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While other magazines are publishing ethically dubious trend pieces on the "fashy" haircuts of white nationalist Richard Spencer and his peers, Teen Vogue has been ensuring its readers know that Vice-President-elect Mike Pence voted against the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and once said, referring to abortion law, that he "longed for the day that Roe v Wade is sent to the ash heap of history".
They may even be inclined to remark on a dubious trend of talented black actresses having to make like Margaret Hamilton in "The Wizard of Oz".
But this dubious trend eventually faded, and even reversed, as 1962 saw Ray Charles' covers of country tunes by white artists rule the charts.
There are plans next year to deploy Smiley in association with the boom in mental health awareness campaigns – a dubious trend, but let's go with it anyway.
It's the latest dubious trend from the 2000s to make an anti-aesthetic comeback, after Juicy Couture's iconic velour tracksuits returned to NYFW, and Jeremy Scott reinvented the ultimate noughties cool girl shoe, the Ugg boot.
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But it should also make us skeptical, in general, of one of the more dubious trends in today's market: money managers who also fancy themselves corporate visionaries.
The deliriously zany "Xanadu" also represents a successful cross-pollination of probably the two most overworked and artistically dubious trends of the era: the musical as karaoke machine, as exemplified by MAMMA MIA!, the hit that inspired a dozen imitators; and the musical as a live movie rerun.
I filter them as best I can, but sometimes glance at them to spot dubious trends in direct marketing.
The section is notorious for its outsize focus on the lifestyles of young, urbane rich people and for pieces on dubious trends ― like monocles, or women dying their armpit hair.
It read like a roll call of dubious health trends that while naïve and not totally consolidated by dieticians, generally don't hurt anyone outside of wheat farmers.
It read like a roll call of dubious health trends that while naïve and not totally consolidated by dietitians, generally don't hurt anyone outside of wheat farmers.
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