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

Oh dear I have a very similar coat right now! That's me told

As for teen years, for me it's what mum wouldn't buy me. She wouldn't buy me jeans as she said I didn't like them. I just accepted this and wore track suit pants and cotton shorts, looked like a weirdo. I got to about 14 before thinking "wait a minute... I'm the one who'd know if I like jeans or not". Tried some on and yep I like them just fine.

@SociallyDistantPenguin

90s Adidas poppers... bright blue and orange ones!

I loved them, don't know what I was thinking!

I had these EXACT ones

Late eighties I was desperate for a pair of pixie boots. Mum bought me a pair that were waterproof and fleece lined. she's still wearing them now in winter

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."

Yes indeed - although where I live people said "it's snowing down south" instead.

Another liberty bodice wearer here. Huge navy blue knickers, with a pocket on the front completed the ensemble - I had to lift my skirt to get my hankie.

Aged 12, I had a chocolate brown corduroy trouser suit. I only wore it twice. The first time, I got a mark on the trousers. I handwashed them so I could wear them to town next day. Walking home, the heavens opened and I got soaked. As I walked, soap bubbles kept forming at the crotch as my thighs rubbed together - I hadn't rinsed them properly. The bubbles showed up beautifully against the brown and of course it was rush hour, so lots of traffic. I ended up climbing over a fence and skulking home across muddy fields to avoid the embarrassment. I couldn't bear to wear that outfit again.

I blame Jackie (the mag) for a lot of the faux pas. All those sketches of tall, skinny, girls with loooong legs and huge eyes in whatever was the fashion of the day.......... it never transferred well into real life.

I had a black plastic maxi raincoat and matching black patent lace up boots - OMG did that coat catch the wind, could hardly keep my feet sometimes.

@Daisymclazy

Late eighties I was desperate for a pair of pixie boots. Mum bought me a pair that were waterproof and fleece lined. she's still wearing them now in winter

I had those! Jesus, they were awful. Mine were grey and went all shiny in the rain. It was like having my feet shoved into a pair of seal pups.

@WrapTrap I’ve been searching everywhere for a pair of wide leg jeans/trousers to relive my youth but they all seem to be really short.

Early 00’s I could always be found in wide leg jeans/cords that had dragged on the floor so much I had to cut chunks of fabric off the bottom everytime I wore them, layered vest tops and a nirvana or blink hoodie off the market.....accessorised with studded belts, chains, garish bright coloured spikey earrings, mood rings and lots and lots of cheap plastic bracelets (ahem, shag bands)

My mother embroidered and crocheted through my teenage 70s decade - (as well as holding down a full time job in one of the professions ffs).
I had the full range of crocheted ponchos embroidered round huge shirt collars embroidered jeans pockets and patches everywhere.
I also sported earth beads and love and peace wooden placard type necklaces - hand painted obviously. Moth and earth shoes - higher at the front than the back.
Chelsea girl tops and flares were a blessed relief.
Oh my.

Not moth shoes ! Don’t know where that came from !

I spent the early 90s in long ropes of love beads.

I had a set that were made out of seeds. All kind of sewn together.

Very earthy and hippie. Until I wore them to my Saturday job in a corner shop and got them trapped in the till. They broke. Seeds everywhere.

This absolute delight that I wore with a Duffle coat! No wonder I was bullied 🙄

I was given a monstrosity of a shoulder bag, black and purple fake patent with “Hot Gossip” written on it many times in curly script, for Christmas in the early 80s. Possibly the tackiest thing I have ever seen.

Does anyone remember the brightly coloured rucksacks with the Big clocks on them early 90s? I think they were from Habitat? Everyone at school had either one of those or a Benetton bag.

Early 70s; DIY flared jeans by inserted a triangle of contrasting, flowery cotton in the side seam. Similarly, jean skirts made from a pair of split open jeans with a big triangle of printed cotton inserted in the front and back.

These were worn with silver platform boots and a floor length hooded cape (homemade)

Ooo quite a few things

1. I had a white shirt with frills and a fake bow tie which I thought was amazing
2. A bright blue crease effect dress with an enormously wide belt (think 6 inches)
3. Lots of flowery Laura Ashley baggy trousers (what was I thinking...)

And when I was younger than a teenager

1. a yellow spotted dress which had a full circle skirt. It was horrendous but I loved it
2. a trouser suit with red crimpelene trousers so wide it looked like a skirt
3. a brown crochet poncho

@pinkyboots1

This absolute delight that I wore with a Duffle coat! No wonder I was bullied 🙄

@pinkyboots1 I had something very similar to that!

[quote AngelOfTheSilence]@WrapTrap I’ve been searching everywhere for a pair of wide leg jeans/trousers to relive my youth but they all seem to be really short.

Early 00’s I could always be found in wide leg jeans/cords that had dragged on the floor so much I had to cut chunks of fabric off the bottom everytime I wore them, layered vest tops and a nirvana or blink hoodie off the market.....accessorised with studded belts, chains, garish bright coloured spikey earrings, mood rings and lots and lots of cheap plastic bracelets (ahem, shag bands)[/quote]
I found them on shein. I love them. They are so comfy. Totally jmpractical for school run or driving or rain. Im quite short so they drag on the floor for me.

Yes, I remember my brown kilt....

I had a bag shaped like a corset 😂

I had one of those too! Black with white lacing. I'd forgotten about that!!

Platform shoes
Stripy socks bay city roller style
Afghan coats
Huge bell bottomed jeans that soaked up to your knees on a wet day
Boob tubes with rara skirts
80s power dressing huge shoulder pads and shiny satin evening wear

@recklessruby

Oh God that is migraine inducing. My coat was mid 80s (and apparently still being made).

Aren’t duvet coats really fashionable? There are loads of them about. That one wouldn’t get a second glance.

I actually still love all my old mosher/raver stuff and wouldn't call it hideous, but some of the stuff my mum put me in during the 80s and early 90s, it was like she was desperate for me to look terrible lol.

I had a fuchsia pink boilersuit in the 80s. Thought I was cool.