It’s easy to look back and chronicle the past, but it’s not so easy to predict the future. That is true in finance and politics and it’s even truer in the world of entertainment.

Wallstreet gurus would like us to believe that they have all the answers to our economic future. They’ve said it before and look what happened! It would be wonderful to have the power to accurately predict the future, but it’s just impossible.

So much time, effort and debate goes into trying to forecast future economic trends. Our future depends on economics, but whether or not leather brown boots are going to be as popular in the future as they once were isn’t really going to change anything at all. If we can’t predict the important things, there’s not much chance that we can predict the unimportant things.

When the Beatles took America by storm, no young man in his right mind was wearing his hair long. But no sooner did their first album hit the shelves than it was suddenly the coolest style and everyone was growing his hair.

Let’s say a new pop superstar named Jean Skinny arrives on the scene. Jean has an androgynous style of clothing. She wears men’s clothing and combs her hair like a man. It’s all subtly and carefully done, though, so she doesn’t look masculine.

One of Jean’s signatures is her black sport watch. When she’s performing, she always takes off her jacket, rolls up her sleeves and shows off that big men’s watch. Her fans can’t miss it. On her, that oversized timepiece looks so classy that girls all over the world throw away their little feminine watches and go out and buy big men’s waterproof ones.

While everything else about her costume has been carefully designed and chosen by top costume designers, her watch was not. It belonged to her Dad, who died suddenly just before he was able to see her reach stardom. She only wears it in homage to him.

She wasn’t trying to start a fad, it just happened. Nobody even knew the reason why she wore the watch until many years later. Her record label and manager had tried so hard to start a fashion trend, but it didn’t work. You simply can’t predict what will catch on and what won’t!

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