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Embarrassing fashion trends from your youth

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  • #32
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    Step







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  • #33
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭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. :D


  • #35
    TG1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭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:


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  • #37
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


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

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  • #38
    BenedrylPete
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭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.


  • #39
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,631 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    NAFF jackets
    Pod shoes and polo shirts


  • #40
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭shamrock2004


    well spoken man wrote: »
    A rats tail in your hair... *shudder

    +1.

    I will never live that one down.


  • #41
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    House of Pain baggy jumper
    Eclipse and Xworks jeans.


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  • #42
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


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

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #43
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


  • #45
    Gunslinger92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭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..


  • #46
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭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. :/


  • #48
    newbee22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭newbee22


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


  • #49
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #50
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    LA Gear bootrunners!


  • #51
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Has anyone mentioned white Doc Martens in the eighties?


  • #53
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    Stheno wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned white Doc Martens in the eighties?

    Careful now.

    I have pink ones that I wear ALLLLL the time! With colouredy laces. I love them.


  • #54
    Stheno
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    Fat Christy wrote: »
    Careful now.

    I have pink ones that I wear ALLLLL the time! With colouredy laces. I love them.

    NO no. These were white patent Docs with white laces, they were hideous things.


  • #55
    Colser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    Knee high white socks with "Bay city Rollers" written up the side of them:o


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I never really got into fashion trends tbh. I just wore similar things to what I wear now.

    One thing I remember was O'Neills tracksuit pants. Everyone fecking wore them. I hated them with a passion but then got some for PE in school and secretly wore them at home all the time as they were so comfy :o


  • #57
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Colser wrote: »
    Knee high white socks with "Bay city Rollers" written up the side of them:o

    PM incoming.....
    :p


  • #58
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Oh I've just remembered.

    Denim shorts worn with opaque tights in the nineties!


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stheno wrote: »
    Oh I've just remembered.

    Denim shorts worn with opaque tights in the nineties!

    I still do that :o


  • #60
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,348 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I bought a pair of raver pants in Camden market. Baggy with a pair of zips down the back of each of the upper and lower legs.
    Was walking down the street of a small town one night when a girl behind me started singing "Zippity doo daa, Zippity day...." Cringing thinking about it but thought I was cool out back then.


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  • #61
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    I never really got into fashion trends tbh. I just wore similar things to what I wear now.

    One thing I remember was O'Neills tracksuit pants. Everyone fecking wore them. I hated them with a passion but then got some for PE in school and secretly wore them at home all the time as they were so comfy :o

    I still wear O'Neills. Oh god, am I not with 'it' anymore?!


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