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dellas1979 · 20-05-2010 09:33PM

If ye get to reading this far on the thread, fair play to ye

Well, I would have to say, I went through a phase when I was about 11 years old...of wearing nothing but purple...for about 2 years.

Purple headband (oh yes)
Purple top
Purple glasses (thick purple rim. ahem you could only get plastic ones back then...none of the fancy ones they have nowadays)
Purple skirt/pants
Purple socks/tights and
Purple shoes (ye remember the ones with the key in the heel)

By God I thought I was the bees knees.

Anywoo, to make it worse, other than walking around dressed like barney all day for 2 years, this phase is forever memorable because I ended up on a quiz on RTE called "Slam" (remember Kevo?).

Now I know why people were sniggering all day.

pawrick · 20-05-2010 10:24PM

communion outfit

Brown suede type suite - ok that wasn't so bad but it was the thing attached to it! (not me) - it was some sort of frill button on cravat thing attached to the shirt - not sure what it's called and haven't seen anything like it since but it was white with brown flecks - I called it a vienetta. my pics look like it's attacking me and going for my neck been terrified of them since :pac:

number two...

used to wear a lot of baggy/big clothes when i was a teenager - big kangol jackets with glow in the dark stripes etc...thought I was great at the time but got the nick name pdiddy...i stopped that.

feck just saw it's all womens clothes on the site and here was me looking forward to a few new tshirts ah well maybe some of the rings could pass as bling on a guy...or i could pass on the voucher to my sis.

Zaph · 20-05-2010 10:33PM

There's no doubt that Old Goat has this one sewn up, but I may as well confess my crime anyway. It's cathartic, apparently.

In my defence your honour, it was the 80s and Miami Vice was rather popular at the time. That said, it doesn't excuse the pale blue flecked Miami Vice suit that I wore (with sleeves rolled up of course). With it I wore a mainly white shirt with lots of typical 80s blue and black zigzag pattens. Can't remember what shoes I wore with it, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't my white sidelace shoes. I only wore them with my white jeans.

teddy_303 · 21-05-2010 10:39AM

A Grey/silver suit (with multicoloured flecks) with the trousers taken up 2 inches too far, a peach coloured shirt, red tie, all set off with a nasty cheap pair of black slip on shoes with brilliant white toweling socks, which are highly visible thanks to the overly raised trouser leg length. Oh, and a "Blue Oyster Bar" style mustache (Biker) and topped off with a cheap ear ring! Nice!

Soccertainer · 21-05-2010 11:00AM

Disaster.

miju · 21-05-2010 11:42AM

Has to be thinking wearing bowling shoes were funky / cool.

it REALLLLLLLLLLLY wasn't

fikay · 21-05-2010 01:06PM

In my mid-teens i wore Purple corduroy flares, doc's, and either early 90's rock t's or some variation of tie dye for about a year. Along with my long hair with an 'undercut' (like an over grown step) and my perma-stoned expression, I thought I was the epitomy of all that was cool.
I was not!
I grew out of this phase and replaced it with a love of coloured camouflage combats, the baggier the better. I also had one of those green jackes wih a German flag on it, as if I was going to be conscripted to fight in sombody's cliched acid flashback army.

campo · 21-05-2010 05:01PM

worst ever for me was

Black tight denim jeans
Brown shoes
Red Shirt
and Black leather waist coat and I actually brought a girl out on a date wearing this and to make it stranger two years later she married me mind you two years after that she divorced me, I blame specsavers for giving her sight back

ordinary_girl · 21-05-2010 05:42PM

My worst fashion faux pas was allowing my mother to dress me (well, I didn't actually have a choice in it of couse!). All the pictures of me as a child are blemished with ill-fitting jumpers that my brothers used to wear - I'm a girl - and bad, baddd hairstyles.

Peyton Manning · 21-05-2010 06:26PM

I used to be a bit of hip hop fanatic when I was younger. When I was around 16, we went on a school trip to Strasbourg. Over there I found The Kamp Hip Hop Store as its called, which specialises in hip hop fashion - oversized everything, jeans that are supposed to be worn around your knees - all that carry on. I ended up buying a football jersey similar to this:

Only it was a very shiny navy, with side panels of bright, illuminous orange and criminally white piping, and large, shiny white plastic numbers. And it was about 2 - 3 sizes too big for me, but sure that was the "style". I also bought with it quite a large, oversized Phat Farm hoody, not too dissimilar to this one:

And I also bought in one of those knock off stores that you get all over Europe, a Death Row Records pendant, just like my idols 2pac, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. Only I doubt theirs cost a fiver like mine did.

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These are all still at home in my wardrobe, so I can provide pictures the next time Im home as proof. But far beyond the criminality of buying all those and wearing them together was the mistake I made when I get home. Where was my first choice of venue to wear this outfit upon being back in Ireland?

At the local GAA pitch for a minor hurling match. I got the feck slagged out of me, and theres a couple of lads who love to, instead of saying hello, say "What up gangsta?" when Im back home with company, so they get the chance to tell the story to a new face. I'll never live it down, but I have no choice but to laugh at how stupid I was

DubzSon · 21-05-2010 07:41PM

I remember when I was a kid, I had dungarees and I always wore a white T-Shirt with them. And to add to the embarassment, I was obsessed with wearing a straw bailed hat at the time, but I was also losing teeth at the time, so needless to say I looked like a hillbilly.:eek: Awful pity no one decided to tell me that I looked like one. Would have saved me the embarassment of having to admit that now. :rolleyes:

ex6 · 21-05-2010 08:43PM

My first biggest fashion faux pas was wearing clothes on the nudist beach ... and my second one was NOT wearing any clothes at regular beach.

