THE FUTURE OF FASHION
By Dune Dills

UCB Sketch 101

Game: In a world where everyone has psychic powers, students in a classroom have visions of what fashion will look like in the immediate future.

We’re in a classroom with a teacher and a group of students.

TEACHER
Welcome to your first class on developing your psychic powers! You are all special individuals with psychic powers, but just need to learn the techniques for improving your craft. Some of us have gifts for seeing future events, but you all are different. You can see what fashion trends will be coming in the future! In today’s lesson we will do visualizations. Whatever you keep seeing in your visualizations, we will all work together to help you interpret it.

Teacher points to Student 1.

TEACHER
You there, you start.

Student 1 closes their eyes.

STUDENT 1
I see…panic, fear, people screaming, something terrible is coming.

The class gasps.

TEACHER
Nobody panic! Tell us more.

STUDENT 1
People are running…

TEACHER
Running from what?!

STUDENT 1
From a man wearing the ugliest shirt I’ve ever seen!

The class gasps.

The teacher stops him.

TEACHER
Alright, enough. Normally future fashions aren’t supposed to be ugly. Perhaps you’re still getting warmed up.

Teacher points to Student 2.

TEACHER
You, go next.

Student 2 closes their eyes.

STUDENT 2
I see…two people with ugly striped shirts and orange overalls.

STUDENT 1
Overalls?!?!

Student 2 opens their eyes in panic.

STUDENT 2
And socks with sandals.

The class gasps.

STUDENT 2
And the Kardashians are running in fear, every scream mirroring every tattered orange thread from those overalls! Fashion critics shielding their designer-sunglasses-covered eyes from the sight of the clunky plastic sandals!

The students scream, and the teacher starts panicking.

TEACHER
Oh dear! My grandfather used to dress like that! The overalls, the sandals! Oh, this is terrible! He warned me this day would come, but I refused to believe it! I told him he was out of style! Oh I’ll never live it down! Student 3, what do you see?

The class looks at Student 3, who closes their eyes.

STUDENT 3
I see…the worst thing I’ve seen. Something awful.

STUDENT 1
What is it?

Student 3 opens their eyes.

STUDENT 3
Crocs.

The class gasps.

STUDENT 2
Guys, perhaps we’re overthinking this whole fashion thing. Maybe our visions are actually metaphors for something else. Like maybe the crocs are a metaphor for something, like you have to poke holes in everything you learn?

STUDENT 3
Nope, I think it’s just crocs for whatever reason.

TEACHER
Enough, alright, Student 3, thank you.

All of a sudden Student 3 begins shaking.

STUDENT 3
It’s coming right now, we must prepare ourselves!
Then the door bursts open and someone walks in with a hideous shirt, socks and sandals, and overalls. A pair of crocks is sticking out of their backpack. Everyone in the class starts panicking.

TEACHER
Who are you?

BAD OUTFIT PERSON
Hi, I’m new to the class, is this the right room? Fashion Visions 101?

The class goes quiet.

STUDENT 1
So…I guess we didn’t foretell the fashion apocalypse, but rather foretold a new student?

TEACHER
You kids really do have a gift, just not in the way I expected.

Blackout.