{"id":528,"date":"2010-07-22T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/ideasdigest\/?p=528"},"modified":"2010-07-16T23:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T22:40:43","slug":"spotting-the-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/spotting-the-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting the trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you good at spotting trends?<\/p>\n

Being perceptive in seeing new things take shape –\u00a0shifts in behaviour, changes in consumption, altering of attitudes – is a useful skill. And might make you more interesting at dinner parties. So it’s worth practicing.<\/p>\n

Here’s a trend to get started on. Have you\u00a0noticed that, for about a year, men in high-end fashion shoots have frequently had a hair parting and semi-slicked down hair?\u00a0 More widely, however, male fashion still includes the long-standing slightly scruffed up look and, recently, use of a beard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch to see when (and if) the parting goes mainstream outside of the fashion shoot. You’ll see (in London) a few more younger men with the parted look.\u00a0 Try counting\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

And see this for a bit on the theory of fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you good at spotting trends? Being perceptive in seeing new things take shape –\u00a0shifts in behaviour, changes in consumption, altering of attitudes – is a useful skill. And might make you more interesting at dinner parties. So it’s worth practicing. Here’s a trend to get started on. Have you\u00a0noticed that, for about a year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[96,106,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}