Fashion victim?

Blitzkrieger · 19-07-2002 12:20AM #1

I saw a girl tonight whoose mobile phone cover matched the cover of her top exactly. Nothing unusual in that, you would think........but this is the third time I've seen her with a matching top/cover! She must have a cupboard full of top/cover pairs

It got me thinking about what people do for fashion. I think my weakest moment fashion wise was buying a pair of jeans that could have doubled as a parachute. What's yours?

El Marco · 19-07-2002 12:51AM

I just go for whats comfortable, like hoodies and baggy pantaloons (less bunching), I also wear cotton boxers if your wondering

Imo women who are obsessed with fashion are just as shallow as you get and are not worth bothering with.

gurramok · 19-07-2002 09:04AM

at least they are concsious of their appearance unlike those that go around wearing dirty tracksuits and look all round like a greaseball.
Always wondered where that stadium was

BuffyBot · 19-07-2002 09:21AM

Originally posted by Blitzkrieger

It got me thinking about what people do for fashion. I think my weakest moment fashion wise was buying a pair of jeans that could have doubled as a parachute. What's yours?

God where to start..

My list is endless

Topping it was a horrible striped long sleeve t-shirt I bought (mid 1990's were talking here), it was feckin disgusting. The shame, the horror of it all

DeeJ · 19-07-2002 10:07AM

i have had too mqany to mention. i like to look well when i go out but i couldnt be arsed going shopping its a pain in the nether regions. i would be so embarrased to have matching phone/clothes. it happened by mistake once and i got the piss ripped outta me!

i dunno how some girls lives/incomes revolve entirely around fashion.

id rather spend the time/effort/money getting rubbered in the pub in last seasons cast offs myself!

DeeJ · 19-07-2002 10:08AM

p.s. do any girls here remember the whole "leggings and baggy jumpers" phase?

oh for shame:o

Lex_Diamonds · 19-07-2002 10:12AM

All i gotta say is "x-works" "eclipse" "petro-motion"

BuffyBot · 19-07-2002 10:33AM

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
All i gotta say is "x-works" "eclipse" "petro-motion"

Jesus - I remember them!!!
Thankfully they passed me by [wasn't trendy enough you know]

stevoslice · 19-07-2002 10:43AM

Those dam x-works, my worst moments were a NAFF jacket, and a rocky balboa style shiny blue jacket.

DapperGent · 19-07-2002 12:11PM

A tie dye tshirt. A fúcking orange and black tie die t-shirt. I thought I was great, I looked like a gibbon. I'd never even heard of the Grateful Dead.

Rabies · 19-07-2002 12:18PM

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
All i gotta say is "x-works" "eclipse" "petro-motion"

oh the shame

i hate to admit it but i was one of those people that wore those brands when they first became popular.

/hangs head in shame

darthmise · 19-07-2002 12:44PM

Am currently the owner of a 3/4 length pair of pants.
My friends seem to think they're daft..., but i know better;)

Fair cool. Buy a pair.

When i was 17,
I had a pair of x-works,
i had no idea how cool i looked though at the time,
When i was 17....

Blitzkrieger · 20-07-2002 01:29AM

Originally posted by thebhoy
my worst moments were a NAFF jacket

Oh yeah! There was a time when everyone (except me, thank god) was wearing them. Even spawned numerous fakes.

Robbo · 20-07-2002 02:35AM

When I was in 5th class, the skangers in the class all sold Christmas trees outside the school in December to "get a pair of Xworx".

They were that desireable.

What were we thinking?

po0k · 20-07-2002 03:10AM

I bought a pair of those Eclipse jeans
For halloween.
Along with a sweatshirt and a baseball cap.
Went as a....wait for it....a Raver.
Oh the innocence of youth...
had a pack of stinkbombs too.
h the craic was 90...then I found drink

What's the story with women wearing white tops with red pants?
They look fine wearing nothing or anything so what's special about colour?
Personally Royal Blue and yellow gets it up for me.
Like Biel-Tan Guardians......
Obscure WH40K Eldar reference

Dont be at yourself · 20-07-2002 03:27AM

I had an eclipse jacket - a memory I had blocked out until Lex mentioned the brand. Bastard.

