You know a trend is out when...

[amazingGrace]

A trend is over when no one wears it anymore.

exactly. This is the only correct reply so far. Trends tend to encapsulate a collective social mood, so to suggest that when all stores stock it or your mom is wearing it it's no longer 'trendy' is just ludicrous, as those things actually cement its 'trend' status. How exactly would something be a 'trend' if it's avant garde (do people even understand what avant garde means?! The Ida was spot on when she said not all fashion stems from avant garde concepts) and no one's wearing it?!

 

[TheGildedFactory]

in all honesty, as soon as it hits mass market stores (ala h&m etc) the trend is seriously tarnished. Its been commercialized.

^ Yesss completely
I was in love with the blazer and scarf combo and then Balenciaga Fall 2007 happened.

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

Menace, I think it might also have to do with climate and weather. Those factors also dictate trends from a regional standpt.

I'm in Miami and I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone wearing anything made of leather that isn't a shoe or a bag. It's just not practical but these items - leather bombers, booties, pants, jckts, vest, dresses, you name it - are still carried in several stores here. When we do get around to experiencing our week long 'winter', everyone tends to pull out some leather piece even though the coldest it tends to get is 50 degrees.

It's all so subjective and fascinating...

 

[Paper Doll]

I think that when a trend is beaten to death it ceases to be stylish. When a trend becomes tacky (sold in Wal-Mart and Target, Urban Outfitters, and every "kitschy" fashion store at the mall) it dies off... but it is a cycle... an old trend dies and a new one is born. Stylish people select and present clothing in a novel way and it becomes a trend for the less creative people. Then when the less creative people realize there's something new... they copy that too.

"Fashions fade, only style remains." - Coco Chanel

 

[timemachinedream]

According to Katherine Power of WhoWhatWear's twitter, you know a trend is out when you see your local news anchor wearing it. i thought that was hilarious.

 

[shutterbug]

I think since this thread is asking this question of many "innovators" and "early adopters" (hey, it's tfs!) you're likely to get answers like "when the bloggers wear it" or "when it hits high street stores." But just because the innovators and early adopters are starting to move on (which is entirely in their nature to do) doesn't mean the trend is over. Actually, if trends are over after the bloggers start wearing it, we'd see them die within 1 hour or so after hitting the runways these days!

 

[thefunkykitten]

surely this question is dependent on the person asking...

for example... a trend, lets take animal print, will be out much much sooner for the so-called "trendies", bloggers, celebrities etc - compared to your average jo who will continue to find animal print trendy for another few seasons.

imo bloggers are those that bring the trends to the masses... and this is by no means the end of the trend - for many it is just beginning!

 

[silk skin paws]

A trend is over when no one wears it anymore.

Yes for something to be trendy it has to be mass marketed for the average consumer. Anything avant-garde is out because trends are wearable and easy to produce in massive numbers.

 

[MUXU]

i got confused with most of the answers on the first page...cause it seemed like they were referring not to trends but to things that are avant garde.

anyways, i think whether the trend is out or not really depends on what kind of people you hang around with.
like, if say...a particular shade of red square purse is the most popular item of the moment only amongst fashion insiders, than it is trendy. but when one of them goes to say, a library and to the librarian she would have no idea the red purse is trendy and would probably dismiss it at un-trendy because she havent see that many people with that purse. but of course you cant get trend and style mixed up. to the librarian, the fashion avant garde is un-trendy but she/he was probably still stylish.

for me personally, im bit of an odd ball. i find some trends to be out for me when it reach to the masses because i been doing i since day after i saw it done on a balenciaga show or something. or i catch onto the fringes of the trend when it reached the masses and is going to be out.

 

[starsrainsunmoon]

the girl holding the hand of the guy in the ed hardy shirt is wearing it.

i guess when every ordinary surburban teenager starts to obsess over it-- i guess thats when my love of anything pretty much dies. and i think this thread is more about when a particular high fashion trend becomes 'uncool' so to speak. so i agree that the only true answer is when the stores don't stock it anymore, but i think this reply (as clever as it is ) has missed the point a little bit.

 

[genevica]

You know a trend is out when you see it at Topshop/H&M/F21/etc.

 

[shoesexy]

"Trends" end here...

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[mrsjamesdean]

^Well my obsession with thigh high's are over.....

You know a trend is over when Vogue Australia mentions it and [strike]my[/strike] your fremeny is reading it proclaiming its her/he new thing....

 

[The_Ida]

^^Heidi looks tragic.

 

[CaitlinC]

When cheap, crappy knock-offs appear.

 

[IndayMae]

#52..

 

[emailme.]

when every store is selling their version of the trend.

 

[fashionista-ta]

When I see it worn locally ...

When an SA gushes and pronounces it so this season ...

 

[emailme.]

what kate moss wore 5 years ago.

 

[hiromix]

haha this thread is funny i think a trend does end for average girls/ women when it's reached the sales section of TK maxx or matalan? but what is trendy is so subjective and also depends on your surroundings as well as the people you socialize with that it's hard to state what is or isn't trendy. i think it's mostly important to follow your own instinct & intuition and not follow the masses like blind lemmings. plus the act of shopping & adornment is quite psychological, cue 'retail therapy' & 'shopaholic'. if it makes you happy, than it can't be that bad, though, can it?