# Fashions you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460 "2001-08-22T01:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jellen92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@jellen92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellen92)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/81 "2001-08-24T21:07:56Z")
White pumps. End of discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/82 "2001-08-25T01:39:47Z")
I know this is going to get me in trouble, but… I’ll be **so** glad when goatees finally go out of style. As far as I’m concerned, there’s not many men who can get away with wearing one, and frankly unless you’re 6’8" tall, built like a brick shite-house and ride a Harley, you look ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/83 "2001-08-25T03:50:37Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by ThisYearsGirl \* \*\* > [@](#): > > I really, really hate anything that says, “Punk” on it. It blows my mind, it’s just so stupid. \*\* Oh, thankyou, thankyou, THANKYOU ThisYearsGirl! This new fashion ‘trend’ has been aggrivating me for ages. I can’t stand how mainstream, teeny shops are now making a profit out of a subculture. I see girls everywhere walking around in $50 plaid skirts, pre-cut and pinned shirts with “Punk” on the front…GUH! You people have NO idea how much this infuriates me. ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/84 "2001-08-25T06:19:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \* > \*\*Oh, **Doobious** , do you wear nail polish? Mmmmmm…guys in nail polish. Yums. Even better if there is some makeup on his face. \*\* Well, if top coat counts as nail polish i guess I do. I put the top coat on just because I can, and it makes my nails all smooth and shiny :). ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/85 "2001-08-25T11:25:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Setec \* > \*\*And then there are the guys who chain their wallets to their jeans pocket. You’ll never see this fashion choice from someone without a mullet. \*\* Actually, from what I undrstand, it’s a requirement in NYC. HATE: Paisley. ANYTHING. That’s a pattern that I only wore when I was five years old… and it was on my pajamas! AND Let me get this straight. I want to be perfectly clear on this. I can go out and buy a good-quality, 100% cotton t-shirt for around/about $10. Yet the ‘in’ thing to do is pay upwards of $30 for a t-shirt that has some designer’s (or company’s) logo emblazoned on the chest. hmm. [rant on] Last time I checked, companies PAID for advertising, not the other way around. I cannot see the point in spending $50 on a piece of clothing that boasts that I spent $50 on a piece of clothing whose purpose is to increase product knowledge and have others do the same. If the product belonged to a friend that required my help in spreading the word about his small startup company, however; sure, I can support that. But I think most can excuse me for not feeling the desire to help out a multi-billion-dollar empire named Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Calvin, or Tag Heuer. I’m not stating that they make bad products, perish the thought. But I’m not going to fork over three times the value of a product just so I can have the honour of advertising for them. Usually when I see products like this (and yes, I do know what you paid for that and I don’t care), I just think the wearer is an idiot who’s been suckered by people who are laughing their way to the bank. [rant off] ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/86 "2001-08-25T11:38:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darqangelle \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Setec \* > > \*\*And then there are the guys who chain their wallets to their jeans pocket. You’ll never see this fashion choice from someone without a mullet. \*\* > > Actually, from what I undrstand, it’s a requirement in NYC.\*\* Also common among long-haul truckers, and not uncommon among motorcycle riders. Though I don’t know that I’d call it “fashion” in those cases, more a matter of practicality. ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/87 "2001-08-25T11:39:22Z")
Let’s face it, folks: despite their vast popularity, those huge, oversized pants everyone’s been wearing for years are the very **height** of repellant ugliness! Some starving Mexican gang-bangers were forced by their mothers to wear their 450 pound older brother’s pants and everyone wants to copy the look? **Sheesh!** I’d rather see them wear that old, preppy sweater-tied-to-their-backs look (which is my second most hated fashion crime). ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/88 "2001-08-25T12:30:58Z")
All fashion. That is, anybody who wears anything only because it is “in fashion” inevitably looks silly in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/89 "2001-08-25T17:43:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Feynn \* > \*\*Socks with sandals… this is something we recently decided was a Canadian thing much like the toque, great beer, and decent cigarettes. > > \*\* I don’t know about Canada, but I live in Southern California and will sometimes wear socks with sandals, but only with jeans or other long pants. Isn’t the sock-n-sandal thing just applicable to short pants? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/90 "2001-09-18T17:18:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by missdavis102 \* > \*\*capri pants and 3/4 length sleeves - they just look \*\* Similarly with those narrow jeans that are so long that the bottoms have to be turned all the way back up to the knee. What’s up with that? My 19 yo stepdaughter looks like a time-traveller from the 1970’s, more every day. F’rinstance, she wears those yoke-back flared jeans that were popular in those days. Like many posters here, I hate the excessively baggy look on men, though fortunately as a man well past his salad days, I’m not being asked to participate in it. However, the baggy look does have one redeeming characteristic: bell bottoms for men can’t come back because the pants are already that wide from the top all the way down! ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/91 "2001-09-18T17:33:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sdarr2002 \* > \*\* i hate those damn “body suits” with the snaps in the crotch. they remind me of the onesies i used to put on my babies. in fact, i call them onesies. \*\* ☹ ☹ ☹ Uh-oh. I very much love it when women wear bodysuits and leotards. The long-sleeved variety. That’s one of my favorite looks ever. It was popular way back when I was in high school & college. Women wearing long-sleeved leotards everyplace as outerwear. Ever since then I’ve been waiting for the look to come back. You have doomed my hopes. Now I’m sorry I started this thread. ---
