Trends you regret trying

[Ella]

-Those colored tights, I had some in green and I was so not my thing
-Trucker hats, I got a cool one at Portobello but never wore it (soon enough everyone was wearing them, I got so sick of them)
-Not really a trend but those Pauls Boutique clothes (made from old Levis jeans)... I thought they were cool until I went to Cambridge and I saw some awful looking girls wearing them.

 

[boho_babe]

mine is a poncho, and von dutch cap!

please note, this offence took place previous to joining this site, and before you lot educated me!!

 

[Fashion Puss]

Those Levi's "engineered" jeans - totally unflattering on me from every dimension.

 

[eternity]

i was a child of the 80's... if it was awful - i wore it

* happy pants in flouro colours
* matching lycra bike short-t-shirt sets (flouro colours featured heavily here too)
* the 'Madonna' look, lace gloves and socks, and LOTS of bangles (i was only 10yrs old people )
* multiple "parachute" suits. those track suits made of the parachute like material in flouro colours

and in the 90's

* leggings with tube socks and hiking boots
* floral babydoll dresses
* skivvy's... lots of skivvy's
* really huge hair scrunchies that i co-ordinated with my outfits

ahh those were the days...

 

[Heroin_Chic]

i was a child of the 80's... if it was awful - i wore it

* happy pants in flouro colours
* matching lycra bike short-t-shirt sets (flouro colours featured heavily here too)
* the 'Madonna' look, lace gloves and socks, and LOTS of bangles (i was only 10yrs old people )
* multiple "parachute" suits. those track suits made of the parachute like material in flouro colours

and in the 90's

* leggings with tube socks and hiking boots
* floral babydoll dresses
* skivvy's... lots of skivvy's
* really huge hair scrunchies that i co-ordinated with my outfits

ahh those were the days...

I share your pain!

I`m a child of the 80s too - and I totally dressed the same them! But come on, didn`t we love our Smiley Shirts and neon-colour Bike Shorts!

My 90s were different: light-blue and white Jeans (with huge holes cut into them), Baseball Jakets, Bandanas...my god, I don`t wanna go on...

Oh - don`t forget the Grunge Look!

Oh god, I feel so embarrased right now, noticing how many Fashion-Sins I commited...

Át least I have the ULTIMATE EXCUSE: I was in High-School back then!

 

[As You Like It]

I was in highschool the same time you lot were, and I had ***-tight jeans with zippers on the ankles.

Ooo, and bodysuits. I was all about the bodysuits, because I was so proud of my newly-grown boobies. But I have a really long torso, so I always had to cut the back flap of the bodysuit and add in another 3" of fabric so that it wouldn't go right up my buttcrack!

The longer I think, the longer my Fashion Crime rap sheet grows.

Oh man...those pullover jacket/poncho/rug/hoody things that stoner guys still wear? I had a white one that I did a buttload of embroidery all over the pocket, yoke, top of the hood and sleeves!

Speaking of stoners, I used to wear hair-wraps in my hair, and I did them for other people for pocket money.

Leggings (with lace around the ankle) with a huge tee-shirt and a battered jean-jacket.

Oh man, and the skort outfits? I never had one, but practically all my girlfriends did. What I did have, was this acid-washed shortall jumpsuit when I was 14 which I thought was really chic, but I bought it at the beginning of summer and (mercifully) outgrew it by the time school started. Wedgie City! But before I outgrew that shortall, I wore it with a white tee-shirt, white lace baseball cap, and white ankle-sox with lace around the cuffs. I guess I didn't get the memo that I wasn't 7 any more!

Huge goofy earrings. My best pair were three wooded angelfish, all painted garish colors. I also had these huge, thin silver hoops that I'd put different color beads on to match my outfit!

Hard Candy (or hard candy knockoff) funky color nailpolish.

Actually, I still do weird color nailpolish, lumberjack boots with dresses, and kiddy barettes. You can take the grrl out of the riot, but you can't take the riot out of the grrl.

Oooh, and around 1998-2001, the body glitter. I was such a glitterslut. Major proponent of all things sparkly. And I still find my eye drawn, crowlike, to things which promise to contain sparkles or shimmer within, though I restrain myself. At 27 (almost 28), I reckon my days of going around looking like a disco-ball should have passed!

