The beginning of each decade used to portend huge changes in fashion and hair.

The 1920's brought the bob and short form-fitting clothing for women, and the 1940's introduced the leg as a response to the war-time shortage of fabric and brought shoulder pads, which hovered above draped Dior sentiments.

The 1960s introduced dressed down bohemia and the 1980s spent its youth following the dervish that was Madonna and New Age misanthropic fashion.

After we all chugged through 1990s grunge's missteps in hair and attire, we saw a short return to cropped clothes and hair before the decade drew us into the black hole of the new Millennium.

The turn of the Millennium brought a dysfunctional vagueness to fashion that went beyond vapid retreads to include a mixed bag of ultra casual hippie dreg punctuated with splashes of retro glam and generational rip-offs.

How incredibly boring it was to have lived through the 00s.

The only new thing introduced to fashion in that decade was tramp-stamp or sleeve tattoos and emo/goth hair and makeup. It was a confusing time for fashion designers and celebrity hairstylists.

It seemed that it was a decade of anything goes on the runway, but pity to the designers that missed an important meeting at US Magazine to become one with the look of the nano-moment.

In this new decade, hair is schizophrenic with an abrupt return of the beehive, spotted on too many red carpets in the early days of January 2010, and a rush of desperation to grow out ones' pixies and bobs.

In decades gone by, each new decade brought a renewed call to present tailored looks in hair and clothing. Designers had weathered the slow march to each decade's conclusion and were weary of pushing each fashion expression to eventual absurdity. It was a time to restore the public's faith in fashion.

Not much has been done yet to restore our belief in fashion's reign over culture. It looks as if we need to give this new decade more than just a month or two to start forming its themes and expressions, yet a few indicators are already apparent.

Cuts and styles promise to be a bit longer and a lot softer. All lines will be rendered weightless over stronger perimeters. The shattered bobs will stay and will feature softer finishing techniques. Longer layers will be face-conforming and the swept bang will rule.

Velcro rollers and large-barreled curling irons will finish nearly every head this spring and summer. Color will move more towards muted blondes and creamy golden highlights. Brunettes with burnished hues are already making a strong resurgence.

These and other more sensible changes will be the driver of whatever fashion trumps by the year 2015, in a return to concrete sensibility.

The public is becoming numbed to the onslaught of celebrity dos and don'ts as paraded in checkout line magazines. An opportunity now exists for actual designers of hair and fashion to present their ideas before a newly aroused consumer of fashion.

We are all so very tired of the push to purchase bad fashion from droll pseudo-designers whose only claim to legitimacy are their associations with unwatched cable shows and drugged up Hollywood wannabes.

Where are St Laurent and Trevor Sorbie when we need them?

Not far from here, o ye faithful, we can already hear their disciples, geniuses like Oribe, Sally Hershberger and Kim Vo, sharpening their shears and remixing their color palates.

The new decade of sensibility promises to be a lovely journey through delicious fashion and hair.