To think current fashion is f*cking hideous?

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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?

You know how bad the clothes are (style and quality wise) when you find yourself leafing through the clothing supplements that your gran has lying around and and thinking, you know that doesn't look too bad

Gap is still good for basic t shirts in many colours

it's like they can't design something now without adding some kind of supposedly fashionable twist that ruins it, whether that's missing shoulders, enormous sleeves, pointless zips, rips, gaudy beads, etc. So YANBU!

I agree.
The number of times I've looked at something and thought ''that's perfect! I'll buy that''
only to find that it either has a cutout on the back or stupid gimmicky sleeves or some ridiculous writing on it.
I end up putting it back and they lose a sale.

I can't be the only one to do that (put it back because of some 'stupid', unnecessary detail.

They must be losing millions!
No wonder they're all in the shit.
They need to give their designers a good kick up the arse.

Actually this is the first time I've ever actually wished the Daily Fail would nick a thread from here! Where are the bloody DF journalists when you need them??

It would make a good story.

It's why I've started hitting the charity shops. Stuff from a few years ago was ok.

The plain tops in country collection are OK. Just have to ignore the naff florals and the the work "ladies" plastered everywhere. They don't call men gentlemen why can't we just be women?

I'm the Country Collection demographic - in fact I've probably had their catalogue along with the ones for funeral plans and stairlifts.The only things I can see on there that I might order are the fitted, long sleeved cotton shirts, the chinos and the slips (my solution for cheap, clingy fabrics). The knitwear looks really badly fitting - massive around the arms and don't get me started on short sleeves or jackets and tops that end at the fattest point of your thighs.

I get really pissed off with the assumption that because I'm 60, I don't mind wearing unflattering clothes

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/2899728-How-to-look-expensive-in-2017?msgid=68225702#68225702

Here's a link to another thread discussing a similar similar topic in style and beauty

I love cold shoulder tops - been making my own for years, nice to be able to actually buy some!.

Skinny jeans - suit me far more than straight leg.

I don't buy it if its not black/a band tee.

My usual shopping situation is "oh I'd like that if it was black"

It should be mandatory to do a version of everything in black!

That's another thing I hate. The word'Tees' it's a bloody t-shirt! Why give it such a wanky pretentious name and make into something it isn't?

A trouser is another one. Do fashion courses etc teach a particular weird and wanky way to write and talk? Does anyone think it makes them sound anything other than twatty?

I was shouting at the radio the other day because someone was talking about wearing 'a boot' and 'a red lip' and this person was almost certainly a fashion wanker not someone who only had one foot or one lip.

Agree Runny! And 'team it with'. No. Wear it with.

Me when I walk into a clothes shop these days.

Oh Flo I luffs you😄 You put it much more succinctly than I could.
I am late fifties & wouldn't be seen dead in fecking polyester boxy jackets or slacks, I rock skinny jeans/biker jackets & if I say so myself have a very good figure, face not so great but heyho makes me so cross when older women are dismissed as frumpy & having no sense of style😡

makes me so cross when older women are dismissed as frumpy & having no sense of style😡

To be fair, anyone of any age who buys anything at the moment is going to look frumpy and as if they have no sense of style, because it's all so indescribably SHIT.

'Chunky knit' is another one! Its a baggy jumper or cardigan where I come from. And clutch. It's a clutch bag yes, but a clutch is something I use to change gear on my car!

Fashion people are such pretentious twats aren't they?

Thank you dontcall

I really ought to be in full sympathy with this thread. But firstly, this season doesn't feel any worse to me than any other for the last 20-odd years. If anything, I'd say it's slightly better as they're at last edging away from skinny jean domination (sorry don'tcall!).

And secondly when I see poster after poser using 'granny' interchangeably with 'unflattering', topped off with the claim that, because clothes are ugly, they must have been designed for older women... well I just kind of think, 'fuck off'.

ForalltheSaints
You missed out three words

in this country.

Style still exists in France or Italy, and you won't see such hideousness in Germany, for example.

This The rest of the world laughs at us and our fashion. Most other countries do style instead of fashion and it shows. I've had work colleagues from other countries who come over here, look at the clothes on offer and say "what the fuck?"

I've been to two big shopping centres recently (Manchester and Birmigham) and bought a bag - 1 bag. That's it. The clothes are AWFUL.

It looks as if someone has up-sized the little girl's clothing range into adult women's wear and said, that'll do. Everything is flouncy, frilly, with ribbons, lacy, bardot-style, ra-ra skirts (ask your mum). Just unsuitable for anyone over 25. As for the cold-shoulder thing, it just looks so cheap. It's what American clothing manufacturers do to make cheap tops 'sexy.'

Having said that, I'm an inverted triangle shape and have a small bum and skinny legs so love skinny jeans so don't share the hate shown on this board for them. They suit me so I wear them. However, all the off-the-shoulder tops & dresses around at the moment make me look massive across the shoulders as they draw a straight line right across my widest part. Awful.

As for the colours around at the moment, why sludge? Sludge is for Autumn surely? Why not some (lovely) yellows, pinks, corals, blues?

Someone up thread who said it's like watching Abigail's Party is right. It's all brown and yellow drippy maxi-dresses that even the models look awful in.

I'm thinking of taking a trip to Germany just to stock up on normal clothes.

You watch, at the end of the quarter, the womens wear retailers will post losses and act dumbfounded as to why it's happening. As per usual. God knows who's advising them. I bet they're not shopping on the high street.

I've just been to Paris and the clothes in the city centre (although designer label and probably (no prices on them) expensive) were just fab and so varied, soft floaty, sculpted, different lengths, colours and styles, just amazing.

Most other countries do style instead of fashion and it shows.

I would do style if I could buy anything stylish!

Was out at an event yesterday in the sunshine. Apart from the odd cold shoulder top and a couple of pairs of ripped jeans, everyone was wearing stuff from the last few years or functional/outdoorsy wear. And who can blame them!
I was wearing a long line simple pale green cotton blouse with grandad collar from H&M about 6 years ago and a plain cream anoracky/windcheater jacket with pockets from Debenhams about 10 years ago!

I saw this in the window of Whistles at lunch time and thought of this thread. Cold shoulder? check. Nasty floral? Check. Unflattering frill round the bottom? Check. Cheap-looking fabric? Check. And Whistles used to be quite reliable!

I quite like one of the blouses on the Country Collection website - I do love a liberty print. If I order it I'm going to be signed up to every stairlift catalogue and funeral brochure in existence, aren't I?

Yes, you will bookworm. Even worse, you will start getting stuff like this

What the hell am I going to wear to the wedding this weekend? I've been out shopping twice and came back with the square root of nothing. Everything is awful, just horrible.

Agree, but some of the fashion spreads in magazines (more high-end the better, such as Vogue) are good for a real laugh. The outfits are so ridiculous that even if they were free rather than thousands of pounds per item, really what normal person would wear them?