What is the worst fashion fad in your lifetime?

[Budi]

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5 inch Platform Shoes

Overalls with one strap undone
Brylcream hair
Girls thong underwear with low-rise jeans
Guys gansta pants with the waist across their thighs (ala Bieber)

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The leisure suit. Actually, just about anything from the '70s,

but especially that.

[blm]

3. Lolol

[rsdsharp]

6. Double Knit.

That basically describes the 70s.

[CincyDem]

8. Yep, especially with the polyester wide collar printed shirt. Painful. n/t

[Mme. Defarge]

11. In lime green.

[Budi]

13. LOL yup.

Lime green leisure suit.

[Budi]

12. Plaid leisure suit

[Wicked Blue]

21. Shoulder pads - I detest them

Men's shoes with those chunky high heels

[Dave in VA]

24. Photos look like

everyone in my college dorm dressed for date night!

Disco FEVER!

[pansypoo53219]

64. even as a child when they were new, i thought they were stupid looking. and they can't hide.

trump was wearing a expensive leisure suit on SNL.

[blm]

2. Shoulder pads and high hair.

So glad I took a pass on both.

[Freddie]

41. I loved shoulder pads

They “balance” the figure if you have hips. Wish they’d come back. Maybe not the Krystle Carrington kind.

[blm]

42. The smaller 40s shapes were cool, the 80s look was grotesque.

[applegrove]

53. I already had a female swimmer's physique. I was the last person

who needed shoulder pads. So i often cut them out.

[leighbythesea2]

4. Agree

With above.
The low waist jean with essentially wrong underwear.
Just had to witness it, and try to design around it. Thankfully not wear it.

[RandySF]

5. Shoulder pads.

[csziggy]

66. I actually kind of miss shoulder pads

I always had big biceps for a woman and off the rack women's suits and blouses didn't fit right. But when shoulder pads were popular I could buy suit jackets or blouses with shoulder pads, take them out and they would fit much better - still not quite right, but better. My only other choices were to make my own clothes, hire a tailor to make my clothes, or the one I went for, wear tee shirts all the time, or at least knit clothes that would give me enough give for my big arms.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

68. Those were awful. I didn't like looking like a linebacker.

I usually would take them out but then the garment wouldn't hang quite right. I hated the '80s in a lot of ways, and that was one of them.

The overall look was weird. Hair was big, shoulders were huge, and there were leggings. A woman I worked with had the whole look - she was pretty overweight but she had tiny feet, so with the big hair and the shoulder pads and the leggings and the little feet in high heels she looked very top-heavy.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Platform shoes

Knee socks

[DBoon]

9. Flared Jeans

Makes short people look like mushrooms

[IcyPeas]

10. I mean.... c'mon

[Skittles]

56. I will never understand the holes-in-jeans look

utterly fucking ridiculous

[tblue37]

14. Muumuus in the 1960s. Granny dresses.

[hunter]

25. I look good in a granny dress with granny glasses and I've never shaved my legs.

[secondwind]

15. Mini skirts that left nothing to the imagination!!

[Crazyleftie]

17. Noooooo....not that......

[malthaussen]

76. The OP asked for the "worst" fad.

-- Mal

[Budi]

16. Girdles

Wtf

1953 Formfit

[tblue37]

18. And sharply pointed bras!

[Wicked Blue]

60. Oh, the torture of those wretched girdles

Trying to wriggle out of them for gym class, and then trying to get them back on.

[Ziggysmom]

19. Seal Fur boots. ALL FUR! Stop the killing and abuse.

[Crazyleftie]

20. bellbottoms....never wore them

[Wolf Frankula]

22. Gangsta Pants

I quote the late Granma Simmons, (a neighbor). "Pull up your pants. Nobody wants to look at your stinky ass underwear."

Wolf

[hunter]

23. It's the 21st century. Why are neckties still a thing?

[Wicked Blue]

61. phallic symbols nt

[hunter]

26. Any shoe you can't run in.

Humans run. It's what we are.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

32. When I was a kid I thought it was cool

When I got old enough to buy one I had come to my senses

[tanyev]

28. I am mystified by the teeny tiny men's suit.

[skypilot]

48. Oh God.

I don't get this one either. And the whole high-water pants thing in general. Is this still a thing? It's kind of hard to tell with Covid and all. There are just fewer people about so I don't know if guys are still dressing like this.

