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wyrn

I think I took the biscuit. I used to wear clothes that my mum knitted me. I can't use the excuse that I was too young to decide what to wear - I was a young teenager :eek:

For example there was the bright fuchsia chenille jumper, it had pipes and bobbles and there was the butter yellow jumper with lime green trimmings and bright fuchsia flowers :eek: or yes. Neither jumper was fitting, but big and baggy AND to top it off I used to wear them with stirrup leggings and canvas runners! As for accessories, I had one of those velvet scrunchies. I am cringing just even thinking about this.

Oh it was horrendous. I am ashamed to say I kept the jumpers to remind me of what not to wear. It wasn't even the 80's , it was the 90's. I really should upload some pics to show you how bad they were.

EDIT: Just dug out a few photos of those jumpers and realised that I used to hear moleskin flared jeans with it. The were dark blue with light blue swirls on it. Oh god, now I know why I forgotten, blocked them out of my memory.

Kootenay

My sister and I performed a duet at an extended family reunion (we're talking hundreds of people) wearing matching perms, neon watermelon-esq knee length shorts, black t-shirts with matching watermelon trim, and of course matching watermelon scrunchies in our hair. But hey, it was the 80's, does that count as a fashion faux pas?

jo_t89

I'd have to say the worst would be when I started secondary school in first year. Wanting to make a good impression so I'd be seen as "fashion-forward", i sported a pair of jeans which looked as if i had thrown up glitter on myself. They were covered in neon sequins. I bought them in Winstons in Bray, and for those of you who aren't familiar with this shop, the name says it all- frumptastic. I teamed those bad boys with a lovely salmon pink skirt, to get the much saught-after "skouser" effect (why on earth did that go out of fashion, I wonder).

My ex-boyfriend, who I met that day in first year, claimed a while back that he could still remember the sequin jeans winking at him. Hey, if it got his 13 year old attention back then, think of the power those jeans would hold now!:cool:

*Lees*

I was a bit of a tom boy when I was younger! One year for Christmas when I was about 12 my mother took us clothes shopping for our christmas clothes! My sister got this lovely girly dress but I insisted I wanted something army print!! After trawling through town for hours I dragged my mam into an actual army shop and made her buy me a combats, t-shirt and waistcoat all with army print and big black boots to match!!! I probably got some looks at mass on Christmas morning but I thought I was the bee's knees!!

boscoroxx

Cow hide waistcoat and bell bottom jeans, teamed with a red flannel shirt and red cowboy boots. No, it wasn't halloween... It was 11 years ago... When Line-dancing swept the nation... I could have given Woody from Toy Story a run for his money, *facepalm*

jmbkay

"Nicks" runners. My mother told me they were Nike. I had reading problems

princess-lala

Has to be my Confirmation!

I wore - Navy silk Pilatsoes (sp?) they had a white silk belt, white ribbed top with navy flowers on it!

White satin jacket with shoulder pads in it!

Black patent leather shoes with a MASSIVE silver buckle on them and to top all that off white socks!

Oh my hair - My mam got it crimped!!!! :eek: I have never in my life felt so uncomfortable!!

I ironed the very expensive trousers a week later so she could never make me wear them again!! I cringe at the thoughts of it now 12 years later

landsleaving

Attempting to dye my hair a shade of blonde would be my worst faux pas. That alone is bad enough but after putting in the dye and watching it bleach my hair almost white I panicked and washed it out.

Since I only wanted it to be a little blonde, I was pretty annoyed, so I went to the haridressers and got my head shaved. The woman cutting my hair remarked 'you did a great job getting to the roots, I can't get all the blonde out.'

By then it was too late to save it, my head was described as 'leopardesque' and 'the full moon' for about a month while I waited for enough brown hair to appear to get the head shaved again. Worse still, I was in first year of college and can only imagine what the people sitting above/behind me in lectures were thinking. (All 500 of them )

Roaster

Has to be when I was going to do an aptitude test for Aerlingus (about 20 yrs ago now) and my mother convinced me I should look the part. Needless to say I was an 18 yr old kid into sport who lived in either tracksuits or jeans.

My mother asked one of my uncles for a loan of one of his suits and convinced me it looked great and I would be fine.

It was a beige flared two piece suit (ala Saturday Night Fever). I turned up at the exam, everyone there wearing either tracksuits or just casual gear. Needless to say I couldn't wait to get out of there and fcuked the suit in the bin when I got home.................oh I didn't get the job.

Splinters

Id have to say my ridiculously baggy jeans in the late 90s, combined with briefly having dreads, cool if I was a californian beach bum, not so cool when Im a pasty white Dublin guy.

PunkFreud

Simply put: Black & Navy

Gaspode

Rupert the Bear style tartan trousers with Black shirt, pencil tie and topped off with a lemon jacket with the sleeves rolled up. The eighties were great, weren't they!!!?

MiciG91

When i was about 7 i was a big Mike Tyson fan loved my boxing...Wanted to be a boxer etc so when my mam got me boxer shorts i kind of got the wrong idea :rolleyes: I flipped when she made me where shorts over them to mass.

