I accidentally went into a trendy shop today...

[Mrsemcgregor]

.... and it was so trendy I didn’t even recognise it as trendy. I got confused and assumed I had temporarily time travelled 25 years in the past when the site of this particular Urban Outfitters was in fact a Banardos.

I was brought back to present time by the helpful 17 yr old who could clearly see I was lost in time and asked me if he could help (escort me to the nearest M&S where I clearly belong).

I hope the photos work.

I’ve enjoyed this thread a lot though the charity shop framed signed photo of Mark Curry makes me a bit sad.

Thing is I had some 80s looks I would still like to wear - I had a whole get up from Jigsaw which was fab. Cut off cotton trousers, baggy t shirt with matching socks (always), massive anchor earrings and some Jo Boxer style boxer boots. Probably finished off with some Heather Shimmer. I would totally wear that today if I could get away with it .

That Urban Outfitters jumper would never have been cool. John Craven is a fine newsreader but he’s no style icon

Ha ha! That's hilarious! Now gutted I didnt keep all my old clothes! Could have resold on Ebay!

I had to go and get a cup of tea after I saw bodysuits ('bodies') in New Look. I'd only gone in to collect a pair of shoes...

Wow... If you'd posted it with some joking comment about finding a blast from the past at the charity shop I'd have believed you.

That's amazing. And those clothes look awful (in my ever so humble opinion).

Wait. Does this have anything to do with normcore ? That baffles me but maybe this is it in action ?

Mollscroll your eighties outfit sounds just my sort of thing!

Whereas the OP's discovery is like a horrible pastiche of my past. I'm a little disturbed by it.

I think I mean parody not pastiche!

Some of those purples are very 'Dash' circa 1987! Hands up if your mum dressed head to toe in Dash in the 80s The middle class leisure wear of choice for 40 something women.... Could do with those elasticated waists myself now!

Wonder what happened to Dash?....

I accidentally took my mum in a urban outfitters last week. Wouldn't have happened but they have moved from their Uber trendy shop with the front door that was like a dark beach shed that I did not dare enter to a more normal shopping centre door.

I was a bit flummoxed as to why it is so trendy.

I also got a bit over excited to see some bootcut hipster cords in the same style and colour I use to live in.

Well this is how unfashionable I was - despite my totally cool outfit as described above. I had an entire outfit from Dash - not my mum. It was pink shorts, pink diagonally striped t shirt and the obligatory matching pink socks. Now I realise I looked like Beverley Goldberg heading out for some Mom tennis coaching.

The 80s called they want their fashion back. I had a shell suit like that after I had DS1.

Looks more Mr Buyrite to me

Oh, I remember Dash! They had a section in our local department store but it was a bit expensive for a tracksuit, & if you really needed a tracksuit for PE (you really didn't, beyond the first day of secondary school, despite what your mum said), there was the Army surplus shop.

DS (17) will only wear white sports socks with everything. I did a wash the other day. It looked like Crockett & Tubbs had moved in.

There are a number of Vintage shops in our city. I think some get clothes from house clearances because sometimes the stock is all very much from the 60s or 70s. Some also sell furniture or household gadgets, old books, buttons, & toys, even prams. There's one lovely one which is a trip down memory lane. Half their stock is stuff from my childhood, & is the sort of stuff my parents chucked because they wanted something more 21st century.

Looks like Dash are still going!

www.dashfashion.co.uk/da-clothing

They look like clothes from the 80s and 90s.
... i do believe that style is back in.. but im not fashionable so could be wrong (im only 29)

Surely that’s a charity shop?

It's not the style of those clothes so much as the cheap material! If they looked quality it would be better, but it looks cheap as hell.

If this is what’s happened since I’ve been largely absent from the high street then boody hell !!!
Op I hope you’ve now isolated yourself and won’t be venturing out again for some time ? You need to rest.

I realise online shopping is insulating me from the realities out there.

@HeronLanyon

If this is what’s happened since I’ve been largely absent from the high street then boody hell !!! Op I hope you’ve now isolated yourself and won’t be venturing out again for some time ? You need to rest.

I went straight to Tesco for wine. My recovery is ongoing

@AestheticWitch

I blame Gucci. And Harry Styles.

Straight up Golden Girls.

Oh that explains why charity /vintage shopper dd spent a fortune in urban outfitters

Shell suits? Bloody hell no. I remember a comedy show from way back, with a joke at the end, something along the lines of - And finally, a word of warning to those of you wearing shell suits on Bonfire Night. Don't stand to close to the fire .... or everybody will see how fucking stupid you look'

Or something like that

😂 I used to work in the Sweater Shop! They thought they were so American - for Buchanan St, Glasgow! All the jumpers had things like GLASGOW EDINBURGH NEW YORK on them!! 😂
But yes I am also disturbed by dds fashion sense as I see her buying things that I chucked out 40'years she and that she has the audacity to laugh at in photos of me in my teenage years!!