When you sit back and think about all the different trends you have gone through throughout your lifetime are you surprised/impressed with how quickly things change? I know for me, I find it very fascinating looking at the clothes and items that were trending when I was younger based off what is trending nowadays. I look at pictures that were taken during my childhood and see the clothes I was wearing, and I immediately cringe that I wore something like that out in public. But then I realize most other children that were my age at the same time were wearing something like what I was. Or look at pictures of your parents, those trends could come back around someday.
A few years back us girls would look at the scrunchies we used to wear as we were growing up and think why would I ever wear one of those? Now we have seen them make an appearance again and become a trending part of almost every teenage girl’s everyday attire. Same with bell bottom jeans and mom jeans, I used to look at those and think they were so ugly, yet now they have become a very trending type of pants that girls have begun to wear once again. I find it funny that when these things come back to being trendy, I look at people wearing them and think I won’t fall into the trend of wearing something like that but after time I always find a way to get sucked into the trap. So why is this?
One of the main reasons why things become trendy is celebrities. Celebrities usually pick unique clothing that not many people typically wear or have unique items in the picture and from this they will take pictures in these outfits or items, and they end up all over social media or people see them out wearing these things. Once these outfits and items end up on social media, people see the pictures and are inspired by them. Everyone wants to be more like their favorite celebrity so buying things that they wear is one way things become trendy.
Another way is social media. A person usually posts things on social media because they like the picture or video that they have. Once this picture or video is posted, it’s out there for others to look at. Social media is a huge platform that gets spread around very quickly, from this people easily pick up things from these pictures or videos that they like and then they will buy the same thing.
Trending items and clothing are a unique concept because trends will always be something that will change as time goes on. A trend is only a trend for a little time until it becomes replaced and turned into a thing of the past.