Crap fashion...... Stuff you will be swerving this year

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For me it's those fecking awful leather culottes.

Just shudder-inducingly awful.

I have one of those cape thingies, its a sort of Mexican pattern, every time I walk in the room dh shouts "will I smuggle you across the border into the kitchen?!" So yes, its already hiding in the bottom of the wardrobe

That article was hilarious! I'm so glad I'm not young anymore and don't give a toss about fashion, I just wear what suits me. The 70's weren't good the first time, let's not repeat it...

lois Mexican Cape surely not this

I love sleeveless tabbard things. Don't like sleeveless polo necks. But love polo necks. Love cropped flares and cropped wide legs but don't love full length flares but I love full length wide trousers with trainers. Cold shoulder tops are horrid. Don't like wedges but love flatforms.
I like taking risks - so mostly I'll be swerving overly safe as usual!

Yes that's it almost

That article was great! I'm sure I have seen a mum blogger with a fringe suede cape but can't remember who it was!

Higge I like your style! I could have written that post.

I like these new shapes, I'm sooooo bored with skinny trousers (which aren't that flattering to the majority of people anyway imo). I like the 'I'm not trying to please you actually' feel of these new shapes.

I love that article... Especially "Fringed Suede Cape"

I wore those button skirts in the 90s at Uni (with over the knee socks). For the love of God don't bring them back.

I had a button front A-line skirt in the nineties. It always used to gape across the front so it looked like I had a bulging crotch.

Fucking ponchos and blankety capes. Ffs just wear a coat!

Oh and wide-legged polyester playsuits. Just no.

I look like a star trek character in my roll neck, but I embrace it

Oh god the lace up tips make me shudder, especially the orange one in the article linked to. The author does have a point and it is well made by the pictures.

I also hate the open shoulder tops, another shudder inducing item of clothing.

I can't get worked up over cropped flares, I'm actually pretty tempted but they'd need to stop at the right point of my leg. I quite like ironic dressing, I did want to jump of the pinafore bandwagon but they do nothing for my wide hips.

I can't see cropped flares taking off. I hope he boring 90's pallet isn't back. Looking at pictures of me then, I was always either in black, tan or Khaki.

I have a blanket scarf that is both tartan and fringey! I love it, will be wearing next winter too whether fashionable or not. Also tempted by a blanket wrap for evenings in front of the tv. Definitely swerving culottes though, im too short for them ever to be flattering. Remember having some in the eighties and they werent good then. I still havent sucumbed to skinny jeans yet, and am now wondering if they are on the way out and i should just give them a miss altogether?

The thing is that there is a lot of ground between playing it safe and looking like an absolute knobber.

One of the mummy bloggers ( the one with the blonde helmet bob who looks like she works for a travel agency in the 1980's) tries everything and she looks like one of those Daily Fail articles where the daughters dress up their mothers in the latest trends. Then the women make polite noises (whilst squirming) about it not being quite them but they have been given ideas on how to update etc etc

Agree re the cut out shoulder jumpers. They are another vile offering.

How can you tell the difference between someone wearing something and someone wearing something ironically?

I think everyone should just wear what they want like, but there are a few things I personally do not like that people have already mentioned: capes and those weird jumper/blanket things (I just think they are so impractical, just wear a bloody winter coat?!?), culottes (I've never even seen leather ones until this thread, YUCK), wide-legged trousers of any sort...

I have two woolly hats with bobbles on. One is grey with a grey bobble and the other is grey with a bright green bobble. I think they are cute and they are warm. I do probably look daft but I don't mind. Would love a pair of dungarees, or even better, dungaree shorts, but haven't found any that fit me nicely.

Nineties block heeled slingbacks. Never in this lifetime!

I am reading this wrapped in my tartan blanket scarf (at home). It is warm! Don't think I would wear it out of the house however...

Was walking the dog through town the other night, and some of the clothes shop windows... I thought I'd wandered into a 1970s' time warp, or something. Hideous. Those granny style little tunic dresses with fussy belts... and the hideous vomit beige colours... Slash necked nylon-y tops (I forget what we called them in the 70s, but they were also kind of tunic-y). Suddenly it's all beige, brown and orange again. 1978, I thought you'd never return!

I will continue to avoid leather culottes - very Cheshire.

Capes in all shapes and sizes.

Printed bomber jackets.

Clogs.

Fucking ponchos and blankety capes. Ffs just wear a coat!

This.

joffrey Yes 70's are a creeping. I think "Kirsten dunst in Fargo" will be a big look for a/w 16. Not that I will wear it myself you understand

I like most of the clothes in that article (apart from the short flares/culottes and the shoes; I hate high heels)
I love 70s fashion.