Top 5 Fashion Disasters

1. Lads with a perm at the back,wedge at front.

2. Moustaches.

3. Those hooded tops with smiley faces on.

4. Those football hats cut in half,one side Liverpool the other Celtic. (teams varied).

5. Cutting the Lee badge off the waist of the jeans and re-attaching it on the ankle.

The 80's did have a dark side...

Puma G.Vilas x5

Didn't stop me having 2 pairs though.

Edit: Perm-backs were well suspect,yer not wrong there..But the step-wedge was equally as ridiculous.

Top 5 would be.. 1 Hoochie shorts 2 Leg warmers 3 Step wedge/Perm back 4 Drainpipes 5 VW badges

1. Waffles
2. Pod shoes
3. "90's Cut" (cropped fringe haircut like the singer out The Farm)
4. Joe Bloggs
5. Hats (of any description)

Proud to say I've flirted with them all. Including loads of "5" during a strange phase in the mid 90's.

GlasVegas wrote:

1. Waffles
2. Pod shoes
3. "90's Cut" (cropped fringe haircut like the singer out The Farm)
4. Joe Bloggs
5. Hats (of any description)

Proud to say I've flirted with them all. Including loads of "5" during a strange phase in the mid 90's.

None of the above, unless short back and sides is a fashion disaster. i don't recall Hooton having bad hair.

El Jarvo wrote:

Steve One wrote: 5. Cutting the Lee badge off the waist of the jeans and re-attaching it on the ankle.

Quite liked that. Used to do it with Farahs.

1. Legwarmers. Over jeans. On blokes!

2. Fila BJ shorts. Over jeans, again.

3. Burberry raincoats worn inside out to show off the lining!

4. Umbrellas. Everyone I knew always had to carry an umbrella as a fashion statement during the mid-80's. Not shitty little pop-out jobs but huge hefty golfing umbrellas. Always lost 'em!

5. Braces. Worn down instead of up. Came in around 1985 when anti-fashion fashion seemed the norm with everyone in paisley and patent shoes and crew neck M&S jumpers and diamante broaches. Big thing was to clip on a pair of braces, but wear them down hanging by your sides. Stupid, cos they fcuking got caught on everything!

Never seen the likes. Must've been a London thing.

One pink, One yellow iluminous socks,worn in conjuction with Wham t-shirts..were a bit near the nuckle.

Did it come any more disasterous than that?

Hank Wiseass© wrote:

GlasVegas wrote:

1. Waffles
2. Pod shoes
3. "90's Cut" (cropped fringe haircut like the singer out The Farm)
4. Joe Bloggs
5. Hats (of any description)

Proud to say I've flirted with them all. Including loads of "5" during a strange phase in the mid 90's.

None of the above, unless short back and sides is a fashion disaster. i don't recall Hooton having bad hair.

Wasn't a "bad" haircut. Just very much of it's time. Cut into the wood with a slightly longer fringe tight against the forehead.

Hank Wiseass© wrote:

El Jarvo wrote:

Steve One wrote: 5. Cutting the Lee badge off the waist of the jeans and re-attaching it on the ankle.

Quite liked that. Used to do it with Farahs.

1. Legwarmers. Over jeans. On blokes!

2. Fila BJ shorts. Over jeans, again.

3. Burberry raincoats worn inside out to show off the lining!

4. Umbrellas. Everyone I knew always had to carry an umbrella as a fashion statement during the mid-80's. Not shitty little pop-out jobs but huge hefty golfing umbrellas. Always lost 'em!

5. Braces. Worn down instead of up. Came in around 1985 when anti-fashion fashion seemed the norm with everyone in paisley and patent shoes and crew neck M&S jumpers and diamante broaches. Big thing was to clip on a pair of braces, but wear them down hanging by your sides. Stupid, cos they fcuking got caught on everything!

Never seen the likes. Must've been a London thing.

Not just a London thing..Heard of all those mishaps at various times..except the brollys. What the fuck?

1. Black socks with shorts
2. Socks with sandles
3. Flipped up collars
4. Leather shoes with shorts
5. Speedo anything...

Oh my god!!!

I am now remembering a very bad perm, ra ra skirt, shoulder pads a la dynasty (which I loved in the 80's) and crinkly boots that my nanna hated. Oh, and a pearly lip stick that she described as making me look like I had consumption!!! Fashion is wonderful!

