Can You Predict The Future Of Pop Star Apparel?
It’s so much easier to predict the past than the future! In the fickle world of entertainment, that’s even more true than it is in the serious world of politics and economics.
We all want to have a crystal ball or clairvoyant powers. Who wouldn’t want to be able to see what stocks are going to rise and which ones are going to fall? There are plenty of Wall Street gurus who claim to know what the future holds in store, but how many of them predicted the crisis we are now trying to find our way out of?
So much time, effort and debate goes into trying to forecast future economic trends. Our future depends on economics, but whether or not leather brown boots are going to be as popular in the future as they once were isn’t really going to change anything at all. If we can’t predict the important things, there’s not much chance that we can predict the unimportant things.
All it takes is one charismatic band to set a trend. Look what happened when the Beatles made their debut. Before they came along, no man would have hair that covered his ears. It was almost unheard of. But within a year of the release of the Beatles’ first album in the United States, young men everywhere had grown their hair out and they continued to let it grow for years.
Let’s say a new pop superstar named Jean Skinny arrives on the scene. Jean has an androgynous style of clothing. She wears men’s clothing and combs her hair like a man. It’s all subtly and carefully done, though, so she doesn’t look masculine.
There’s one more accessory that Jean is known for – it’s her black sport watch. She always takes off her jacket and rolls up her sleeves before she performs, so that big man’s watch stands out clearly on her wrist. It looks so good on her that wearing men’s watches becomes a worldwide fad. Girls everywhere throw away their feminine time pieces and go out and find the biggest men’s watches they possibly can.
Everything about Skinny’s wardrobe had been carefully selected by costume designers. Everything except that watch, that is. That had been belonged to her father. After he died an untimely death just as she was rising to stardom, she began wearing his watch in remembrance of him.
She wasn’t trying to start a fashion trend. In fact, it was years before she revealed to anyone the reason why she wore it. Her manager, on the other hand, had deliberately been trying to start a trend when he got designers to give her that look she was so famous for. Nobody could have predicted the outcome. It just happened. You just can’t predict the fashion future!
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