[rickyhall]

29. Pants with ass cut out.

What's wrong with bellbottoms? I wore them in high school in the 70s. I liked the 70s after the war. We went to concerts every few weeks. Foghat, Boston, Rush, REO, ZZ Top. TV sucked, but oh well. Smoked a lot of reefer.

[geralmar]

30. Eldridge Cleaver P*nis Pants (circa 1970).

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[3catwoman3]

58. Did anyone other than Mr. Cleaver...

...ever wear these?

[3catwoman3]

74. "It" would have probably gotten caught on...

...a lot of things, hanging out like that.

[EmeraldCoaster]

31. boob apron

[3auld6phart]

33. Worst fashion fad

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Zoot suits. Yeah,I’m that old.

[dweller]

34. Diapers

man I hope I don’t end up back in them 😕

Next, pajamas ... that’s what blankets are for

✌🏻

[JenniferJuniper]

35. Pastel polyester leisure suits

preferably with sansabelt trousers.

I recall being at a wedding when I was about 12 and all the guys were dressed like this. Even then I recall thinking - this is a really bad look.

[catrose]

36. Spike heels

[Chainfire]

40. I had an appointment with a podiatrist and a patient comes into the waiting room wearing spike heels

I just had to smile....

[catrose]

63. Some things are easier to diagnose than others.

[TexasBushwhacker]

52. We had a woman in Houston that killed her lover

with her 5 1/2" stilettos. Struck him 25 times. She got life in prison.

[catrose]

62. That was the only self-defense I was taught as a teenager.

Honey, if he tries to touch you, you just smash him in the face with your high heel.

Only 3 inches then, but still deadly, I'm sure.

Gosh, your case was in Texas too. Hmm.

[Arkansas Granny]

37. Shoulder pads. I see several DUers share my sentiments.

[Chainfire]

38. Dickies

[Ponietz]

39. Camo

[blm]

44. ✔️

[Freddie]

43. Jumpsuits

It’s all fun and games til you have to pee.

[Freddie]

45. Some current ones:

Wedding gowns with the boobs hanging out

Skintight maternity clothes - my daughter wore this - how can that *possibly* be comfortable?

Men’s suits a size or two too small - seen on TV a lot - why?

[lettucebe]

46. Bellbottoms - they flatter no one

[XanaDUer2]

47. Wearing one glove a la Michael Jackson nt

[alphafemale]

50. That is one I was able to pull off

People wanted there pics with me because they thought I must be someone.

Yes. Hollywood.

Tourists aren't smart.

[alphafemale]

49. Jumpsuits. About 1978

You had to complete undress to take a pee or poo

[muntrv]

51. Sagging pants.

[Skittles]

55. this one, and it is current

just proof that women will wear ANYTHING and call it fashion

[MissB]

65. This.

I hate those shirts.

[Aristus]

67. Umm......I'm sorry. What's the problem?

[Skittles]

71. it just looks ridiculous

sleeveless turtlenecks also bug me - say, WTF

[Chainfire]

75. She could wear anything, or nothing, and it would be fashionable.

[Kali]

73. and stupid long in the back hemlines

already "using too much fabric" in front if you know what I mean, don't need the look exaggerated even more.

[3catwoman3]

57. We were at a squadron picnic one time while my husband was in...

...the Air Force, and a fellow pilot showed up in a lime green, polyester double knit leisure/jumpsuit that was a little on the snug side, even on someone as slender as this man.

His wife was wearing panty hose under her shorts.

An out-spoken friend commented quietly to me, “Well, you can tell he’s circumcised.” She was right - he was, and you could tell.


I’m very glad the pants-hanging-off-the-ass look is over. Underwear is called underwear for a reason.

I love threads like this! 💜

[Wicked Blue]

59. Hot Pants, skorts

and the more recent "cold shoulder" look with long sleeved tops with the shoulder area left open. Looks stupid.

Baby doll tops that make women look pregnant

Fishnet stockings

[Coventina]

69. PARACHUTE PANTS!!

I can't believe they haven't been mentioned, yet.

[MustLoveBeagles]

70. Pretty much anything from the eighties