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

@wannabebetter

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

I loved my pedal pushers. I have some cropped jeans now that I love.

Re the popper trousers, I had some too. Learned not to wear them to mufti day as people find it funny to rip them open.
With those, my Adidas three stripe trousers (the black ones), my Kappa jumper and my Reebok Classics, I was very comfortable in the mid nineties.

Beige suede or corduroy with a furry coat. It was slightly longer than a bomber jacket. Far to warm for mild Cornish winters.

On similar note I hate waterproofs of any type. The greenhouse effect they create

Everyone at my school either had a Paco, Sweater Shop or Benetton jumper. I even had a vibrant multi coloured Paco bomber jacket!

Cowboy boots in the early 00s. I absolutely loved mine and wore them everywhere, especially out clubbing teamed with a skirt which barely covered my bum

Black velvet floppy hat pinned up at the front with an ‘antique’ brooch.
Velvet jacket from charity shop
Cherry red docs
(Hideous) long multicoloured tie dyed skirt that smelled of incense.

Whole ensemble circa 1994

@NancyPickford, oh how I loved my Liberty Bodice! I’ve spent much of my life thinking that I imagined it as no one else could ever remember them.

Honestly? Ive seen a lot worse than that coat.

Just what I was thinking! I quite like it, at least it's warm and waterproof

Thought I was the bees knees back in the day but mine are far worse! (80's)

Ra-ra skirts
Puffa skirts
Leg warmers
Tights with each leg a different neon colour
Decorative "yuppie" braces (I had WAY too many of those!)
Ditto bow ties (my favourite at the time neon pink with neon yellow spots)
I had a shell suit
Velvet pedal pushers/knickerbockers with matching waistcoats
Batwing jumpers (So uncomfortable under a coat)

@nokidshere as a small kid in the 70's I had a "party dress" very similar to that, in those days little girls wore long dresses or skirts to parties and little boys were in twee little suits totally impractical for games of musical statues etc Also had a few smocked ones too @GuyFawkesDay

Another who had a muff

At one point (toddler) I had a crochet...swimsuit! I mean wtf!

@SnapeSnapeSeverusSnape Ahh yes I had jelly shoes in various colours (they were very comfy) I also had a jelly bag

Ashamed to admit I once possessed...white stilletoes! (80's people will know!) Denied it to many

@PollyPandaPops I fell for the cowboy boots thing - in my 30's and a mother! What was I thinking?!

@Graphista crochet swim suits are back in fashion now! DD whos 14 asked for one the other day n I was like...what?

Not me personally but the Kappa tracksuit thing was particularly ghastly. Also when people like the women from Atomic Kitten would wear baggy cargo trousers with straps hanging off then with high heeled boots. Hideous. Cycling shorts as party wear. Low slung jeans with large belts that were neither use nor ornament and very pointy kitten heeled sling backs.

@Lantern156 i have just bought a pair of wide legged jeans to relive my youth. My OH refuses to let me out of the house in them. I have to admit the one time i did wear them out i found driving the car incredibly difficult. I had to pull them up round my knees to reach the pedals safely

I was a goth in the 90s so I had a floor length black vinyl coat that I refused to take off, even in the summer! It was squeaky, shiny, stuck to me like glue and was hot and sweaty, it makes me cringe just thinking about being in it now, and that's not even because of how ridiculous it looked.

Modeled after the Matrix of course

Oh yes Punkyfish and Criminal Damage jeans, New rock boots, tops with slashes, safety pins, lace, and velvet. I was like a goth/mosher highbred, in the 2000's I discovered raving so everything went a bit neon too.

I've toned things down a bit now, but I still can't wear skinny jeans :p

I went on holiday to Paris with my mum in the early 2000, I wore pink baggy cargo trousers with all the tassels on and just got stared at constantly lol

@HeyDuggeeWhatYaDoin

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

I did! I loved that jacket. It was from Warehouse and it was about £50 and I agonised over buying it because of the cost and I was a student at the time.

Definitely remember the days when The Look for nights out was bootcut jeans, a corset/bustier and strappy heels. That was my sixth form/uni days.

I wore a white waistcoat over a pink striped shirt. In 2008

@ballroompink i think mine was warehouse! Black with gold and olive green with gold as well, bootcut jeans and heeled stiletto boots

Wtf were we thinking

@ElinoristhenewEnid

1970s bridesmaid - simplicity pattern? Pink plastic roses on skull cap!

@ElinoristhenewEnid I think that was the exact style!! Except ours were mint green and white. Eugh. I was 14 and clueless so didn't really mind but middle sister was 17 and v v trendy and therefore mortified. Oldest sister was The Bride and had a Dress Bought From A Shop (the extravagance!) and she had a skull cap.

I always thought the Liberty Bodice was an alternative to a corset, but Google thinks I might be a bot at the moment and I don’t want to click on pics of cars to confirm I’m not, so if anyone wants to know they’ll have to check themself.

[quote HeyDuggeeWhatYaDoin]@ballroompink i think mine was warehouse! Black with gold and olive green with gold as well, bootcut jeans and heeled stiletto boots

Wtf were we thinking[/quote]
Ahhhh stiletto boots!

Have just been reminded of when I was at uni and Vivienne Westwood pirate boots were the thing and every girl including me had a synthetic suede knock-off high street pair. You had to wear them with your jeans turned up.

Green check shirt under a pair of green cord dungarees and black DM boots.

Also grunge fashion. Long wide black trousers or jeans, a t-shirt with some retro band name on, the DMs again, and some holey black jumper.

Oh, and the purple-multi shell tracksuit.

Anyone remember the late seventies fashion of the long flouncy skirt with what appeared to be an inch of petticoat showing? Cue every man and woman over forty telling you "Charlie's Dead."*

And also collarless "Grandad shirts"and jeans with a coloured stripe down the side.

*it was considered embarrassing in the past to show your petticoat. "Charlie's dead" was a polite way of knowing you had committed this unknowing fashion faux past (like the euphemisms for telling a man his flies are undone - you're flying low etc,). It stems from when female supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie (or maybe someone else called Chatlie) let down their petticoats an inch to show mourning.

@supersonicginandtonic

I was kind of a skater chick in the late 90s early 00s. I used to wear Punky Fish tops with lots of zips and cargo trousers with tassels. I actually had this combination, well bery, very similar 😳😳😳

Omg punky fish major flashbacks 😂

@Proudboomer

Bay city roller trousers. They had a high waist, flared, didn’t touch your ankle and everything was edged in tartan.

I had a sky blue pair of slacks with a seam down the front and a brown and beige tartan flare inset as a child. I thought I was the height of fashion.

I got away with not wearing a knitted swimming costume, which was very cruel to inflict on a child.

When older, countless " bodies" with poppers at the crotch. Always awful when you went to the Ladies in the pub after a few beers and forgot you had them on. Rip them apart and spend 15 minutes after contorted to popper them back together.