**Author:** ![jimmykent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@jimmykent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmykent)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/92 "2001-09-18T17:46:06Z")
Thought they were cool in the 70s so I had several pairs. Think they’re ridiculous now, so think I must have looked pretty ridiculous then (at least to old forty-somethings). Yeah, I had the hip-huggers with VERY wide bells and poly shirts, too. What a dork! ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/93 "2001-09-18T18:15:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Guys’ pants that show 2-3" of their underwear. If your pants look like I could pull them down with a good, swift pull, they’re too loose. Hint to guys: most women are not turned on by the site of your undies hangin’ out the back of your pants. \ Twenty-seven inches of underwear, what the hell is that about? The first rule of underwear is it goes INSIDE the pants, not HERE, not HERE, not HERE, INSIDE THE F_CKING PANTS! That’s why it’s called UNDER-f_cking-WEAR. \ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/94 "2001-09-18T18:34:44Z")
- Guys wearing after-ski boots. - Knit Polos w/ the collar turned up. - Mulletards. - Shoulderpads. - Baggy pants and the C.C. wedgie they expose. - Face & navel shrapnel. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/95 "2001-09-18T18:37:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _ **poohpah chalupa** said:_ > Maybe I’m just missing something, but why would anybody want to wear something advertising that they have “BUM Equipment?” Last week I saw someone on the subway wearing a sweatshirt that said, ‘BUM Sports’. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/96 "2001-09-18T18:58:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Corrvin \* > **White bra straps visible under your black tank top, if you are anything smaller than a 46DD (I do understand that reaaaaalllly big bra’s don’t come in any other color).** Actually, really big bras come in several colors, although not as many as more average-sized ones do. My girlfriend has frighteninly large breasts (way beyond the standard sizes like DD) and although she has a bitch of a time finding bras that fit, she _does_ have them in both white and black. She doesn’t buy from any sort of specialty outlet, either, just typical department stores like K-Mart. So, feel free to complain about white bra straps under black tank tops regardless of breast size. 🙂 Incidentally, I **love** the look of visible bras and panties. Call me a pervert if you will, but it certainly turns my crank. Heh… What I hate, though, is any 70’s-style crap, like bellbottoms or platform soles. Ugh! Nauseating. ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/97 "2001-09-18T19:02:28Z")
Are these supposed to be fashion things that we hate on anybody, or things we just don’t look good in ourselves? 3/4 sleeves look good on me, and I wear them. Why would you hate those, when there are so many other things to hate? Capri pants make me look like a tree stump, so I don’t wear them, but I don’t get all bent out of shape when someone else does. On the other hand… I will second, or third, the “slutwear for kids” idea. Who in hell is buying these things? An eight year old girl doesn’t need to look like she’s accepting an MTV award when she goes to school. Miss Manners herself said, “Displaying one’s bosom is in poor taste. Displaying one’s lack of bosom is merely poor judgement.” Anybody but me feel the urge to yell out, “NICE UNDERPANTS!!” at the teenage guys in the mall? Never have, but it’s sooooo tempting! And, the final rant…am I the only heavy woman shopping in Lane Bryant? Whose brilliant idea was it to stock the entire T-shirt area with skin-tight sausage casings, size 16-26, that say “Angel” and “Diva” in glitter writing?? This is your brilliant idea to “advance fat acceptance?” How about making us fat chicks look good, instead of providing plus-size prostitute uniforms? sheesh! (pant…pant…pant…) ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/98 "2001-09-18T19:07:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msmith537 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > > Of course, if you’re wolfman (see the “Does Clothing Count?” thread), you just walk to work in your torn, stained underwear, spitting on the sidewalk and telling people they’re elitist snobs if they object . . . \*\* > > Yeah, that guy sucks. If he came to my weding like that he’d get punched.\*\* Oh, come on, you two! Must we rekindle this holy war? I’m totally on Wolfman’s side on that one. If someone invited me to their wedding and insisted on me changing the way I dress, I just wouldn’t go. That’d pretty much take care of the issue for both parties. And if you’re going to punch me for wearing jeans and a T-shirt, regardless of the occasion, you’ve got serious “issues.” ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/99 "2001-09-18T19:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lucifer12 \* > \*\*It’s a Subgenius reference- ‘pinks’ is slang for normals, the everyday dupes who make up the vast conspiracy that runs this planet. ? -) > Check it out-you may be pink,but there’s hope! > \*\* Amen, brother! They may be pink, but their money is green! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460/100 "2001-09-18T19:22:19Z")
Hate is a pretty strong word but all those half shirts and ultra low cut bell bottom hip hugger combos annoy the hell out of me. One or the other is ok but not both at the same time please.[sub]die christina aguilara die[/sub] I think instead of focusing on one particular thing it’s more a matter of what is age/situation/body type appropriate. I hate equally to see 10 year old girls dressed like hookers and 40 year old women dressed like 13 year olds. Just because you can fit in it doesn’t mean you should wear it. I personally love toe rings and sandals. I wear a thin gold toe ring, a gold ankle bracelet and keep my toenails polished year round. I like it;it makes me feel pretty. If there is one thing I do hate and it’s poor hygiene. There is simply no excuse for filthy clothes,fuzzy teeth, ragged fingernails, and grungy feet. I’m not talking about the normal BO and “I’ve been working” dirt. I’m talking about the 3 days of funk that people will walk around with and not even seem to notice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fashions-you-hate/77460.md?page=6)