Worst fashion trends

[carrie1626]

Fleece sweats.

Yes, I had a few matching sets and even back then I thought it was ridiculous to be seen in public wearing them. I finally did relent and wore them to the Laundromat. I think the modern day yoga wear is the modern-day 80/90's version of "sweats".

I will add CROCS (the originals) to the list. In my defense I wore them at work only. I bought Disney Gibbets and I still have them after all these years and wear them ( at home ONLY) if its damp/wet outside when I let the dog out. They stay in the garage

 

[Jaya]

Mid to late 1960's. Bell-bottom jeans, knitted or fuzzy ponchos. Long straight (ironed on the ironing board) hair with bangs down to your eyelashes. A guitar was a fashion statement.....no wannabe folk singer would be seen without one. Yep, that was me.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I was also guilty of the big hair and denim look during the late 80's.

 

[cassandrap83]

I think that the current trend of ugly floral patterns to be pretty awful. Along with the mixing patterns trend.

 

[Handbag Lady]

Bandeau tops with oversized blazers ala the band Heart. Throw in some hairspray (Aquanet pink can), pegged jeans, and white shoes OR black boots. Bonus points if the blazer was satin.


And rock shirts with Levi's with holes in them.

 

[LuvGoofy6]

Track suits~ all matching and plain ugly. Also, my Birkenstocks with socks. Perming my thick hair...not once but twice! And as with everyone else...acid washed jeans.

 

[DeaverTex]

Grew up in the late 1960's. I'm guilty of actually owning a pair of watermelon striped bell bottoms, worn with a two inch wide belt. And I wore the little neckerchief things inside my shirt collar. I don't have any pictures available, since anything from that era would have been my parents' pictures. There may actually be one or two, but they weren't really picture takers.

Now, Mrs. Tex was really only guilty of miniskirts, but with her rear end and legs there was zero guilt involved.

 

[mamacatnv]

Early 80's I had and wore a pair of Chemin De Fer Zip around jeans. The zipper went from front to back and zipped all the way around, the jeans could be two pieces

 

[LBIJim]

Fortunately, I was never guilty of being in fashion. Heck, I was never even accused of it.

 

[rigs32]

It confuses me to walk down the street these days. I see packs of young women all wearing the same outfit - high waisted short shorts and a crop top. As if the area between the belly button and sternum is suddenly super sexy.

 

[endy]

Another product of the mid 70's high school.
I permed my very straight hair to big and curly. In my old age I have come to realize my hair is meant to be straight.

What about hot pants? Not quite the short shorts of today.
Lee brand overalls.
Platform shoes , I didn't like them because I was as tall as most guys at only 5'6".
Buffalo sandals, everyone had at least a pair and they only lasted the summer. It was funny a friend and I saw someone wearing a similar pair and at the same time we said remember buffalo sandals.
Pantyhose. Yuck who came up with that? Especially when they came in many colors.
Bell bottoms.
Corduroy jeans. I remember when our very small town in Nova Scotia first got them in. Everyone needed a pair. Also remember getting my first pair of Nikes. You were the coolest wearing Nikes, white canvas with the blue swoosh.

I think most of this stuff was better than seeing teenagers today with their pants hanging at the knees and tops that don't hold the uppers inside.

 

[kathie859]

I'll cop to getting an Afro......yeah, I'm Caucasian (not as bad as my older sister and her husband---THEY had matching Afros and shirts.)
Oh, and huge shoulder pads---you know, we were told they made our hips look smaller Liars!!!!

 

[spacemountainmom]

I was a child of the 80's. There were so many.....

Jogging shorts with tube socks to the knees

Jeans rolled up or pinned at the ankles

The big knit sweaters with the very deep V-neck from the Limited

Big hair

Banana clips

Acid wash denim

Jean jackets with tons of pins on them

Then we have the mother of all "What were we thinking?" fashion crime...Stirrup Pants! I even had dressy stirrup pants that I wore with blouses and blazers to work.

