While I was in Florida last week I watching a lady in one of those tshirts that look like your a skinny women wearing a bikini. I started pondering what fashion faux paus I’ve made throughout the years. After a fair bit of consideration I decided my worst adventure in fashion was back when I was 15. Skater shorts and long johns. You know for that mid October weather when its not too cold but not warm enough for shorts weather. Apparently to my rug rat skater friends and I the simple solution was wearing long johns under our shorts, instead of just putting on pants. Would I combine the two nowadays? No. Never.
What is your worst fashion faux pas? Come on share, we won’t make fun of you!
Mc Hammer type pants in black, like wearing a loaded diaper..eww…and probably wearing socks and high heels together…haha
My worst fashion faux pas to date would have to be the mesh/crochet over-shirt I wore in grade 5. Hard to describe and even harder to look at! Yikes!
Not sure what they were called but there was a few years in elementary school when it was popular for kids to be wearing those bright fluorescent colored pants with the whacky stripes and patterns on them. They were horrible.
Oh and it was around the late 80’s where they were in style in my neighborhood.
stirrup pants – hands down – sooooo bad!
i can safely say that the worst one i ever saw was people wearing overalls in the early 90’s with the overall part hanging down..why wear overalls then? lol…or the girls with the tight low pants with the thong sticking out…like gross…
The list could go on. Like Jeni, I say stirrup pants. I wore bright orange pants in grade 8 and all the kids hated them. I also wore those black lycra bike shorts with the flourescent stripe down the side. I had an outfit of a red sweater with green cords. Then there were those shirts with the ducktails (longer at the back than at the front). There were those acid wash jeans and crimped hair with the bubble gum shade lipstick.
Oh Oh, heirloom pants or leg warmers. So 80’s right
probably ripped jeans in January not just little tears but falling apart circa New Kids on the Block style.
The one that gets me now is the kids wearing hoodies without coats on(It was -40 to -45 with windchill here today we even have a warning and I saw a kid crawl out of her moms car dressed like that going to school.Who do you slap the kid for being dumb or the mom for reproducing.)
Mine was back when I was in elementary school! I turned myself into the most popular 7 year old by wearing a sweater over top of my pants oh and I loved to have a higHHHH ponytail.. 20 ponytails I would have my hair standing about a foot above my forehead!! Oh and if I still had time in the morning, I would wrap tin foil all over top of my ponytails so that I would have a foot of that on top of my head!! I cannot imagine how insane I would look if I was to do that now!!
camouflage miniskirt?
LOL at the 20 ponytails
lol
Think u all just gave out your age lol
bike shorts, stirrup pants, spandex, oversized t-shirts tied at the bottom
haha. love the comments. I remember wearing black spandex bike shorts with jean shorts on top.
I had a florescent yellow jacket in elementary school that my mom brought me back from Germany… which sounds ok at first but it actually had a back pack attached to it. You couldn’t take it off, it was there permanently.
Not only did I wear it to school every day I even packed a lunch in it and used it to transport my homework. WHAT was I thinking?!
how about hypercolour t-shirts. you know the ones that changed colour when were you got hot so your arm pits were always a different colour from the rest of you. or how about pinch rolling your pants or my favourite were my bright shiny electric blue spandex pants that I wore with oversized t shirts. 🙂
definitely the flourescent bike shorts with tie-dye, heat sensitive t-shirts was the worst I did!
Oh and those no fear shirts! Everyone had those.
I remember how excited I was to have a pair of the spandex bike shorts with the pink stripe.
@Ashley – you totally just made my day … lmao
Hypercolor was the worst, nothing like walking around with most of your shirt purple all except your breasts and armpits bright orange, that was nice looking. Tight rolled jeans with jelly shoes, matching your Club Monaco sweatshirt with your slouch socks, acid wash jeans…..the 80’s were a terrible time. Oh and the lady mullet…..yikes.
