Fashion Faux Pas

[rockchick]

Which fashion trends made you wince? What seemed so cool at the time but now (thinking back) you really regret ever leaving the house like that?

[Torvaig]

You first......

[_Ju_]

Buttons as big as plates in the eighties........ and the hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Having permed my lovely straight hair into tight curls so I could look like Annie (film about an orphan girl) in 1983. To get rid of it I had to cut my hair so short I looked like a boy...............eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeu uuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

PS: if you get a chance watch the film the wedding singers. It's not a great movie but the way it dargs you back to the eighties is fantastic. I got home from watching it and headed straight for the old photos....... wince!

[Thumper]

I used to go out with a hundred different colours on at one time and though I was Archie!When I look at the pics now I cringe!Lord know what my Mam was thinking letting me out of the house like that x

[Lolabelle]

I used to wear clothes that really didn't suit me, I was a fashion slave. Now Dave helps me chose my clothes
And bad, bad, bad perms. EEEEkkkkkkkkkeee, cringe, cringe

[Anne x]

Far too many faux pas cant really single one bad out well maybe Platform Shoes & Boots all that teetering along the road

[ashaw1]

The 80's has to be a really bad era for fashion looking back on it now. Bright shell suits and neon socks what were we thinking?

[rockchick]

legwarmers, the "layered look" aka Flashdance
adidas track suits
"rompers"

[hotrod4]

I remember when boys used to get a perm at the back, i.e Chris waddle,michael bolton.
Never got round to getting one, thank my lucky stars that my dad said i would look like a big jessie!

[scorrie]

Crocs

They are relatively new but they are ghastly and already so "yesterday"

ps

Bay City Roller trousers. I recall a guy at Wick High wearing home made jobbies (appropriate word) constructed from jeans with the thickest strips of tartan blanket you ever saw running down the outside legs. Shangalangmungous matey!!

[karia]

Nope, I have wracked my brains and trawled through my photo albums and I have always been sophistication personified! lol


karia

[Julia]

Crocs

They are relatively new but they are ghastly and already so "yesterday"

Crocs! Crocs are ace! They are so comfy and hygenic, I love my crocs.

I didn't really follow fashion much as a teenager but I did own drainpipe(?) jeans, they were dark blue with white piping down the outside of each leg.

I'm going to have to post a photo of me on my first day at school, bright red pinafore with gold buttons and a blue puffed sleeve blouse, the collar was so pointy it would have your eye out!

[floyed]

Leggings pink, green, mustard, light blue my mum made me wear them all at school i hated them and still do!!

I was a tubby school kid so skin tight leggings, not the best thing to be wearing

[laguna2]

Nope, I have wracked my brains and trawled through my photo albums and I have always been sophistication personified!


karia

Lucky you! I am afraid that I cannot claim the same!

[evelyn]

Where do I start.....afro perm, white leggings, zebra print leggings, jam jar size glasses, white stilletos, scratchy islandic jumpers, oversized pirate type shirts, ducks bottom hairdo, skinners, boiler suits, white socks over ginger tights......not all at the same time I hasten to add!!!
evelyn

[airdlass]

Definitely the Bay City Rollers outfit - down to the tarten scarf tied round your wrist

[mccaugm]

The 80's..leggings, shoulder pads on dresses, shoulder pads on jackets (shoulder pads everywhere). Puffball skirts, cha cha skirts, ra ra skirts, teabag t'shirts, white jeans, pencil skirts, madonna fingerless gloves. Stonewashed and snow-washed denim jackets. Shellsuits, doc martens with grolsch bottletops, skinny jeans. Bright coloured belts over large stripey shirts.


If you add in hairstyles cropped hair with skinny ponytails, demi-waves. Flatops!

[_Ju_]

madonna fingerless gloves.

I'd forgotten the lace bobby socks...... how I loved them. White with black sandal type shoes...... LOL!

And how about when everyone cut their hair a la Diana in the early 80's(including a friend of mine that had gorgeous long dark cork screw curly hair- definatly not suited and difficult to grow out without having months of bad hair days!)????

[sweetpea]

Plastic jackets came in lots of different colours. Had a blue one that melted when I was leaning against a radiator in the corridor at school

[nikki]

Scousers (trousers with a matching skirt over them), definately. I had a grey pair, they were awful.