Oh well, whatever. To each his own, I guess.
Originally posted by Finagle
No no no. You got it all wrong. Knees are the ugliest part. Have you ever checked your knees? Strange things, huh. 
I agree with Guinastasia The pale lipstick and the darker liner. Lip liner shouldn’t been seen. Oh, and blue eyeshadow. Blehh.
I still maintain that a BERET is the silliest thing ever invented. Look at them. :eek: And what, pray, is the use of the thing?
Yer all wrong. The single worst fashion item ever invented is the white panty-ho/tight.
They look hideous on everyone - it doesn’t matter if you’re 6’2" and weight 97 lbs - white tights will make your legs look like tree stumps. I cringe openly when I see someone wearing them.
A close second is white shoes - can you say “canoe” people, 'cus that’s what your feet look like in them. The only exception to this rule is athletic shoes - the foot still looks like a canoe, but the practicality of the item outweighs the nasty appearance. Unless of course they’re worn with tights and a business suit - that just looks lame. Guess what - you can get a perfectly nice low heeled shoe with padding that’s just a comfortable to walk in as a runner and not look like a dork.
But this thread is giving me so many great ideas. I could have worn them over my bike shorts (which are white), with the fluorescent green knee socks and my Tevos!
Damn. Now I’m sorry I got rid of them!
I love my jeans, but I hate the fact that often I have exactly 2 choices when it comes to them. I can have it cut so low that my undewear would show while I’m standing straight and my stomach falls over the front (I’m not so oblivious to realize that I can wear these, especially not after having Caterpie) or I can have it so it is at the base of my ribcage.
Freaking people I don’t want my tummy falling out but I’m not pulling my pants up that far!
Thankfully I have found the perfect style now, they come to just below my belly button. They hold in what needs to be held in and don’t make me look like I’m trying to keep a blob of fat tucked away.
If I was ever forecd to wear really low cut jeans (I’d wear high cut before I’d ever do that though) I’d be wearing shirts that go well over my ass.
Fashion thing that drives me nuts:
Wearing clothes that when you sit down or lean over you have this whole strip of your back showing (not necessarily plumbers crack, but that can come as a part of that outfit). It’s not so much on others that it bugs me, it’s the fact that it can get pretty darn cold and I do not like getting a chill down my spine. That and I still have my Grandma’s voice in my head telling me you’ll get a chill in your kidneys and really sick because of it.
Skirts that are snug to your waist and thighs that show EVERY roll and bit of cellulite. I went skirt shopping recently and I need something that doesn’t hug my hips, it just doesn’t work with the thighs. After finally having enough and leaving I then saw this one girl who was wearing this shirt that clung to every part of her torso and then the skirt continued the same.
Athletic shoes in all white or all black look ugly. I have a pretty decent pair of shoes right now that are navy blue and white that look pretty good. I never understood why people bought ones that were just black or white, unless it would be for work.
And if you’re like me with strange feet it’s easier to find a pair of running shoes that fit comfortably than it is to find a good pair of low heeled dress shoes without dropping a ton of money on them. I am NOT looking forward to when I get my diploma and have to start dressing in business outfits. Most everything I’ve seen when I’ve gone looking is made out of uncomfortable man-made cloths that scratch and are hot as hades in the summer and so ridiculously cold in winter. I wonder why people buy them and stores still make them! They can’t be comfortable! And no matter what that is my main concern when shopping for clothes.
Clothes have to be comfortable, reasonably cool in summer, warm in winter, look reasonably nice on me (I don’t care about current fashion because mostly it doesn’t work for me) and are not going to drive me nuts 10 minutes into wearing it.
Those Jamaican hats. You know, the ones with the black, red and green? Occasionally with fake dreads attached? shudder
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b. Calves, particularly when viewed in isolation, are the dorkiest part of the human anatomy. There might, somewhere on the planet, be one or two women who can get away with pants that just reveal the calf (although generally it looks pretty retarded). There are no guys who can do so. Guys have fat, hairy calves and you don’t really want to draw attention to them.
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Wow…I guess we will agree to disagree because I think knees usually look “dorky” most peoples are to knobby, flabby, scarred, dirty, etc and if your a guy and you have hairy calves then just shave em’.
I hate long shorts on men. I call them “man capris” and giggle inwardly when I see them. Take a look in the mirror, guys. Baggy capris are not a good look.
** Spectre**, I’ve often wondered if it’s not just shame, but body anxiety.
There’s been a lot of attention to this problem in adolescent girls. But I think boys increasingly have to deal with it too. Not every kid is built like a pro wrestler.
I think wearing baggy clothes (and ridiculously long shorts) might be one way boys deal with this anxiety: it can hide an imperfect body, and can make a thin body look bulkier.
