Current trends you REALLY don't like?

[SpiderCharlotte]

For me it's perspex shoes. No.

Worn once*

Those giant dresses with chintzy patterns on, they remind me of those slip on ruffled sofa covers you buy through the back pages of colour supplements. I do think they’ll die out, or at least go into hibernation over the winter though. I saw a woman wearing one out in the wind and rain yesterday, she was basically wrestling with a tent of wet flappy polyester as she walked along.

Blue rinse (or grey rinse or pink rinse) hair colours n teens etc (and ironically you never see blue rinses on the elderly)

Gin

Vegan 'leather'. It's not leather and you're not fooling anyone

Or maybe its a choice for someone who doesn't want to wear leather ?

I'm not interested if you think I'm trying to fool you with my pretendy pleather shoes . Which incidentally will likely cost as much or more than some leather ones .

Multi coloured sequinned jumpers.

Leggings or even trousers worn with dresses.

I don't like that either. There few women (and one man) where I work that do that. I can't decide if they are indecisive or just got dressed in the dark.

Trinny and Susannah used to advise that jeans under a dress looked good back in early 2000s. I worked in The City and I would have been mocked senseless in a dress over jeans.

"Kick flares", i.e. half-mast flares that end mid-calf. Reminds me of my mum making me wear trousers I'd grown out of when I was about 8!

Oh, and skinny jeans on men. "Turnip jeans".

Oh gosh I remember wearing perspex shoes late 90s or early 2000s. They were known as stripper shoes back then.

@ConFusion360

right thread. it's a trend which will "pass" eventually.

But as for fashion trends....I don't do fashion so don't really care. I haven't changed what I wear (fashion wise - I do change my clothes regularly) for at least a decade. I buy the colours I like in the range currently available.

Possibly my biggest issue must be glasses. I have to wear them and we can get free glasses via work but the selection is limited. They are either dreadfully 2 years off trend or intended for 80 yos. Annoying as I then have to go get mine from a normal optician which costs me about £400. (most of which is for the lenses not the frames)

I don’t like the trend for twee, see through polyester blouses. I want natural materials which are not see through.
I also don’t get wearing those ballerina pumps which appear to be made from cardboard and look as though they will fall to bits after 6 days worth of wear.

Possibly my biggest issue must be glasses. I have to wear them and we can get free glasses via work but the selection is limited. They are either dreadfully 2 years off trend or intended for 80 yos

You could do what my DH did a couple of years ago and just ignore fashion for specs too. He dug out his NHS specs from when he was a teenager and had new lenses fitted in them.

The trouble is that that style of specs has come back into fashion and now he moans that people will think he is a sheep.

High waisted trousers. I know a lot of people like them but there needs to be more choice so those of us who like lower rise are catered for as well. I wear mine into the ground as they are so scarce and have to buy obscure brands off Amazon.

@TableNiner A kindred spirit.

I hate high waisted trousers.They seem to make even the smallest bum look enormous (maybe just mine).

Have you tried Ebay for low rise?

I must admit I like high waisted trousers and slightly roomy sleeves. Also love chunky trainers and dungarees. Hiking boots? Fantastic. I love practical fashion. A bit sick of all the corduroy now though, but it beats the disgusting dry clean only polyester

The peasant/amish dresses are awful. No socks. 80’s platform trainers. Matt lipstick.

Plus any wet flappy polyester

I don't like matt lipstick either.

Also not a fan of polyester.

@ConFusion360 Ha, yes! But I find trying to buy trousers quite tricky as they need to fit in so many places and are often non returnable. I do use eBay to look for replacements I know are low waisted.

M&S are the worst for high waisted, always ludicrously high and no variation/choice.

I can't be doing with those thick velvet Alice bands doing the rounds at the moment either. They make people look like a cross between an 80s sloane and Anne Boleyn.

That is such an accurate description @SpiderCharlotte 😂

Tucking tops in to high waist trousers. Makes you arse and belly look massive. I've seen young slim girls look awful in that style it's so unforgiving.

Midi length skirts and dresses, especially dresses in the style of that Zara dress. Basically anything unflattering which a lot of fashion is these days. Am also over white trainers worn with midi dresses it's so frumpy

the local youth seems to veer towards a more grungy esthetic again. I do rather like the wide, 7/8 trousers and I appreciate cozy shirts as much as everyone.
But it's just soo slouchy, faded and occasionally also ripped that it comes uncomfortably close to looking actually homeless imo... But the young girls (my youngest sister being one of them) seem to feel much more comfortable with this kind of fashion? Which would obviously be good...

But I luckily don't see marker pen eyebrows anymore... And the whole Kardashian phase seems to be waning as well.

A line midi skirts (especially the slightly longer kind) aren't my friend.

But what I really don't like are slightly above ankle length, shapeless skirts. Especially if the have some sort of faded flower pattern.

I'm not a settler's wife living in the prairie! So why am I (apparently) supposed to dress like one?