# Outdated Trends you MISS **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837 "2000-09-12T00:43:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/1 "2000-09-12T00:43:36Z")
The How to tell when a Trend is gone thread inspired this. (Hope it’s in the right place!) What are trends that are done and gone that you wish were still around? Poet shirts. I had the prettiest one-black, with pink roses…I looked sooo good in it. _sigh_ Over the knee socks. (I’m saving mine!) Mini-kilts. I like plaid and I liked how these looked with a black turtleneck. BTW, it doesn’t have to be clothes, either. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/2 "2000-09-12T01:01:56Z")
Free love and random sexual encounters. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/3 "2000-09-12T01:53:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \* > \*\*Free love and random sexual encounters. > \*\* I’ll second that. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/4 "2000-09-12T02:17:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\* > > Over the knee socks. (I’m saving mine!) > > Mini-kilts. I like plaid and I liked how these looked with a black turtleneck. > \*\* Here in New York, you can’t walk two steps without seeing at least 3 girls wearing this exactly. I call it the Porno Catholic School look. O.K., so I’m an old fogey, so sue me! ---
**Author:** ![Zion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5e925/32.png) [@Zion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zion)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/5 "2000-09-12T02:25:38Z")
Flannel. Sure, it’s still popular for some occasions, but it was at it’s height in the mid-90’s, thanks to Grunge. If it was still “cool” to wear flannel, I’d wear nothing but. It’s the best stuff on earth. (And if I actually lived in a climate that was suited for long sleeved shirts.) ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/6 "2000-09-12T02:35:47Z")
Skinny neckties Fedoras ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/7 "2000-09-12T02:43:19Z")
Random sexual encounters while wearing flannel and a fedora. For free. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/8 "2000-09-12T02:45:30Z")
And if that was never a trend, it should have been. Want to be a trend-setter? I have a fedora. And flannel. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/9 "2000-09-12T04:11:20Z")
“jelly” sandals - they were all plastic and looked sort of fishnetty smarty ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/10 "2000-09-12T06:04:13Z")
M.C. Hammer pants. 😃 Well, actually, no I don’t. I’m not really into trends that much. I go with what I like. I wear a fedora, cuz I think they’re pretty cool hats. And mine is an Indiana Jones one, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/11 "2000-09-12T06:22:00Z")
Hmmm…can we get the random sexual encounters (1960’s) WITH the fedoras (1940’s) but minus the flannel (1990’s)?? OK this is becoming less trends you miss than “build your own trend at home”. Ok…Genteel bohemien poverty. That’s the trend I miss the most. Can we bring that back, and fedoras (the rest will follow)? ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/12 "2000-09-12T07:11:08Z")
Chokers. I think it was the early/mid 90’s when they were cool. They looked really good on me. What can I say? I’m vain. That’s all I can think of right now. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/13 "2000-09-12T07:44:31Z")
I miss ‘progreesive rock’. Sure, it was often full of itself, but I miss the weird and varied subject matter of the songs. And the long insrumentals. ---
**Author:** ![cheezit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/14 "2000-09-12T10:51:59Z")
Leisure suits. :D:D (I think I still have one in the basement. Bright salmon color with a flowerdy shirt that has BIG lapels.) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/15 "2000-09-12T13:37:12Z")
Cheezit, the 70’s style is back - bring that leisure suit out to be ultra-hip. Just yesterday I saw a model-looking guy wearing a baby blue leisure suit. Yum. I wish bowling shirts were in style. I have a bunch of them sitting in my closet waiting for the day. I also wish short hair was in style. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/16 "2000-09-12T13:40:29Z")
Jams (weren’t these basically Hawaiian shirts made into shorts?) Kids wearing Z. Cavaricci or Bojo clothes that looked good rather than this crap that hangs off their ass. I’m all for that free love thing, too, though that was technically before my time. Oh! And slipper-socks…I love those things. ---
**Author:** ![cheezit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/17 "2000-09-12T13:51:31Z")
Leisure suits are back? WOW!! O.K. now… for all the women out there…how many of you still have a poodle skirt in your closet? [heads off to basement in search of the far out, boss and groovy, cool, neet-o leisure suit] :D:D ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/18 "2000-09-12T14:13:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Valerieblaise \* > **Chokers. I think it was the early/mid 90’s when they were cool.** They were cool in the late 60’s/ early 70’s too, when **I** wore them. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/19 "2000-09-12T15:01:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > **Here in New York, you can’t walk two steps without seeing at least 3 girls wearing this exactly.** Man, I am definitely gonna start hanging out down on YOUR avenue. Mini-kilts…{drool} **Sax:** Bowling shirts are NOT hip anymore? Uh oh. ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837/20 "2000-09-12T15:22:28Z")
My favorites that I miss and the reason why: Halter Tops – I thought women looked good in them. Short Shorts – I thought women looked good in them. Mini Skirts – I thought women looked good in them. It might have been a regional phenomenon, but there was a brand of jeans called Dittos, I thought women looked good in them too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdated-trends-you-miss/32837.md?page=2)