# What is the worst fashion trend that you followed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448 "2015-12-04T20:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/21 "2015-12-05T01:48:23Z")
The hairdo from the 60’s ! UGH! I use to sleep with huge curlers and use of hairspray to keep my hair in place all day ! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/22 "2015-12-05T01:55:01Z")
Nehru shirt, worn once to a party to impress a girl. I was in 7th grade, but that doesn’t excuse my parents for allowing it to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/23 "2015-12-05T02:11:31Z")
I have a 7th grade school photo of myself wearing bright green flannel plaid, a cowgirl hat (I did not live in the south), hoop earrings and pink-tinted glasses. I’m not sure any of those things were ever a ‘‘trend’’ except in my own sad little world. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/24 "2015-12-05T02:13:49Z")
The worst has to be neon orange/yellow beach volleyball trunks. Got them at Nordstroms. Hey, it was the 80’s. Sorry, but no pics were ever taken. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/25 "2015-12-05T03:10:39Z")
Elephant bell jeans with patch pockets along with platform shoes. Polyester leisure suits. Leather trimmed blue denim 3-piece suit. The one fad I refused to follow at all was “popped collars” back in the early 80s. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/26 "2015-12-05T03:56:22Z")
[QUOTE=Paintcharge] Mullet and pegged jeans. [/QUOTE] Probably a bit worse: bleached tips and pegged acid wash jeans. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/27 "2015-12-05T04:34:28Z")
Double knit suit, Qiana shirt in a bright pattern, and platform shoes. In 8th grade, Poncho shirts were in. They were shirts with V-shaped hems that you were supposed to wear outside your pants. But we were not allowed to wear untucked shirts in school, so we had to tuck them in, thus spoiling the look. So we rebelled by wearing our belts with the belt buckles on the side. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/28 "2015-12-05T06:35:00Z")
Short gym shorts and high striped white socks - that was one. I’m sure there are more. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/29 "2015-12-05T06:39:39Z")
Let’s see, I had a baggie pair of short alls. I pegged my pants. I had a hypercolor shirt (that I desperately wanted.) I had a bad perm for all of high school. In college I wore body suits and vests with pleated jeans. But I got my husband’s attention with that combo, so I don’t really regret it. I did not have mall bangs though. I made fun of mall bangs and gave them nick names, like “the waterfall,” and “Sally Brown puffball.” ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/30 "2015-12-05T07:14:34Z")
:: sigh :: Salmon pink leisure suit. With one of those plasticky-polyester gaudy Hawaiianesque shirts with the wing collars and wing cuffs sticking out of it, no less. In my defense, I was 17 and was very heavily pressured into it by my mom and my sister. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/31 "2015-12-05T07:44:20Z")
[Treads](http://www.woorillacaught.com/?p=1013) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/32 "2015-12-05T10:52:42Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > I once spent almost a month’s salary (part time) on a Members Only jacket. I tore the hell out of it crawling out a window onto a roof to pull back a drunk and about-to-die Freshman at a Frat House less than a month later. > I found that jacket at the back of a closet a year or two back and that horrible ugly stitched “scar” was the only thing about it that I found worth while. 🆒 Me: _imitation_ Members Only jacket. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/33 "2015-12-05T12:27:57Z")
Those long athletic socks – white with two colored stripes near the top edge – while wearing (tight) shorts. Horrific. This would be circa 1985 (of course). ETA: Bullitt, you too? We need to start a support group, to recover from the trauma. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/34 "2015-12-05T13:30:06Z")
In fifth grade, circa 1978 or so, I somehow came into possession of a pair of cork-soled wedge sandals. I thought they were da bomb. They were tacky. Middle school – oxford shirts with coordinating grosgrain ribbon around the neck tied in a bow. Worn with jeans. Again middle school, there were these OP down jackets with zip-off sleeves. Wearing them as a vest made some sense. Wearing just the sleeves made no sense at all. And it was hard to carry your books. Prom: one year, I wore a dress that I intellectually now know was a spangled horror, but it did look good on me (allowing for the fashion at the time), and I loved it. Beautiful cobalt blue color, strapless bodice covered in sequins. The floor-length skirt was layers of fine cobalt-blue iridescent tulle. With a ruffle on the bottom. The worst part was, it was not even the most overly gooped-up dress at that prom. It was 1988. That’s my excuse. Ironically, my stepmother preferred all of the above to my punk/Goth days, my hippie chick days, or the fact that I’m now 46 y/o and won’t get a “proper” short haircut. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/35 "2015-12-05T14:30:50Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Those long athletic socks – white with two colored stripes near the top edge – while wearing (tight) shorts. Horrific. This would be circa 1985 (of course). > > ETA: Bullitt, you too? We need to start a support group, to recover from the trauma. 🙂 I don’t think recovery is possible - especially since this thread reminded us that we wore them. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/36 "2015-12-05T15:00:34Z")
my teen years in the 1970’s were innocent of that era’s excesses: disco was for girls, Black, Hispanic and gay guys, so us white guys held on to the denim and war-surplus remnants of the hard rock 60s. In college I transitioned into preppy (since, in the early 80’s, thrift stores had a lot of early 60’s Pendelton shirts and straight leg trousers). For my wedding in 1983, we eschewed the mariachi band ruffles, cummerbund and tropical fish-colored tuxes for pearl gray Edwardian morning wear. The worst fashion sin I will confess is reverse pleats. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/37 "2015-12-05T15:17:17Z")
I can’t say that I loved (or hell, even liked) them, but parachute pants were in when we moved, so I wanted to fit in. Jeez, what a disaster. Especially since, even in a small backwater town, I think the trend had already passed me by when I wore them just once. They looked horrible on me. As did the neon yellow nail polish (during the Wham years) that made me look like I had boogers on all my fingertips. And my wedding dress (circa 1993) that I still have, had a giant ass satin bow on the butt to go with the (unintentional) asymmetrical hairstyle I’d been sporting in our engagement pictures. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/38 "2015-12-05T16:33:07Z")
Blue mascara! > [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > [Polyester, button down, patterned shirts.](https://www.google.com/search?q=70%27s+polyester+shirt&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj24KG4jMPJAhVKOiYKHQbiC_IQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=70%27s+polyester+mens+shirt&imgrc=oyOylnYS-xudvM%3A) These seem to be back in. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/39 "2015-12-05T16:35:43Z")
I let my hair grow out in the back. This was when I was already pretty bald on top, and although I could _almost_ pull it off, it was (and remains) a ridiculous look. I much prefer my current, neatly trimmed “Jean Luc Picard” look. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/40 "2015-12-05T18:44:24Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > Let’s see, I had a baggie pair of short alls. I pegged my pants. I had a hypercolor shirt (that I desperately wanted.) I had a bad perm for all of high school. In college I wore body suits and vests with pleated jeans. But I got my husband’s attention with that combo, so I don’t really regret it. > > I did not have mall bangs though. I made fun of mall bangs and gave them nick names, like “the waterfall,” and “Sally Brown puffball.” I had mall bangs. The “Sally Brown puffball” to be exact. 😃 And I held onto them waaaay too long. I’m sure I’m personally responsible for at least part of the hole in the ozone layer. Combine the mall bangs with the popped-collar polo shirts and the vertical-striped neon eyeshadow and I was quite the sight. Why yes, I did grow up in the 80’s! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448.md?page=3)