Fashion's worst disasters.............and did you wear them?

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Bay City Rollers and the tartan edged trews?

Skin tight jeans with legwarmers?

Mini kilts with white tights?

Laura Ashley pie crust collar blouses?

'Dave' from Slade haircut whether you were male or female?

Just been looking back through some friends photo albums.

I had the mini kilt.

I 'rocked'

Pudden

Was it the waxy lipstick from the 'Kiss and Make Up' range from Miss Selfridge?

I had that.

You could eat spare ribs, sugary doughnuts and lard and the stuff would not budge.

yes it was...I think it was called Iron Lady and I remember snogging half the night half heartedly cleaning teeth at 3am and waking up the next morning with it still on! Gawd I'll have to dig out my old photos from the garage and wallow in a bit of prime nostalgia

I was a bit erm different fashion wise as I didn't really follow trends big or small school ones. I di however have a Fergie bow that I loved. I remember when the makeup trend was the natural look. The Body Shop had a liptick/blusher/eyeshadow all in one in a shad called Beech. It looked terrible on me and I only ever wore it as a lipstick.

Skirt-trousers, the inexplicable nineties craze that made you look like a market trader wearing an apron. Why? Why did I fall for it?

The smell of Charlie perfume and Elnett hairspray and the taste of roll on lip gloss.

Transports me right back to 1984 and listening to Nik Kershaw singing 'Wouldn't it Be Good' whilst getting ready to go to the under 18's night at the local nightclub.

Hair mascara.

Sticking little diamonds to the top of cheek / outer edge of eye area to go clubbing.

Gold eyeliner.

That hairstyle where you shaved the underneath layer of your hair and then had normal hair on top.

I'm 22 and my biggest fashion disasters were pedal pushers and those skirt-trouser hybrids (skirt over trousers).

Wait.

Hair mascara.
Rimmel coffee shimmer lipstick.
Sticking little diamonds to the edge of eyes.
Pineapple spiky hair styles.
50 bobbles in one very high ponytail.
Butterfly clips with movable wings.
Hair spirals.

Skirt-trousers, check.

Shell suit, check.

Plastic dummies on a black string round my neck, check.

The sweater shop sweaters, check.

Silver puffa coat, check.

Alexa chung style icon i was not.

Pencil skirts sooo tight I had to pull myself onto the school bus by my arms because my legs were pinned together.

hair mascara
spray on jeans
pixie boots with black tassles
jumpsuit from the 1970s - a la charlie's angels
blouse with frills - a la new romantics
culottes - why?

But no skirt/trouser hybrid or a shell suit!

Rimmel Black Cherries lipstick
Huge black velvet bow hair clip - it was massive!
Clip on shoe decorations- I thought they were the height of sophistication
Ditto wearing Chanel No5 at age 12/13

Ahh yes - the jumpsuits. Having a pee meant getting half naked in a toilet cubicle.

Tigerbear - I had those too, the enormous Fergie-inspired bow hairclips. And the shoe clips! And the white/pink Miss Selfridge lipstick.

And the red tukka boots, which were so unflattering in 1983 that I still can't get my head around the current ankle boot thing, even now.

And the hyuuuuge Tiffany knitted jumpers with pink leggings which were so unflattering in 1988 that I can't get my head around the current leggings thing, even now.

And the ridiculous popper gusset bodies that were impossible to repop when pissed, and which showed up every lump and bump of one's non-Cindy Crawford physique that were so unflattering in 1992 that...

Hmm. I see a pattern emerging here.

anyone remember the magazine advert for Rimmel lipstick and nail varnish? It showed the same mouth and nail but just changed the colour in the printing process to Heather shimmer or whatever

What was the craze for the oversized cricket jumpers all about? C1986.

Oh, i had rimmel black cherry as well.

Hair mascara. Oh my. Did I really.

I'm 26, I recall high ponitails with two bits of fringe either side of my face. and white eyeshadow. Loads of it.

Popper trousers (urgh)

Spice Girl Shoes. I had some electic blue ones!

A black velvet mini skirt & matching jacket (from Tammy Girl lol)

Very bright nail varnish I still do this

I went through a weird phase in college, I chucked some jeans in the bath, squirted bleach over them, washed and then dyed them purple... these I used to wear with a red+blue spory jacket. Oh. What. Was. I. Thinking.
I also had some very baggy, very bright pink cord trousers around the same time. sheesh.

Oh, and the trouserskirt haaah.

I wonder what I'll cringe about in 10 years time...

*sporty jacket

"Mini kilts with white tights?" are so funny, this style is for those who want to look like school girls:o