Embarrassing fashion trends from your youth

Medusa22

Fat Christy's thread about people following the herd inspired me!

So, people of AH, what embarrassing fashion trends did you follow in your youth?

I remember wearing ridiculously baggy pants that I could clean the streets with (with a chain, of course) in the early 00s, and wearing these hideous buffalo shoes

Something like this - http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/301425772656-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

And - http://littlebigjoe.com/uploads/projects/25/9fe0c3507d0aec426c5a76fcf764ea85defac388.jpg

I also went through a goth phase when I wore fishnet tights on my arms and had blue eyebrows and a white face, there were many embarrassing phases.

CyclopsDeluxe

I had this amazing (and gigantic) bat necklace which I liked a lot, and which I got mocked for relentlessly in the fancy tennis club. I am ashamed to admit that I don't know where it ended up, I'd wear it again

KKkitty

Those tracksuit bottoms with the poppers all up the sides. Looked cool but they were a magnet for messers to rip them off.

Grey Dingos jeans with the leather trim around the pockets.

Kangaroos basketball boots.

All replaced by Joe Bloggs when the 90s dawned.

RayM

In the '90s, I had an undercut and a centre-parting.

me_irl

Bleedin' x-works. Rapih!

TG1

I wore a black pleather dog collar complete with huge silver spikes for about 6 months...

My mother got a hold of it and now produces it on family occasions for a giggle!

pew

Combats with the strings hanging out of them

All the rage I'm the early 00s.

the evasion_kid

mr.men welly boots and a duffel coat with the warthog tusks for buttons...

Firefox11

I'm showing my age now but I had a thin leather tie which were all the rage back in the 80's (I think!) and I thought I was real cool until I tied the knot too tight one day and I had to cut it off! :D

eviltwin

Kappa clothing, lumberjack shirts and stone wash jeans. Ugh.

zcorpian88

Grandad jumpers from Penney's that kids wore from the beginning of time until the Celtic Tiger came and we got a bit more choice!

Hate looking at pictures of me as a 4-8 year old in the early to mid 90's, awful looking shyte I had to wear!

Kids are pretty lucky these days, even the cheap stuff in Penney's now looks pretty good in comparison.

Lisha

Grandfather shirts, panstick and berry lipstick..

Crumpets

Wearing a skirt over a pair of trousers. The skirt was actually attached to the pants, it was one piece of clothing. I adored it at the time :pac:

eviltwin

Polyester trousers, oh the shame

Riesen_Meal

The obligatory Kurt Cobain/Dennis The Menace geansai down to my knees and my hair was purple and shoulder length at the longest.....

1995 was a fcuking great year....

Digital Solitude

Man bun and beards

Buona Fortuna

I know this dates me - but platform shoes.

FFS, they looked awful, you could hardly walk in them and yet we thought we were the dogs balaerics. Combine it with flares and a velvet jacket (picked by my aunt) what was I ever thinking of.

endacl

Jeans. Tshirts. Runners. Leather jacket. Nothing I'd be embarrassed about wearing today, 20-25 years later. I wouldn't wear the jeans as tight. Skinny jeans look even more daft now they're in fashion. Oh, and a lot of those tshirts are now worn by airheads who couldn't name an album by the bands they're sporting.

Who'd a thunk it? I was two decades ahead of the fashion curve!

eviltwin

Crumpets wrote: »

Wearing a skirt over a pair of trousers. The skirt was actually attached to the pants, it was one piece of clothing. I adored it at the time :pac:

I had a pair of these I bought in Japan - the boutique, not the country. I actually wore them to a job interview. I thought I looked the business in them.

well spoken man

A rats tail in your hair... *shudder

The_Valeyard

Runners with the red LED lights that flashed when you walked

There's a photo of me at 17, wearing patterned tights, denim shorts, a lacy top, a tweed blazer type jacket, and a trilby. I thought I looked fantastic.

Maybe I would have been right, if I'd been a six foot model type. When you're under five foot and look eleven, it's not such an good look.

RayM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Runners with the red LED lights that flashed when you walked

Oh, I had them. They were the best thing ever.

kfallon

Juice Polo necks

callaway92

Frosted Tips anyone?

Charlie19

Two tone jeans.

Jeans with big logos on the back pockets.

Had no interest in the NFL but had to get mammy to buy me a Washington RedSkins jacket. Actually they could be an ice hockey team for all I know.

Larry the Logster

A Le Coq Sportif shell suit in summer of '92 I think it was, that was my worst offence and was my choice.

I had a 'lovely' paisley YSL shirt at one point in early 2000's, my cousin wanted to but it off me so it must have been good.

Haven't been forced to wear corduroy or dungarees in over 30 years, thank God. Haven't worn a lumber jack shirt or poloneck in at least 15 years.

Ciderswigger

pew wrote: »

Combats with the strings hanging out of them

All the rage I'm the early 00s.

