The cliche, albeit an increasingly true one, that style trends are here today and gone tomorrow continues to define the extremes of the Tokyo fashion scene.

Not that anyone outside the shrinking street-scene bubble and expanding social media one is likely to mind right now. It is, after-all, the early adopters and serious fans who are chomping through the fashion cycles as trends of a couple of years ago are already forgotten and reappear as fresh.

The mainstream followers on the other hand, ostracized by the impossibly fast stream of brash and meme-able but not memorable extreme highs, are beginning to savor and stick to their choice of trends.