Hideous clothes that you always remember (teenage)

[recklessruby]

It s getting cold and I was looking through coats online when I found this monstrousity.
Last week I was agreeing with parents who called their teenagers ridiculous for refusing to wear a coat in bitter cold weather.
Now I so sympathise having remembered my mother buying me this horror in year 9.
It was long wine coloured and sectioned like picture.
I was a skinny kid and looked like a long and very cold earthworm.
This thing came off as soon as I approached the school gates and stayed in my bag till hometime (shoved in my locker).
So aibu to ask you to share coat or other clothing shame teen memories and to ask parents of teen dc to consult them before buying clothes of shame?
Here it is

Joe bloggs jeans with a hooded top, and a ski jacket. Preferably with some British Knight baseball boots. I wasn’t allowed a perm so I used to plait it overnight and hairspray it into oblivion.

@supersonicginandtonic I also had Punky Fish!!! Thanks for reminding me!! I had a jumper that had a sort of sideways hood attached by a zip and it was a pain in the arse to wear but I loved it because FASHION.

@LeSquigh I think I had that jumper 😂

I also used to make the fish net tops! 🙈

haha i was also a rock chick maybe 10 years before that. I used to wear a horrible long sleeved megadeth tshirt with skulls on it, with cut off denim shorts, black and white stripy tights and cherry red dms All this would also be teamed with a men's wooly green 'beanie' hat. I thought I was so edgy and alt😂

@NancyPickford

Ah, you young things! (Nods fondly and in an infuriating fashion). I was born in the mid-1950 and had to wear a Liberty Bodice (ask your grannies) AND a vest under my clothes. The Liberty Bodice was finally ditched when I was about 10 or so, and then I "just" wore a vest until I got my first bra, aged 14 or so (mother was against them)!.

@NancyPickford - are you me? I was about to post the same thing - also born mid fifties.

I wore liberty bodices until about 11. My Nan used to get them from Kendal Milne in Manchester. When she couldn't get them any more I heaved a sigh of relief ... until my mother made me winceyette petticoats - which I wore AS WELL AS a vest, blouse, pinafore dress and cardigan. Furthermore I wasn't allowed to not wear them until the end of May because .. "Ne're cast a clout till May be out".

As she made them herself I don't have a photo - but they looked a bit like this.

@BalloonSlayer

Ooh I had a poncho! My Mum crocheted it.

I was very proud of it.

I also had a muff.

No sniggering there at the back.

Me too! And I had a crochet dress to match. Obviously it was see-through so I had to wear a full nylon slip underneath. Thank goodness I was too young to smoke - I’ve have gone up like a torch

Also, looking at NancyPickford's liberty bodice - I'm sure mine had little suspenders or rubber buttons on from when girls used to wear black woollen stockings.

jelly bean shoes

Although to be fair to my parents, I think I liked them at the time.

@Lantern156

Mega wide leg jeans that acted like sails and constantly trailed in puddles and caught on your shoes. The more ragged, tattered and unkempt your hems, the cooler you were

These!

I remember my mum buying me a pair of bright red dungaree shorts with gold buttons. I was a hefty teenager and the dungarees made me look like Humpty Dumpty. Mum thought they were lovely so she dragged me across the road to ask our neighbours’s eldest daughter “because she’s trendy and will tell you if they look nice”. I still remember the horrified look on her face as she choked out “yeah they’re alright”.

Another liberty bodice sufferer here. However, I am grateful my mother had exquisite taste. I have never been as well dressed since I was about 18. My pride and joy, aged about 9 were a pair of knee length white leather boots from a shop called Elliott who had a trendy children's section. Which was good because I didn't reach a size 3 until I was 13.5 !

some of these are funny, I remember many of these too as a child from the (late) 1950s.
Maybe when I was 10 or 12 I was so intent on Hot Pants - the super short shorts. My mother was eqally intent on me not ever wearing them, she thought them indecent.
But she relented & sewed me a pair - similar to these in the picture.
But only as the fashions were changing.

So I still felt an odd one out as I hadnt owned any when all my friends did, then I finally was wearing them when they were into the next big thing (cannot remember that now :) )

I had a NafNat jacket from the market when I was about 9 and thought I was really cool.
As a teenager I wore all manner of clothes trying and failing to look cool but I cant think of a worse outfit than my jeans with black plasticky wedges, a black top with diamantes all over it and a black polyester suit jacket from bay trading. I know it doesnt sound particularly offensive, but it really did look so cheap and tacky.

Batting jumpers that made my arms looked like those of a t-rex!!

I remember a late 80s (ish?) outfit from TonSurTon which was a black sweatshirt and pink leggings. The sweatshirt was ok, but the leggings were pretty much the exact shade of my legs and, unlike leggings of today, had no Lycra in them. So they got really baggy around the knees and from any distance at all I appeared to have an unfortunate baggy knee-skin condition. I liked pink though so I persevered.

TonSurTon - what a blast from the past.

Did anyone else have one of those military style buttoned jackets/waistcoats which were fashionable say early 2000’s or is it just me? None of my mates can remember them

My hot pink shell suit circa 1990 (and matching bumbag) is up there. Though it was the height of fashion at the time so I quite liked it.
When I was 11 (1993), my auntie bought me a hideous pair of soft cotton, brown checked shorts dungarees. Said they were 'dead trendy'. I hated them. I had wanted some dungarees as they were very fashionable at the time. But I wanted blue denim ones with a full length leg. To this day I have an adverse reaction to something being described as 'trendy'. I wore them as little as possible but at the time I lived with my auntie and she is not the sort of woman you said no to.

Although I did walk behind a chap aged about 20 who was wearing a shell suit in complete seriousness this week. That swishing noise brought back memories.

@Alwaysinpain

Skirt Trousers, Dungarees, Culottes, Combat pants!

Oh god. Skirt trousers. My uncle got married when they were the height of fashion and I wore one to his wedding. So that particular fashion faux pas is on the wall of my grandmother's house for all to see. I do remember regretting my choice at the wedding and wishing I'd gone for a pretty summer dress instead.

I had to wear a liberty bodice when I was a child in the 50s too! But about ten years later, my sister and I found one each in a jumble sale and used to wear them as little tops with our maxi skirts, with as many of the buttons undone as we dared.

Shell suit or cycling shorts with a neon stripe down the side and matching neon crop top.

I had a trendy cousin who had those completely red trainers.

Can't believe nobody's mentioned peddle pushers so far!! I had at 3 paired - burgundy, red & pink, worn (to go out) with frilly collared shirt, or in winter with mum's knitted mohair jumper - black with neon colour lightening strikes! On other days, to dress down, I walked about in old men's tweed overcoats bought from church jumble sales