Boatraceface wrote:

Hank Wiseass© wrote:

El Jarvo wrote:

Steve One wrote: 5. Cutting the Lee badge off the waist of the jeans and re-attaching it on the ankle.

Quite liked that. Used to do it with Farahs.

1. Legwarmers. Over jeans. On blokes!

2. Fila BJ shorts. Over jeans, again.

3. Burberry raincoats worn inside out to show off the lining!

4. Umbrellas. Everyone I knew always had to carry an umbrella as a fashion statement during the mid-80's. Not shitty little pop-out jobs but huge hefty golfing umbrellas. Always lost 'em!

5. Braces. Worn down instead of up. Came in around 1985 when anti-fashion fashion seemed the norm with everyone in paisley and patent shoes and crew neck M&S jumpers and diamante broaches. Big thing was to clip on a pair of braces, but wear them down hanging by your sides. Stupid, cos they fcuking got caught on everything!

Never seen the likes. Must've been a London thing.

Not just a London thing..Heard of all those mishaps at various times..except the brollys. What the fuck?

We did the umbrellas in the early ninetys fuck that shit.. I hate them

Too many to mention but I'm guilty of all of thesse

A 14" rat's tail A football perm A spiral perm A katie puckrick fringe

Ra-ra and puffball skirts Catsuits Pixie boots Pedal pushers Cycling shorts Illuminous clothing Leg warmers White stilleto's Platform shoes All manner of hats Pretend glasses

I also had a 'modette' phase - wish I'd kept my parka though

Sounds like quite a weekend, Jemma!

City til I Cry and Cry and Cry wrote:

We did the umbrellas in the early ninetys fuck that shit.. I hate them

Me too, I'd rather get wet than carry one round with me 'just in case'

BIGINOIL wrote: Sounds like quite a weekend, Jemma!

I did indeed. Yesterday was rubbish though but you have to stop sometime.

More costume changes than Widow Twankey.

It's behind yoooou!

I'll actually list ones I've seen in school... Unlike the whole "omg 80s sucked" thing..

1. starter jackets especially featuring the cowboys, hornets, or magic double especially if you didn't live in Dallas, Charlotte, or Orlando

They became a status symbol with people of a certain complexion and lighter complected people who wish they were of a certain complexion and people started getting robbed and shot for their damn jackets

ugly fuckers

2)Big bangs/Fringe

This was like early nineties and not just in the south as this picture suggests..just can't find a better pic. Also, these people tended to wear number one.

3. Hypercolor Shirts
   They changed colors when they were warm..

4. B.U.M. Equipment lol

5)Stirrup Pants with slouch socks over them (normally two pairs of socks with different colors) These are supposedly coming back...!#$!#%@@#$

I did 3-5 but I was like 10 so stfu

I would have done 2 but when I was like 8 I was so scared of my eye getting poked out when my mother cut my bangs that I've let them grow out and haven't had them since... But "American Girls don't have Fringe" is what I hear all the time.. so who cares.

Missy Jem wrote:

City til I Cry and Cry and Cry wrote:

We did the umbrellas in the early ninetys fuck that shit.. I hate them

Me too, I'd rather get wet than carry one round with me 'just in case'

yeah.. seriously.

White socks, luminous socks Charlie Nicholas haircut Skin tight jeans, pin stripe jeans Monkey boots,14 hole DM's, winklepickers, tucker boots Leather box jackets Slogan t-shirts

Tank Tops Patch Pocket trousers White Socks Anoraks Boob Tube

I spotted all the above at Shugs house recently

The deerstalker. Marks and Spencers crew neck sweaters. Ball jeans (very cool).

1. Urban gear. I swear, with all of that gold writing, fake platinum jewelery, and loud colors, you can't look at someone long enough without going blind.

2. The late '90s Philly look (for girls) - a loose perm with curled and/or feathered bangs, all of it coated in a bottle of hairspray.

3. That late '90s look with huge designer labels all over everything.

4. Burbury. Doesn't anyone know that tan, red, and brown don't match?

5. Starter jackets and Alan Iverson Jerseys.

I've noticed some young people in England wear jeans too low on their waists; looks like they've shat themselves :disgusted:

Then there are those awful boots from the 80's chicks wear again. I absolutely hate them, white ones in particular

NObabe wrote: I've noticed some young people in England wear jeans too low on their waists; looks like they've shat themselves :disgusted:

Is that when they wear them practically round their thighs? They look like right doyles

NObabe wrote: Then there are those awful boots from the 80's chicks wear again. I absolutely hate them, white ones in particular

We call them HOOKER BOOTS round these parts Maya. I kinda like them if done properly.