@Ashley
ahaha Id like to see a pic cuz it sounds pretty darn convenient xD
but judging from the earlier posts, sounds like the 80s are making a full comeback!! socks and heels are definitely back in (though still hard to pull off, very outfit dependent)! and so are acid wash and ultra ripped jeans : ) not to mention mesh/crochet overshirts!!
mine would be bell bottom jeans with flowers and rhinestone design at the “bell” part..
I can honestly say I think I avoided most of the fashion trends. My Mom used to make me wear those stirrup pants though, but I hated them!
MC HAMMER PANTS!! DEFINITELY!!! The baggy butt and low/no inseam with the tight leg at the bottom- what were we thinking??? I think they only looked “good” on him and Kid’n Play (Am I showing my age?? 🙂 )
Ducky shoes(those rubber boat type shoes) in 1987. I was 12 and wore them in the summer on hot days ….too cool!! Stirrup pants with high tops were also a big hit that summer. Man, the 80’s were just bad!!
There is a hilarious King of Queens episode where Doug loses weight and struts into the kitchen wearing his old acid wash jeans…..too funny!! I was never priviledged to own a pair of acid wash.
Painter pants with a tucked in mock baseball t-shirt. 2 people advised me never to wear them again. lol
In 1988 I wore baggy t-shirts (untucked with baggy pants) with black suspenders clipped onto the t-shirt, not my pants. I also remember cutting the hem of my jeans so they frayed & pinning the back of them with safety pins so they were tight at the bottom. Oh, and there was cutting the fabric off my Levi button fly jeans so you could see the buttons. And I can relate to the stirrup pants, tight rolled jeans, acid wash jeans (with matching jean jacket), & only wearing one side of my overalls while the other side hung down, but the best of course was the massively big teased permed hair!! Oh 80’s fashion….how I soooo don’t miss you!
It probably wasn’t a trend, but when I was about 6 years old, I reeeeally like poodles. So much so, that I made my mom perm my bangs so that I could look like one.. omg. She swears this never happened, but I totally remember! And I wore pink. Pink poodle.
In elementary school, it was cool to wear Modrobes. My favourite pairs were the yellow, the orange and navy. I wouldn’t be caught dead in them now, unless I wore them as scrubs or something!
I was a huge punk kid in highschool. I had my hair dyed magenta/black paired with dark make up and red lips, wore 12 inch mini skirts, ripped fishnets and platform mary janes/doc martins. I basically looked like a baby hooker. I was also a teacher assistant for 2 years. I don’t know how my parents put up with me, but they did! haha I still have photos.
Gee, I’m the old one of the posters….
Platform shoes (70s)- dark purple suede with lavender suede inserts on the toe.
The original Earth shoes (sure wish I still had them!)
Desert boots – they came back in style a while back, don’t know why!
Brown vinyl wrap around skirt (late 60s)
Gah – stirrup pants… I shouldn’t have!
I also wore thigh high stockings with rips..and had them stay put via a garter belt! You could see the garter straps under my skirt. Oi.
I actually wore a whole red denim outfit backwards to be like Kris Kross….The worst part is that I got it for my birthday and I was so excited to show everyone that I ran into a closed patio door, then everyone made fun of me for walking into it “backwards”, how embarassing!
Those few years when everyone wore pjamas everywhere, to work, to workout, to the store, to the bar, the list goes on and on.. I know some diehards carry on this fashion faux pas… it is just bad….!
oooooo the coloured denim YES! serious fashion disaster, think I had a pruple pair and a green pair. too nasty.
I’d have to say my worst was cutting the side hem of my jeans and replacing it with a new piece of the most hideous fabric I could find. Ever.
Oh and Ikeda lock-ups. You could give a friend the key to your pants and hope they gave it back!
Where to begin????
batwing sweaters
neon anything
huge, lace bows in your hair
corduroy knickers
ducktail shirts in the strangest prints (think Saved By The Bell)
wearing your v-neck sweaters backwards
wearing 2 different coloured shoes/socks (à la Miami Vice)
ratty, cut off jeans with tights and Doc Martens
leg warmers over jeans
jeans legs safety pinned up the side of the leg to make them tighter
the side ponytail
really, really teased and frosted hair
kilts…and you didn’t even go to Catholic school
huge shoulder pads
brightly coloured windbreakers…that fold into their own pouch and become fanny packs
ruffled skirts
oh, the list goes on and on and on….
