70s or 80s? which decade committed the biggest crimes against fashion?

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I was a teenager in the 80s. I have photos of me wearing pedal pushers, puffball skirts and wearing far to many ribbons in my very perked hair.

Having just watched some show on the 70s and witnessed men wearing pink (dp says it's salmon not pink) flares and spangly shirts I actually think the 70s was far worse and I had a lucky escape (as anything pre 1980 I can blame on my mother buying for me)

'Fess up. What's your worst fashion disaster and am I right? Are the 70s the worst decade in terms of "style"?

In the 80s I thought I was the height of all things cool in my ra ra skirt, permed hair and blue eyeliner with frosted pink lipstick.

However, my Mam upped the stakes and came back from town with t-shirts printed with:

Alchemist Says Relax

and

Alchemist's Friend Says Relax.

We thought we were IT!

The 90s were far worse. At least the 70s and 80s had a clear style to them. The 90s were just a bland lot of nothing.

80s lose with everything. Awful decade. 1970s much better

90s were great. How very dare you!! Best thing about 90s compared to now (what will this decade be called?) is young girls didn't have to be practically naked, waxed, and salon groomed to be fashionable.

I love (some) 70s fashion, and cringe at some of the stuff I wore in the 80s!

The 70s fashion was alright but badly made with poor materials. And wool jumpers were really rough and itchy then.

I tend to agree with you Ikanta it was more the diabolical ness of the fabrics that really plumbed the depths in the 70's, although still no excuse for the Kagoul. No excuse at all. I had a little shudder there at the memory of my entire family clad in Kagouls, hoods up, in the pissing rain at the signpost at Portland Bill.

I do have question though, and that is where did men out their willies in those super tight flared trousers. When an old TOTP comes on I'm always at tightness vs? lack of.

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Viewer warning: contains lots of Orange clothing and a slightly hilarious bee gees segment.

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And I give you the 80s. Where men wore suits with white t shirts, no socks and espadrilles or a suit with a very thin tie. And women had had. The era of the weird videos.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the legend that is Errol Brown ?

Managing to look reasonably sexy and macho in a pair of high waisted satin flares is quite a talent.

I loved the 70's for the cheese-clothedness. Not so much for the Van Allen weird mesh handbags & heavy-duty see thru plastic rainwear.
80s is a blur of stirrup ski-pants (with no Lycra so you had to stand on the bus to town so your knees didn't go baggy) & mid-calf canvas boots in pastel covers. Nice.

He is gorgeous. Although those pyjamas aren't doing it for me!

Ah yes, the stirrup pants, that we're never quite long enough. The slouchy, very hairy off the shoulder jumper a la Kim Wilde, the bright blue eyeliner with frosted pink lips, the lady Di pie crust shirt, the long pleated polyester skirt topped with a blazer. The 80s had some horrors.

To digress a bit - what will we be saying about hipster beards in 40
years? Will they be like the 80's mullet?

Are the hipster beards the ones that look like the man is wearing a fake beard - bushy in a long way?

Because those I imagine yes will be the mullet equivalent. I like beards (on certain men) but all of these look redonkulous on all men.

90s is the worst. At least in the 70s and 80s there was effort and experimentation. There aren't many going out clothes around at the moment, it's all casual 90s stuff. I keep seeing girls in chokers.

The 90s for me was about nice quality fabrics - and soft fleece taking over woollen jumpers, but there wasn't much unusual going on stylewise. I did like the pretty dress and cardi phase - and the dresses Paula Yates used to wear.

Oh god I am so over the hipster beards. Bluewater on a Saturday is like being on the Titanic with umpteen men scrolling about looking as though their mam knitted them a giant face rug.

As to items that were too short. What about the "bodies" from the 90's. If you were unlucky enough to have one of those that was too short you cut off the circulation to your fanjo every time you lifted your arms.

I blame the 80's for destroying my hair with all that crimping and back combing and industrial strength hair spray.
Totally agree about blandness of fashion since the 90's. In the 80's, we had punks, goths, mods, New Romantics etc. There doesn't seem to have been anything genuinely 'new' since then, just loads of 'revivals' of previous decades.
I was in Clare's with DD the other day and it was full of pork pie hats, braces, bags with CND motifs and lacy fingerless gloves- all things I remember owning 30 years ago.
I wasn't allowed a ra-ra skirt as DM said they were 'indecent'

The 70s and 80s need to be embraced. As a teen of the late 70s and early 80s we were treated to genuine diversity of fashion and music.
With fashion you could wrap a bin bag round you and get away with it or smarten up with a two tone suit and pork pie hat. Wear flares and a knitted tank top or hot pants and little else.
Music was even more bizarre. On Top of the Pops (was there really another decent music show for us kids? Nah!) you could have the smurfs one minute and The Jam the next. Gary Numan followed by The Nolan Sisters followed by The Specials.
There were downsides. Winter of discontent and the Miners strike. Nuclear threat and The Dooleys, but as kids we didn't care about that? It was all about fun and who you'd get off with at the youth club on Friday evening.
Today is so bland. Musically, the kids have to look up to the likes of Ed whatsit, Miley whatsit, No Direction, Lady Blah Blah, et al. None of them original and none of them interesting.
Kid and parents shop in the same shops and look the same. We would never have dressed like our parents. Never! At disowned them if they tried to look like us!
My son is 25 and had to go backwards to check out decent music.

at meant to say and! Whoops

80's. For some reason I thought it necessary that my shoes, belt, bag, bracelets, necklace an earings( all of which were huge) had to be the same color
Brown eyeshadow came right up to my eyebrows and my blusher was like Adam ant

Of course I also had my extra shoulder pads in.....

I had dark curly hair that I then decided needed a perm, I was very skinny

Honestly I resembled a microphone!

Snorting at the microphone comment!

I adored Adam and the ants. I just bought the greatest hits for the car and have it blaring when driving on my own. I can remember all the words but still can't remember to buy milk.

Ah! The body. Actually a good idea for a smooth look but required constant washing as it was in fact a knicker-jumper.