Little things that mean Style Death

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I read the other day that one of the worst things you can do style-wise is to miss out a belt loop on your trousers. I've never done this, but I do permanently have a hair bobble around my wrist. This is apparently a big NO. What other little things should I not be doing?

Bra straps on show. Especially those plastic ones that look like strips of Sellotape.
Leggings worn as trousers.

What about colours? I had a bf who said that blue jeans and a black t-shirt or jacket was an awful combination. Is this a thing?

My DH has a loathing of men who wear tan shoes with blue jeans. I think that's just him, I think it can look OK - if not the most stylish choice.

Blue jeans and a black (biker) jacket or t-shirt is a classic combination.

Cheryl ha ha, I'm wearing leggings right now BUT I do live in the Middle East and I can't bare to much leg!
I really dislike overly sensible shoes, like the Cornish pasty style ones or similar. I don't think your shoes need to be really ugly to be comfy, but then again I don't suffer from sore feet so what do I know!

Captain Anti Fashion sounds like she has a very distinctive style - fair play to her.

I think you should wear what you want, so the only example of a faux pas is when someone is wearing something that they clearly don't feel comfortable in.

I'm laughing out loud at Captain Anti-Fashion

I know one as well. I don't mean this unkindly but she seems to have a forcefield around her making her oblivious to fashion. Her husband occasionally buys her clothes in a charity shop when he is taken about by her outfit. He has a forcefield as well but there may be a few chinks in his.

I'm seven months pregnant. It's hot. My feet are swollen. In fact I am swollen, but particularly my feet.

Please can I have special dispensation to wear crocs?

God I am so so glad I don't give a shit about 'style'.

I'm currently wearing visible trainer socks with trainers (I mean, wtf? How else are you supposed to wear them?), have a bobble permanently on my wrist, knee length jean shorts and a comfy top with some sort of logo on it (can't read it upside down).

It's hot out and I've just done a four mile walk with the dog.

How has no one mentioned those 'invisible' clear bra straps that everyone can see? Awful. shudder

There was a girl walking in front of me the other day with the stitch still in the back of her skirt. I couldn't decide whether to tell her or not. I didn't, but perhaps I should have..

I'm emphatically voting for leggings as trousers as the biggest faux pas. Even if they're not seethrough, although seethrough is obviously much much worse. I shouldn't know what pants these ladies are wearing!

Oh no, Flyingsolo I just bought a North Face 2 in 1 coat and a pair of those zip pants.

Can I be forgiven though as I am going on an adventure holiday in Iceland and I need to dress for all weathers?

Definitely the worst are see through leggings, visible bras and walking sandals with socks. Guilty of some of the others in here though and I don't care - trainer socks ( only a little bit showing though!), bobbin on wrist, North face jacket, sometimes even all at the same time, shock horror...

@LauraMoon I hope you don't have any zips showing. I just remembered that one as well. No zips visible on your trousers.

Lol, I've got a combo on the go, trainers (I'm not doing any sporting activity) slightly visible trainer socks and leggings, not as trousers though but under a long denim over size shirt! Tif though all I'm doing today is the school run and I just can't be arsed in 40+ heat!

Tif..? To be fair!

I like leggings as trousers.

It is whatever the opposite of frumpy is.

I know a woman of about 60, average sized, not obese or anything, who wears the same 'uniform' EVERY SINGLE DAY. I've seen her at work, and I've seen her out and about shopping etc. at the weekend and I've seen her out for a dinner at an expensive restaurant and she's in the same identical uniform always. She has about four or five bottoms and four or five tops that she rotates, but they are all styled the same.

It's flat sensible shoes, a voluminous gathered/flared skirt that's sort of midi length, and the most ENORMOUS outsized men's polo shirt, iworn outside the skirt, (it practically comes down to her knees) in a variety of colours but always plain, with the buttons done right up to the neck.

Unless she's hiding the mother of all colostomy bags under there, there's just no excuse for it.

I've got TWO hair bobbles currently on my wrist..all my thick ones broke so have to make do with 2 this ones until I get a chance to get some more. I have a lot of hair and I sometimes need to the it up!

Knee length boots with bare legs! 😂

I think if you've had the exact same hairstyle for more than ten years you probably look really frumpy, irrespective of the style or your age. People seem to stick to a style they loved when they were younger and mistakenly think that style is still a young style - it isn't. Young styles have moved on. It's ageing you. Unless you have a beautifully cut, fringeless, totally kick arse classic bob with a little bit of subtle inversion at the back. That works on everyone from 5 to 85 and never goes out of style.

F**k .....I have navy 3/4 leggings on under my skirt today .. sorry.

Omg Laska not even full length! That is truly a fashion crime!!!

@LaLegue I am lost at the subtle inversion at the back? Can you post a picture please?

LaLegue a bob might as well just be referred to as "generic hair" though - I remember being part of a conversation where a female friend was trying to describe another mother we all vaguely knew, at least by sight, and the conversation went something like

"She's got dark blondish hair in a bob, sort of average height"

"Sarah?" No? "Laura" No? "Carol"? No, "Jayne?" No, "Rachel?" No, "Jen?" No... ad infinitum until it was established that 80% plus of women between 25 and 65 have a bob, and a lot of them have dark blondish hair and aren't especially tall nor especially short...