Seven deadly fashion sins that should never have been brought back - Page 3

I am a big fan of cadet and band collars on jackets and mandarin shirts. they are meant to be popped up, and yet, a lot of people fold them.
Polos with popped up collars... actually polos are a big no for me. I hate polos on me. They all should BURN! BURN!
Bow Ties without a tuxedo should be banned.
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Epic fail.
Loop it, Swoop it and Pull. Tie your damn shoes!
Me judgemental? nah. Ok, just a little bit to have fun.

1. Ponchos - were in fashion in the UK a couple of years ago and they still pop up occasionally. Not Clint Eastwood style ones, but short, unflattering, sythentic yarn in barbie pink or pastel blue. Yuk. Especially if you have big boobies. Double yuk.

2. Ugg(hhh!) boots. Were ironic for about 5 seconds, but it still didn't stop them being gross. I have more respect for people who wear 80s moon boots, yeti boots or Mongolian boots.

3. Too tight ladies blouses. Maybe this is a UK thing, but if you are anywhere over a B cup, most ladies blouse these days are so slim fitting you get unsightly pulling and even fullbracupexposure! OH NO! Go up a size and and the only place they fit is the boobs. Thankfully this is changing with the astonishing rediscovery of the miracle that is draping. My beautiful pin tucked silk blouse from Principles only cost $100. sort of.

I like cropped trousers, but nothing longer than a couple of inches below the knee. I think they look great with platform sandals or 40s style heels. No cropped trousers on men, ever. See the hobbit comment somewhere above. I'm personally starting a crusade to bring back plus fours and pedal pushers.

I think I may be the only one who thinks that low cut skinnies look better on girls with a figure. I think the skinny girls wearing them tend to look like denim tubes. The problem with excess porkage hanging over the top is just because they're poorly cut or someone is wearing a size too small. I have an old 70s dressmaking book that states the greater the difference between waist/hip size, the lower you go! I put it down to modern attitudes to women with figures. Regardless, I only like skinny jeans with boots, not shoes.

Conversely, wide leg pants look better on skinnies, unless they are well cut (which eliminates a lot of off the peg stuff). Why do they try to get larger ladies to wear them? Personally I think they look awful and I am a former larger lady. It's a conspiracy I tell ye! I tried to get some yesterday. I'm fairly slim but I do have a butt! All of the ones I tried yesterday were tight in the butt but so flared on the leg I couldn't go up a size without looking like I was being assaulted by a giant pair of clown pants (I am quite short, which probably doesn't help).

Really, we need more straight legged, flat fronted trousers in shops. They pretty much suit everybody.

Don't listen to me. I pretty much do my own thing, and think that ADAM ANT is the height of sartorial elegance.

Take the crappiest clothes you can find. Put a skull on them. Consume.
It is called fashion.

Don Ed Hardy, stop using t-shirts as walls for Japanese gang graffitis. I have to admit though, they hire some of the cutest models I have seen. Eat your heart out prada. Your models are just creepy.

Skinny jeans? Are you kidding me?

They're sexy as sin.

Esp. when the girl in question - provided that she's in shape - is wearing them tucked into boots or with heels, as pictured somewhere in this thread.

What's the alternative, flared, boot-cut? Works with sneakers...sandals...kinda.

BTW, I wear tight jeans in general because I work on my body and like to display it. I swear skinny jeans only if I'm tucking into a boot, which I do here and there.

The worst look possible is skinny jeans and sneakers on those thin loser no-style punk guys.

Why do people always think that brighter colers will make then look slimmer. One of my friends recently told me that she was going to find a pair of light wash jeans so that she would look slimmer. Will anyone ever learn.

They should never bring back tight fitting leggings on ladies, especially if they are passed a certain age group and weight category.... and I also agree with most of the seven sins, with one exception, although even this exception refers to a particular case, since I happen to know a lady friend who looks just steaming hot and at the same time extremely classy with this kind of waist (but then again it might be just her and only her).

Agreed- and the latest leggings are slick and shiny looking- does nothing for the ice cream butt .

I also wish they had never brought back puff ball skirts and dresses !

Some "looks" you suspect are simply a cruel joke on designer's part and have never been meant to venture outside the safe confines of fashion shoots and photoshop. Imagine my horror when I started seeing rompers on the street. On grown women. Rompers. How some designer must be laughing that people fell for it.

Stretchy polyester stirrup pants in fluo camouflage/animal print and "BITCH" embroidered in rhinestones on the butt.
Pass the bucket, please...

ANY butt embroidery whatsoever.

