# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/81 "2015-12-16T22:57:41Z")
I have always dressed essentially like I do now. Jeans, tee shirt, work boots or some kind of outdoorsy footwear. I did have a couple pairs of platform boots back in the 70s but they were pretty common at the time and I abandoned them about the same time everyone else did. So, I don’t have any photos floating around of me wearing something really dated. The most likely comment might be “Gee, you dressed like a lumberjack way back then too.” ---
**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/82 "2017-04-30T18:07:16Z")
Emo Fringe circa 2007. Had to straighten my hair for the first and only time in my life just for it to look passable. Mullet as a child in the 1990s, but I actually think the mullet was a good hairstyle. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/83 "2017-05-01T01:42:32Z")
> [@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. I remember going home for lunch and throwing my jeans in the dryer while I ate so they would tighten back up. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/84 "2017-05-01T02:40:32Z")
Elephant ears pants with the waist barely covering the pubic bone. The zipper may have been two inches long if that. The legs at hemline were at least two feet wide. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/85 "2017-05-01T02:47:39Z")
Short, tight skirts with ruffles looked good (or at least ok) on Ana Torroja because she was and still is half an anchovy’s width. On my size 14 hips really, really no. [That skirt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJZ8oSfIN7M) is even _wide_ on her. I’m upgrading her to a quarter-anchovy. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/86 "2017-05-01T02:54:07Z")
Sky blue Nehru jacket, white bellbottoms and white platform shoes. Several years later… motorcycle jacket and hat, black tee, 501s and engineer boots. Everything but the chaps. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/87 "2017-05-01T03:27:54Z")
I was always so hopelessly unfashionable that I never got onto most fashion bandwagons in the first place. Acid wash overlapped enough with my “jeans and T-shirt” routine that it was probably the only big trend I got on board with. Though I still think the [three-leg look](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhriA2xq9E) is due for a comeback ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/88 "2017-05-01T03:34:16Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > This is a costume,[+[Shopping]±+Occasion-_-PLA±+Halloween±+Costumes-_-\_mkwid|s|pcrid|83812862528|pkw||pmt||pdv|c|&cm\_mmca1=OTC%2BPLAs&cm\_mmca2=GooglePLAs&cm\_mmca3=PS490&cm\_mmca4=FS39&cm\_mmca5=Shopping&cm\_mmca6=PLAs&cm\_mmca8=&cm\_mmca10=Shopping&cm\_mmca11=13587810&gclid=CP3lp6-Ow8kCFZFlfgodSMMFwg&categoryId=377320&Nrpp=10000"]Leisure Suit]([Oriental Trading](http://www.orientaltrading.com/web/browse/processProductsCatalog?Nrpp=10000&sku=13587810&BP=PS490&source=google&ms=search&cm_mmc=Google-_-)[OTC), however, I would have been wearing the actual original it was based on. I’ll see your leisure suit and raise you a [red, white and blue leisure suit](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0234/5963/products/IMG_8808_a23f6789-c68a-419b-866f-f3c015ccae72_large.jpg?v=1490664888). (imagine the 1968 style of the leisure suit with the restrained tastefulness of the flag suit…) ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/89 "2017-05-01T03:48:03Z")
I went to high school during the peak of disco, so I had stereotypical 70s hair. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/90 "2017-05-01T14:17:07Z")
I realize this is a bit of a zombie, but does anyone remember the [strands of beads](https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5893581/il_570xN.321581213.jpg) that you [twisted](http://www.liketotally80s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/twist-a-beads-01a-zemkoofies.jpg)and held together with a [clip](http://www.liketotally80s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/twist-a-beads-02b-evelyns.jpg)? Someone posted about those on our high school FaceBook page, and all the girls had a good laugh. Half of us still have them in an old box. Also, [Add-a-Bead necklaces](http://www.liketotally80s.com/2006/11/add-a-bead-necklace/). I still own mine and wear it every so often. No one I work with remembers them at all (most people are 40 or younger), so they think it’s an interesting necklace, not a time warp accessory. > [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Back in the 80s, I all too often wore a button-up pink shirt, unbuttoned, over a t-shirt. The shame, it burns… I wore that on Friday. :eek:🆒 ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/91 "2017-05-01T14:24:29Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > 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. I spent at least ten years of my life cutting shoulder pads out of things. I have broad shoulders and wearing shoulder pads made me look like a member of Twisted Sister or a Green Bay Packer in drag. Not what I was