I almost forgot those pants with the lock instead of the button I remember everyone running around looking for key to go to the bathroom
@ theresa … saw a lady in Burlington, ON this morning wearing them to do her shopping. She raised a few eyebrows because she had to be in her 60s, and had her hair and makeup all done up! lol
heres one shoer hair neon purple biker jacket dog collar and the worst tight jeans in history if i wore that now my son would think i went looney or my dh would file for divorce another one is stirrup pants my ma made me wear those horrid thing
Thinking that cut off shorts were cool…except my mother would embroider the bottoms. I recall having leopard-print bottomed jean-shorts.
And probably among the worst would probably be the floral patterned white turtle necks…except paired with colourful corduroys.
My worst fashion faux paus has to be when I was in grade school and growing you in the 80’s. Firstly when you are a little kid you do not pick your clothes your parents buy them for you. So I have to say thanks mom for the disaster fashion designs you put me through.
– wearing a dickie with a t-shirt
– skirts with built in pants aka built in tights
– leg warmers (neon)
– having your mom cut your hair and you look like a boy
– mom making you clothes growing up and you have no choice but to where what she made..now she is a great at it but the colour and patterns were not my cup of tea
I actually loved the 80’s and I don’t regret wearing anything from my past. Present day, I would have to say original Crocs. First saw them in Florida where everybody and their grandparents were wearing them. My mistake was pre-ordering a silver pair, thinking silver would make them look classy. They are now used only at the pool when I take my kids to their swim classes.
-The rolling of the socks down to the ankles…I loved to do that!
-I went through a phase when I begged my parents to get me a men’s dress shirt so I could roll up the sleeves and tie it at the waist….they never agreed to it!
-Stirrups, I cut the ends off and then wore them.
-Jumpers, sleeveless dress with a dress shirt under
-Lace-up Platforms…clunk, clunk
-Lace-up jeans on the sides that went ALL the way up and lace-up in replace of the zipper!
-the battery operated belts that would have a name or something, they’d be like a flashy sign, constantly moving.
Oh Janetta with the permed bangs… my mom used to cut my bangs with pinking shears (like, sawtooth/zig-zag scissors) to give them that feathered-textured look. I’m pretty sure if I held them flat to my forehead, you could see the zig-zag!
I think the worst thing I ever did was when I was about 13 was explore my own sense of fashion (yikes!). I begged my mom for old-lady blouses (like, satin, pearly buttons, giant floral patterns, must be 90 years+ to wear) from a consignment shop and tried to rock those. Trust me, no one else was.
So yeah… ‘feathered bangs’ and old-lady blouses are not a win.
ok not sure if anyone said this one but back in highschool which was 82 to 86 there was the unfortunate fashion trend where we were made to believe that wearing shirts with the arms cut off and the actual shirt cut off above the belly was not just cool but quite manly…..Nasty!
Ok in Elementary school it was : No Fear shirts, matching Adidas track suits, purple suede shoes, side ponytails (WITH SCRUNCHIES!), and slouchy socks.
For the first day of Middle school I wore track pants with high heels and I thought I was pretty cool (I also cut my own bangs the night before….not good!). Also wore those mini t-shirts with stupid sayings on on them with DARK lipstick.
High school was not too bad maybe just wearing pajamas to school!
Where did ya get that picture at did ya find that online in the Katimavik articles…? Oh my saying that everyone will look up Katimavik pictures of youths dressing up in ugly sweaters or wild mascot costumes doing silly stunts that people put on youtube…or youths covered in flour walking around town to see what sort of reaction they would get…
nah not what I wore then but what people wear today…thats quite terribly frightening..
Spandex on anyone is just cruel…
Please if you are going to wear PJs out of the house make sure your hair is combed..and that you just didn’t just look like you woke up from your coffin to look like dracula minus the fangs & cape.
Socks and Sandals sure its suppose to stop from getting blisters but thats what proper fitting footwear can help ensure ya don’t get.
