Richard Simmons?
Middle-aged, balding Douche-Bags hitting on college girls ruined the Corvette.
Polo shirts. Used to be quite popular among a wide variety of people. My daughter, who doesn’t like girly stuff but has a problem with her boobs stretching out t-shirts (and doesn’t like buttons), used to wear them. They weren’t exactly fashionable, but they were on the verge of it, and were at least acceptable for a young person.
Not after the Charlottesville arseholes marched wearing them. Especially our area. She got called Hitler Youth as a kid just for having long blonde hair - no way is she going to risk being associated with racists by clothing choice.
I had also just bought a tiki torch to use in the garden but it’s sat unloved in the shed ever since.
If shorts have been ruined, Hawaii failed to get the memo. Ditto for Aloha shirts and polo shirts.
Proud Boys are doing their best to ruin the iconic black and gold Fred Perry polo, so much so that Fred Perry will no longer sell them in the US.
I used to have a T-shirt with a painting of Kramer from Seinfeld on it. If you’ve ever seen the episode where Jerry’s girlfriend paints a portrait of him, you know what I’m talking about. Anyway, I had one of these shirts for the longest time, and it made for a fun conversation starter when I wore it to parties or get-togethers. But, after Michael Richards made his infamous rant in 2006, I decided to put away, and I don’t think I wore it ever again, even though I’m still a huge fan of the show.
Even though sales were down and it was near the end of its lifespan, OJ Simpson was the final nail in the coffin for the Ford Bronco.
Hilariously, the Ford Bronco History page at Ford doesn’t seem to show a single picture of a white Bronco throughout all the years of production!
The Bronco has finally been cleared of all wrong doing.
And it’s available in white.
You got some ‘splaining to do…
Hoisted by my own petard!
Thought of an innocuous one - Supermario killed that particular moustache. Mario was a hero and everything, but not one you really want to look like. A friend’s husband grew a moustache over lockdown, realised what he looked like, and shaved.
In all the pictures I’ve seen, suits are rare. Most male students were wearing country-inspired jackets and un-matched trousers. The jackets had much more natural shoulders than the typical suits with a much greater distinctions between different types of jackets back then.
Basically, the precursor to the sports-coat look.
The weird 1940’s jackets, where they’d blend two jackets so the lapels, pocket and arms were one fabric and the body another?
Somebody else please go first, so they can come back and I can wear the shit out of them.
Why not go the whole hog, with a Zoot suit…
I think the Eighties ruined the zoot suit. Those wide shoulders will never be in fashion again until everybody who remembers that decade is dead.