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AIBU to ask what has been your most spectacular wardrobe malfunction?

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violetbunny · 12/04/2021 07:52

So I got to work today and realised I completely forgot to put a bra on this morning...! Blush

Luckily I'm not particularly large of chest and was wearing a dress that billowed out at the top, so I don't think anyone noticed. But it's certainly not my worst wardrobe malfunction - that would be the time I wore 2 totally different knee length boots to work (one with a stiletto, the other with a block heel - of course no one said anything until our team meeting, then cue lots of laughter at my amusing choice of footwear...!)

So AIBU to ask, what has been your worst fashion mistake or malfunction? Smile

OP posts:
KeyboardWorriers · 14/04/2021 09:08

Dancing on a friend's shoulders in a nightclub. No bra on just a "boob tube".
Couldn't work out why everyone was looking at me, till finally I realised my boob tube had completely fallen down Blush

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violetbunny · 14/04/2021 09:11

These stories are brilliant, my own wardrobe malfunction is humbled by comparison Grin

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MusicWithRocksIn1t · 14/04/2021 11:01

New born DS, DD just started school nursery I dropped her off went in and chatted to the staff and other mums, did a quick shop, dropped things off at my office. It wasn't until I got home I realised I was wearing my shirt inside out and my shoes didn't match 🤦‍♀️

marriednotdead · 14/04/2021 11:05

@burritofan

I was at a dinner meeting somewhere Very Posh when I realised my dress was both inside out and back to front, the Primark label sitting at my collarbone like a crap brooch.
This made me choke on my cereal Grin
Breathmiller · 14/04/2021 11:18

These are funny. Grin

In the 90s i had a pair of John Lennon style sunglasses with mirrored/really dark lenses.

I put them on, thinking I looked the biz and went out to the shops.

Stopped to talk to elderly neighbour and thought she was a bit funny. Got some looks as I walked up the busy street. But clearly it was because I looked so gooooood in my snazzy cool shades!

Got to the shops and was trying to pick tomatoes out in the veg bit. Realised it was all a bit weird and noticed one of my lenses had fallen out , presumably into the tomatoes. Spent ages rummaging in said tomatoes and surrounding floor to find the very obvious lens.

Gave up and took my glasses off because obviously it would be ridiculous to walk about with only one lens in.

Got home and found the missing lens on my set of drawers. I had been wandering about like a tit for hours like that! How the hell did I not notice!?

The neighbour must have been shaking her head at these young folks and their weird fashions. Or maybe she just thought, correctly that I was a right twat!

trixies · 14/04/2021 13:10

I taught kids and adults in Japan for a year, and during a particularly active kids class, managed to tear the inside seam of my trousers. I still had two adult classes to teach, and a break of 5 minutes between classes. I got a colleague to staple my trousers back together and then stood stock still for the entirety of the adult classes. Grin

Bearnecessity · 14/04/2021 18:35

Oh I forgot, I was a new mum, breastfeeding ....the postman wanted me to sign for a parcel which I happily did, he seemed much happier than usual. I swung round and noticed both breasts were free of my dressing gown.

MissConductUS · 14/04/2021 19:34

@Bearnecessity

Oh I forgot, I was a new mum, breastfeeding ....the postman wanted me to sign for a parcel which I happily did, he seemed much happier than usual. I swung round and noticed both breasts were free of my dressing gown.
He was probably hoping you were going to invite him in for a cuppa. Grin
SexyGiraffe · 14/04/2021 20:34

@dayslikethese1

I don't wear button up tops or shirts anymore as there's been so many malfunctions. I have learned that I need sturdier tops Grin
Yes, I wore a new blouse to a review meeting with my (straight male) boss. The buttons kept popping open and I kept having to do them up again. I tried to make a joke of in the end but he was absolutely red as a beetroot. I think he thought I was trying to seduce him for a payrise, or something!
Bearnecessity · 14/04/2021 20:48

burritofan....that is priceless...

Don't Miss Conduct...I couldn't look him in the eye for weeks...

icebearforpresident · 14/04/2021 21:02

I chub-rubbed my way through a pair of leggings at a Zumba class. A HUGE hole that was basically right the way around my thigh. Somehow I didn’t notice until after the class and walked home down a busy street.

