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基础款享受平凡喜悦 　　Any old trainers， a grey t-shirt， zip-up fleece1）. Just stuff. Shirts， chinos2）， jumpers. Nondescript， loosish3） （but not baggy） blue jeans， deck shoes. 　　If you wear any of these， then chances are you’re “normcore，” and that， peculiarly enough， makes you both a fashion icon de nos jours4） and probably not remotely interested in fashion. 　　Normcore has been called the internet meme5） of 2014. The flag was first raised by a New York trend-forecasting agency called K-Hole， which produced a report containing the madly catchy concept of normcore―a vanilla6） anti-style. 　　“Normcore finds liberation in being nothing special， and realises that adaptability leads to belonging，” announced K-Hole. It went on to describe it as post-aspirational7）： the idea of conformity taking precedence over an assertion of individuality. 　　Then， a month ago， New York magazine ran a piece which established normcore as a fashion trend， calling it “fashion for those who know they’re one in seven billion.” 　　The idea： that the very latest trend is to be trendless. That cool， in fashion， is not caring and trying even less； wearing clothes for comfort and belonging， rather than style. Blank slate dressing. The joy of the ordinary. 　　To say normcore has hit a nerve8） would be to understate the whole phenomenon. Alain de Botton， the British writer and philosopher， thinks it makes eminent sense and shows we’ve hit upon the ideal， in the Platonic sense， of how to dress. 　　“Normcore is the search for the ideal，” he says. “The perfect t-shirt， like the perfect pencil or table， doesn’t need to be constantly updated because it has latched on to the essence of what it’s trying to do. Humans like one-off ideals： one god， one partner … We are quite monotheistic. That urge sometimes washes over into clothes： one type of t-shirt. The ultimate example of this is the uniform. The better the design， the less it needs to change.” 　　Paradoxically―given that it relies on fast turnover―fashion is falling