Occasionally I've wondered why there's such a vogue, in fiction, for historical novels and pastiche.
Such a vogue for long locks continued well into the Fifties, when the glamorous styles of the film actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh were much emulated, while floppy ponytails were popular among younger girls.
It takes a fairly sophisticated society with a comfortable middle class, and a belief in an extended period of education for the young, to devise the "traditional" family model that enjoyed such a vogue in developed countries in the late 1940s to early 1960s.That traditional model ran out of steam for a number of reasons.
Look at fashion magazines such as VOGUE to see how models pose - practise from there.
For Harriet Quick, the fashion features director for British Vogue, such specialised craftsmanship gives the haute couture industry its intangible appeal.
Centuries earlier, portraitists were recording new styles, such as the vogue for black that transformed wealthy men's clothing in the Renaissance.
"We put the focus on dance this year," said Tommy Vaudecrane, the co-president of Technopol, "because many people in France do not dance and know very little about the dance culture associated with electronic music, such as house, vogueing, rave and the Melbourne shuffle.
We are amazed to find vogue in such complete about-face.
John Cassavetes's fourth feature, "Faces," from 1968, is a classic independent production made before such things were in vogue.
A vogue for such dialogue between Jews and Palestinians grew up during the 1990s, after the Oslo Accords.
