What fads are you glad are gone? Can be toys, clothing, foods, It came and it went, Mine is the pet rock

[debm55]

[calguy]

1. Cabbage Patch Dolls

[debm55]

2. yes, TY calguy

[Jrose]

3. Hair-teasing and spraying of the late 50s and early 60s...

Also...
-shoulder pads

[debm55]

4. Ty Jrose, My shoulder pads would move down , so it looked like I had four breasts.

[Jrose]

13. Haaaaahaaa! Thats so funny! (must confess, I think I once used those pads to stuff my bra!)

[Ocelot II]

5. I never bothered with the fad toys so I didn't pay much attention

when they came and went. As to fashion fads, the one I disliked the most was the huge shoulder pads in a lot of women's clothes during the '80s. I hated looking like a linebacker, but if you cut them out the garment didn't hang properly. It was a ridiculous look. You had the big hair, then the jackets with shoulder pads, which were worn with skinny leggings and (sometimes) high heels, so there was this weird top-heavy inverted triangle effect.

[debm55]

7. Ocelot II. I agee with you. Tried cutting my shoulder pads out and it looked terrible

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Anything disco-related from the music to the fashions to the tragic hipness.

[debm55]

8. Ty, Gildey N Cloyd , I totally agree,

[LastDemocratInSC]

9. Pet Rocks have been replaced by Pet Clouds

Silica aerogel.

https://www.aerogel.org/

[debm55]

11. Ty, LastDemocratinSC

[Alpeduez21]

10. Jello 'salads'

Fruit jello salads. Pretty much jello a thing

[debm55]

12. TY Alpeduez21. I hated them. And Ambrosia

[MOMFUDSKI]

14. Hip huggers because I am

76 years old!!!! lol

[debm55]

19. TYMOMFUSKI. I have hips?

[rsdsharp]

15. Polyester double knit.

And its worst incarnation: Leisure suits.

Ah, what the hell; all 1970s men’s fashion.

[grumpyduck]

16. That was all like a pill to induce vomiting.

[debm55]

18. Agree, grumpyduck

[debm55]

17. Ty, rsdsharp. My husband still has his ----they might come back in style.

[rsdsharp]

20. Your husband must like to sweat,

and has a high threshold for embarrassment.

[debm55]

21. He never throws anything away.

[rsdsharp]

23. I envy your closet space!

[jmowreader]

62. Don't get me started on polyester doubleknit

My mother absolutely fell in love with polyester doubleknit. The only thing she EVER wore when she left the house was a polyester doubleknit pantsuit in some color not found in nature, a white shell blouse and lipstick in a shade so far from what she should be wearing - basically, a fire-engine red that only looks good on about four people - that it was embarrassing.

Here's the worst part: one of her granddaughters got married in 2011 and she was planning to wear the same clothes and makeup to the wedding. I took her to Macy's to get that shit fixed.

[Ferrets are Cool]

22. Fads don't bother me because I am never trapped by them.,

[debm55]

26. Excellent ,Ferrets are Cool

[Brother Buzz]

24. Eldridge de Paris pants

Another reason political activists should never, ever, dabble in design.

[debm55]

28. Ty Brother Buzz.I can't see any wearing that.

[stopdiggin]

25. hats, for men

Frank Sinatra looked cool - you just look like a dweeb
if you don't need it for work (sun, safety, diving helmet) - leave the skull cap and fashion affectation at home

[debm55]

27. Thank you stopdiggin

[Niagara]

29. I'm grateful that I never had to wear a S-Bend corset that many women wore

during the majority of the Victorian era.



Some of the ultra pencil thin eyebrows that women (and sometimes men) wore in the 1920's through early 2000's were not flattering at all.



By some luck, I was able to escape the bowl hair cut AKA the Dorothy Hamill cut.

[debm55]

32. I had a Dorothy Hamill. TY Niagara.

[Niagara]

35. Luckily hair grows back, Debbie!

[Cartoonist]

30. Wearing pants below the waistline

Still waiting for that one to end.

[debm55]

36. Ty Cartoonist. I agree with you.And underwear showing.

[Ritabert]

31. Big shoulders in women's clothes

Also big hair. Think the "Dynasty" tv series.

[debm55]

37. Agree, Ritabert. I hated them. but at one time that is all they made.

[Freddie]

53. I may be the only one who liked shoulder pads

Made my hips look smaller.

[debm55]

58. TY, Freddie. I see your point

[cayugafalls]

33. Fads to me are like stock markets to rich people.

I collected fad'ish items all my life. My wife thought I was cray.

Now retired, selling vintage collectibles on eBay to make some extra...

Just sold one 30 year old Pokémon 1st edition card (a rare find) for several grand.

[debm55]

38. TY. cayugafalls. We did it with the beany babies. Ended up through them away.

[eallen]

34. Clackers

[debm55]

39. Hated those things. Always hit myself in the head with the hard marble balls. TY, eallen.

[Polybius]

40. Pubic hair

[debm55]

43. There is always one on a thread.

[Chainfire]

41. I can't think of any fad that really bothered me. There were plenty that I did not participate in.

[debm55]

44. thank you Chainfire.

[CanonRay]

42. Mullets

and boom boxes

[debm55]

45. Then you missed it. Here in Pittsburgh the Penguins retired Jaguars number for his shirt. They were selling mullet wigs

wigs. His shirt was free. I wish I had tickets to go as I remember him as an 18 year old kid. He is 50 something now.

[NNadir]

46. Cocaine.

[debm55]

47. NNadir, yes very much so.Wasn't it for the higher class as it was expensive?

[LudwigPastorius]

48. "The Wave"

Kinda pointless, and all it ends up doing is getting somebody's beer spilled on you.

[debm55]

49. Yes, I don't see it anymore. Thank goodness

[Xolodno]

50. Acid washed jeans.

Expensive and didn't last long.

[debm55]

61. Agree, TY Xolodno

[elleng]

51. Nutty Putty; Jacks

[debm55]

60. TY elleng

[cloudbase]

52. Disco music. YMMV.

[debm55]

56. Ty cloudbase. There was some I liked but not that much.

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[Lemonwurst]

54. Fringe Vests

Loved them in their time, but I’d bet a king’s ransom they’ll never come back - ever!

[debm55]

55. TY, Lemonwurst. I had a faux fringe vest in Junior High. I agree with you

[marble falls]

57. I still have the Nehru jacket. I wore exactly twice for less than an hour all told ...

... every time I consider updating my "style", I take a look at it.

[debm55]

59. TY marble falls. Did you have the peace beads that went with it?

[marble falls]

63. Wore them before and wear them still. Except in the Navy.