Mix: Breath, Jill Daly)

Bandaged
Clothing that depicts the post-blast effects.
Working with Fire and Steel, China Crisis, 1983

Executive
What heads of state will be wearing in their mile-deep fallout shelters.
Here Come Cowboys, The Psychedelic Furs, 1984 (Mix: Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, 1814)

Nuclear Winter
What stylish people can hope to be seen in during the Nuclear Winter of ’86.
How Winter Kills, Yazoo, 1982 (Mix: Winter storm)

Vigilante
How marauding gangs of vigilantes might be dressed after the total collapse of internal order.
Anarchy in the UK, Sex Pistols, 1977

Body Bag I
The body bag as fashion.
War, Edwin Starr, 1970

Body Bag II
The body bag as the last word in fashion.
Taps, Michael Yurkew, trumpet (Mix: Heartbeat, Jill Daly)

(Video ends after Nuclear Winter)

Burnt Collection video still: Kathy Zuelsdorf

Library Mall, Madison, WI – April 25, 1985

Announcer
Jill Daly

Cast
Linda Beckman, Christopher Berge, Zoe Borovsky, Candace Cardinal, Brad Carlson, Henry Doane, Lisa Fenner, Laurie Huismann, Alice Kamps, John Kamps, Edward Kastenmeier, Andrea Linsky, Kirk McCall, Laurie Meurett, John Montgomery, John Mossman, Paul Nason, Jamee Phifer, Jill Roese, Susan Rusch, Maris Strautmanis, Kelly Widdoss, Melissa Young, Michael Yurkew, Kathy Zuelsdorf

Credits
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