Embarrassing fashion trends from your youth

Medusa22 · 03-01-2016 10:23PM #1

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 · 03-01-2016 10:27PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:29PM

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

03-01-2016 10:30PM

Grey Dingos jeans with the leather trim around the pockets.

Kangaroos basketball boots.

All replaced by Joe Bloggs when the 90s dawned.

RayM · 03-01-2016 10:31PM

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

me_irl · 03-01-2016 10:31PM

Bleedin' x-works. Rapih!

TG1 · 03-01-2016 10:32PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:32PM

Combats with the strings hanging out of them

All the rage I'm the early 00s.

the evasion_kid · 03-01-2016 10:32PM

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

Firefox11 · 03-01-2016 10:33PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:33PM

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

zcorpian88 · 03-01-2016 10:36PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:38PM

Grandfather shirts, panstick and berry lipstick..

Crumpets · 03-01-2016 10:38PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:41PM

Polyester trousers, oh the shame

03-01-2016 10:41PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:42PM

Man bun and beards

Buona Fortuna · 03-01-2016 10:42PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:43PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:45PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:45PM

A rats tail in your hair... *shudder

The_Valeyard · 03-01-2016 10:46PM

Runners with the red LED lights that flashed when you walked

03-01-2016 10:46PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:47PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:48PM

Juice Polo necks

callaway92 · 03-01-2016 10:48PM

Frosted Tips anyone?

Charlie19 · 03-01-2016 10:50PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:51PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:52PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:52PM

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 · 03-01-2016 10:53PM

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.

Embarrassing fashion trends from your youth

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