What was the worst fashion/fad you can remember?
 

Bellbottoms, jelly sandals, plastic charm bracelts, jheri curl. They were in style than but not now. Did you take part in these trends?

Bringing back memories
 

JELLY SANDALS!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how I remember digging in a barrel to find some my size. Only to have them fall apart the next day from me playing in them. What about the jeans with patches of leather or suede on them?

I'm kinda young, but for me, I'd say "cross colors." the big baggy shorts w/ big blocks or red, orange, green, blue, etc.

Two-toned or acid washed jeans. I had a blue shearling that I loved but now I am thinking back and shaking my head.

I'm an 80s baby, so I'm going to say NEON everything. We had a girl in my school who would wear so many different neon colours together that one of my teachers called her "Kool-Aid" :D

Oh, and another one -- the big Madonna style cross jewelry. I have to say that I had a couple of pairs of cross earrings that I'd mis-match and wear.

HMMM, so many
 

Jheri curls
men wearing braids
blond hair on black women
clogs
Michael Jackson's gym shoes
plastic shoes

I had a curl!!!:D
I also wore:
A Michael Jackson red leather jacket
Leg warmers
extra-tight jeans (the Jordash look)
ankle boots with my jeans tucked into them
2-3 pair of layered socks (you had to see each color)
Izod or Polo shirts (with the collar flipped up)
an earring with a key (a la Miss Jackson)
2-3 triangle shapped earrings in each ear (a la Salt and Pepper)
Flashdance style loose sweat shirts
Penny loafers with quarters in them

I could go on and on...

One word: JAMS - those neon crazy long shorts I think my age group wore like in elementry school

Candy necklaces - sticky neck!

Different colored stone washed jeans - like pink...as well as any kind of jeans with the zippers at the bottom (or anywhere)

Wearing more than one watch on an arm (like 3 or 4 swatch watches)

Ruffles

Bananna Clips

Shoulder Pads

the "flashdance look"

Jeri curls or the "Ready For The World look"
jellies or /and plastic shoes

I liked the acid wash jeans:D

Where to start?
 

Let's see...

Big, poofy bangs
Poodle perms
slap bracelets
scrunch socks
jeans rolled at the ankle, with like 5 pairs of different colored socks underneath
big huge NKOTB pins
acid-wash anything
off-the-shoulder shirts
T-shirts tied with a big ol' knot or clip on the side
crimped hair in a banana clip...

Sadly, this was all stuff I used to wear in elementary school:rolleyes:

What I call the "Disco" look and farther back, Nehru Jackets.

Re: Where to start?
 

LOL The "tight roll" pants!!! Remember when it would come undone?? oh hell! You had to stop in the middle of the hall, bend over, and fix it!

AXiD4Life, it's not nice to make fun of just about every single girl I went to high school with. :D

I was a mix between Goth, New Wave and Punk in high school. I wore lots of black, slouched, and generally looked ticked off all of the time. ;)

Worst Fad/Fashion

My neighbor...Oh my goodness I wish you guys could see this man!!!! He is stuck in the 70's...He wears these funky colored suits with those crazy colored shirts...He leaves his shirt unbuttoned so he can show off his hairy chest along with his gold chain with this big zodiac medallion hanging from it!!! He walks around sporting this afro with the afro pic in his head....Oh it gets better he thinks he is the "Mac Daddy" of arkansas... :D

LOL. I had the A symemetric and thought I was the coolest thing since sliced bread.:D And my mom had a think with mushrooms. LOL:D

I gotta weigh in on this one, since I was at the mall tonight and saw some people actually still sporting these looks! :eek:

Bell bottoms (impossible to wear if you have hips and a butt)
Dark brown lipliner w/ gloss inside
Collars as wide across as your shoulders
The big shirt, belted over stirrup pants
Tight jeans with high heels!!

I remember the cross colors, and the Reebok black tennis shoes with the flourescent soles. Yikes!!!

One of my girls still does this. I try to tell her but.. she. is. not. hearing. it. :o

How 'bout.....
 

The Shag (that little piece of afro thing that guys would wear on the back of their head) :eek:

um...can we say ACID WASHED JEANS? A fashion NO NO!

lol @ Dove1920....remember cool outs and butterfly collars...and and anything lace...yuck... :eek:

I remember bellbottoms from junior high school.

What about the little house on the prairie look with the tops with the ruffles on?

I had one of those...the double breasted shirt. LOL I actually liked that shirt.

