Re: Trends you've followed (or started)
Didn't really follow trends when I was growing up. I wasn't allowed any western clothing and in our town here we were the only Pakistanis unfortunately, so I was the only child in shalwar kameez and often harrassed by the other kids for my clothes.
My Mom always chose my clothes, only when I turned 18-19 I slowly started to speak up taht I don't like those designs of kameez with always flowers on them, I got tired of flowers in winter on almost all my kameezay, and then the gold and silver on my suits, even when there would be no feasty day, I would often be the only one with shiny clothes in the class...
So I often looked terrible. Nowadays, I don't dislike shalwar kameez anymore. Some designs are modest but still nice. I wear a mix nowadays, sometimes shalwar kameez and sometimes western clothes, sometimes I wear a kameez over jeans. Nowadays you can mix anything you want. :)
I don't think you can really follow trends, sometimes something which is in fashion doesn't look good at all on you.
I still wear 'oldfashioned' clothes sometimes, because they look better on me then some of the newer trends.