Fanny Pack went out of style in the early 90s i suppose thats the time when someone came up with the idea of a murse…
if its raining outside wear a coat or bring an umberella not just think you will not get wet if you just wear a hoodie outside…
saved the best for last those boys who still wear their pants near their knees…we can see your underwear the point is not to see your underwear…most don’t get the picture until they are “pants” one too many times.
I’d say it would have to be in grade three. I was obsessed with florescent clothes. The class actually had a vote to ban me from wearing them. What was I thinking!!!!
Rompers for adults! Does anyone remember those? Imagine a long sleeved floral dress, but instead of a skirt they had attached balloon pants! Sooo bad!
Remember those midriff baring tops! Oh weren’t they lovely! And to top it off I got a flower tatoo over my bellybutton.
The other thing I remember was stirrup pants in the early 80s sometimes the stirrups would pop out of your shoes and hang at the back.
And hurache sandals were so ugly too.
Those skirts with leggings attached were called “skeggings”. And everyone had scrunchies and HUGE bangs that were teased and hairsprayed so they wouldn’t move. My favourite though was the era where everyone wore the “tracksuits” Nothing nicer than a baby blue sweatshirt with your matching baby blue baggy sweatpant. And if you really wanted to dress it up you could wear your turtleneck with the lovely baby blue flowers embroidered around the neck.
Oh wait! I saw someone in Walmart dressed like that yesterday!
Holy Flashback!! Thanks for the laughs!
Wasn’t the whole 80’s a fashion faux pas??!!
How about the ‘wet look’, from the late 60’s and early 70’s. And then the ‘wet look with faux croc styling’. The coats with a thousand button snaps down the front, in suede or leather, many colors. And anything made with macrame`, and those vests that were ripped into fringes, and the fringed ‘Davy Crockett’ style coats. It was all super cool to me then but the 80’s sucked all the cool out and replaced it with overdone perms, ‘flashdance’ off the shoulder ripped necklines and too tight tights 🙂
Thanks for the memories! LOL I too wore the flashdance tops and stirup pants. Thank goodness that’s over.
i remember in grade school (about 13 years ago) we all had to have those track pants that had buttons all the way up its sides so you could snap them open at anytime – not just until your knees but allllllll the way up sides. Do you get what i mean?
MOON BOOTS!!! UGG they still haunt me!! My mom bought me a pair (they were on sale!!) and then refused to buy me a regular pair of boots!!! Guess that is where I get my frugal ways.
to Tracy, comment #29.
Ha ha. I was reading all of these, and was going to post the same thing about the jeans with the safety pins down the side, to create the tapered look. I didn’t do that, but I remember people who did.
This blog is great. What a blast from the past.
My worst was in highschool when we all went through a phase where it was “cool” to wear pj pants to schoool….it then turned into who had the most hideous pants. I remember one outfit where I wore bright yellow pj pants that had a small amount of plaid on the ankles and waist…the worst part I chose to pair it with a men’s casual shirt that I borrowed from my dad. He bought it in Vegas in 1972…it was the year 2000….what was I thinking!!!
Slouch socks
stirrup pants
corduroy anything
shiney multi colored windbreakers that fold into bags
mullet hair
spice girl shoes
let me interject…
what about ‘jean’ skirts, acid wash denim jacket (not the cool jean jacket type either)…knee high striped socks (sport type) with champion running shoes
addidas shorts – my dad still has a couple of pairs he wears religiously
ah, the good ol’ days!
enjoy my friends & stay safe!
I was part of the grunge age, I remember I had a crochet vest with little flowers on it, and I would wear that and a velvet hat. Then I wore the huge baggy pants with tiny tees on top. In highschool I did the goth thing. I wore ripped black fishnet stocking, skirts with mesh on top all ripped up, black make-up, etc. I did that until I was about 20, lol.
Fanny Pack Across one shoulder, sitting diagonally…
Worn, everyday… to school…. hot days with shorts….
regular days with a school uniform of dress pants and dress shirt…
this was at least 10 years ago!
Did that proudly for years!… What was I thinking!?!?!
