Welcome back to trendy or timeless. A series here on Anything Goes where we discuss and analyze

current trends in the zeitgeist and determine together whether they are trendy or timeless.

Trendy meaning they're just a flash in the pan. We like them today and we'll hate them tomorrow.

Or timeless meaning, yeah, they might be repackaged as a

trend right now, but actually, to their core, they're timeless. They're going to be cool forever.

I haven't done one of these in a while because the trend cycle is seemingly slowing down.

Like a lot of the trending items right now

were also trending a few years ago.

I've already talked about them.

And if you want to hear me talk about them,

you can go listen to trendy or timeless episodes of the past.

It's been hard to compile a list of new current trends over the last year or so because there just hasn't

been a lot of new stuff. I also think, too, that we're at a point now where there's been so

many micro trends over the last few years that we've almost cycled through everything.

Like, everything's trended over the last

few years. And so now we're at this point where it kind of feels like there is no defined

trends. But then there are because there definitely are, but it's like harder than ever to pinpoint.

Like in 2020 it was like, okay,

checkerboard prints back and it was back in a big way

and it was really obvious.

Whereas now it's like, yeah, I guess

polka dots are trendy but also

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