Looking at specifically fashion trends; How wide legged jeans, dad sneakers, long white socks, crocs etc. are ‘back’ in trend when it used to be fashionable quite a while back.
How do trends actually become a trend? How did the human population manage to agree on one certain thing and deem it suddenly popular? For example, can one just start wearing skinny jeans and make it popular again?
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Probably not a proper ELI5 answer, but I highly recommend reading The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell.
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