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

@HariboLectar you must be similar age to me as that's what I wore 😂

Flares were pretty awful in the 70s. (Shitty brown colour. )
Big floppy sun hats and ' cheese cloth ' tops. Tied up at the front.

@Giggorata

I wore stuff like this, and seem to remember liking them:

I LOVED them. Not sorry.

Laura Ashley needlecord, I mean.

I wasn’t allowed Jeans until I was 17 because I’d look fat in them, aunt finally relented on my period day, when I was as bloated as hell, said couldn’t we wait till next week, I had to go up a size they were loose all the time I had them. No fashionable jackets or tops just cheap stuff.

I always liked needlecord and think I could again.

@Giggorata
I love it all...don't ever regret being 70s wonderful.

In fact I had some beautiful needlecord shirts - so soft - I might just look out for some -
Will leave the ‘peace and love placard’ and crocheted poncho for another aeon.

I love it all...don't ever regret being 70s wonderful.

I feel the same.

I've had size 7 feet since I was about 12, and I had some very granny looking flat shoes for school until my mum was satisfied my feet really had stopped growing, and I could get moccasins (which were then very popular for school) from a shop that didn't measure.

But my biggest regret now is the knickerbockers I made, when I was at sixth form, from an unfashionably baggy pair of gingery brown cords. My regret is not that I wore such a thing. My regret is that I only wore them once and was terribly self-conscious because I wasn't usually such an interesting dresser. I should have made them my trademark thing and reinvented myself as a New Romantic pioneer.

I'm trying to find a way to destroy my parents photo albums to save my embarrassment.

In 20 or so years time your children will be doing the same, I doubt that many of us who cringe now at what we chose to wear felt that way at the time!
I wonder what your children will look back on with horror? Can I suppest those silly head bands on babies for a start?

Nobody mentioned Buffalo platform trainers yet? I used to wear mine with flared jeans I’d made myself (sewn triangular inserts into them) and drawn NIN all over them with biro, paired with a silky, tight dress that looked like lingerie. I would put my hair into 2 space hopper buns and somehow get let into nightclubs!

80's flying suits, I looked like a mini Anneka Rice when she was jumping out that helicopters

This thread is an education! So many fashion trends that must have passed me by (remarkable as my formative years were late 70s/80s). I can remember trying to do a sort of New Romantic look via my mum’s cast off odds and ends, jumble sales (fewer charity shops than now) and what I took to be an edgy sense of style... if by that you mean Peacocks jumper, old lady shoes and corduroy skirt, topped off with enough hair lacquer on my back-combed bonce to constitute a fire hazard

@keeprocking that's true. 😂

I had a long, wine wool wrapover coat at school I thought was the bees knees. I'm very short and it came to just above my ankles. I was also chubby and the wraparound style tied with a belt wasn't the best. And tp top it all I had black kickers sticking out the bottom.

Actually they were tan kickers boots with the wee leather flower thingy.

mid to late 80s puffball skirts were grim. I refused to wear one as I lived in black leggings, children's black PE pumps, long tunic type tops with oversized cardigan or man's jacket (usually black or grey) by this point. This evolved into leggings with short skater style shirt over it, pixie boots, t-shirt and long boyfriend cardigan. I would ditch the leggings in summer for opaque tights.

One of my favourite outfits from the late 80s was a dark purple shorts jumpsuit type thing with hood worn with over opaque tights and with DM boots

Most of my fashion mistakes were born from compromise between what I wanted and what my mother wanted me to wear. And as she paid she would take me shopping.

So when I wanted a mid thigh tight tweed skirt from top shop, as was the fashion, i ended up with an above the knee size too big job from m&s. Or when I wanted to go goth I’d end up with a long black skirt with pretty flowers from debenhams rather than a long black skirt with embroidery and tassels from the goth shop.

Result was disastrous as I looked desperately uncool while trying too hard.

Trousers with such a short body I'm amazed they covered my fanny.

I am extremely top heavy, and was from a young age. I used to wear a lot of corset tops with bootcut jeans & pointy stilettos, I look back at pictures and wonder how my parents let me out of the house, they were very laid back about my boobs hanging out all the time!

I have fond memories of a favourite pair of hot pants in dusky pink suede, teamed with knee length lace-up boots. Sometimes I wore an ankle-length suede patchwork coat, in a tight riding coat fit.

Oh nancy you’ve made me remembers sime really amazing bright pink pinstripe sailor knickerbockers I had and used to wear with white leather shoes and shirts with big floppy collars.
I will never forget when I inherited a sisters Chelsea Girl top with massive collars and tight high ribbing. I seem to remember my mum thinking Chelsea Girl was ‘common’ - was that a thing ?
I still have an original (tiny!) square necked Biba logo t-shirt. Every time I look at it More of the gold glitter falls off.

@HeronLanyon I loved Biba! Went there every chance I got!

I used to look after a little girl named Biba. She was named after the store.