JudgeJ · 14/04/2021 21:23

@msbevvy

My worst one was the top half of my swimming costume rolling down to the waist on a long water slide. Made even worse by the fact that the slide was overlooked by a restaurant full of people.Blush
Oh I've done that, the top half comes down and the lower half gives you a painful wedgie!
JudgeJ · 14/04/2021 21:37

@LakieLady

I had the same shoes in black and navy. Went to work in one of each

I've done that, too. It was a good excuse to pop out and buy a new pair of shoes, though. I really struggle telling black from navy under artificial light.

Seems to be a theme, odd shoes, I did it one dark morning. With great panache every time it was mentioned I replied Yes and I have another pair at home!
Penistoe · 14/04/2021 21:39

Basically my whole 20s

JudgeJ · 14/04/2021 21:40

@anxietyaunt

The number of times I’ve emerged from the ocean with a great scrotum of sand in my bikini gusset swinging between my legs like a metronome...
We were on the beach a few years back, a male friend came over and squatted down to talk, unfortunately we were treated to the sight of a couple of hairy ones escaping from his swimming shorts, not a pretty sight!
JudgeJ · 14/04/2021 21:42

@CounsellorTroi

Hold up stockings that didn’t.
Did they ever really hold up?
amigababy · 14/04/2021 23:34

Me - make up related. I'd had some kind of eye problem so the doctor has given me some oily type of eye cream. I went to a posh evening do with dh, fully made up, it was only after an hour one of the women on our table suggested I should pop to the ladies, my mascara had kind of dissolved with the oil, I looked like a panda. I was pretty mad with dh not telling me, he said he thought it was supposed to look like that!!

Not me, but on a coach on the way to the Grand National, driving at walking pace because of the traffic, we were constantly level with a young couple, she was having real trouble with her hold ups, which weren't. Every 20 yards she would hoik them back up while her boyfriend seemed to be getting more and more annoyed about the delay having to stop and wait for her. After about the fifth time, she nipped behind a fairly low house wall and just gave up and took them off, to a round of applause from the coach.

FrankChurchillsHaircut · 14/04/2021 23:36

Odd shoes. Put on one dark morning when running late for the bus.

Blerg · 15/04/2021 01:29

A few years ago I was striding along the South Bank in London, and kept noticing men being a bit weird at me. Came to realise the friction of my shoulder bag had made my dress ride up, showing my whole bum (in pants and tights). To make it even funnier I was on the phone to my Dad at the time so he heard me shrieking about it.

memberofthewedding · 15/04/2021 02:36

Many years ago I was at a European airport when a woman came up to me and asked if I spoke English. I am always wary of being approached by strangers in these circumstances so I just ignored her. She shouted after me that my skirt was caught up at the back. I was wearing a very full skirt and it had got caught in my knickers when I went to the loo. I must have been walking around for some minutes like that.

GammyLeg · 15/04/2021 03:11

I can't think of anything specific but I am sure many of us have experienced the desperate thigh grip of trying to keep a pair of tights from sliding down as you waddle towards the nearest safe place to hitch them up.

Reading this thread has made me realise how stupid a lot of women's clothing is. Particularly wrap-around skirts.

DalPalak · 15/04/2021 03:23

I was at an Indian wedding wearing a lehenga with a mesh/illusion waist and built-in bra pads. What I didn't realise until too late was that the bra pads were placed a little too high. I looked like I had two pairs of tits, and I spent the whole day with my arms pinched to my sides, trying to keep the real ones from reaching the mesh waist. Only proper bras for me from here on out.

FiveGs · 15/04/2021 03:27

My flip flop broke at Bangkok airport as we were leaving to head back to the UK. It was late and all the shops were shut except for a couple selling traditional Thai goods and souvenirs. Knowing I wasn't likely to be admitted onto the plane shoeless, I bought the only footwear they had in one of those shops, which were floral silk slippers. They were very beautiful and my feet were very warm on the flight back but they were most definitely slippers. Got some strange looks landing at Manchester airport!

Cassilis · 15/04/2021 05:01

I'm fair with dark hair, and have visibly hairy legs. I shaved my legs for our work Christmas but as my dress fell just below my knees, so I only shaved from the knee down. Unfortunately I didn't factor factor in the the riding up my thighs aspect and everyone got a view of my hairy thighs as I climbed into the 6 person face to face Taxi.

Embracingthechaos · 15/04/2021 05:06

Mine was fairly classic - bikini top popping off at the bottom of a water slide. Loads of people saw. It was awful.

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