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To think current fashion is f*cking hideous?

489 replies

321Emanresu · 08/04/2017 19:39

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?

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MaidOfStars · 08/04/2017 20:20

Hot pant dungarees? More fool you
They seemed, and were, an excellent purchase in Thailand. I wore them practically 24/7.

In the Peak District? Not so much.

LapCatLicker · 08/04/2017 20:23

For those of us who are quite tall and big those cutesy high neck, bell sleeve peplum monstrosities are a nightmare. I had a clear out of my closet over the winter with the aim of buying some new things in that are high quality, classic and flattering. I have bought exactly nothing in the last 6 months except for one sailor stripe tunic top from Seasalt (which I now live in). The clothes in shops right now are vile. Models in fashion magazines even look dumpy and unattractive these days. I despair.

QuestaVecchiaCasa · 08/04/2017 20:24

I was just saying the same to my mum after a disappointing shopping trip today. Her answer was The Country Collection and I have to say that after the tat I saw today I am almost tempted.

Nice liberty print blouse anyone?

PunkrockerGirl · 08/04/2017 20:26

Yanbu.
It's all drab and dull. The cut out shoulders may look ok on the slim teenagers, but they wouldn't be seen dead in them and rightly so On older women they just look grim.

Megatherium · 08/04/2017 20:29

YANBU. I was looking at the display in a bit shop recently and found myself thinking that I hated this stuff in the 70s, and it really doesn't improve with the passage of time.

PoorYorick · 08/04/2017 20:31

I know the 90s are supposed to be back, and there are a few 90s things in the mix but honestly, I really don't think we looked quite so hideous back then. I'm not saying I never wore lace up knee high boots or colour blocked outfits, crop tops with army combats, but really....currently everyone looks like a colourblind Minnie Mouse's entire wardrobe just fell on top of them.

And skinny jeans, can they please just fuck off already? I hoped they were a passing phase but it's been years and I hate them. I look like shit in them (a lot of people do) and I won't wear them but it's impossible to find anything with even a slightly straight or bootcut leg. I do not care if it looks dated, it's flattering on me and I can just say I'm being retro.

I literally do not own a pair of jeans any more because my old ones wore out in early pregnancy and now I can't find anything to replace them. I won't wear leggings either so I'm really kind of fucked.

Mummyoflittledragon · 08/04/2017 20:34

I agree lots of hideous tat. And that brings us nicely back to the recent Boden thread, perhaps it isn't so awful after all??

PoorYorick · 08/04/2017 20:34

For those of us who are quite tall and big those cutesy high neck, bell sleeve peplum monstrosities are a nightmare.

I'm not tall and while not skinny, I'm not overweight...but I do have massive boobs. Those things make me look like something out of Super Mario Land. If I wore them I would worry about rotund Italian plumbers jumping on my head.

Ignoranus · 08/04/2017 20:42

And I thought it was just me that felt this way!

I desperately need clothes to go abroad in the summer. As a 44 yr old size 16 and 5'2 I can rock the frump look at the best of times. Every single thing I saw was either hugely floral, had those awful cut out shoulders that make me look even wider or was in a horrible cheap sweaty fabric.

I'm honestly struggling to know what to buy. I can walk round all the high street shops and nothing at all suits.

SailAwayWithMeHoney · 08/04/2017 20:43

I love ripped jeans, and cold-shoulder tops.

I do however hate the flowers embroidered onto everything and crushed velvet...there's not an emoji for how I feel about crushed velvet.

flapjackfairy · 08/04/2017 20:43

I couldnt afford bodens pricee even if i did find something i like!

glueandstick · 08/04/2017 20:47

I wear jeans and Breton tops year in year out.

I'd have a breakdown if I had follow fashion. They is nothing for me anywhere!

HorraceTheOtter · 08/04/2017 20:52

It has driven me to sewing. I've made a beautiful skirt on the back of finding nothing at all that I like in the shops though, so something good has come from it.

kelper · 08/04/2017 20:54

My DH made me laugh, he thinks he's bang on trend at the moment, as his work jeans have split across the knees, and now he looks like most of the teenagers that congregate at our house!!

lazyarse123 · 08/04/2017 20:56

I don't get why they have to put heavy beads on the end of pointless belts. I bought a nice summer top, but it had two dangling bits of ribbon on both sides of the waist with these beads on. Totally pointless but i thought i can live with it as the rest of it was ok. I was wrong i keep getting caught in doors and drawers and very nearly hanging myself so i am going to have to cut them off and hope it still looks ok.

So2007 · 08/04/2017 20:57

Most of the current fashion can be seen in Friends :)

ForalltheSaints · 08/04/2017 20:59

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.

Scottishchick39 · 08/04/2017 21:00

I'm liking the ripped jeans at the moment, DD gets to wear her scabby old ones and is in fashion lol.

bunnylove99 · 08/04/2017 21:01

I agree fashions are challenging at the moment, but surely Top Shop, New Look and the likes are always going to be tricky for anyone over about 24! Skimpy synthetic fabrics in lurid colours are hard to pull off if you are over size 8 and in the decades where flabby bums and bingo wings start gaining ground. Grin I'm probably not uber stylish myself, but sales shopping at monsoon and tk maxx at least means I am in comfy cotton and linen and not looking like multicoloured, cut-out mutton dressed as lamb.

LapinR0se · 08/04/2017 21:02

I live in Switzerland and we have exactly the same hideousness here

pennypickle · 08/04/2017 21:05

YANBU. I'm in my (late) thirties. I have 2 dd's aged 12 and 15. We went clothes shopping today. None of us bought anything. Secretly stashing away what we didn't spent hehe!

Armi · 08/04/2017 21:05

I'm finding this too, and am appalled at clothes available for DD (nearly six and quite tall). We seem to have jumped from pretty, fresh little cotton items to horrible day glo polyester shit covered in slogans. And black, wet look leggings. WTAF?!?!?!

fannydaggerz · 08/04/2017 21:08

I went shopping today and found a pair of jeans in primark that I only bought because I'm desperate. I went to new look, Dorothy Perkins, primark, quiz, river island (wtf is going on in that shop, how people find things in there I'll never know)

And I came one with a £10 pair of skinny jeans that look like I've washed them loads and cut a hole at the knee.

The clothes just now are shit.

Runny · 08/04/2017 21:10

What's with this fad seen in Primark/Topshop/New Look etc of retro band T shirts with these Radom pieces of lace sewn across them? It looks really stupid.

I would love combats to come back into fashion. The were so comfy and a nice alternative to jeans. That's one

blackheartsgirl · 08/04/2017 21:11

Yanbu even the lower end of clothes shops like primark are shit. Supermarket fashion is also shit. It's all shit. Went shopping today and found nothing that I liked. I despair