In fact...a big old WTF to the resurgeance of super-expensive designer jeans. One of the few worthy fashion trends of the 1980's was the rejection of designer jeans in favor of good old worn in tradional 501s.

Someday, round-toed flats will come back in style. Until then, my feet will be in happily unfashionable Keens until the nightmare of pointy toed stilettos passes.

High waisted jeans. Actually, everything she's got on

I have to fully agree

They're baaaaack! Skirts with shoes and socks, as well as skirts with sandals and socks...I saw two different ladies sporting this on the street yesterday.

Fleurine, I love skirts (or rolled trousers) with socks and shoes/sandals. Just not on me. Although I did wear that look when I was 18 or 19. It looked cute then. Not so good for me now.

Usually if you are young enough & thin enough, you can wear whatever you like & still look good. In this case, I think the shoes & socks are hilarious! Not a good look, even on her.

With or without socks, those are my favorite shoes ever: t-strap pumps with rounded toes. They are so comfortable and fun to wear. They can be chunky like those, or more delicate, but I love them. ♥

T straps are huge in tango shoes. I have a pair of them in purple suede!

One of the ladies I saw wearing the skirt and socks combo was way-the-heck-over-the-top wearing a black skirt with bare whiite legs...black socks and beige sandals...it was quite something. She was thin and tall and was sort of pulling it off because she had a lot of attitude but those white legs with the black socks were funny!

I'm sort of irritated that I can't find any jeans or trousers that aren't tapered at the moment. I'm not falling for that one again.

How about the poncho?

¡Ay, caramba!


There is something oddly appealing about all these terribly out-of-style fashions. I can't believe that I would actually find that woman in bobby socks attractive. But she's definitely saying "hello, sailor" to me! And the gal in the upper poncho looks like a stingray. It's ridiculous. And YET......

It looks good for some reason. UGH. It just feels so WRONG.

I think they are called "baby doll" pumps, Lilybelle. I can still fit into my mother's from the 1940s!

I think fashion is such a personal thing.

First of all, I like high-waisted pants. Makes your legs looks miles long. Another fashion crime is wearing low-slung jeans/pants and you have a short inseam. Laughable!

Socks with sandals and pencil skirts? I hate pencil skirts--so bondagey, but socks with open toe platforms can be fabulous on knock-kneed girlish types or at least those very into hosiery. But the picture above with the very literal interpretation costumey vintage of pin up girl types is like tiresome war reenactment to me! Vintage is glorious, but mix it with modern or other eras, please, so as not to be a museum piece, unless it's a lifestyle thing 24/7, in which case the person is probably having a great time, more power to 'em, but ehh...

With the right mix and actual sense of style, I think anyone could wear anything and work it. All comes down to interpretation. But if we're talking the way mainstream, mass-market fashion interprets these trends, as I think the OP was, here's what I WILL NOT WEAR or am dismayed to see often on others--I know it's an old thread, but it seems like lots of the old complaints are still popular reheated trends:

1. Khakis and chinos of any kind--particularly shorts, unless it's a consciously retro 70s YSL safari look.
2. Golf clothing!!!! Sports clothing worn anywhere but during sports, hell even worn for actual workouts. The stuff is so hideous. The 80s ridiculous leggings with unitards thing was at least a look. These nike neoprene with capri running pants things are so ugggggh.
3. Women wearing cheap modern interpretations of classic men's hats, especially with a wannabe salsa dance look: the fedora worst of all, and please not those straw hats of recent! If a woman is going to do this, why not buy a vintage original? So much more chic.
4. It-bags and monster trend platform stud or strappy or hybrid shoes. So unoriginal and not functional, not chic, and yeah, chic isn't always the end all be all, but also kind of joyless in their sameness.
5. The recent popularization of a fake, expensive tough-girl style worn by very much not tough girls: thoughtless washings out of punk, grunge, goth with $1,000 pricetags. Gross. Ripped things costing more than a poor person who wears better looking ripped thing's monthly rent. Alexander Wang!!! The illusion that one can buy style.
6. Agreed about the tight, straight leg, and skinny jeans. We young ladies are going to get spider veins if we aren't careful. Tight jeans look good on skinny rockers but not many others.
7. Men dressing like clones. I know they have fewer options, but there's no need for the uniformity out there. The worst is that flannel, geek glasses, vaguely countercultural but traditional look.

I have to agree with you on that one, the boys at my school were either the really 'comfortable' dressers, with the Band T-Shirts and the baggy jeans with a beanie and maybe those cute leather bracelet things. or they wore the Abercrombie blech! collar popped up, 'geek glasses' with the Adidas/Nike etc sneakers with the really huge sneaker tongue and their skinny jeans tucked into it. I want to see more guys with style