Can you think of any "styles" or "fads" that might have medical implications?

Aside from tattooing and piercing anywhere and everywhere, you mean? Considering the way some of these seem ill-conceived and executed, I’m surprised there aren’t a lot more medical issues attached to them, including having piercings randomly torn off as they’re caught in clothing and on objects that we rub against from time to time.

Not a clothing fad, but a lifestyle one: Outside burning (fire pits) has hit the Boston suburbs hard this year. (asthma and other respiratory issues)

High heels have been wrecking havoc on women’s backs and feet for years.
I have a theory that people who wear hats to drive are stifling their brains as evidenced by the idiotic driving of most people who do. I used to think it was just old men in hats but over the last 30 years evidence seems to prove that it’s just hats in general. ~

Ear gauges, under the skin tattoos (metal).
Over plucking your eyebrows looks like it should be a medical issue, it’s crazy.

I was going to say high heels also. Especially the last 7 years or so they have been extra high, although they seem to be coming back down again. They wreak havoc on feet, spine, alter the achiles tendon, risk ankle injury, and if the bad man is in the alley you have less chance of being able to out run him.

Probably extra tight girdle like garments aren’t great for us either, I don’t know the data on that. I do know really tight corsettes (which seem to be coming back into fashion a little) can dig into the person causing bleding, and if worn by girls who are still growing can alter their physical bone structure.

I also know a lot of women who wear hairbands that cause them pain or headaches.
Some say hair dye isn’t good for us.

Men pretty much nothing. They don’t have much of any troubles as far as I can tell. Unless they bother to dye there hair, then maybe.

Edit: Also, I think baggy clothing helps us gain weight. Baby doll styles, all the designers putting the waist of a top or dress at the bottom of the rib cage so our tummy can still stick out or our thighs be huge and be hidden by the garment. Clothes can help us gauge if we are gaining weight. Not to mention vanity sizing for women. That is just a nightmare in my opinion.

@KNOWITALL Oh right. Those ear gauges. I guess men do those. I find that fashion to be just awful.

@JLeslie I find it nasty, too, and sometimes if you don’t clean them, it just smells like rotting flesh.

Nipple piercing, they’re going to look like the nose on a proboscis monkey when you’re older.

@KNOWITALL Gross. Actually, tongue piercings often have infection problems. You made me think of it when you mention the gauges can cause the area to smell.

Supposedly thong underwear run a risk of causing infection too.

I knew a women whose friend wore lacy pretty underwear on her wedding day and the fabric cut into her for hours and she wound up in the ER the wound was so bad.

I have read that the kind of underwear men choose can affect their health.
Wearing clothes that don’t fit, usually too tight.
Listening to loud music.
Smoking (anything)
Riding motorcycles – riders are known as donors in some places.
Belonging to gangs or accidentally wearing the wrong color even when non-gang related
Having a parent who belongs to a gang can kill you
Drinking and driving

@YARNLADY Tight underwear can affect men’s fertility. GA.

How about those stupid “challenges”? Like the cinnamon challenge, or the milk challenge.

@JLeslie Women do gauges in their ears, too.

@livelaughlove21 I know. I had initially said men get away without torturing themselves physically for fashion, but then I started to realize men do crazy stuff to themselves also, and gauges was one of them.