# Favorite outfits revealed to be hideous
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-outfits-revealed-to-be-hideous/732100
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-outfits-revealed-to-be-hideous/732100 "2015-09-21T14:54:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-outfits-revealed-to-be-hideous/732100/21 "2015-09-22T18:31:24Z")
Back in the '90s there was a fad of wearing hospital pants (“scrubs”) and crop tops. A black sports bra and light blue hospital pants was my outfit of choice after the gym or on my days off. One day years later my then-roommate told me that the top, even though it was black, was pretty much see-through.
Oops.
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-outfits-revealed-to-be-hideous/732100/22 "2015-09-22T19:40:20Z")
Like most business casual office drones, my wardrobe is mainly khakis with a solid color polo-style short sleeve shirt.
After an unfortunate trip to Best Buy after work where I was mistaken for an employee, I decided to mix it up and got a couple of shirts with plaid patterns.
First time wearing one, I walk in the front door and the receptionist says “Hey, I have dish towels in that pattern”. Also my last time wearing one.
Now it is just easier to avoid Best Buy.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-outfits-revealed-to-be-hideous/732100/23 "2015-09-22T21:57:16Z")
> [@xizor](#):
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> After an unfortunate trip to Best Buy after work where I was mistaken for an employee
Same thing here, only it was a red polo in Target. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-outfits-revealed-to-be-hideous/732100/24 "2015-09-23T04:29:27Z")
Most of my work clothes (I work in a professional setting) are generally considered garish or hideous. The other day I wore my yellow bell bottom dress pants, brown platform shoes and my pink disco shirt. It was Friday, I didn’t have to wear a tie. I usually don’t go that far. Maybe a disco shirt with normal dress pants. The bell bottom dress pants with normal dress shirt.
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### Author:  [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-outfits-revealed-to-be-hideous/732100/25 "2015-09-24T02:38:22Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> I once received a dress as a gift from a friend of my grandma’s. I had to try it on for Grandma and her friend and they both just loved it and I said thank you.
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> Some time later, Grandma asked why I never wore it and I had to point out to her that the fabric exactly matched the pattern of [this shirt](http://blogs.mydevstaging.com/blogs/parents-perspective/files/2014/06/ernie-sesamestreet.jpg). :dubious:
Swoon.
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