 

[MouseClubMama]

I think that the current trend of ugly floral patterns to be pretty awful. Along with the mixing patterns trend.

Agree. These ugly things are already on the clearance racks along with dozens of crazy patterned maxi dresses that are ridiculously long for the average woman. The dresses are SO long they need extra tall racks to accommodate them. Now I'm having flashbacks to my mini skirt/maxi coat days, not to mention the tight white Nancy Sinatra boots that packed an attitude..."these boots are made for walking"...

 

[Acklander]

Overalls

Very high waisted pants

And there is one photo an old friend pulled out of her album of me wearing a pair of yellow/black plaid bell bottom pants. I can say, with all honesty, that I've never purchased a pair of pants like that so assumed it was a friend/swap outfit.

 

[Nohal]

Product of the 60's - fishnet stockingsbell bottoms, hot pants, twiggy eye makeup (black eyeliner with white eyeliner over the top of the black)mini dresses, go go boots.

 

[kmb584]

I was a kid in the late 80's / early 90's and lived mostly in stirrup pants and slouch socks. My mom dressed me in bike shorts a lot, blinding neon shirts with a plastic ring that tied one side of them, and windbreakers (you were extra cool if you had the matching top and bottom). Slap bracelets were an essential part of 1st grade. My hair was crimped most of the time, and if it wasn't my mom curled and teased my bangs until they were 10x their original size (the rest of my hair was, of course, pin straight and pulled up in a colorful scrunchie). My elementary school jelly shoes transformed into chunky Mary Janes and Doc Martens by middle school. I also owned white platform canvas sneakers. And my lipstick was brown. Good times!

 

[Miranda Danda]

I had every single color of Bongo jeans, the matching scrunch socks, AND the matching hair scrunchies. I also had just about every single Exploration shirt.

Those jeans were AWFUL! So high and so tight! What was I thinking!?!?!

 

[Turn the Page]

I was a kid in the late 80's / early 90's and lived mostly in stirrup pants and slouch socks. My mom dressed me in bike shorts a lot, blinding neon shirts with a plastic ring that tied one side of them, and windbreakers (you were extra cool if you had the matching top and bottom). Slap bracelets were an essential part of 1st grade. My hair was crimped most of the time, and if it wasn't my mom curled and teased my bangs until they were 10x their original size (the rest of my hair was, of course, pin straight and pulled up in a colorful scrunchie). My elementary school jelly shoes transformed into chunky Mary Janes and Doc Martens by middle school. I also owned white platform canvas sneakers. And my lipstick was brown. Good times!

I am about the same age as you are and remember all of these trends. I had a lot of stirrup pants and slouch socks. I also recall the plastic ring to tie the tshirt up and a few pairs of jelly shoes which always gave me horrible blisters. I never had the crimped hair though. I begged and begged my mom for months but she refused to let me do it as she thought it looked stupid. I was so disappointed at the time but I'm grateful now lol. I'll even cop to being a lover of body suits for awhile in middle school and early high school. I have no idea why I thought they were so great. They were uncomfortable.

I also remember the umbro and addidas trends. All the cool kids had umbros and addidas and we all became very adept at figuring out if those umbros were real or knock offs lol. I never had either of those. I was way too cool.

The styles of the 80's and early 90's are coming back in a big way right now. I saw a few neon tshirts and short denim cut off shorts with midriff baring neon tank tops. I even saw a girl with a plastic ring tying her tshirt up. I had a brief moment of nostalgic pleasure than a longer one of horror at the thought of some of these styles coming back.

 

[POOHsie]

In the '90s, my teen DD almost put me in the poor house with her "gotta have" JNCO jeans and $90 designer athletic shoes. And one pair of JNCO jeans wasn't enough -- it had to be 3 or 4 different designs. They were the biggest jeans I ever saw, and they dragged on the ground, the more the better.

Then one day while shopping, my DD and I stopped at a shoe store and she picked out $29.95 Skechers. I kissed her!