{"id":1116,"date":"2007-08-23T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2007-08-23T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:03:18","slug":"now_we_know_where_starfleet_got_its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/23\/now_we_know_where_starfleet_got_its\/","title":{"rendered":"Now We Know Where Starfleet Got Its Inspiration&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this afternoon, I&#8217;ve been rummaging through a folder of random crap that I&#8217;ve been meaning to blog about, looking to see if any of it still interests me, and I ran across the following image:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From high fashion in 1967...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/cardincosmoboy.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I ganked that picture from <a href=\"http:\/\/learning2share.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/two-pierre-cardin-jackets-in-1967-yikes.html\">this site<\/a>, which identifies the fancy red vest as &#8220;The Cosmoboy,&#8221; a then-cutting-edge design from Pierre Cardin which was featured in the August 1967 issue of <em>Cavalier<\/em> magazine (which I believe was a nudie mag, ahem, gentleman&#8217;s lifestyle periodical along the lines of <i>Playboy<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or does that look really familiar? Maybe like&#8230; something from the 23rd Century?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"...to movie costumes in 1994.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/kirk%2Bpicard_generations.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My mom has always told me that if you hold onto an article of clothing long enough, it will eventually come back into style. Guess she was right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this afternoon, I&#8217;ve been rummaging through a folder of random crap that I&#8217;ve been meaning to blog about, looking to see if any of it still interests me, and I ran across the following image: I ganked that picture from this site, which identifies the fancy red vest as &#8220;The Cosmoboy,&#8221; a then-cutting-edge design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}