The Worst Fashion/Beauty Trends Of All Time

Nehru jackets

Neon 80s shit

Pleated pants

You wrote it acid wash

Spandex

80s mall hair

70s facial hair

John Lund and William Lundigan

Open shoulder or cold shoulder blouses. Whatever you want to call them, they are trailer trash tacky as hell.

Tiny backpacks

No tiny backpacks were great for weed.

Men with long hair parted in the middle. Think how good Tom Payne looked with his shorter haircut during Prodigal Son. But really, especially male soccer players who wear their hairbands right at the hairline... it never looks good!!

This thread is useless without pictures

Hammer pants

man bun

Sagging jeans.

Shoulder pads

Kardashian bodies and faces, specially the cellulitic asses and the duck lips

Zubaz pants

Members Only jacket

Earth shoes.

Yes, people actually bought and wore these shoes. And here's a confession, I bought and wore a pair of them.

Both microbladed influencer brows and mid 90s Drew Barrymore brows. Need a happy medium between the two.

Hipster men buttoning their shirts all the way to their neck. Why?

The lumbersexual look of recent years (appears to be fading away.)

Hip hugger jeans and pants---fine for some, others need options!

Babydoll dresses + baby barrettes.

Mesh.

Boxer briefs.

[quote]No tiny backpacks were great for weed.

No.....they were great for Lesbians.

I had this pair of Earth Shoes loafers for men, r20. They were ugly, but they were as comfortable as advertised.

Pleated pants

Caftans

Butterick patterns for well coordinated Dysfunctional families of the late 60s. We wore matching red, itchy, wool coats cut like we yodeled or marched. I remember I disapproved of the color of the french seams - my mom used a cream color.

R19 I had a Members Only jacket exactly like that one. I accidentally left it on an airplane back in the ‘70s and I imagine it’s still riding around in the overhead.

Wet look hair in the 90s for women esp

Men in dresses

Early-’00s fugliciousness ...

• Juicy Couture track suits

• Chunky skunky highlights

• Douchewear: Ed Hardy graphic tees and Von Dutch trucker hats

• Denim suits

• Crop tops, crochet tops, tube tops, bandanna tops, and halter tops

• Gauchos under skirts

• Kitten heels

• Lace-up jeans

• Strappy stiletto Jesus sandals

^ I don't mind kitten heels, but totally agree with everything else you mentioned

The mid-'90s Guy Fieri/Smash Mouth look for men: frosted tips, guayabera shirts, and puka necklaces

Stretched earlobes

Mullets

Tribal tattoos

Giant shoulder pads

Everyone getting rotisserie chicken-colored tans

r35, frosted tips are the worst

Pants/slacks/trousers do not flatter the female form, unless the woman wearing them is young and slender.

90s --the sad rayon slip dress worn with a t-shirt under it, generally with pixie hair and doc marten's boots.

going even one better(worse), the turtleneck under slip dress

What about me?

The Karen haircut

Polyester double-knit everything from the 70s. Horrible fabric.

R40 ok I really love that trend and look and still do — have to admit.

90s brown lipliner that made women's mouths look like anuses.

The Centuar trend in lower body augmentation. Horrific.

Cargo shorts and flip flops.

Undercuts and top knots, especially on guys.

Once upon a time when everyone lived in the forest and we all everyone of us had hair around our dicks, 1997, Nike, Adidas, and everyother asshole company came out with integrated mesh liners for running shorts so the strangely Velcro-like web caught only geometric bits of your dick and pubic hairs while you were stairclimbing.

Sagging pants, tattoos and beards.

1940s hair for women,

Oh, and the clothes, too.

R33 were any kittens hurt while making kitten heels?

Goth

Shaved eyebrows

White lipstick

Underwear as outerwear

Safety pins in the face

Huge, over sprayed hair

Ragged jeans with holes in the knees

Flannel shirts

Mini skirts

Poodle skirts

It doesn't get much better than this.

Jorts, especially the too-long ones, the pegged/rolled ones that are too tight and camel-toed or moose-knuckled, or pleated ones like Ned Flanders would wear.

Long pleated Bermuda shorts that make everyone look bigger than they are.

90s Silver Tab jeans that sat low, were too wide, that made everyone's butt and legs look bigger and wider. (See episodes of Charles in Charge)

R55 Your transphobia is LITERALLY killing me.

I bet those three @R55 got laid even more than the Go-Gos. Can you imagine the superb cock they all got?

Pleated Docker-type pants. I was watching some Columbo TV movies from the early 90s and a lot of the actors were wearing these. They make guys look pear-shaped (even hot, fit guys like Andrew Stevens and Ian Buchanan)

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For men: the stupid man bun. Wear a samurai costume and the look is complete.

For women: the ultra trashy whale tail. Thirsty bitches like Kim K and Bieber's ho are trying to bring it back.

Those awful short women’s hairdos of the 50s.

The hair was short, not the women. (Although some women were probably short, too)

R62, what are you talking about about?

Vivian Vance. Still unfunny after all these years.

Those bump-its women wore in their hair

White makeup that was made from lead. . Well, certain the worst beauty trend of all time when resulted in death.

I hate the full beard look. It creeps me out about the bacteria and virus--and even bugs-- that nests in there. Hopefully, the Covid virus makes them shave it off.

r67, at least it's a step up from orange makeup

The men's pointy-toed shoes of the middle ages.

Obviously walking in these was a problem, so the silly solution to a self-created problem was to make the pointy toes even longer... and to tie them to a fucking garter under the knee.

The original platform shoe - Chopines! Worn by Venetian women in during one fad in the renaissance, and responsible for even more falls and broken bones because they were up to two feet high and not secured to the ankle!

Ladies who were fool enough to wear them needed two attendants and a long cane to walk into the next room.

women's shoulder pads from 1980's

All of them. Clothing is a prison for the human body.

Over plucked brows, replaced with stencilled on sperm shapes, drag queen-like arches (think Divine), or the quotation marks. "Fashionable" dark roots on blonded hair, and all ombré colour combos. Extreme long nails on women, real or fake.

Blow up dolls look, attractive women abusing on botox and fillers until the point they not longer look human.

A suit or (even worse) pegged trousers worn above the sockless ankle with brogues or loafers.

It only works if the wearer is Italian, has a deep suntan and has just disembarked from a cruise on Lake Como.

She's gorgeous R75. Mild stroke victim with a touch of Bell's Palsy.

r75, who is that? She was pretty before, she didn't need any work.

Corsets. In "Gone With The Wind" Scarlett corsets herself so tightly that she has a seventeen inch waist. That type of corseting made breathing difficult and over time could cause the ribs to be deformed. In modern times some types of women wore corsets in public in order to be "sexy." I recall seeing a photo of Pamela Des Barres out in public (she looked like she was in an airport terminal; she was with her then lover Keith Moon) wearing nothing but a corset and stocking and garter belt. Yech. And of course Madonna made them very popular for a time, wearing them in public and onstage.

R55 Women that look all innocent are usually FREAKS in the bedroom! Especially Jesus freaks!