# Has the fashion police really been disbanded (an end of dominant trends)?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-fashion-police-really-been-disbanded-an-end-of-dominant-trends/928345 "2020-12-18T16:41:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-fashion-police-really-been-disbanded-an-end-of-dominant-trends/928345/77 "2021-10-01T16:14:14Z")

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> [@Mijin](#):
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> Huh. Seems looking at this zombie thread that my opinion on this topic has changed in the last year.
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> I’m now firmly in the camp of saying that new fashion trends spring up all the time, but they are not dominant the way they were in the past, and seem to have an indefinite lifespan. So it all just looks like a hodge podge.

This summarizes my original point. There definitely still are trends, but they are faster and more varied than in the past, more generic options and a greater variety of fashion are additionally on offer and it is thus easer (and apparently more socially acceptable) to “do your own thing” than in the past.

We have recently been discussing this question as part of [this thread about whether there has been cultural stagnation since the mid-1990s.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-culture-stagnation-since-mid-1990s/949625/185)

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