To think current fashion is f*cking hideous?

[321Emanresu]

Probably BU but I went shopping the other week as I needed a few tops. I saw:
Bright yellow playsuits
Hideous tops with the shoulders cut out
Skirts that look more like belts
Jeans with so many rips that they are indecent
Tops that aren't even decent (too short)
Cardigans with no sleeves (why, you wear a cardigan if it's cold surely)
AIBU to think that it's hideous and nobody would want to be seen dead in it?

[LadyFlumpalot]

Went shopping with my teenaged sister last weekend and she was going starry eyed over the most peculiar things. Too short trousers with a drawstring waist which ruffle over the top and no shape so it looks like you are wearing a hessian sack. Shoes with the most peculiar shape (a sort of heel and just a meh shape to the toe - she called them "day heels") and tiny crop tops that are mostly just lace and mesh.

I think I've reached the age where I just don't like fashion. All I wanted was a nice pair of jeans that are actually, you know, shaped like a pair of jeans and a slightly fitted jumper/long sleeved top.

[Canuckduck]

It’s awful. Cold shoulder, crushed velvet, scrunchies, short trousers (even in Canada when it’s minus a billion degrees) ribbed tops, chenille. It looked ok on me in the actual 90’s when I was 18; not so much at 40.

[Rainbowknickers]

Nothing seems to have a waist-just up and down material I don't want to wear a sack!just something that nips in a bit!

[wtffgs]

Yes - I was wasting time browsing last night and saw loads of pics of famous women in vile curtain material outfits. One was Gwyneth Paltrow - ok, she may be batshit but she's very beautiful and still looked vile.

For the more 'matronly' among us, it is a fecking nightmare!

[Summerscorcherisjustsummer]

I'm sure it's been mentioned but shorts that are so short 3/4 of but cheek is falling out

[Flaminglingos]

www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/home/

[Flaminglingos]

Have a look at Sainsbury's Premium collection, I was very surprised how nice some of the stuff are. I've ordered a few bits from there and people were genuinely shocked when I told them it was Sainsbury's Premium collection.

tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/c/women/women-premium

[givemesteel]

zombie thread

Reported lindi7's poor advertising attempt.

[UpstartCrow]

Destinysdaughter I should probably warn you that 'doggy style' and 'dogging' are not the same thing and it's a mistake you wont make twice I can tell you.

[Thymelord]

Ansumpasty I am on a very limited budget, and I appreciate that lots of people on here wouldn't dream of wearing it, but Asda do some really decent clothes that are very well priced. My wardrobe is practically all George.

[Thymelord]

Whore's cut-offs?

[Ansumpasty]

It’s really awful. I’m in desperate need of tops and all I can find are tops that show your tummy or tops with things like ‘milan’ or ‘kiss me, quick’ written on. There seems to be no middle ground...it’s either stuff for 18 year olds in Topshop or stuff for 50+ in Next

[BitOutOfPractice]

Whores? Really? What a nasty comment.

[ToadOfSadness]

It is an old thread but looking in the shops, and at the fashion victims out and about, nothing has changed, other than there are more arse cheeks on show with the even shorter whore's cut offs and the higher rips in the over shredded, skin tight jeans. So many people seem to not own a mirror these days or look at their back view.

I usually tend to think people should wear what they like but sometimes it feels as if I have wandered into a 'worse dressed' competition. I have turned into my mother.

[thecatsthecats]

I think last summer was worse, purely on the basis that bloody 90s narrow necklines were in again and they are horrendously boob unfriendly.

Whatever the fashion, surely it's just business sense to include about 30-50% of your items as able to wear a strapped bra with? I.e. sleeves, and a back to the dress?

[SnapAndFart]

Purple? People!

[SnapAndFart]

Is that so purple can throwback to last year, when this thread was started?

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

The thing is, there's a whole generation of young women growing up who don't realise that the quality of the fast fashion they buy is in fact shit. Once us oldies stop refusing to buy it, the young ones will still carry on because they know no different.

And part of me thinks that if people suddenly stopped buying the sweat shop produce, what are those employees going to do instead for a living?

It's all a mess and makes me want to be a hermit and live in a cave and weave my own clothes.

[truromaid]

Totally agree. Things are so dire on the high street I bought a top from white stuff today

[TheChampagneGalop]

We should all go on a 'no buy'.
That'll teach them to produce rubbish and over charge us for the privilege.

YY. Or at least nothing new; I found a great pair of jeans in a charity shop the other day. I am going to buy all my summer tops there. Who wants sweaty shapeless polyester tops with frills?

[StrangeLookingParasite]

It's more I object to paying eg wool/cotton prices for acrylic/nylon fabric!

Yes to this. It's the third level test for me:
1 Do I like how it looks at first glance?
2 Does it come in my size?

1. What's it made of?
   

How things feel (and drape, and wash) is very important to me.

Those Vêtements jeans - Vêtements are thé biggest piss takers out there - they sold an ordinary DHL tshirt one season for a completely fucking ridiculous price. Absolute fashion victim stuff.
That ASOS thing, jesus wept.

[Destinysdaughter]

Just worked out what those jeans are for...dogging!

[Livingtothefull]

I haven't bought any new clothes for months, because so much of it is vile. I think quality has really deteriorated even just in the past few years even for expensive so-called 'designer items. I don't want to pay ridiculous prices for overpriced synthetic tat…..it can't be good for the environment either.

I agree with brickinitlam, I don't care now about being 'in fashion' and only wear what I really love & feel looks good on me. My motto is: buy everything you need and some (i.e. as much as possible/affordable) of what you really love; and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING else. So that rules out all the nasty tat.

I browse charity shops a lot & have found some truly beautiful things, the other day I found a lovely linen overshirt for £2.

I have also taken up sewing…there is a real resurgence in home sewing as you can get truly beautiful fabrics and patterns and, once you become skilled at it, you realise you can dress just as you like.

[GertyTheGert]

IllegitimateMort - sorry to disappoint you but my (bit older) brother has commented only the other day that he has similar probs! He is tall and everything has been made almost short-arsed length for men too! The shirts he has seen aren't long enough in the body or have vile Noel Edmonds patterns (why?!) and he said the fashion seems to be for short-sleeved old fashioned shirts like a businessman would wear on his hols with too-short shorts!!! Luckily my DH bought quite a lot of stuff at the beginning of LAST year in the sales or he too would struggle as he is 6' - obvsly not over-tall but ........ Still, they don't have to go for cold-shoulder tops!!!!!!!!