15 Hilarious Predictions About the Year 2020 Made Long Ago

We’ll wear antenna hats and disposable socks.

For a 1939 issue of British Vogue, product designer Gilbert Rhode was asked what he believed people in the 21st century would be wearing – and the man who helped define American modernism had lots of thoughts.

He imagined that, by 2020, we would have banished buttons, pockets, collars, and ties, and that men would revolt against shaving.

“His hat will be an antenna, snatching radio out of the ether. His socks – disposable. His suit minus tie, collar, and buttons,” Rhode declared.

He almost described a modern-day hipster living in Brooklyn, but we suspect even the antenna hat might be pushing it a little too far.