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What are some of your predictions for the five years, and why do you think you're going to be right?

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  1. No politics
  2. No war
  3. No AI
  4. No immigration

I'm confident that low waisted jeans are going to make a raging comeback in the next couple of years. Not only is the cyclical nature of fashion heading in that direction, but the prevalence of GLP-1 products and will negate the unspoken reason that high-waisted mom jeans got popular.

Oh fashion, interesting! I don't think we are returning to heroin chic. It takes a ridiculously low weight to look good in those jeans and think of the horror Ariana Grande got for her weight loss, not praise. I think the ethnic thickness trend of the 2010s (kardashian) has had a permanent adjustment upward (although you are right that GLP has shaved off the plus size can be hot trend, which I doubt many people believed anyway, they were just trying to be "inclusive").

I think the body standard is going to stick at Sidney Sweeney / Sabrina Carpenter for a while. But then I'm a blonde so that could be a self serving prediction. (Not that I follow jeans fashion anyway, I am never giving up skinny jeans for when I care and have boxy (expensive) jeggings.) I in general think that gen-z will be sad they spent their hottest years in beige boxes.

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