# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/101 "2017-05-02T21:42:21Z")
BIG bells (bellbottoms that were huge) Polyester print design shirts Buffalo sandles Wide leather belts with huge pewter hippie buckles 1970s hipster here. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/102 "2017-05-02T21:43:25Z")
> [@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. Blush. Me, too. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/103 "2017-05-02T21:56:30Z")
Do makeup trends count? When I was in 9th grade, the actress Ali McGraw was very popular. She was known for her thick, dark eyebrows. I decided I needed those too in order to be cool now that I was in high school, so I borrowed my mom’s eyebrow pencil and drew myself some Ali brows. Keeping in mind that I am a fair-skinned, . light-eyed pale blonde and you can imagine how ridiculous I looked with my big dark drawn in brows. And if that weren’t enough, I put on pearlized white lipstick, also popular at the time. My high school BFF has a Polaroid picture of me on that first day of high school that she threatens me with periodically. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/104 "2017-05-02T22:39:22Z")
I had [Earth Shoes](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=palemoon&q=earth+shoes&iax=1&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carpetsnrugs.co.uk%2Fimage%2Fcache%2Fdata%2Fcategory_8%2Fziggy-kalso-earth-shoes-and-footwear-jac007-1182-800x800_0.jpg). I was walking uphill all the time for a year there back in the early 1970’s. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/105 "2017-05-03T01:53:29Z")
I can honestly say that i followed no bad fashion trends. I simply had no [fashion](https://bandhubmediastream.blob.core.windows.net/files/588f8b136ab6316ce7603847250x188.png) regardless of decade ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448/106 "2017-05-03T02:11:02Z")
For the most part, I still dress like I did in college: white button-down long-sleeve oxford shirts and khakis/jeans/slacks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-fashion-trend-that-you-followed/739448.md?page=5)