Things that were questionably 'fashionable'

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Inspired by the loo brush thread I'll start with this

Everything being painted bloody grey. It's such a depressing ugly colour.

Twigs in jars
Carpets in bathrooms
Doilies
Net curtains
Novelty ash trays

The Darkness.

Grey velvet, wtf!

My nan still has her loo roll doll.
It's that color too

The plastic Ted Baker bags all the teenage girls had a few years ago. They was hideous and looked like a cheap knockoff.

Shellsuits in the late 80s. I had two and thought I was amazing.

The plastic Ted Baker bags all the teenage girls had a few years ago. They was hideous and looked like a cheap knockoff.

Oh yes, glad those have disappeared. When I was a teen everyone had bags with the playboy bunny logo on them.

Serving food in restaurants on anything other than plates seems to have disappeared now. Most commonly on chopping boards or slates but in some cases more obscure things like the ends of shovels

I can't wait for the grey thing to die out, it looks especially awful when people paint the outside of thier house grey.

Incredibly thin scarves in the early 00s (I was such a big fan!)

The jeans I wore circa 2005 where the cuffs were wider than my shoes, longer than my legs, and constantly waterlogged from puddles I thought I looked so bloody cool!

I'll be glad when tattoos go out of fashion.

Embroidered waistcoats. I thought I looked the business in mine. I look back at photos now and I look like a trainee magician.

Those awful Paul's Boutique jackets that were around in the noughties

Tongue and groove pine panelling.
Feature walls
Patterned wallpaper
Two tone kitchens in the 70’s green and mustard cupboard doors
Avocado bathrooms

Tank tops
Hot pants
Crimplene
Pointy toed stilettos
Handbags with chain handles (that ruined your coat)
Shoulder pads

Nylon sheets (fabulous static-charged bolts of mini-lightning if you turned over in bed!)
Coloured bathroom suites.
Grey and red decor.

When I was in secondary school (I'm 26 now) all the girls used to use foundation instead of lipstick so that they all looked liked they'd lost their mouths. I'm still amazed that we ever considered that a good look!

When I was in secondary school (I'm 26 now) all the girls used to use foundation instead of lipstick so that they all looked liked they'd lost their mouths. I'm still amazed that we ever considered that a good look!

The jeans I wore circa 2005 where the cuffs were wider than my shoes, longer than my legs, and constantly waterlogged from puddlesI thought I looked so bloody cool!

Oh yes, those jeans, remember all the little scrappy bits of denim left on pavements

@TheVeryHungryTortoise we’re similar ages. Whyyyyy did we do that?! Just not a good look whatsoever! We seemed to use an awful lot of face powder too.

And some more:
Flock wallpaper
Massive costume jewellery
Mullets
Jane Fonda fitness video (fond memories of this, a neighbour and I used to get drunk and do the beginners and then the advanced - we felt no pain!)
I'm so glad some of these fashions haven't come around again.....

Patterned wallpaper

I've just put patterned wallpaper in my downstairs loo and it looks awesome I'll have you know!

-Hipster jeans (the ridiculously low kind) with a "whale tail"
-Orange tan
-Pencil thin eyebrows/sperm brows
-And the really brief fad of skirt-trousers when I was about 14 🤷🏻‍♀️

MASSIVE quiffs . Shit ton of hairspray and then hair dry while you try and get it as high as possible (early to mid 90s - anyone else?)

Oh and the sponged paint effect walls my mum had in the 90s!

Hair dryer

Artex ceilings. Either swirly patterns or spiky, splatty mess. What was the point?!?