@ sandra..personally i think moon boots are back..they are UGGS…who’s idea was it that these look good? they don’t look good in any situation..maybe…..maybe if you are living in sweden shoveling snow…but girls in california wearing them with miniskirts?
i am gonna laugh about this one when down the road people are regretting these uggly boots…ha ha
ONG. I have worn many of the things posted here. Funny–many of the posts are about 80’s clothes. lol. Stirrup pants- guilty. Acid wash jean jacket with matching high waisted and tight skinny jeans– guilty.
In the early eighties, I was one of the first “cool” kids to wear knickers to school.
Worst fashion nightmare was what I did to my hair with a curling iron, a teasing comb and mega bottles of hairspray. LOL. I looked like one of the guys from the heavy metal hair bands on a daily basis.
Wonder what we’ll say was the most hideous thing were wore 20 years from now….????
I’m laughing so hard at these posts! Does anyone else remember those gym shorts (I think Adidas with stripes down the sides) with absolutely no legs, so they looked like terry towel underwear?! We had to wear them in my high school gym class with a tucked in school tshirt. Those shorts were so awful, and no matter how skinny you were, they made your thighs look thunderous!! All the girls had to wear them, but the boys had normal shorts, so unfair!
I own Uggs lol. A few pairs, so comfy.
okay what about crocs…the generation of people wearing nothing but crocs, firstly meant for the garden soon turned into a trend that everyone was wearing them.
Yes those pants with snap buttons down the side most famously called “tear-away” pants. I remember being in high school when those were cool going out on the court they were so comfortable that until I ripped them off did i notice I was not wearing my basketball short but my underwear…talk about embarrassing. I ran all the way home to get my shorts and all the way back just in time to warm the bench. On a side note everyone on the team during that game either fouled out or transported to the hospital via ambulance I was the only one left on the bench that hadn’t played a minute got to lead my team to 96 to 36 score in the 4th quarter.
How about wearing of the jersey everywhere…didn’t matter which team you were with or which team ya watched on tv the phase of always being in jersey everywhere you were…
Wearing sweat pants with your high school mascot on the bum or abbrevation…fancy I think people still do this..
slouch socks…
Personally? I had a pair of acid wash-print pants that were loose and I put safety pins along the side seam…all the way up to my knees!
As for others, they’re countless. Let’s start with Canada Goose jackets! Waaay too many people are sportin’ them!
Canada Goose winter coats
i have to add…does anyone remember those soother necklaces? omg…early 90’s….and i remember baby backpacks on girls…i am guilty of that one.baby backpacks,mary janes and knee highs with a tartan skirt…
there was one year,i think it was my grade 6,that all the girls wore these cardigans made of macrame with a turtleneck underneath and then they would wear these huge leg trousers…palazzo pants i think they were called..i begged my mom to get me one of those cardigans.kinda glad she didnt..
Anyone remember the black rubber bracelets that would go right up your arm? This was the first generation of today’s Crazy bandz!
And who could forget the Michael Jackson jacket with the zippers? And those Duran Duran buttons!
What about those pink and blue fake fur jackets! I was guilty of parading around in mine!
OK – let’s start with the black rubber bands going up our arms…they were the first generation of today’s Crazy Bandz!
Who could forget the Michael Jackson red jacket with the zippers! And those Duran Duran buttons pinned anywhere we could!
What about those pink or blue fake sheep fur coats! I was guilty of proudly parading mine! What was I thinking???
The list could go on but my shame is sinking in….
My worst in high school was a pair of stone washed Levi’s that I had sewn patches to…..Uh, hand print patches on the butt of the pants..and was shocked when they got used…DUH!
I remember stirrup pants, the Miami Vice phase, Cindy Lauper and Madonna ’80’s looks, fluourescent anything, Hammer pants, Polo shirts, boat shoes, grunge, goth…Billy Ray Cyrus hair?!?!? …
Thanks for the laughs…exactly what I needed this morning!!!
yeah, has to be the stirrup pants. today’s equivalent will be jeggings but they are so comfortable. If you happened to catch conan obrien in jeggings, too funny.