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?

[leccybill]

Went shopping again today. Yep, it's all still hideous! And it's gone back to being freezing cold here so all of the little vest tops and cropped things look a bit daft.

Anyone seen any nice thin knits?

[brickinitIam]

I think women are finally wising up to the fashion con.
Women now are buying the more classic styles and things that suit them.
I was out with a group of women the other night and we are all doing the same thing.
I was wearing something I bought 5 years ago.
Was it current fashion? I don't know and I didn't give a shit.
It suited me, I looked great in it and I had lots of compliments.

[brickinitIam]

So, why would I spend x amount of £'s on some low quality, over priced tat that's on offer, when I can just wear what I already have and that I know looks good on me?
They've screwed us over once too many times.
We should all go on a 'no buy'.
That'll teach them to produce rubbish and over charge us for the privilege.

[illegitimateMortificadospawn]

I had this conversation with a colleague today. She was lamenting the fact she has vouchers in her purse from Xmas and her birthday & can't find a single thing she wants to buy.

[illegitimateMortificadospawn]

I'd quite like it if women's stores were more like the menswear section. There might not be as much variety, but there are plenty of solid basics, decent leather shoes, nice cotton shirts and woollen knitwear. I'm so fed up of sweaty polyester and acrylic jumpers. Variety only counts as a positive if everything isn't irredeemably vile.

[woodhill]

I don't want to buy anything most of the time. I use to love shopping for clothes.

EBay or charity shop.

[BitOutOfPractice]

I want a new top. For a plane flight. So funky but comfortable. Long sleeve as I'm always chilly on planes. I want it too look stylish but casual. You get the drift.

Can I find one that fits the bill anywhere? Can I buffalo!

[user1492692527]

Totally agree. These tops with cut outs on the shoulders aren't suitable for work either - I want tops that will do for work as well as for other times, not have to buy half a dozen different types of clothes!

[Lweji]

I saw these new Levi jeans and thought of you

www.bustle.com/p/these-butt-zipper-jeans-from-vetements-x-levis-are-the-latest-bizarre-take-on-denim-50847

[illegitimateMortificadospawn]

Those jeans! I checked the date and it's not April 1st.

[Lweji]

They make you rethink the whole jeans with holes concept. Suddenly they look a lot better.

[BitOutOfPractice]

I've had to sort of squint and tilt my head to work that picture out.

[illegitimateMortificadospawn]

Perfect jeans for women who favour bumsex outdoors in the winter, I suppose, as you can keep your trousers on & stay warm. It's quite a niche market to pursue, mind.

[GertyTheGert]

Am porky - and desperate for summer-like clothes. Popped into Tesco and happened upon a lovely "sleeveless" top (has sort-of short capped sleeves?). Its black with medium size multi-coloured flowers on. I bought it and its ok! On-line it looks too short (assume model 6' tall) but in real life (I'm 5'8") it ends just below the tummy. I'll have to wear it with thin trousers but its the best thing (out of sh*te) that I've seen! Its a flattering fit (doesn't cling) and doesn't have that "supermarket" look to it, if you see what I mean! But the other shops - gawd, what are they trying to make us wear ESPEC M&S - looks like Freemans catalogue cheapo stuff circa 1974 has been their inspiration. :-(

[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!!!!!!!!

[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.

[Destinysdaughter]

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

[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.

[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?

[truromaid]

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

[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.

[SnapAndFart]

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

[SnapAndFart]

Purple? People!

[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?