 

[MulletProof]

tweed jackets

nobody used to wear them in that time (2 years ago) but still...people dont forget.

 

[Elli]

I wore pants that were tight down to the knee and REALLY wide from there..I don't know how to explain better. But they were very wide and too long so I was wiping the school clean with them.

 

[droogist]

I feel like an *** for getting sucked into the whole designer-denim craze. Now I have a closetful of overpriced jeans that fit beautifully when I got them but after five hours of wear, didn't.

 

[As You Like It]

I wore pants that were tight down to the knee and REALLY wide from there..I don't know how to explain better. But they were very wide and too long so I was wiping the school clean with them.

Bell-bottoms! I had a pair too

 

[iconemod]

German Trends... yuck...

This is a tough one:
In German cities they all dress the same style (as if a shopping trip to Paris or London was thaaat expensive)
´What hurts me most, is that those German chicks have enough money to dress with style, but aparently it is not in their genes. Here we go:
1) The lady-like-oxigen-blonde- b*tch:
They pick an EUR 29,90 cheap tweed in ice cream colours from H&M in 1 size smaller than their one. Then they pair it up with those looooovely Miss Sixty jeans that are such a promise for individualism that the whole German big avenues look like a Miss Sixty parade...
To pump it p they commit the unforgivable sin of wearing those white sharp-pointed shoes (I guess, Buffalo) that even make TOC TOC TOC while walking. Girls, listen: Stick to your Birkenstocks, instead, at least there you look authentic!!!
To finish it up: a small fake leather bag, or a fake Murakami , both small enough.
But this is a bloody trend, I swear. For this summer, there you will have :
2) The pastel-flavoured human ice-cream
pastel tones till you throw up, flip flops, skirts that slip over the hips making the legs look shorter, welll.. too nasty for my cat...

 

[LolitaLuxe]

^ ew...nothing worse then pointy white shoes and pastels

as for me i guess the obi trend?? i wore one over a dress , totally impractical and uncomfortable. although a nice piece....

 

[*Happiness*]

-Long fake nails (acrylics)...I thought I was doing something big in high school getting my "nails done" every two weeks. So dumb!

-In junior high school I wore those button up shirt with the sheer arms.....

-wearing a full polka dot outfit (pants and top)...so ridiculous...

-wearing baggy clothes...dockers pants and shirts...I would borrow my dads dockers (back then he was a 34 waist) and wear them to school.....(and I'm a girl.... )...so you know the clothes were baggy as hell.

-wearing big logos....okay why did I have this HUGE tommy hilfiger fleece pullover with a HUGE tommy logo on the front...you could see me walking a mile away...Literally.

okay, I think I'm done for now...

 

[misssakura]

Glad i'm not alone :'(

 

[HepburnDivine]

I wouldn't know where to start. Practically most of the stuff I wore from when I started putting my own clothes on in the morning till I turned 16. Perhaps a bit longer... I only feel I'm coming in to my own style the last few years. But I was very well-dressed as a toddler..!

 

[Alejandro]

I was like 7
the sideways ponytails
and the all scrunchies *shudder!
and all that damn NEON!

In high school i went through a 80's Joan Jett phase, so the feathered black hair ripped jeans was pretty bad...oh the trauma of viewing my high school yearbook...

What are you talking about??? I adore this look... well, I consider all my faux passes preety much my winning wars... I just love making mistakes, so I wont make them again.... I keep learning about it every every dayyy....

 

[TheSoCalledPrep]

quite an interesting thread

Flip-flops
logo tees
kitten heels, i mean i guess they were hot then
colorful eyeshadow

 

[stilista]

I don't regret any of it, honest!!

Puffballs, leggings, neon ankle socks, side ponytails when I was a kid

The Acid Jazz/Brand New Heavies phase when I was a teen - striped flares, velvet suit jackets and green platforms

Hopefully I've matured just as un-gracefully....

 

[AlexN]

logo tees

Ooooh yeah, I've gotta add that one to my list.

 

[softgrey]

grunge...
although i did it under protest...it was all that you could find in the stores...
my version was a baby doll dress over leggings with an oversized denim shirt worn over as a jacket...

could have been worse..but it really wasn't me...i'm not big on denim..or the 'casual look'...

all from gap, urban and banana...of course...