What are the weirdest fashion trends that you've ever seen?
I have noticed a lot of girls around campus with parts of their head shaved, while the rest of their hair is very long.
What is up with this?
What are some of the weirder fashion trends that you’ve seen?
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I saw a guy with a headband or sweatband on with a baseball cap turned to the side. Not a good look.
Joan Collins-type shoulder pads.
I never understood the thing with guys rolling up one pant leg slightly shorter than the other, girls wearing hairbands as jewelry or either sex wearing rubber bracelets that remind me of the ring of a birth control diaphragm.
People that wear their pants below their butt are amusing as are obnoxious hair colors.
Pants belted at the knees, i.e. really saggy pants. I think they don’t understand what a belt is for.
Crocs. Mullets. Visible thongs. 80s bangs. Seriously, what ever made us think that these things were flattering… on anyone?
ok me and a friend took her 16 year old neice to a rave last weekend- what’s up with the baby dummies? and they had glowing ones and sparkly ones!
In the Winter, I often see girls wearing really short jackets. They stop a little after the boobs. The whole jacket is really big and puffy, usually with a huge fur hood. But I always ask myself, don’t their tummies and lower back get cold? It seems so odd, having a big puffy coat, but that doesn’t cover the lower body. :/
I wouldn’t necessarily call this weird, but I’ve never cared for the “wearing jeans while wearing a dress” look. It looks messy to me. I bet you those people smell. lawl.
And wearing denim pants with a denim jacket is overkill.
Holy shit he totally looks like him, for sure. I’d also believe it if you told me that was you.
Also check out that guy with a pizza tatoo wtf lol.
People need to and should expess themselves as they see fit. I don’t really understand the need to hang metal from you nose and lips but it is kinda handy to know a claw hammer or crow bar is now one teenager away!
@FutureMemory and @KateTheGreat and @Symbeline yeah, he’s not quite as obtuse fashionwise as most of the other folks on the site. I think he earned his spot on that blog more for pouring milk on the floor, which is sooooo postmodern and artsy.
Woah, it really does look like you.
Hey, Fiddle, the guy pouring the milk out looks like you. Lol.
I have DESPISED all the mega pointy toes shoes and boots the last 5 years or so. Ick, reminds me of the witch shoes. lol
Oh, and all the tops with the wide dropped elastic bands at the bottom. WTF!
So fugly! hahaha
Jellies shoes. I’ve never heard more complaints about wearing something trendy than those. They hurt, they caused injury, the created sweaty, smelly feet. Yet people still wore them. Maybe they still do. I just haven’t seen anyone wearing a pair in years.
@Pied_Pfeffer oh gosh, I had them in every colour when I was a tween. They caused severe bodily harm, no doubt about it. :\
Back in the silent film era, silent comedians struggled to find ridiculous looks. Chaplin had the tight coat and baggy pants, for example. Harold Lloyd did the reverse with tight pants when doing his Lonesome Luke character. They were trying to look different from everyone else.
Had they seen the jail-garb inspired baggy pants dropped down below the ass, they would think it’s comic genius.
I remember trying to walk up a ramp onto a ship in my Jellies, it was a metal ramp and pretty steep, they sliced into my ankles. Owww!
@Coloma and @ANef_is_Enuf Good to know. I never owned a pair. The complaints by those that wore them were enough to prevent me from investing in a set.
The Ugg boot and short shorts look also alludes me. Even if I had a great pair of legs and was on the market for a partner, I wouldn’t dress like this.
@Pied_Pfeffer
Haha.. you busted me, I used to wear shorts and boots fairly often. All kinds, Ugs, cowboy.
I used to ride my horse in jean shorts and boots. I did have great legs. :-P
Oh my, the list is so long…
I think men’s modern “shorts” that reach to mid-shin are pretty silly. Ditto baggy basketball uniforms.
Absolutely, the saggy pants that silly young men wear these days as some kind of weird affectation make the list.
Whale tails on young women. What’s the fascination with showing one’s own underwear, I wonder?
Older men with their pants buckled at the level of their sternum, though this isn’t such a “new” look.
Paying extra for “distressed” jeans. I laugh out loud. I wore “distressed” jeans myself when I was a kid, but it took me years to get them to look that way; I wasn’t about to pay extra for someone to rip them up for me. Lunacy.
