# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Sputnikkk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Sputnikkk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sputnikkk)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/61 "2015-12-11T03:10:16Z")
In the late 70s early 80s high school, jeans so tight had I had to lay on the bed to zip them up and could barely breath when sitting down. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/62 "2015-12-11T04:07:52Z")
Muscle shirts and neon board shorts. The 80s were not a great time fashion wise, in general, but that was particularly ugly, and worn by me. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/63 "2015-12-11T10:34:49Z")
> [@Sputnikkk](#): > > In the late 70s early 80s high school, jeans so tight had I had to lay on the bed to zip them up and could barely breath when sitting down. This is me now. The day after Thanksgiving. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/64 "2015-12-11T15:50:02Z")
We used to cut the tab on the fly off our Levi’s 501 jeans so the buttons would show. Then cut the hems off the legs so they’d fray. And then pin the cuffs so they were tight at the ankle. Bonus points if there was a frayed hole in one knee. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/65 "2015-12-11T22:24:00Z")
I was a tomboy in school. I had a Members Only jacket that I loved (it was kind of a dark blue with plum overtones color…I still have it somewhere in storage, though it no longer fits). I remember wanting a puka-shell necklace with a shark’s tooth (this would have been mid to late '70s, during the Jaws fad) but was disappointed when my mom got me one with a petrified tooth instead of a shiny white pointy one. Mostly, I was a dork and didn’t follow fads, but those two I actually liked the look of so I went for it. Didn’t make me cool–I was just a dork following a fad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/66 "2015-12-11T23:33:37Z")
I’ve never been one to follow trends or do something just because everyone else was doing it. If I wore it or did it, it was because I liked it. When the 80s wild hair band hairstyles became popular, though, I was the first one in my small town to look like a female version of Kip Winger… and I loved it, too! An older friend of mine owned a salon at the time. She layered and “highlighted” my long medium brown hair with blonde, gold, black, bright red and burgundy. Then she gave me a spiral perm that took FOREVER and made my head ache for several days afterward BUT damn! my hair looked so cool! It required a blow dryer diffuser and a fortune in hair products to maintain the hairstyle but I had lots of fun with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/67 "2015-12-12T00:45:56Z")
When I was in elementary school in the '80s, Triple Fat Goose coats were all the rage. Not just the coats, but how they were worn as well: inside out. Yea, I’m not proud but I did this too. :o ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/68 "2015-12-14T15:47:24Z")
In the 90’s there was a fashion trend where you wore a short, cotton black spaghetti-strap dress with a white t-shirt underneath it. I wore it a couple times but thankfully didn’t like wearing dresses so it wasn’t an everyday thing for me. Plus the layering was uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/69 "2015-12-14T17:33:03Z")
I wore a spiked dog collar. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/70 "2015-12-14T17:56:25Z")
> [@dada2fish](#): > > Black straight leg Levi’s with Doc Martens Which reminded me of this crime I loved then and still might wear… A [slip dress with mini-t-shirt under](http://www.frockcontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/5416465080197_040_a.jpeg) it, with Doc Martens. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/71 "2015-12-14T18:03:41Z")
I [del]rocked[/del] committed the granny dress with combat boots and choker look in the early '90s, I think it was. I still have the Doc Martens and it looks like chokers are making a comeback. Not sure my wrinkly old neck really needs attention brought to it, however. Going back further, I too had a part straight down the middle, with perfect, shellacked curls on each side. A satin jacket was my outerwear of choice until the abomination that is the hooded, pullover sweatshirt. Oh, and white slip on Vans shoes. Trends I wish would come back are high waisted bell bottoms and bikinis that aren’t low rise, such as was fashionable in the 80s. I can’t even find a picture of one, but they were usually two tone color blocked and the top had and extra long string, so you’d cross it in the back then loop it under the sides of your bottoms so you could hoik them up. Wokay, maybe I wouldn’t wear one, but they were much more flattering than the low riders of today. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/72 "2015-12-14T18:38:22Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Probably that leisure suit with the platform shoes, back in the late 1970’s. Mine was lime green, with contrasting white stitching. And the big clumpy shoes. And a faux silk polyester patterned shirt that looked like what you find two inches down in the mulch pile. I was Hot Stuff. I would like to think my fashion sense has progressed since then. My wife would probably beg to differ, but whenever she objects to what I am wearing I just say, “No one is looking at me when we go out together” and I can sometimes get away with it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/73 "2015-12-14T19:18:44Z")
You know, I always kind of hoped leisure suits would make a comeback. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/74 "2015-12-14T19:40:58Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > In the 90’s there was a fashion trend where you wore a short, cotton black spaghetti-strap dress with a white t-shirt underneath it. > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Which reminded me of this crime I loved then and still might wear… > > A [slip dress with mini-t-shirt under](http://www.frockcontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/5416465080197_040_a.jpeg) it, with Doc Martens. ^ Yeah, that. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/75 "2015-12-16T13:51:12Z")
Junior high I sported short, spiked hair. Occasionally a Hawaiian shirt also. I also had a pair of jeans which were called “Jam and Roll Riders.” Probably “Jam 'N Rollz” or something like that in reality, because that was the time. I remember explaining to an acquaintance of mine that you were supposed to jam them into your boots or roll them up. I still wonder at the fact that those words left my mouth. I also wore my dad’s Vietnam era army boots for a while in highschool. Got terrible food fungus from them, probably because the soles were broken and let water in. ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/76 "2015-12-16T14:50:40Z")
Silk ascots with Harris tweed jackets. When will smoking jackets make a comeback? ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/77 "2015-12-16T16:18:31Z")
I wore my hair like Lisa from Prince and the Revolution in Purple Rain; really short on one side, really long and curly everywhere else, with the pointed sideburns. I spent a lot of money on Paul Mitchell Freeze n Shine that year. I had a sleeveless, neckband-less grey sweatshirt and various neon accessories to go with it. Pleated mom-jeans, too. There are no pictures, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/78 "2015-12-16T16:35:35Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I [del]rocked[/del] committed the granny dress with combat boots and choker look in the early '90s, I think it was. Wait, this is over?? :dubious: ☹ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/79 "2015-12-16T19:47:41Z")
Remember “jam” shorts? Aka “jammers” - loose-fitting shorts, usually with a tropical pattern, that went just below your knees. They look \*stupid \*when you’re an underweight teenage girl. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/80 "2015-12-16T20:04:01Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > My regret is 80’s the decade of the over-oversized shoulder pad. At that time I worked in an office and every blouse, dress and jacket had football uni size shoulders. Me, too. I had several pairs of removable ones made of foam rubber. Dress or jacket already had shoulder pads? No matter. The removable ones went on anyway. I looked like a Romulan from the original Star Trek. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448.md?page=5)