I went through a goth phase in high school I thought that was kind of dumb.
I put dimes in my penny loafers. High school, late 70s
Inflation! :eek:
We were SO edgy!
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).
Winner! (Or loser, as the case may be.)
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.
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.
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…
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!
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.
I never participated but I’d say tattoos.
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.
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.
I have never owned a pair, but in the late '70s & early '80s, it was GAUCHOS.
Sagging.
Who else hears the song now?
C’mon, sing with me!
I wanna put on
my my my my my boogie shoes!
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.
I think wedges make people look like they have solid pony feet.
I’ve been seeing pegged jeans a lot this year (New York City area) I guess they’re making a comeback :eek: