We can't know what the future will bring, but we all know the futuristic when we see it. Historically, we've seldom been very good at envisioning the fashion that our real futures would eventually bring. Instead, we've accumulated a canon of futuristic tropes: very loose clothing (the toga), very tight clothing (Superman's costume), sacred clothing (cassocks, surplices, habits), bilateral asymmetry and rigid architectural silhouettes. This last, my personal favorite, is venerable. We find it as far back, at least, as Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus-era Triadic Ballet: the literally sculptural gown, worn as one would a small...