going for. > [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Remember “jam” shorts? Aka “jammers” - loose-fitting shorts, usually with a tropical pattern, that went just below your knees. My brother and his friends all word jam shorts (we were in Florida). My mom refused to pay the ridiculous prices for them and would make his shorts instead. (My mom is a fantastic seamstress and found cool material for the shorts.) Here’s the irony; my brother hated that they weren’t from a store, but all of his friends thought it was totally cool that his shorts weren’t the same as everyone else’s. Kids. I would kill to have my mom make me some stuff now. But I live too far away and sending a [homemade mannequin](http://www.handimania.com/diy/your-own-shape-sewing-mannequin.html) through the mail could well cause some questions… ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/92 "2017-05-01T14:44:23Z")
> [@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. > \ > … Ah yes, the shoulder pads. I was guilty of this, too. > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I spent at least ten years of my life cutting shoulder pads out of things. I have broad shoulders and wearing shoulder pads made me look like a member of Twisted Sister or a Green Bay Packer in drag. Not what I was going for. > \ > … Hehe. That was the _idea_. > [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > 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. Today’s kids don’t have to do all that work themselves. They can go online and buy [professionally distressed designer jeans](https://www.google.com/search?tbs=vw:g,mr:1,cat:204,pdtr0:950011%7C950014,price:1,ppr_min:150,ppr_max:350,init_ar:SgVKAwjMAUoKUggI-_105IP79OQ%3D%3D&tbm=shop&q=distressed+designer+jeans&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr26PR9s7TAhVFjFQKHY8XB00QvSsIpggoAg&biw=1500&bih=922) for $200+. Where’s the creative satisfaction in having someone else rip up your pants? This thread is a hoot. Now I have to go pour bleach in my eyes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/93 "2017-05-01T14:47:23Z")
I kind of had a mullet for a while, at least the Jerry Seinfeld kind of mullet. Bad bad '90s haircut. ---
**Author:** ![CrimeThink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CrimeThink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrimeThink)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/94 "2017-05-01T15:21:51Z")
I had a rat tail and racing stripes at in my hair at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/95 "2017-05-01T16:33:03Z")
I have two older and two younger brothers. HS graduation pictures on the wall at mom’s house show: suit and tie suit and tie powder blue leisure suit suit and tie suit and tie In my defense, there was only guy in our small class of 50 (20 guys?) who wore a tie, and at the time everyone made fun of him. Oh, and around 6th grade I owned a pair of olive green dress shoes with a high clog type heel (1 1/2 to 2 inches maybe?). ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/96 "2017-05-01T20:10:48Z")
I was born in 1961 so I was a teenager in the '70’s. There were some odd fashions back then but nothing that makes me cringe now. In fact like another poster stated a lot of those styles are back and I’m loving it!! I just bought an army green jacket with flowers and birds embroidered on it at Kohl’s!! I fell in love the minute I saw it. I think when my kids were young in the '80’s is when my fashion sense went horribly wrong! Turtlenecks under sweatshirts, boxy short t-shirts, or t-shirts that were so long and baggy I could barely tuck them into my hi-waisted, acid washed, mom jeans, pleated dress pants with flats. And how about those tapestry design vests?!! UGH Give me the '70’s. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/97 "2017-05-02T01:53:08Z")
Z Cavaricci overall-shorts. Yes, and I always had one should strap unbuttoned. No known photos exist. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/98 "2017-05-02T03:28:24Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > 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: [Like this?](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/25/03/40/250340b84d8d7afb9fb87a3ab957eb0c.jpg) I remember that style well. We only washed our hair once a week because you couldn’t backcomb to achieve those kinds of heights when it was too clean. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/99 "2017-05-02T03:33:52Z")
Unlike Snoopy, I once had a Nehru jacket. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/100 "2017-05-02T20:36:49Z")
I got some eyeglasses in the 1980s that were similar to [these](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8d/d6/2e/8dd62e1ecd44f5d949665a5b41507816.jpg), except that the frames were light blue and the lenses were extremely thick (since I am so nearsighted). And I had to wear them all the time since without them I am too blind to walk around, much less drive or work. I will search my photos to see if I can find any shots of me wearing the hideous things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448.md?page=6)