Why don't we just include that ridiculous neon trend, mettallic shoes and belts(argh) and just about anything else from the 80's...it was a sooooo very tacky time period in fashion.

THE JELLIES WITH THE THICK HEELS ON THEM.....
REEBOK CLASSICS (ALL THE COLORZ)...
F.I.L.A.
P.A.C.O.
B.O.S.S.
BUCKET HATS
CHINESE SLIPPERS (THE DOLLAR ONE'Z THATCOMEINALL DIFFERENT COLORZ)
BACKWARDZ CLOTHING
WINDBREAKERZ (ACCEPTABLE ONLY IF WORKING OUT)
SIDE PONYTAILS
WHITE TEEZ

i remember being all about the pegged jeans, men's ties, vests (preferably tapestry material), and spandex leggins with oversized shirts...

ehhhhhhh, the horror of pictures from middle school...

- marissa

This one need not be remembered because it is alive and well. I hate this hippie look that is going on right now. I can't wait for the winter to come so they can get those flow-y skirts and those ugly shirts out the windows.

Chunky heel shoes, wedge sandals, platforms. If you still got them in your closet, people are laughing at you when you wear them.

slap bracelets

those things hurt

an abundance of pink on men
anything neon
wearing clothes inside out

Those plastic bracelets (the ones started by Lance Armstrong but have now expanded to say any and everything)

YESSSSS...I guess they started off as a good fundraising idea but now its annoying. See people with 5 bracelets on their arm.

I do believe I wore that exact outfit for class pictures one year. My shirt had little charms of various French landmarks over the buttons...so chic! :rolleyes:

Stretch pants -- I'm going with others who have mentioned the stretch pants and leggings with oversized sweaters

Pins/Buttons -- Did anyone else have like A MILLION different pins (political/entertainment/etc.) and buttons (different shapes and sizes) ALL over a jean jacket, tight-rolled jeans and a jean purse?

Ooh - y'all remember those little jean purses with different scenes on them? Scenes like a girl putting on lipstick with the quote, "Whatever you say........NOT!!!!!"


ETA: Ok - I've asked many people about this and everyone thinks I'm crazy. DOES ANYONE remember Multiples?????? Those clothes that were solid colors and there were maybe only five different pieces but you would wear them differently for different things. For example: the mini-skirt was also a tube top. The material was really soft and stretchy.

Also, shopping for them was part of the craze. You'd go to the mall and there would be a wall full of white tubes and boxes and you'd pick out your stuff from there.

Yup - we had a store like that called Units. It was fun at the time, but I'd never want to wear that look again! That store in the mall is now a MAC. I was in there the other day and while waiting for my makeup, I found myself giggling at all the times my best friend and I would go in there just to create really crazy combinations.

Jelly Shoes
Platform Tennis Shoes
Slap Bracelets
NEON anything (I once had a tank top that was lime green on one side and super bright neon pink on the other... why did my mother let me wear that!?)
Shirts with your name or any other message airbrushed on them

I had two pairs of Units pants, which I called "fancy sweats." Wore those suckers fairly regularly in the early 1990s.:o

jeri curls
leg warmers
giant belts
tight a** jeans on men
say anything T-shirts

I didn't know that people still rock the jheri curl! I saw this guy the other night with jheri curl juice dripping on his polyester suit. I thought I was having flashbacks of the early 90s. :D

Then I went to dinner last night and saw a woman in the restaurant wearing several pairs of earrings at the same time going up the earlobes from smallest to largest.

Individual braids with the little gold rings at the ends, or the burned ends are a couple more.

The puffy winter jacket - all the time, even in this heat... oh wait people still do it :rolleyes:

Other than that -
leg warmers
those horrible little gym shorts for guys
speedos
tight ass acid wash jeans
Jeri curl mullets (a horrible combination of two bad ideas)
side ponytails
spandex (in it's many incarnations)
t-shirts over long sleeve shirts/sweaters

ROFLOLOLOLOLOL!

I was trying to find a picture to illustrate the image in my mind, when I found this on joesportsfan.com.

"Not only was Lionel a musical genius, he was also a pioneer in the world of hair. Lionel is the only known man to pull off the historic “superfecta of hair”, simultaneously wearing a jheri curl, mullet, ponytail and mustache all at the same time in the Dancing on the Ceiling video."

"superfecta of hair"??? LOLOLOL! Y'all I'm done for the night...DONE!