Along with the Timberland excrescence, there are hightop gym shoes (Chuck Taylors I believe they’re called now)-with a spike heel on them!
WTH?
Too high of heels squik me out–why can’t women walk, instead of teeter?
I second those nasty sweatshirts with the kitties/insert baby animal here–why are they made at all? I thought older folks were supposed to have some dignity, not look like super-annuated pre-schoolers.
Anything too big or too small on any body type whatsoever. No-those size 8 slacks do not make you look thinner if you’re a size 14 (and vice versa).
Ties that are either tied too short by the man or just are too short–these guys look like Stan, the Mailroom Clerk.
Short sleeved dress shirts for men–especially when worn with a tie (that is usually tied too short). Ugh.
T shirts that advertise your politcal leanings, (or worse, diss your opponent), make statements about your sex life, personal habits or life philosophy. Cluephone: a slogan read once in a catalogue may indeed be amusing. To be worn as if you are a walking billboard is not.
Clothes that persist in telling you who designed/marketed and overpriced this item–Hilfiger is one, Abercrombie is another. Yes, we know you manufacture clothes and sell them for outrageous prices–why should I advertise for you? (GAP is also guilty). I don’t mind a small embroidery or a discrete tag, but the ones that shout it to the world–why?
Colors that don’t match–strangely enough, I notice this more on women. Most men I know are either in blue jeans or in suits, so perhaps they don’t have the scope that women do. I’ve noticed alot of reds clashing lately, as well as shades of blue.
Thongs that show because the jeans are too low rider. Nothing says “I’m trash” like underwear hanging out-I don’t care how lovely the body. It looks cheap.
But thongs leave a line too. It’s quite visible! I often have a chuckle when out in public seeing girls with thongs on. I’m not talking about those trashy ones who have them hanging out over the top either, just the line of the thong itself being visible under the clothes.
What I hate to see are guys wearing capri pants. I see this way too much! They often have gigantic pockets. Hey guys, capri pants look silly on you! Either wear shorts or long pants.
Whoever said “goatees are the new mullet” a few months ago was spot on! It’s not daring anymore, it just looks mullety now.
I have to agree with whoever above mentioned ponchos. They seem to be fading now though. I guess people started noticing how silly they looked on other people and realized it didn’t work for them either. Not to mention how restrictive they are if you need to move your arms.
I do like ugg boots though. But I have loved them since I lived in Australia several years ago, I didn’t just jump on the bandwagon last season. When I say ugg boots I mean the real ugg boots, not the knock offs. I also have a ridiculous fondness for my drizabone.
The aforementioned word-on-the-butt pants, especually if they say things like ‘sexy’. This goes for the tops that say ‘princess’ as well. If you have to tell people that you are sexy, you aren’t.
Loud shoes. If I’m standing at one end of a subway platform, and I can hear the click, clack, cleck of your shoes all the way down the stairs at the other end, even before you reach the platform, does that not indicate that maybe your shoes are announcing your position a little too efficiently? Way to let the muggers know you’re almost there, lady!
Spike heels in any sort of practical situation, such as, I don’t know… walking along the street, maybe? Every winter I see fools trying to get to their bus stops and parked cars by tottering along icy sidewalks next to busy roads. I fell three times last winter in my big ugly boots.
Pointy shoes. Just… ick. If they were sharpened and turned up, I might like them more, but at present they just look awkward and forced.
Logos. I look for logoless wear. I’m not often successful at this though. Today I rejected a jacket that I otherwise might have bought because it had a Tommy Hilfiger logo on the breast.
Hoodies with the hood up. What, are you ashamed to show your faces and heads? Take down your hoods when you come inside like the rest of us.
And as for pleated pants… what if you do have to hide a colostomy bag?
That one drives me batshit too. Especially if it’s a sort of scuff against the ground sound. Makes me want to grab them by the ear and order them to pick up their feet. (I got in so much trouble as a kid for scuffing my shoes on the ground, now I can’t stand it.)
Or you need to be solidly built, with very long waist and short legs, where regular pants are 6 inches too long. Like my kid (I scour stores looking for capris for her because Mama Zappa doesn’t sew and regular pants drag).
Aside from that, though, yeah, capris are a wrongness.
What makes me screek? Any guy’s pants designed so that they hang low enough to show off the underwear. I’ve even seen bathing suits designed to mimic that look . Women in spaghetti-strap tank tops with visible bra straps. If you need a bra under the tank, wear a colored one whose straps look decent, or wear a strapless one, or wear a different top!. I think the worst “extension” of that was a year or so back at a water park, when I saw a woman wearing a string-style halter bikini top (triangles of fabric with strings around torso and neck). Over a plain, white, standard-cut Playtex-Living-Bra-like thing. This was not a woman who should have been wearing such a suit top anyway, she was about 50 years older and 100 pounds heavier than the usual target demographic of such things. She’d have done better to just wear the bra. The image is seared in my memory :eek:
I have some Daisy Duck genes. Last thing I need is either
capri pants
pants where the waist is at the hip
pants where the crotch is misplaced
pants where the waist is as big as the hip
any other kind of pants that simply don’t fit
Same goes for pretty much everybody else. I can understand liking a bit tighter or a bit looser; the same pants don’t look the same when you just put them on straight off the dryer or after 12 hours, but gee…
On other people, you often see (specially in movies or on the red carpet) women whose tits have been sorely mistreated; if the woman herself was a normal weight, she might have tits, but because she’s so thin, the poor things look like they’re about 30 years older than their owner. So showing most of them through the usage of a low V and no bra is a nasty thing to do. About as sexy as… oh… as Renée Zellwegger singing about her boobs in Chicago, a movie where the poor things are missing in action!
. Women in spaghetti-strap tank tops with visible bra straps. If you need a bra under the tank, wear a colored one whose straps look decent, or wear a strapless one, or wear a different top!. I think the worst “extension” of that was a year or so back at a water park, when I saw a woman wearing a string-style halter bikini top (triangles of fabric with strings around torso and neck). Over a plain, white, standard-cut Playtex-Living-Bra-like thing. This was not a woman who should have been wearing such a suit top anyway, she was about 50 years older and 100 pounds heavier than the usual target demographic of such things. She’d have done better to just wear the bra. The image is seared in my memory :eek: