My Personal Trends!

A few days ago in our media class we did a little survey on trends and how they affect our lives. Mr.Powles took those results and put them into pie graphs that showed us stastics on the differnet answers we chose. This survey was about how my media class acts towards trends in the school or trends in general. There was a short answer question that asked us what trends we see in Orchard Park Secondary High school and with those answers Mr.Powles came up with a list of the trends. There were atleast 45 trends on that list and most of them were followed by the students in my class. Looking at the list I made my own, I figured that I follow 11of the trends that were on the list. Some of those would be ; Love pink, yoga pants, uggs, Adidas, and some singers like lil wayne and drake, these are only a few that I follow. This would be 24.4% of the trend which infact does sound a little extreme , even to me. It may seem  that I may be considered a trend follower but it also has to do with some personal choice. The majority of the trends I do follow I had discovered before most of the people in the school and my family but I those are the styles I may have gotten from the t.v or the internet. However, some of the clothing styles that I liked I did start following from my school and friends. Therefore, I consider my self as follower more than a trend setter because it is hard to set a trend in such a big school like Orchard Park where there are so many different types of students who have differnet tastes in style and music. I think a person would have to follow atleast 1 of the trends to be considered trendy. This is because following one trend could mean you could spend a good amount of money on one outfit each  season instead of spending a lot of money each month.

One of the trends that I follow that I really love would be my Ugg boots because of how comfy and warm they keep your feet during the winter. The Ugg boots I have are the boots that I do not even let my sister borrow because I don’t want her to ruin them while she I was walking around at McMaster. Even though Uggs are just boots they are the trend that I hold on to tightly because they were expensive and are my first pair. These boots were originally from Australia and New Zealand. These boots were manufactured by Blue Mountain Ugg booots and Mortels that was a sheepskin factory in the late 1950’s. Soon surfers discovered ugg boots in the 1960s and had started to wear them when they came out of the water to keep their  feet warm. However, they were also used in the summer to keep peoples feet cooler in the summer. Ugg boots began to get popular in the 1990’s and early 2000s where celebrities like Kate Hudson , Sarah Jessica Parker and many more wore them. Soon the name of the boots became UGG Australia and they had sales of up to 600 million dollars U.S in 2008. Yet, even though these boots were made for the warm summer of Australia Uggs are now being worn in the winter to keep your feet warm. A complete opposite of the weather they were made for. Here is a picture of the very popular classic Ugg boots

The person who I believe influenced my style would be my eldest sister because she is a type of person who likes to stay on top of fashion trends and likes to listen to new and different types of music. My sister was able to make such a big impact on my sense of style and the type of music I listen to because my sister and I are always together, we share each others clothes and music and we also love to go shopping together. I think being together made us closer and me adopt the same sort of style and music style she has because we always share our clothing and the music we listen to. Most of the time before school I show my sister the outfit I'm wearing and if she doesn't like it I will change because I think she knows what works together and what doesn't. That is another reason she made an impact on my personal taste because I always want her opinion on what I'm wearing.
My personal trends have influences from many different people and places which in the end makes me who I am. No matter how much you say that my personal trends are strictly my own style it has to come from somewhere, there has to be a reason to why you dress this way and my reason would be my friends, family, and my school. Yes, some things you may start hearing or dressing in a certain way before everyone else, but that style has to come from somewhere too whether it's from the t.v or the internet you will always have something that makes listen to music and dress a certain way. I hope you liked reading my blog on my personal trends and I will be back shortly with another blog entry :)
Thank you ! :)