I took a picture of this dress in a magazine I saw. Notice the scales. Red and black are the only two colors presented. Red, the base Chakra color of survival energies and the primary function of the reptile brain. Black, what is shrouded in darkness. Most people have no idea we have a triune brain, and so the effects of the Reptilian brain go without conscious recognition of its cause.

- Scaley dress
The book I'm reading
The Three Faces of Mind outlines the 10 intelligences of our triune brain. Learning how each intelligence functions may be the key to allowing the energy inherent in magic to flow unimpeded.
Gatekeeper to Consciousness, spark of the Mind, the reticular formation connect with major nerves in the spinal column and brain. It sorts the 100 million impulses that assault the brain each second, deflecting the trivial, letting the vital through to alert the mind. The Mind cannot function without this catalytic bundle of cells. Damage to them results in coma - the loss of consciousness.
100 million impulses assaulting the brain each second! What happens to them? They enter at least as far as the brain stem, then through the reticular activating system the energy may pass into the emotional or limbic brain and then into the neocortex... When these impulses are registered in our emotional brain, we begin to feel or allow ourselves to be conscious of what we are feeling. When they are registered in our neocortex, we begin to think, imagine, relate, or intuit.
High social status has always been dignified with the latest fashion apparel. I'm sure without internal understanding, this may become a trend. Feeling powerful conforming to, "the external of external," territorial, control-based brains. Not saying the R-complex is unnatural; it most certainly is! The unrecognized effects it has daily, and in every second of life, is what keeps people in separation from their "shadow side;" the unconscious.
Will technology become a part of vanity? Magic is so much sexier.
"Classical historians traditionally dismiss tales of magic as unworthy of scholarly attention, but to us any mention of a witch's broomstick or wizard's wand evokes the smell of a scientist's laboratory." The Sphinx and the Megaliths