Guest, meself, I don't know whether they were convinced, but it shut them up!

As Hughie Lewis and the News said "It's hip to be square" (or Sesame Street "It's hip to be a square")

I was a trend setter anyway...when I started at my new High School half way through first year (aged 12) the uniform included royal blue blazers and berets. No one wore the berets, but I've always been a hat person and particularly liked berets so I started wearing mine. By the end of my first term there, everyone was wearing them. The problem with that though, is that 'fashion' catches up with you and even if you are the only one doing something, when everyone else starts to do it too you end up being fashionable. So I stopped wearing my beret. I hate to be like everyone else

Love Lynne