Have you ever noticed how quickly a fashion trend you once detested becomes completely acceptable to you? When ‘city shorts' and ‘bubble skirts' hit the catwalk last year, I remember laughing out loud at the models who to my eyes looked like androgynous circus workers. "They'll never make it to the high street" I thought. Not even six months later I was coveting my friend's chocolate coloured city shorts, which suddenly looked completely normal and even sexy when paired with some heels. I guess that's how fashion works - an idea is projected as ‘must have' and in spite of ourselves, we start to feel that way. I sometimes wonder what a Victorian would make of our fashion sense were they to time travel and end up in the heart of a bustling city street. Women in trousers, boots they associate with the wild west or horse riding are suddenly every day footwear, everyone wearing scarves that look much too big for them, Guys walking around with their boxers hanging out of their jeans (ok, that's actually a WHOLE other discussion for me, I'd better not get started!)....but as much as that scenario amuses me, I also sometimes wonder what I would make of our fashion sense if I were not so influenced by the thoughts of the fashion industry and those around me.... what do I actually like? Sometimes I think I've lost touch with my personal taste - it's quite concerning how ready I am to abandon my instinctive likes and dislikes once something becomes ‘a la mode'. I don't know if this is necessarily a bad thing or not, that's not really what this post is about, it's just a thought that comes to my mind occasionally. I do know that fashion is a great source of pleasure to me and I love clothes shopping and go looking for nice things. But whether they really are ‘nice' things or just ‘fashionable' things that I have been conditioned to thinking are nice because everyone else does, is very hard to discern! Am I the only one to have thought this? Is anyone else fickle when it comes to fashion?