What is a 'trend'?

Well firstly I'd like to investigate the definition of the word and it's meanings.

The following is taken from the Oxford Dictionary:

NOUN

1A general direction in which something is developing or changing:

an upward trend in sales and profit marginsA fashion:the latest trends in modern dance

VERB

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1Change or develop in a general direction:unemployment has been trending upwards

Origin

old English trendan 'revolve, rotate', of Germanic origin; compare with trundle. The verb sense 'turn in a specified direction' dates from the late 16th cent, and gave rise to the figurative use 'develop in a general direction' in the mid 19th century, a development paralleled in the noun.

Now for me to put this into simple terms, that I can digest. I take the above as a movement of some sort. A trend is a result of someones or somethings action.

So... If a person was to wake every morning at 07:00 then this person would have created a personal trend. This is obviously on a very small scale and only would be a trend to that person. Unless he or she had a really loud alarm clock that woke the whole street up.

In the winter the weather in England gets really cold. In fact, it's pretty cold most of the time but that's besides the point. When the weather is cold we all dress in warmer clothes. This is now a trend that effects multiple people.

So now I've understood the basics of this 'trend' thing I suppose I need to delve a little more into it and relate it to my chosen genre of photography or what I want to be when I grow up. If you've not read in any of my previous blogs, I'm studying to be a fashion photographer.

P.S. Hope you all had an awesome weekend!!