Most of the things that I wear can make someone else’s list, and probably do.
Blondes with very dark tans. Haha. Your skin should not be darker than your hair.
And Ugg boots. >:( Ugg stands for Ugly. :)
Oh man this question is great. Although, this time I’m not judging as much because I give mad props to anyone with the courage to wear any of the above. The denim on denim look (Texas tux as I call it) is so bad it’s awesome. After a lost luggage incident in Germany I was forced into that look by .. Well, I’ll just blame the airline. It was hilarious. I’m glad I was out of the country though. Crocs are a crime against humanity in my opinion. I have worked many jobs where I was forced into some pretty absurd get ups – no not like a hotdog suit but more like Uggs and a bright green Juicy velour suit. I knew it was fugly and wrong which is why I picked bright green and not baby pink. I kinda miss a job where clothes could be that comfy and absurd. The best part was people loved it and bought tons. I felt like such a con woman since I’d secretly laugh inside every time a woman snatched up the entire outfit for about $300 (mine was free thank god) I would say the weirdest was.. The animal hats put out by topshop last fall for the french store Colette.. I’m hunting for a pic. Where they were real animal head hats.. One was a deer (with antlers!) one was a raccoon and one was some other horned creature I believe. They were worn with dresses. It was pretty creepy and awesome. I wanted one sorta til I found out they were real (and discovered the price)
Permanent makeup and fake orange tans.
Testicle and eye piercings. <cringe>
Nose rings, mullets, fake tans, shutter shades, testicle-gripping sperm-killing penis-compressing jeans, etc.
Everything mentioned on this thread.
@Blackberry that was totally the wrong thing I pasted. I’m working on it. I cannot believe how little I know of computer stuffz sometimes
Winter hats in the summer. Unless their heads are really cold when it’s in the 90’s outside then all I can say is they are trying too hard to be hip. Is that some kind of Coldplay thing?
Crocs is the weirdest and dumbest shoe ever. Even beats UGgs.
I have to step in to the fray to defend crocs (or similar shoes). I broke my ankle and it was surgically reconstructed and Mion shoes (look like crocs) are the ONLY things I could wear for about 5 years after surgery. Mions were invented by the same guy that started Keen footwear (Martin Keen), left Keen and started Mions. I am not sure Mion is still making shoes so when my local outdoor store had a sale, I bought about 3 pairs of them just to have an inventory.
I agree with just about everything else suggested above, but gotta defend the comfy rubber shoes!
I lived through the 80s. Too many to choose from!
Some of the trends that are coming back into style terrify me. I didn’t like them in the 80s and 90s and I don’t like them now.
Leggings with huge tops, off-the-shoulder t-shirts with tank tops under, legwarmers, everything made from jersey knit (blazers, skirts, pants, etc.), huge headbands… I understand that history often repeats itself, but some things ought not be repeated!
“Fashion” is cyclical, and we will see the revolting trends of the past come and go. Can’t want till the underwear as outerwear is so last year.
I have just decided to start growing a tail to keep up with the throwback trend . . .
Argh! New thing! Those shoes that have toes in them. Weird.
@FutureMemory LOL! how ‘bout that guy with “Slayer” carved into his neck. That IS going to look bad someday, like tomorrow.
@JessicaRTBH S’all good, I was just racking my brain trying to figure it out lol.
@FutureMemory I was totally thinking about getting a scarification piece done on my back…
@Seelix are you talking about these ? To me thats not fashion. More functionality. They are by far the most comfortable shoes ever and really help correct your step.
@FutureMemory Ah, I wish I hadn’t looked now. That just makes me cringe. People are so ridiculous in the lenghts they go to just to be different.
@uberbatman – Yeah, those are the ones I mean. I don’t care how comfortable they are, they’re danged ugly. Just like Crocs!
@ Seelix – I agree about the toe shoes big time! Not just about looks.. I’m missing a toe and couldn’t even wear them if I wanted. They seem creepy to me. @ the movies last night a kid had them on with his feet on the chair it was distracting (more so than normal feet in shoes) because it was like his toes were grabbing the seat back
@Seelix the other thing I didnt mention is IMO they arent everyday shoes. To me they’re more of an outdoorsy shoe. Crocs are fugly though.
@seelix What a great way to have instant gorilla feet!
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