# Worst fashion trend? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904 "2014-08-29T19:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SPosting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@SPosting](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPosting)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/61 "2014-09-02T23:17:10Z")
I went through a goth phase in high school I thought that was kind of dumb. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/62 "2014-09-02T23:22:20Z")
I put dimes in my penny loafers. High school, late 70s ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/63 "2014-09-02T23:23:03Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I put dimes in my penny loafers. Inflation! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/64 "2014-09-02T23:28:28Z")
We were SO edgy! ---
**Author:** ![Cheerleading\_Dropout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Cheerleading\_Dropout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheerleading_Dropout)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/65 "2014-09-03T00:01:52Z")
I always thought trench coats were sort of timeless. Although it really depends on who’s wearing it. Mine are pretty recent I suppose, but: peplum tops, jeggings, and Crocs. Not all together (hopefully). ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/66 "2014-09-03T00:48:43Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I had a mullet. Winner! (Or loser, as the case may be.) ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/67 "2014-09-03T01:02:04Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I bought a t shirt which had shoulder pads stitched in. I removed them. I have broad shoulders and spent a solid 10 years of my life cutting shoulder pads out of everything. Suits were padded, blouses were padded…and I looked like a linebacker in drag. The worst that there’s pictures of? Grunge. At least with 80s stuff we were making an effort. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/68 "2014-09-03T01:50:05Z")
I definitely went through the skinny tie phase. Wore huge cuffed bell bottoms over 3" platforms, too. One fad I refused to follow was the pastel popped collar thing. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/69 "2014-09-03T13:35:54Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > … I still can’t figure out why [pegged jeans](http://poorlittlerichwhitemexican.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jeans-ankle-rolled.jpg) were so popular. In high school we did something similar, but we would pin our jeans tight at the ankles with safety pins. Usually 3-6 pins, depending on how tight up your leg you wanted it. Of course we cut the cuffs off our jeans so they’d fray at the ankles, then pin them. I went to a Sass Jordan concert once and she had safety pins all up the fly of her jeans. Needless to say guess who went and bought a pack of safety pins the next day… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/70 "2014-09-03T13:47:27Z")
Since I gained so much weight this past year, I guess whatever I wear now would be the worst: I wear whatever FITS, whether the top and bottom coordinate or not. ☹ (When I leave the house I make an effort, though.) I have sloping shoulders, so shoulder pads actually look good on me. Not huge pads, of course, but some of us need help. Back in the 70’s, I worked in an office, and we were all invited to a Christmas party at the boss’ country club. For some reason, I decided to get all dressed up in a black and silver lurex jumpsuit (the kind that is now found in every thrift store in the nation). With platform shoes, and curly red Dynel wig. My co-workers were kind and did not point and laugh hysterically! (Some of the guys wore leisure suits. Mint green and slate blue!) Sadly, no pictures exist. I must have been a sight! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/71 "2014-09-03T18:33:52Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Corduroy is WAY older than the seventies. Nonetheless, it was during the 70’s that I had to wear it. And even if it existed prior to that decade, that was the decade in which it was trendy and that it’s associated with. ---
**Author:** ![alphamatix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@alphamatix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphamatix)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/72 "2014-09-03T21:23:11Z")
I never participated but I’d say tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/73 "2014-09-03T21:35:11Z")
> [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](#): > > In the early 70’s, I was in elementary school and lived with my grandmother, who worked at a polyester double-knit fabric factory. The employees were allowed to buy “remnants” at a deeply discounted price. My grandmother could sew. I leave the rest of the horror to your imagination. > > Nothing in my closet is made of polyester double-knit, nor will it ever be. My grandmother worked in a sewing factory, versus a fabric factory. Otherwise? Same. Especially charming when she sewed matching outfits for all of her six granddaughters, and co-ordinated jumpsuits for her two grandsons. When we were all old enough to defend ourselves from that sort of thing, all eight of us made a pact to destroy all photographic evidence. I was a teenager in the eighties. One of the hidden benefits to being po’ was that I couldn’t afford to take part in most of the ugly trends. But I still have a couple of scars on my feet from the inevitable blisters I got if I wore jelly shoes. And yeah, shoulder pads might have been okay in small doses, but I have broad shoulders, so the uber-pads of that era did me no favors. At least my hair was mostly not-stupid-looking. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/74 "2014-09-03T22:00:35Z")
I try to excuse some of these as relics of a past era. For current trends? Gauchos. Capris. Ugg boots. Wedges. I lump them in with shoulder pads for committing crimes against the female silhouette. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/75 "2014-09-03T22:11:51Z")
I have never owned a pair, but in the late '70s & early '80s, it was GAUCHOS. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/76 "2014-09-03T22:19:21Z")
Sagging. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/77 "2014-09-03T22:21:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [platform shoes](http://endangeredclothing.com/sites/default/files/plats1.jpg). Who else hears the song now? C’mon, sing with me! _I wanna put on my my my my my boogie shoes!_ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/78 "2014-09-03T23:38:42Z")
> [@Stonebow](#): > > I try to excuse some of these as relics of a past era. For current trends? > > Gauchos. > Capris. > Ugg boots. > Wedges. > > I lump them in with shoulder pads for committing crimes against the female silhouette. Gauchos? In the 70’s when I weighed 100 lbs., I had heavy white cotton gauchos and I. looked. marvelous!..those are a thing of the past, but the other three are worn by millions of women even today. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/79 "2014-09-03T23:42:17Z")
I think wedges make people look like they have solid pony feet. ---
**Author:** ![Jaymosch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaymosch/32/2820_2.png) [@Jaymosch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaymosch)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904/80 "2014-09-03T23:54:23Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > So many fashion crimes committed while growing up in the 80s, but I still can’t figure out why [pegged jeans](http://poorlittlerichwhitemexican.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jeans-ankle-rolled.jpg) were so popular. It looked so incredibly stupid, and yet you were a total lame-o if you didn’t do it. I’ve been seeing pegged jeans a lot this year (New York City area) I guess they’re making a comeback :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-fashion-trend/696904.md?page=5)