Oh, Doobious, do you wear nail polish? Mmmmmm…guys in nail polish. Yums. Even better if there is some makeup on his face. Double Yums. And guys in shirts like this. No, I am just kidding about that piccy, but I am not about this one. Smerpy, licky. Okay…I will leave you. I know that you are trying to run away as soon as possible. 
(I must be on something…)
Fashions come and fashions go (and, as Stephen King once said, sometimes they come back). I don’t often notice one that I actually hate.
But there is one revival from the 70s where I thought, “I can’t believe those are back in style.” Platform soles. Oh, yes, women look sooo much more confident and sexy when they’re tottering around on two club feet. Yeah, right.
Socks with sandals… this is something we recently decided was a Canadian thing much like the toque, great beer, and decent cigarettes.
I must be ready for retirement because I often wear work socks with my sandals, especially on those chilly Alberta mornings. I lose the socks once it warms up.
I rarely notice what other people are wearing but it’s shoes that truly make the man, or woman. What’s up with these oversized, horribly coloured shoes that seem to be all the rage? They are hideous.
Since I’m the kind of guy who is most comfortable wearing jeans, a white t-shirt and my sandals perhaps I shouldn’t comment.
I live in a very yuppified area, so a lot of the teens have huge clothing budgets at their disposal. And yet still I see girls in platform sneakers, with those jeans that are skin-tight to the knees and then flare out into elephant bells. Didn’t that style come and go three years ago? Or did it… come back? :eek: [sub]please god noooooo[/sub]
The styles I could really say I “hate”, however, are age inappropriate styles for kids. Okay, so I’m a fuddy duddy, but I don’t think second grade boys should be walking around with their pants hanging off their butts (so all the world can see their dinosaur underpants?), and I definitely don’t think girls who are just beginning to get breast buds should look like escapees from Moulin Rouge.
Underwear showing. Ugh.
Wearing bra straps outside your clothing?
Lose 100 points.
If an exposed strap is twisted, lose another 50 points.
exposed undergarments
capri pants and 3/4 length sleeves - they just look ill-fitted
those little plastic string chokers and bracelets
glitter makeup
skirts with slits on both sides
age-inappropriate anything (on youths and old folks)
new style basketball shoes
any clothing advertising a product, brand line, or company
tan pantyhose
two fashion oddities seperated by the years, but united by annoying music: The shirtless sleeve worn by a memeber of Color Me Baddd(# of D’s in “Bad”?) to some award show or other in the early 90’s, and the appearance in a current video by Jennifer Lopez (I think…some hip-hoppy/dance-y chick, anyhow) of handless gloves…eesh!
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Hoop earrings big enough for a circus animal to jump through (or any fashion crap that can be traced back to Jennifer Lopez, such ask real Mink Eyelash extensions - grrrr).
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Capri pants (especially on men).
Brightly colored, “tie-dyed” pattern pantyhose. They make you look like a burn victim, or the recipient of an unsuccessful leg transplant.
Sneakers when worn with skirts. Getcherself some goddam flats, fer chrissakes.
Those 6 inch curved fake fingernails some women wear. Not only do they look stupid, but the have to make life more difficult.
I think flared jeans look good on women.
hose with open toe shoes.
There really isn’t much in terms of fashion that I hate. I can’t stand it when women don’t coordinate their bags with their shoes with their stuff. I don’t mean, like, buy a new pair of shoes with everything you own. I simply mean that black pants should denote black shoes, not navy, not brown.
I love it that the 70’s style sunglasses are back in style.
- Berets
- FUBU
- Tight clothing on fat women
- Most things advertised on Gap or Old Navy (just 'cause all the friggin kids run around wearing that crap and then look at you odd when you don’t wear it)
- When guys roll up one of their pant legs; that is just the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
Cornrows or a billion braids on women.
Any clothing denoting by word or implication that your 12 year old body wants to have sex. Pants with legs bigger than a whole-family yurt. 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).
As for sneakers and skirts, I have a pretty high tolerance for them. A lot more people than you might think are unable to wear dress shoes for health reasons, and one of my co-workers has worn either sweats or a long skirt over her knee brace as long as I’ve known her, with sneakers. Whenever I see someone in a fancy outfit with highly inappropriate sneakers, I just assume they have a medical reason for wearing them.
Corr
In a similiar vein, I really, really hate anything that says, “Punk” on it. It blows my mind, it’s just so stupid. I once saw a really hardcore real live gutter punk wearing a stud “punk” bracelet probably bought at Hot Topic, and I thought that was really funny and cool. But anyone else–it’s too stupid for words.
The facial expression that seems to be so prevalant among young women for the last few years or so. It seems to start around puberty, and it hangs on until…oh, maybe 17 or 18…but I have seen it on women as old as their early 20’s.
If you think about it you’ll know the expression I mean. Chin slightly elevated, lips slightly pursed, eyelids slightly closed and a tiny little frown. It’s not at all attractive or redeeming in any way shape or form. At least I don’t think so.
It’s a “diva” look. Maybe those “diva” t-shirts come with a little instruction book of facial expressions to practice in the mirror before you make your diva debut.
It might be a regional thing. Around here it seems like there are two facial expressions favored among young women, the “diva” and the “permanent petulant pout”. People watching at the mall gives you one or the other, and the two groups never mingle. Ever.
Capri pants. I was gonna say that they’re alright on the 13-and-under crowd, but that’s a durn slippery slope.
I don’t know why I hate them, but I do. Maybe it’s 'cos I’m a curvygirl, and they only look good on stickgirls. Maybe someone in capri pants beat me up in kindergarten or flipped me off last week. Maybe there’s no excuse for this vile hatred, yet it exists.
I have no bad vibes about the cutesy t-shirts (nor the “punk” ones; really, they serve as identifiers for clueless people, no?), any kind of piercings or hairdos or shoes. I don’t deny anyone their right to spandex or blue eyeshadow. Just the capri pants. Make them go away. Please.
Those horrible clunky thick heels! For a time between about 1991 and 1998 or so every damn woman’s shoe manufactured in the UK had those vile, horrible, UGLY heels that I would not wear on pain of having red hot knitting needles in my eyes. UGH!!
How could anybody have found them attractive? Even for a fleeting second? I spent the entire decade in trainers. I mean I have unusually wide feet for a woman which makes finding shoes a complete pain in the posterior as it is…Gawd almighty.