following on from my thread on waterfall cardigans - what else is a fashion no-no

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I can see that I need to add bootleg jeans to the list (although I don't wear these with heels, only with converse)

anything else...

Bra straps showing under spaghetti strap vests.

Visible pants

Sportswear (espescially with 'designer' labels) & trainers when not actually doing sport.

Ballet pumps - esp when too big so you can see the person 'holding' the shoe on by bunching up their toes. Real ballet shoes have elastic or ribbons to hold them on.

Anoraks - I will never be old enough for one.

Massive earrings that drag the lobes out of shape.

Anything with the manufacturer's name plastered across the front - why be a walking advert.

Boots with peep toes - boots are for cold, wet weather so cutting a hole in the front is pointless.

Gerbil norks / back boobs / boobs worn round the waist due to lack of decent bra - the bigger they are the more expensive the scaffolding needs to be. Was fascinated / appalled by Strictly's failure to hitch Anne Widdecombe's boobs away from her waist.

But I do like waterfall cardigans - though you do need a decent bra underneath.

Kids in 'tart message' t-shirts - DD1's friend had one saying 'I want to be a WAG when I grow up' - scarey

Big chunky 'outrageous' jewellery
Fascinators
fleeces
wrap pattern dresses
Anything flouncy
Anything that doesn't fit
Hair in an obvious 'style' that doesn't move and make up in vivid colours(unless 16)
Any peruna or east and most monsoon
Wackiness
badly dyed hair
Bright lipstick with dodgy teeth

One of my bug bears is women wearing the wrong bra under tops

so, dark or heavily pattern bras under pale tops, spaghetti strap tops with a normal style bra, racer back tops with a normal bra - HATE them soooo much!!

and seeing knickers riding up over skirts/trousers and young lads wearing jeans with the waistband practically at their knees!

those hats that are animial with ears, only for kids, same with ear muffs!

'Smart' denim

What is a fascinator?

Does 'smart' denim exist?

I must add, mismatched lipliner, especially when it's put on outside the lipline to make your lips look bigger.

A fascinator is hair band or clip with feathers & glitter attached - a bit like something a child would make as an art project. Usually worn to formal occassions by those who hate hats.

It is a clip on hair thing like a netty bow
Smart denim as in ironed and medium blue eg boxy squaer jackets

Seriously, what's wrong with bootcut jeans? I don't think I can give them up :(

Tailored/smart shorts over tights.

Feathers and glitter?
I don't think that is for me.

Up until a few months ago, DD would have liked a pink one, but she's 9 now, and far too cool for that, apparently.

Pink is naff and for children

fake primark type Ugg Boots that make the wearer walk on the side of there feet.

Ooh I am ticking a few of these off here! I like flouncy though

Bootcut jeans are just a bit dated and tend to be worn by those a bit older. The young, trendy things wouldn't wear them and while I am not a young trendy thing I try and avoid wearing things my mother would wear and she would most definitely wear bootcut jeans.

My mother is also very stylish but I am many years younger and wish to look so.

Agree about the cheap uggs - worn over to one side..

Hello Kitty on anyone who isn't a child or teenager!

Dodgy tartan country style atrocities that I seem to have found myself on the mailing list for... sob

pleeeeeeeeeeease someone tell me the problem with bootleg jeans!

oops sorry someone has explained... will read avidly...

Oh I see, I guess I can just hope that if I keep wearing the bootcuts long enough they'll eventually come back into fashion :) No way am I squeezing into those tight stretchy ones I see everyone wearing these days!

Those saggy subsiding 'Uggs' look really awful, and that can't be good for your feet...

so what kind of jean is recommended by MN

Actually, I hate fakes - fake Uggs, fake Crocs (and the real thing actually, but fake ones are worse), fake converse, etc etc

Bootlegs have never properly been away - they've been being sold in Zara throughout, not to mention everywhere else, and if it's being sold in Zara, I don't think it's aimed at 50-year-olds. And Mother Denim, which is just about the newest jeans brand there is, has skinnies, flares and bootlegs in its first collection.

While I probably see more young and trendy things wearing skinnies, I definitely also see them wearing bootlegs or flares. The same with celebs - although I think there was a point at which they were wearing skinnies only, it wasn't that long, was it?

The only people who still treat skinnies as the law rather than an alternative are people of our age, I think.

um, make that bootcuts!

Skinny jeans that are all bunched up over shoes . IN fact skinny jeans on anyone over 18 or size 8.

Treggings, jeggings, leggings

Uggs

Crocs

Anything other than jeans made out of denim, but espeically denim mini skirts.

Anything made out of velour.

Anything with an asymetric hem.

Boot cuts are a bit dated and mumsy. Skinny boot cuts are around, as are flares, for those not sold on regular skinnies and leggings, etc.

I think skinny bootcuts are what I inadvertently bought recently, they were so tight in the thigh that I had to go up a size which means the waist is enormous. But I guess they were supposed to be that tight...

Maybe they were skinny flares ephiny? I think they look better than bootcut. Bootcut can look like straight leg which no one should wear.

This thread will end up having every item of clothing ever invented on it. there's no pleasing MN.