Bakers Dozen

Fad clothing/grooming styles that did come back

  1. Tightly tapered pants with men’s suits
  2. Giant shaggy beards
  3. Shorts with dark socks
  4. Mini-skirts
  5. Tattoos
  6. Cleopatra-style exaggerated eye makeup
  7. Flat Top haircuts
  8. 1890s-style curled mustaches
    How on earth do the hippest twentysomethings in the most fashion-forward urban centers in North America all of a sudden look like Snidely Whiplash?!

Fad clothing/grooming styles that did come back

  1. Tightly tapered pants with men’s suits
  2. Giant shaggy beards
  3. Shorts with dark socks
  4. Mini-skirts
  5. Tattoos
  6. Cleopatra-style exaggerated eye makeup
  7. Flat Top haircuts
  8. 1890s-style curled mustaches
  9. Porkpie hats

Fad clothing/grooming styles that did come back

  1. Tightly tapered pants with men’s suits
  2. Giant shaggy beards
  3. Shorts with dark socks
  4. Mini-skirts
  5. Tattoos
  6. Cleopatra-style exaggerated eye makeup
  7. Flat Top haircuts
  8. 1890s-style curled mustaches
  9. Porkpie hats
  10. Mood rings

Fad clothing/grooming styles that did come back

  1. Tightly tapered pants with men’s suits
  2. Giant shaggy beards
  3. Shorts with dark socks
  4. Mini-skirts
  5. Tattoos
  6. Cleopatra-style exaggerated eye makeup
  7. Flat Top haircuts
  8. 1890s-style curled mustaches
  9. Porkpie hats
  10. Mood rings
  11. The Peace Sign (I see it on more clothing now than in the 1960’s)

Fad clothing/grooming styles that did come back

  1. Tightly tapered pants with men’s suits
  2. Giant shaggy beards
  3. Shorts with dark socks
  4. Mini-skirts
  5. Tattoos
  6. Cleopatra-style exaggerated eye makeup
  7. Flat Top haircuts
  8. 1890s-style curled mustaches
  9. Porkpie hats
  10. Mood rings
  11. The Peace Sign (I see it on more clothing now than in the 1960’s)
  12. Converse All-Stars

Fad clothing/grooming styles that did come back

  1. Tightly tapered pants with men’s suits
  2. Giant shaggy beards
  3. Shorts with dark socks
  4. Mini-skirts
  5. Tattoos
  6. Cleopatra-style exaggerated eye makeup
  7. Flat Top haircuts
  8. 1890s-style curled mustaches
  9. Porkpie hats
  10. Mood rings
  11. The Peace Sign (I see it on more clothing now than in the 1960’s)
  12. Converse All-Stars
  13. Sideburns
    Beverly Hills 90210 sparked that weird sideburns revival in the 90s, remember that?
    Pass; I picked this one.

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Bell-bottomed pants

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Bell-bottomed pants
  3. Dark socks with shorts

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop
  7. Plain white tanktops, AKA “A-shirts,” AKA “wife beaters,” as outerwear

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop
  7. Plain white tanktops, AKA “A-shirts,” AKA “wife beaters,” as outerwear
  8. Neckties.

What’s your problem with neckties? They add elegance

eta and bow ties are cool

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop
  7. Plain white tanktops, AKA “A-shirts,” AKA “wife beaters,” as outerwear
  8. Neckties.
  9. Sagging pants.

(I don’t know what “in the droop” means–if it’s the same thing, replace my answer with “wearing your clothes backwards, like Kriss Kross.”)

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop
  7. Plain white tanktops, AKA “A-shirts,” AKA “wife beaters,” as outerwear
  8. Neckties.
  9. Sagging pants.
  10. Crocs

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop
  7. Plain white tanktops, AKA “A-shirts,” AKA “wife beaters,” as outerwear
  8. Neckties.
  9. Sagging pants.
  10. Crocs
  11. Socks with sandals
    Bad enough when they’re Birkenstocks or Tevas, but it’s 100x worse when the sandal in question has a toe loop, so that the wearer basically has a foot wedgie.

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop
  7. Plain white tanktops, AKA “A-shirts,” AKA “wife beaters,” as outerwear
  8. Neckties.
  9. Sagging pants.
  10. Crocs
  11. Socks with sandals
  12. Disposable paper party dresses

Clothing trends (current or former) that should never have existed in the first place

  1. Leisure suits
  2. Baggy Jeans
  3. Bell-bottomed pants
  4. Dark socks with shorts
  5. Eyeliner, spandex & hairspray in heavy metal
  6. In the droop
  7. Plain white tanktops, AKA “A-shirts,” AKA “wife beaters,” as outerwear
  8. Neckties.
  9. Sagging pants.
  10. Crocs
  11. Socks with sandals
  12. Disposable paper party dresses
  13. Culottes for men (i.e., skirt-length “shorts”)

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Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it.

  1. Speak French