So i went out to the bathroom and came back after discarding my shorts to a packed church still havent lived it down !:o

Smur

When I was 13 me and my two best friends went to a Bewitched concert in the RDS:rolleyes:. We thought it would be a great idea to wear matching outfits which consisted of patchwork denim flared jeans, a baggy denim shirt, black platform sandals and denim cowboy hats. We thought we were the height of cool To make it worse, I had searched high and low for the denim cowboy hats (I even travelled to London on my search) because I thought it was exactly what we needed to give the outfits the 'wow' factor!

pog it

Ah that would be an entire outfit.

And this was my "coolest" clothes outfit for me on the no-uniform day in 3rd year of secondary school.

Coffin-sized plain black canvas schoolbag, heavy coat lined with thick faux sheep's wool, long chequered green shirt with big box pattern, green with thin red lines worn outside high waist black jeans that narrowed more and more towards the end. Finished off with black leather shoes.

How did I not know better

Thumpette

My cringe-when-i-think-of-it outfit is probably my early 90s combo of black leggings (and sometimes ski pants) with green slouch socks and a matching green hugely baggy wooly jumper. I topped this little ensemble off with bright white runners! What a look. I also has jumpers and slouch socks matching in a few different colours!

Just lost a load of weight and none of my cothes fit me anymore.... would looooove this prize! Pretty please!:D

smileyxx

Good god..where do I start?I think my worst outfit was when I went through a knitting phase when I was 15, and I knitted a poncho.Sadly,I wasn't a great knitter and the poncho had a few, okay many, holes. I wore it anyway,even though it was too big for me and kinda drowned me.I was 2 stone overweight anyway,so it wasn't exactly flattering!I wore it with ripped faded cloudy jeans...not the best of looks!The outfit was topped off with disastrous...doc martens.

Why was I let out of the house?

nicola09

Has to be me and my best friends teenage disco attire when we were in the middle of a goth phase age 14: black nylon ra ra skirts, studded belts, black fishnet tights, knee high Converse red and black boots, black vest tops and black Nirvana hoodies stolen from her older brother. Add in a couple of nose-studs and we were the height of cool (or so we thought!) We presumed everyone was staring at us because we looked so great!! The weird thing is I'm a total girly girl so that look in no way reflected my personal style, it goes to show how easy it is to follow the crowd! lol!;)

Boom Boom

Naff Jacket

black eclipse baggy jeans (the ones with the handle on the leg)

Desert boots



I didn't think it was too bad but then me ma stitched on a jason donovan patch onto the back pocket of me jeans to cover up a tear

and made me wear them out in public. have never worn black jeans since.


edit: Just realised the site is for wimmins no mens gear on it. ah chuck that if I win I'll treat the mrs

melekalikimaka

xworx jeans...

Is_mise_mimi

I saw a picture of it recently, A black poloneck with a blue jumper over it that had the most uncool teddybear on the front. This was teamed with illuminous blue leggings, pink slouch socks and brown desert boots.... How did i not get bullied!!!!!

kylith

Black ski-pants, a pink jumper with an applique bunny, and Doc Martins.

OR

Blue striped knit halterneck dress, kneesocks and denim wedges. I looked like a reject from Clueless.

OR

Wearing a huge men's purple suede waistcoat and a top hat. I think it was during my 'goth' phase. It took days before I realised how stupid I looked.

smallgarden

i could have a fashion fauxpas nearly every second day of the week,a few more memorable ones come to mind

when i was around 12(old enough to know better) i had a pair of bright orange and pink stripey skipants with minnie mouse all over with matching bright pink and orange top with large picture of minnie mouse on the front.the worst bit about the outfit is that when wearing it i saw a neighbour of mine around half my age wearing the exact same outfit,cringe!

on a pure dumbass note,when i was really small and the first time i went swimming with my friends.i wasn't sure if i was to wear knickers or not so left them on underneath my swimming togs.least to say i got some slagging for that!

irishbatgirl

1.Poppers- u know what i'm talkin' about and they weren't even the cool Adidas ones..Wore them everywhere, nice n breezy!

2.Spice Girls 'space boots'- if anyone else had these it would be a miracle. they were the bomb! :L silver & black with the gals on the side.

3. my mum once put me in bright ORANGE jeans i mean so bright your eyes would hurt & a really heavy blue knitted jumper in summertime. the worst part was i was around 10 or 11. oh and i have red hair!

so those are my top 3,
suffice to say i really love fashion now & pick my clothes MUCH more carefully

Moonbeam

cream plaid combats and purple wool pinstripe combats.
I loved them but thinking back they were pretty bad!

Blue_Seas

I'm only 15... still making all the mistakes I'll regret later in life!

When I was younger however my mother forced me in to denim dungarees. That matched that of my younger sister. We had giant glasses to match :pac:

And then St. Patricks' day came around and we were shoved into the poofiest bright green dresses known to man.

Sheebs

This is what I wore when heading to a teenage disco aged around 15:

(It's hard to even type this...)

• White belly top with silver playboy bunny printed on it, covered with netting.
• Itsy bitsy white pleated skirt.
• Fluffy white knee high shoe covers.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

How did my mother leave me out of the house!

dvpower

I had a lime green drape with a black velvet collar... in the 80s.

I had a black pair of spice girls platform runners that I wore with orange denim leggings and a matching pepe jeans orange over sized t-shirt, it was my fav outfit forever
Oh god I cringe even now ;(

littleoulme

Definately my confirmation outfit. Royal Blue Mohair cardi with three white stripes on the sleeve, fuzzy perm, white pencil skirt, white tights with polkadots on them, white blouse with a cameo broach on top. Bleh.:P