Do you love it when style guru types catch up with stuff you been wearing for ages?

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Editors picks in The Guardian/Observer feature this expensive pendant. I wear a watch fob fastener I bought in the ‘Everything a £5’ basket at the antiques centre that looks just like this.

When have you got a head start on a fashion trend or spotted something similar to your signature style in the fashion pages?

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It's usually not that someone is ahead. It's that most things come and go in terms of fashion. So they exist and some people will wear them when they are not particularly on trend. When the item becomes on trend it is unlikely that person is suddenly looking in fashion because it's likely everything else they are wearing is off.

Logically, there must be some people whose usual style does at some point fall into fashion, by coincidentally matching various aspects of style which are 'on trend' at that time.

I don't tend to be particularly aware of it, as I'm not interested in what's fashionable or not. In some ways, my personal style is quite a rigid one.

I have found that some of the oversize look has served me, in that I wear men's/unisex t-shirts, so they're a sort of loose comfortable fit, which is not oversize, but the normalisation of casual wear that's not tight scoop necks has been good for me. I also like tshirts with prints on them and I've been seeing a bit more of that around in recent times, so that's also something where the trend has swung more my way.

With my particular example. I wear an element of a vintage fob watch as a necklace/pendant and some jewellery designers have had the same idea and created a pendant necklace that looks like a watch fob on a chain. I didn’t get the idea from anyone. Fob fastening fashion has had the same idea I had a while ago

In recent years: tweed, brogues, half tuck. (The last one wasn't a consciously chosen look but I can never manage to keep my shirt tucked in,)

I don't particularly like it when it happens because invariably the fashion will move on leaving you still wearing it. Also sometimes (and lately this has started to happen with flat shoes) the trend becomes so entrenched that I get bored seeing it everywhere.

I have loads of Victorian watch chains and fobs that I wore endlessly in the mid to late 80s and early 90s- they were a big thing then. Everyone has them on the the 6th form/uni pictures. Might need to dig them out!

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