Blitzkrieger · 20-07-2002 12:09PM

Originally posted by SyxPak

Personally Royal Blue and yellow gets it up for me.

g'wan the Tipp!!!!!?????

Kali · 20-07-2002 02:52PM

and who the hell bought wax jackets?
where did those ppl come from?
what did they want?
and what major event happened that made them all disappear?

Cake Fiend · 20-07-2002 03:06PM

Xworx were class. Such style and comfort we have never since experienced.

po0k · 20-07-2002 03:33PM

the big pockets were the forebearers of the modern day combat.
Handy for stuff sweets into in the shop and running out the door.
"Beegin" or "macin"

yellum · 20-07-2002 05:53PM

I recently spent €500 in the Brown Thomas sale but I am not a fashion victim !

The only thing that I get worked op about is if I buy a nice shirt/t-shirt/sweatshirt/jacket and I then see someone else with the same one. I will rarely wear that item of clothing again.

I remember X-Worx and Naff jackets, I refused to wear em even though all my friends did. I used to wear combats before too but then they became the in thing so I never wore em since.

Matching your phone with your top is kind of childish really. Too much thinking involved.

Monkey · 20-07-2002 06:31PM

I recently spent €500 in the Brown Thomas sale but I am not a fashion victim

Brown Thomas ? Ha!

Clintons Cat · 21-07-2002 04:59PM

an imitation joe bloggs (yes i know) orange and red sweatshirt with a handpainted psychodelic swirl over the left shoulder and chest.

azezil · 21-07-2002 05:37PM

Bell-Bottums! oh dear god burn all picture, burn em all!

TacT · 21-07-2002 07:18PM

oh dear

Between the age of 13-16 X-worx, eclipse, and all that absolute crap was what consisted of my clothes, I then got rid of all of it, kept what wasn't too baggy to skate in but was comfortable, skated in them till they had so many holes I couldn't possibly be worn anymore and they slowly vanished one by one to the bin where they belonged all along

The girls in my office will sit there talking about shopping for one pair of shoes (for over an hour, then spend two hours picking them out and trying them on in various shops) each just because there is a company night out and they don't want to be seen wearing the same shoes..........to each their own. I'm much more concerned with why I wanted those bloody x-worx yokes

Lex_Diamonds · 21-07-2002 07:33PM

When I was a kid I had this red sweatshirt with a pic of a snake coming out of a skull, you know the sort of art you would see on a Guns & Roses album circa 1989

TacT · 21-07-2002 07:53PM

lol how could I forget my black denim jacket with the two guns and roses symbol that I bought in golden discs for about 30quid then proceeded to sew on myself (it was crooked and all)

on a levi's black denim jacket :eek:

ok I admit it, I even had loads of badges and pins sticking through it

oeNeo · 21-07-2002 07:55PM

Originally posted by Kali
and who the hell bought wax jackets?

My mam always bought them for me when school started, even though I hated them so much! Afaik she still has one but luckily mine have all been burned!

Lex_Diamonds · 22-07-2002 11:12AM

Here's another one, faded denim jacket with a huge Megadeath patch taking up the entire back of it. This woulda been around 1989-1990....

I liked metal because my brother was into it

Thanx 4 The Fish · 22-07-2002 01:47PM

[Embarassed]
anybody remember the colour changing t-shirts, remember queueing outside a shop with about 40 pe0ns waiting to get one of those
[/Embarassed]

Robbo · 22-07-2002 04:41PM

anybody remember the colour changing t-shirts, remember queueing outside a shop with about 40 pe0ns waiting to get one of those

Oh god, yes. Global Hypercolour.

I had one of those, blue was to become green but it always looked like vomit (although the carrot chunks were not forthcoming).

Come to think of it, I also had a wax jacket.

Right, who's going to confess to a shiny track suit?

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