Oh man!! I rocked those pants and it was all great till I got the string stuck in an escalator. My mam had to press the emergency button and run off and get a scissors.

Corpus Twisty

Mod Parka, Black drainpipe waffle farahs, DM boots and a white Fred Perry Polo shirt...thought we looked the bomb..and we probably did - the aftermath of one.

Kovu

Lots of NOPE with that giant smiley cat face. I remember one pair of tracksuit bottoms that had nope literally plastered across the arse.
Parachute pants with all the strings hanging off them.
And then I hit the goth phase......New Rocks, spikes, Manson hoodies.

Still haven't left that last phase entirely tbh, I still fit into my 5th year clothes so wear stuff from then occasionally.

theteal

Step

Sunnyisland

Doc martins, wrangler Para ells :-),check shirt, skin/sweadehead. late 70,s early eighties.
I also had a full length black leather coat, ha ha ha, the flashbacks I getting now.

Ciderswigger

I love that I can estimate the age of other posters from what they are embarrassed by. The skirt/trousers, the OPs platform runners and those poppers tracksuit bottoms - we're all in and around the same age.

TG1

Kovu wrote: »

Lots of NOPE with that giant smiley cat face. I remember one pair of tracksuit bottoms that had nope literally plastered across the arse.
Parachute pants with all the strings hanging off them.
And then I hit the goth phase......New Rocks, spikes, Manson hoodies.

Still haven't left that last phase entirely tbh, I still fit into my 5th year clothes so wear stuff from then occasionally.

I'm still looking for jeans as comfortable as the huge baggy nope ones I lived in for about 3 years! I loved that cat face.

Kovu

TG1 wrote: »

I'm still looking for jeans as comfortable as the huge baggy nope ones I lived in for about 3 years! I loved that cat face.

This is why I still have mine.....that and the fact that they're so baggy I look like a homeless person if I wear them outside :pac:

Standard Toaster

X-works jeans and Fruit of the Loom top, with maybe a Naff jacket thrown in for good measure

BenedrylPete

eviltwin wrote: »

Polyester trousers, oh the shame

isnt there some science thing where if you rub your hair off polyester it makes a spark.

polyester pants and a big hairy pubis - recipe for disaster.

retalivity

NAFF jackets
Pod shoes and polo shirts

shamrock2004

well spoken man wrote: »

A rats tail in your hair... *shudder

+1.

I will never live that one down.

razorblunt

House of Pain baggy jumper
Eclipse and Xworks jeans.

bnt

I was going to mention the dreaded Snood, but apparently you can still get them in at least one shop. :eek:

Ciderswigger

bnt wrote: »

I was going to mention the dreaded Snood, but apparently you can still get them in at least one shop. :eek:

Yeah, I thought they were still all the rage.

The Backwards Man

Where I'm from, fashion is something you do with a rod

Gunslinger92

I basically went around with a dog collar on my neck during my goth phase. It was a fake leather choker thingy. One day I walked into the kitchen and my brother was sitting there and said "why are you wearing a collar?!" I was quite offended at the time but he was right. He still brings it up sometimes..

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

There were no fashion trends in the 50s other than to dress as your father did. Short trousers until you were 11 and then dress like a middle aged man. Even the fresh style of the 60s didn't reach most of Ireland until too late for me.

Fat Christy

Medusa22 wrote: »

Fat Christy's thread about people following the herd inspired me!

So, people of AH, what embarrassing fashion trends did your follow in your youth?

I remember wearing ridiculously baggy pants that I could clean the streets with (with a chain, of course) in the early 00s, and wearing these hideous buffalo shoes

Something like this - http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/301425772656-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

And - http://littlebigjoe.com/uploads/projects/25/9fe0c3507d0aec426c5a76fcf764ea85defac388.jpg

I also went through a goth phase when I wore fishnet tights on my arms and had blue eyebrows and a white face, there were many embarrassing phases.

Oh Fat Christy, what an inspiration! Love that poster. :pac:

Neon tights with mini skirts. I had big baggy flared trousers as well!!
Crimped hair. Ridiculous eyeshadow! Uggs!

That's all I can think of right now.

newbee22

Nope hoodies with parachute pants and the adidas tracksuits with the buttons up the side :P I remember wearing the UFO shoes too

kfallon

Fat Christy wrote: »

Oh Fat Christy, what an inspiration! Love that poster. :pac:

Neon tights with mini skirts. I had big baggy flared trousers as well!!
Crimped hair. Ridiculous eyeshadow! Uggs!

That's all I can think of right now.

No the thread title says "embarrassing fashion trends from your youth" not "what are you wearing right now"!!

:pac:

kfallon

LA Gear bootrunners!

Fat Christy

kfallon wrote: »

No the thread title says "embarrassing fashion trends from your youth" not "what are you wearing right now"!!

:pac:

Stop following me around!!

Loser.