100% true story! (or not)

Savage_Henry · 21-05-2010 09:49PM

A true classic:
Socks and sandals :cool:

lilmissgiggles · 21-05-2010 10:13PM

When I saw this thread, I immediatley hung my head in shame!
My sister and I, 12 and 10 respectively wore co- ordinating outfits to a free dress day in primary school and I can't even blame it on our mother. It was our fashion faux pas that we planned for hours the evening before. I had a green and white tie died dress to the knee and hers was the same but in blue and white. I had blue leggings, she had green. Then to top it all off, we had these LA Gear boot runners that had a velcro tie, hers were black, mine white and both we covered in silver shiny studs. We went to school so confident that day, thinking we had nailed it, but came home with a different opinion of our selves after everyone looked on in horror. All clothes came from America courtesy of out very eccentric aunt. OOOO the shame!

outdraw · 21-05-2010 11:53PM

wearing ripped jeans when i was living in the country looking the part of the beach bum. Standard question was "were you attacked on the way over here".

Don't do it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynfWxem_qvo

NoQuarter · 22-05-2010 01:16AM

Pimp canes for me!

Drive me mad every time!

kazza90210 · 22-05-2010 07:25AM

When I was 9 I had the "coolest" leggings EVER! they were white with orange stripes, with pictures of simba(from the lion king) and black paw prints on them, I loved them and wore them til the knees had holes!!!

otwb · 22-05-2010 01:38PM

My 6th year warderobe:-

Black leggings, white socks over them, white runners, black baggy T-shirt and an oversize paisley shirt hanging open....

Still went out with the best looking bloke in school

...or the time that I thought that just wearing jeans that were too small was the same as wearing skinny jeans....bad, very bad.

muireann =] · 22-05-2010 05:27PM

wheelies, pink and black stripey long socks, black ra-ra skirt,net black top with a sports bra underneath and a skull hair band with really bright pink extensions :eek: dreadful, wore it to a school disco lol

roseym · 22-05-2010 06:56PM

I wore these fetching mustard, olive green and purple tracksuit bottoms until they fell apart. What I was thinking I will never know! And how the hell did some shop think it was a good idea to stock them in the first place? This is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 80's.
The shoes and white socks were super cool with them, weren't they...and oh, the glasses. How I loved those glasses. Kicked up a stink in the shop until Mam agreed to get them for me, they were navy with little pale blue squiggles on them. I wore them for years (until my head actually fitted them)

puffdragon · 22-05-2010 09:19PM

When I was wee my sisters made me a Bay City Rollers outfit, you know the one ,Bell bottoms and a waistcoat with tartan stripes down the outside of the legs and on the waistcoat a wee tartan pocket and all.I must have been a sight but I remember thinking I was cool at the time ,
It was made just like a school sewing project you know threads hanging everywhere and ruffled seams where the thread was pulled too tight . I`m sort of afraid to talk about it in case it could have scarred me for life,maybe its a form of abuse dressing your wee brother up for the craic and sending him out to play dressed like an edjit!! I have a photo somewhere but that would be just too painful!
I wish I could find it and ceremoniously burn it ,it might be good therapy!!

princess_calico · 23-05-2010 01:51AM

I think the Spice Girls are to blame for a lot of our fashion faux pas!

My most embarrassing one was probably a few years ago when I thought that Licra shorts were acceptable... Not just any Licra shorts however, but lime green ones! I paired them off with a red belly top with "Surfer Babe" emblazoned on the bust and a pair of

SILVER PLATFORM RUNNERS!!!! SPICE GIRLS EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!

To this day it's still quite emotional looking back on them..........[/SIZE]

What kind of a child was I?:)

denballs · 23-05-2010 08:44AM

my wardrobes generally messed up........i usually buy summer clothes in winter and winter clothes in summer.......{i keep getting colds in winter and i smell manky in summer.........because summer/winter clothes are on sale when its not that season...............

right now all i have is like 10 pairs of sweat pants and about 50 hoodies..........all grey............everyones always asking me if im on my way to a gym or out jogging............

ITS A NIGHTMARE.........:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

peteandjenn · 23-05-2010 10:54AM

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Well need I say more!!!!!!!!!! :cool: :cool:

Kasycas · 23-05-2010 11:23AM

Doc Martin metallic wine-coloured heels. Yes, heels. I never saw anyone else with them funny enough!

Lizard Queen · 23-05-2010 11:36AM

when the mesh tops were all the rage a few years ago i got a red see through one thought i was the sh1t

doc martins with track suit bottoms

Miaireland · 23-05-2010 05:35PM

Suit jackets when I was 13/14. I thought they made me look grown up and Sophisticated. They were awful things in terrible colours and had huge shoulderpads.

Niamhyyyy · 23-05-2010 09:27PM

Oh god. Has to be a long sleeve white tshirt with a glittery playboybunny emblem on the front. A MESH camoflague top over that (shudder), flared jeans that had cord plaits up the side and dare i say... SKETCHERS. Oh god and i think it was my confirmation outfit.

linkcrof · 24-05-2010 10:01AM

Faux suede camel coloured hipsters, (skin tight); a black belly top with a red glittery heart, and Emma B (of Spice Girls fame) white platform runners. 'Nuff said.

Funnegan · 24-05-2010 01:48PM

"pedal pushers" with socks and sandals with a nice lagging jacket style "body warmer" when all we could afford to flaunt in those summers were our arms and ankles ! the shame....

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