Or are you referring to them awful "UGG" boots or the even more awful "MOON" boots? If thats the case then I wholeheartedly agree. Dreadful.

Sir: :CHUNKS wrote:

NObabe wrote: Then there are those awful boots from the 80's chicks wear again. I absolutely hate them, white ones in particular

We call them HOOKER BOOTS round these parts Maya. I kinda like them if done properly.

Or are you referring to them awful "UGG" boots or the even more awful "MOON" boots? If thats the case then I wholeheartedly agree. Dreadful.

I cringe at the sight of said UGG/MOON boots. So help me Lord.

Among the other scary things I've seen--

--the mullet. ['All business at the top, all party at the bottom.' All around shite.]

--the urban gear. :cringe:

--leg warmers over jeans. What. The. Fook.

and, --hoochie shorts. I dealt with them well while I was going through middle and high school in Miami: I never wore the damn things. Thank. God.

ETA [edited to add] Oh, and the short-ass skirts too. The girls in middle school [class of '98] who were my friends wanted to make me over as to have me wear ponytails that caused me headaches, wear shirts with plunging necklines that would've dared to show any cleavage and actually get away with it with the administration, and the short skirts that were up to WHERE!?! Needless to say, the guys would try to hook up with those kind of girls.

Luckily, up here in small-town DeLand, I don't have that problem anymore. I can wear bondage pants *points to avatar pic of her from January* and no one has much to say other than 'Holy hell, nice pants!'

And, there are actually guys who are attracted to me for just being myself, which means I don't have to look like a fashion disaster of a hoochie-mama to get a man. :wink3:

Anybody who wear an item of clothing that says Old Navy or Gap... pay for a bland mediocre item of clothing and then advertise the store name for free! What a concept, millions follow like lemmings

Those really stupid baggy pants some white kids wear in the USA... really wide bellbottom legs with lots of pockets and buckles... these kids wear the same exact pair of pants EVERYDAY, so the pant legs are all dirty from dragging on the ground... do u know what i'm talking about, what are they called...? And why do these kids wear the same exact clothes everyday, I guess it is the only "cool" clothes that they could get their parent(s) to buy

The traditional white "jockey" brief.... neither very functional nor attractive, just goofy at best. Who designed this and why? And why white, so it will look worse with every wash???

Acid wash jeans.... the late 80s horror... I guess it was the Acid House era, I never really saw a connection thou... maybe half the kids wear into acid house/indie and the other half not and wore acid wash jeans...

The North Face logo, they make decent if often bland jackets but the logo is placed so obnoxiously

Oh, the strange girl. F*ck, what's her name again? wrote:

Sir: :CHUNKS wrote:

NObabe wrote: Then there are those awful boots from the 80's chicks wear again. I absolutely hate them, white ones in particular

We call them HOOKER BOOTS round these parts Maya. I kinda like them if done properly.

Or are you referring to them awful "UGG" boots or the even more awful "MOON" boots? If thats the case then I wholeheartedly agree. Dreadful.

I cringe at the sight of said UGG/MOON boots. So help me Lord.

Among the other scary things I've seen--

--the mullet. ['All business at the top, all party at the bottom.' All around shite.]

--the urban gear. :cringe:

--leg warmers over jeans. What. The. Fook.

and, --hoochie shorts. I dealt with them well while I was going through middle and high school in Miami: I never wore the damn things. Thank. God.

ETA [edited to add] Oh, and the short-ass skirts too. The girls in middle school [class of '98] who were my friends wanted to make me over as to have me wear ponytails that caused me headaches, wear shirts with plunging necklines that would've dared to show any cleavage and actually get away with it with the administration, and the short skirts that were up to WHERE!?! Needless to say, the guys would try to hook up with those kind of girls.

Luckily, up here in small-town DeLand, I don't have that problem anymore. I can wear bondage pants *points to avatar pic of her from January* and no one has much to say other than 'Holy hell, nice pants!'

And, there are actually guys who are attracted to me for just being myself, which means I don't have to look like a fashion disaster of a hoochie-mama to get a man. :wink3:

Well said!