I internally sniggered at a teenager today. Confess your worst teenage style disasters here.

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She'd piled all her hair up on her head in an amazingly tall Marge Simpson do. I was both completely mesmerised and internally sniggering at the same time.

Then I remembered I used to actually go out wearing plumbers overalls, accessorised with a cheap red, wide plastic belt.
Tied red bandana round hair like Bananarama/Dexys/Hilda Ogden
Wore long dangly chain earrings with red balls on the end the size of a grape
Red canvas shoes
Pink and red eyeshadow
Blue lipstick

Essex 1980s.

Confess your style disasters here.

Hid my nipples!

I went through this phase of wearing oversized men's shirts and I had this hideous blue velvet jacket, I'm so glad there are no photos of me from then 😅

1980’s- pastel green and black striped cotton suit ( think really cheap cotton) rolled up sleeves and rolled up legs, white stilettos. 😆

@pecanmix what is a shag band?

That autocorrects to shame band!

Younger lace gloves i wanted to be madonna-then ripped jeans double denim kickers and my naf naf puffa jacket

anyone remember sun-in?

I saw two girls wearing jewelled bindis on their foreheads in Waitrose earlier. I just smiled with fondness and nostalgia as I wore them myself in the 90's.

With all the 90's fashion resurfacing I feel officially old to have been there first time round! Babydoll dresses with knee high socks anyone? And Rimmel birthday suit lipstick with much darker brown lipliner?

Studded belts with baggy jeans, vans vest tops, converse, loads of those gummy shag bands and eyeliner a la avril lavigne.
A weird phase of really ripped jeans, just no knees at all with dresses over the top, a rasta hat and knitted shoulder bag my gran made

Thick blue eyeshadow and five poorly applied layers of mascara
Cakey dream matte mousse
Cheap UGGS from primark which made my feet look like cotton wool in the rain
Enough Charlie Black body spray to kill a horse
Hair straightened within an inch of its mousy lifeless life
Belts just under the boobs to make my non existent chest look voluptuous
Those awful pedal pusher leggings
Tiny ballet flats which gave me hammer toes trying to keep them on
Smearing foundation on my lips and applying too much eyeliner
Large sweeping side fringe which coupled with the eyeliner made me look like a raccoon

Guess the year!

My tattoos are my biggest teenage style disaster though.

I recall being really really proud of my pastel pink pixie boots and matching wife leather belt which I wore low slung around a pastel t shirt dress

Also a hideous batwing red and black long stripy jumper sometimes worn with leggings or even just with opaque tights, fringe in my eyes and a lot of mascara.

I thought I was Debbie Harry or Chrissy Hind.

Bright blue eyeshadow, black lipstick, Adidas or similar brand jogging bottoms with Doc Martens...
I was not a style icon, shall we say.

Loved my German army shirt and swear platform boots!

Long cricket jumper. Jeans cut off at crotch with random floral lace-edged sections sewn on to make a miniskirt. Fishnets and shiny patent ankle boots. What a stunner!

Drawing a veil over the lime-green acrylic jumper, widely belted, worn over a white denim pencil skirt, matching lime-grern fake suede kitten heeled ankle boots with haystack hair and dream catcher earrings. Fuck you very much, late 80s...

Oh! The waistcoats my mum made me! I was into grunge at that point, and I stand by everything I wore at that point... except the waistcoats

1980's teen. I wore my grandad's actual collarless grandad shirts, my Dad's 1950's teddy bear shirts & jumpers from Mr Byrite.

Also had a stripey cerise & white dress from clockhouse at C&A. I must have looked like a stick of rock.

I was never a fashionista but I did follow trends.
Elise sweatshirt. The Sweater Shop jumper. Technicolour t shirt. Fortunately I never had a Kappa popper tracksuit.
Then DMs with baggy sort of surfer trousers, tucked into DMs, baggy Ts and randomly I asked for a cool denim jacket which were all the rage. Mum generously sought one out and it was a good fit but it was hideously dark and stiff. I very ungratefully only wore it about three times.
Kickers.

Oh god, those bodies, that did up in your crotch, jeans on top and a baggy lumberjack shirt over the top?!

Also hair mascara. Oo and tbat hair spray that sprayed awful colour and/or glitter onto your hair?

I was so so so seriously uncool. I had much of the trendy stuff but wore it badly or just a little bit off. I'm grateful I had lovely friends who for the main part never gave a shit about how people dressed!

Ohhhh late 90s early 00s I loved my white trouser and black crop top combo...

Or my two tone matching skirt/trouser and top combos with cropped sides the favourite being purple/blue...

Sun In
Masses of Charlie Red or Exclamation

Later on in college was full on indie kid grunge look

Lots of checked lumberjack shirts, ripped baggy jeans, DMs with everything including a cocktail dress. Also nightie like slip dresses. I still have a blue silk one I wore on an early date with DH (with the DMs and probably some ripped tights too)
I keep thinking maybe I can still wear it on a beach holiday but I never do.

This was in the 1960's.

My pals and I all bought white mens string vests in the market, lined them with a bright plain colour to show through the holes and wore them as (very) mini dresses.. We thought we were the bees knees.

www.amazon.co.uk/Mens-Cotton-Fishnet-Fitted-String/dp/B00LUYJDBW?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I cringe.

My friend would wear Giorgio Beverly Hills perfume (Bleurgh) and I would wear Body Shop vanilla or Paris. Elnett sprayed liberally over the huge 80s hair, sorry ozone layer!

90’s-shiny silver slip dress, black tights, black knee high boots

Mid 80s. For some reason I decided that yellow was my colour and my favourite outfit was yellow trousers with a yellow and white spotty top, teamed with an electric blue batwing cardigan with black dots. Oh, and electric blue eye shadow and mascara. I am very pale skinned- not in a lovely porcelain skin type way, more very pale spam colour. Yellow is definitely not my colour.

Short skirt-it was shorter than a mini-it barely covered my arse
Crop top-barely covered my nips
Over the knee socks
Doc Martin boots with neon laces
Jay from the inbetweeners haircut (I had bra length hair but cut it all off) which I then dyed all the colours of the rainbow-I went bright green at one point and it looked like a ball of snot
The black looked like an lp had melted on my head
The red-I looked like a match
I teamed this look with black nail polish and black lippy-my dad commented that I looked like a corpse

God I looked awful…

(Credit to my parents tho-I never heard ‘your not going out dressed like that’)

Im just grateful there are no photos

I was Madonna obsessed in the 80's and my best friend and I tried to model ourselves on her style in desperately seeking Susan, get into the grove etc. So, fingerless lace gloves and leggings with short skirts over the top. Iced magenta lipstick, rags in hair and electric blue eyeshadow. We had no money though so tried to customise our own clothes, we'd take photos of ourselves posing draped around lamp posts..... when I think back now it makes me smile.

We also went through a grease phase and tried to make our own pink lady jackets, we used to wear them with 3/4 length tight jeans and jelly shoes. Looking back the amount of time and effort we took into looking good impresses me!

I definitely had red earrings/belt/boot combo. Looked v fetching with dark grey baggy trousers and a big grey checked shirt. And perm, obvs.