Just my $0.02.
My calves are skinny and hairy, which I don’t think looks any better. Your argument holds. When I wear my workout shorts, which are about knee length, my bare calves look like a couple of matchsticks under the billowy shorts. Years of excercise have not helped that part of my anatomy; my lower arms and legs are skinny and that’s that.
I think you raise a good point. I think body anxiety has always been there, especially in early adolescence, but until recently one tended to outgrow that as they got older. In early adolescence my brother and I were taking tennis lessons, and in no way, shape, or form did we want to wear the shorts required by the game. This was in 1971, approximately. But a few years later I had no problem wearing the required shorts in high school gym–and let me tell you, those were some short shorts. This was 1974, and the standard boys’ gym class shorts had about two inches of leg if that. It was just something that everyone did, so nobody gave it a thought, since the clothes were being worn in a specific context where their shortness had the practical value of providing greater freedom of movement and comfort.
On the other hand, it’s generally agreed that NBA stars of the early 1990s led this baggy short trend, and they certainly had nothing to be anxious about. Several years ago I saw a clip of some of the Lakers in one of their victory parades, standing up in a convertible car; those great big shorts together with their jerseys looked like they were wearing yellow sundresses! 
Driving down a road near my house, I was once shocked to see what I thought was a group of monks crossing the road some distance up ahead… until I got closer and realized they weren’t monks, but a group of kids on their way to a basketball court wearing dark-colored hooded jerseys and shorts down to here.
Are you serious? Those guys have bony chicken legs. They have everything to be anxious about, except baggy shorts just conflates that issue.
I’ve kind of become the Margaret Mead of the Metro - I ride it every day here in DC, and I have ample opportunity to observe.
I’ve noticed a new trend among the young women here, maybe you’ve seen this - a skirt which looks like the inspiration was a cheerleader or tennis skirt, short, with pleats. But these poor gals have been suckered into wearing them low, so the waistband falls at the widest part of their hips. So voila! You’ve instantly got two waistlines! Ghastly, even the thinnest girls look deformed.
I saw one poor thing wearing one of these - she was on the Metro escalator in front of me, and I had no choice but to gaze at her rump for 90 seconds. It was sheer fabric and her thong panties were clearly visibly. It made her look like her ass crack was more of a chasm. Truly unfortunate.
Oh, and in 1984, my favorite jeans were skintight, with little zippers at the ankles. Speaking of unfortunate.
IMO, the problem with capri pants is that when you sit down you crimp the pants into the bend of your knee. Then when you stand up and walk around you have wrinkly little shark fins jutting out from the back of your legs.
Also, I don’t remember what to call them, but those leotard-resembling things with the horridly uncomfortable snaps in the crotch. Is it that freakin hard to keep a tank top tucked in?
I also wish to vote against saggy pants and long shorts. Thank you.
Wrong. My boyfriend has gorgeous calves; they’re one of my very favorite parts of his body to look at. He has Very Nice Legs and I like to see them highlighted by his shorts that hit him at the knee.
Rowr.
Seems we are focusing on clothing here, but what about hair?
The alternately-died hair craze deserved no more than two weeks. I’m not talking about highlights here, but the alternating black/blonde dye job.
I was in Salt Lake City last week and it looks like there was an edict issued from the LDS church. About 75% of the young women there are blonde, and 75% of them sported this “look”. Looking at a crowd, it looks like the Daniel Boone raccoon caps have come back in, except they ran out of raccoons and started using skunks.
For length of men’s shorts, I am of the opinion that if the shorts go below the knee it looks incredibly stupid and immature. Sort of “gang-like”, but not.
For current fashion disasters, I have to agree with Indygrrl’s nomination of: “Biggest fashion mistake—Velour track suits”. Especially pink ones with a white stripe down the legs. They always look like they need to be washed.
For historical fashion disasters, you folks who lived through the 80s and early 90s have nothing to complain about. I graduated high school in 1971 so I lived through the 1970s disco era. :eek:
I wore these hideous polyester shirts unbuttoned to the waist with a gold medallion; a lot of balloon sleeves; platform shoes; often with a white belt. If I wore a jacket it had this awful contrasting stitching (my 84 year old father still has one that he wears. :rolleyes: )
AND, :gasp: I owned a leisure suit!!!
IMHO THE biggest and perhapse only real Fashion Mistake is looking boring.
hehe at the skunks
I forgot: Now in fashion [and I’m waiting eagerly for it to dissapear - I need new shoes]: Those pointy shoes with those silly, tiny, pointy heels.
I mean; wear high heels, or don’t. These heels look like you have thumb-tacks under your feet.