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Scared of a Little Fashion?
By admins | April 21, 2009
Every now and then a fashion trend comes along that scares the bejesus out of us. Sometimes, even those of us who make it our jobs to be fashion forward and look a year or more ahead to spot the next big trend, find ourselves rejecting a new style. It is a bit schizophrenic, but occasionally we can be so personally repulsed by a trend and at the same time logically know that a year from now we will all be embracing it. It is the bizarre juxtaposition for fashion industry professionals between our own consumer taste and our professional knowledge. Imagine being a short-waisted woman designer and having to design and promote a high-waisted pant (because you know it will be hot the next year) while at the same time knowing how completely fugly she would look wearing those very pants. For designers, who often work a year ahead of calendar, we can not focus on what we personally are loving to buy now, but rather what our customer will want to wear a year from now. The result is occasionally a moment of insanity, what basically happens is the following random conversation in a designers head, “Will anybody buy this? Of course it’ll be huge. Right? Or is this ugly? Is this the next big thing? No, it’s just weird. No it’s innovative. Is this too forward? Oh no, it IS ugly! But is ugly the new pretty? What am I doing? Aughhh!!” Yes, it happens even fashion professionals get so overwhelmed by the fast pace of trends and the pressure to be current that we can just lose it.
Now, we all have these trends that upon first seeing them we feel an aversion, even if we later come around. So here are some photos of fashion trends that frightened us at first but we have grown to adore. Tell us what you think, any trends that scared you off at first?
Remember the poncho? Last year’s gladiator sandal
When skinny jeans first came back! Return of shoulder pads
The new hooded bodysuit This season’s crotch-drop pant!
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Topics: fashion, trend | 19 Comments » 
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April 21st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Very interesting. It’s fascinating how the people on the forefront of fashion are the ones creating the trends, but also accepting or rejecting the trends. Our ability to “get” the trends essentially determines if they’ll become popular.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I am sorry but that model of the skinny jeans needs to check into an eating disorder clinic. I don’t like things which are too trendy.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
I’m still scared of the drop crotch and acid wash pants! Gladiators and skinny jeans at first, but love them both now. :-)
Yes, she is too skinny!
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:28 am
BW- So true, although sometimes trends do come from the bottom up, often with the younger markets
MF-We thought the same thing, give the girl a cheeseburger
Eyeliah- You may come around, imagine what the people working on the DC pants were thinking when designing it a year ago!
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
the worst is when you blog about disliking a trend, and then later find yourself wearing it! although i still can’t get on board the acid wash jeans. uh oh…
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 am
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April 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
I think I made fun of drop crotch pants/harem pants when they arrived back in fashion maybe two years ago… Now I own three pairs. Go figure!
I’m actually quite intrigued by this idea of hooded bodysuits. Not sure if I’d wear it, though.
Shoulder pads… Wonder who will actually be wearing that?
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April 24th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
I can’t help but to agree. There are so many new fashion trends that seemingly appear out of nowhere, or simply return from decades ago to haunt us. For awhile I thought I disliked skinny jeans – now they’re all I wear.
Hooded bodysuits, crotch-drop pants, gladiator sandals, shoulder pads…sorry, those are trends that I will dislike until the day I die. :)
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April 27th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Ha ha! That’s like what I said here: http://wbjewelry.blogspot.com/2008/08/more-rolled-jeans.html
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