Fashion related things that you are glad belong in the past?

[Workingmytickettoparadise]

Communal changing rooms in places like Miss Selfridge. So glad that these, to my knowledge, don’t exist any longer.

Puffball skirts
Blouses with bows at the neck
Three quarter length trousers
The Laura Ashley frilly, short sleeved cotton blouse - everyone had one 40 years ago!
Jelly shoes
Hipster trousers
Denim shorts so short they left the wearer cheeky
Fine flesh coloured leggings
Anything brown
Tank tops worn with satin blouses with flowing arms and long buttoned cuffs
Halter necks
Summer boots
Hotpants
Ballgowns
Taffeta
BoPeep Wedding dresses

I quite like the clothes in the shops at present.

Thin 90s eyebrows (I know we laugh about insta brows but the pluck all your brows out and re draw them in with a sharpie look was waaaay worse)

Chunky badger style highlights.

Super tight spray on skinny jeans- made people look like walking parsnips

Stacked bobs- admitted tainted by the “I want to speak to the manager” meme

Grunge. Bloody awful- as if smudged mascara and looking like a smack head looked good on anyone except Kate moss

Curtains hairstyle for men and also that hideous Bieber haircut where it looked like he was doing a combover but with ALL his hair at once

White lipstick lined with brown lip liner

Gypsy tops - huge floaty puffy monstrosities that make everyone look as if they’re hiding a pregnancy

Huge shoulder pads. Because why is looking like a linebacker meant to be attractive for women?

Clompy 90s heels - why was everything so square?!

So did I but hindsight is wonderful 😂

Every single thing from the 80s: clothes, hair, makeup, everything. What a tragedy of a decade fashion-wise. I just cannot believe it when I see photos/vids, just what were they thinking???

They really were. The only time I’ve ever thought they made sense. When you had an enormous queue of people waiting for their vaccine it was brilliant to have immediate access rather than have to wait until they struggled out of several layers of the most unsuitable clothing to wear to a mass vaccination centre.

Ugg boots
Thongs
Cold shoulder tops
Belly button piercings
Straightened hair
Alien perfume
Snow washed or stone washed denim
Wet look hair gel
Winkle pickers
Clogs
Cowboy boots

Big back combed fringes.

Back combed "bumps" on the top of your hair. There's a girl near me still wears her hair like this and she honestly to god looks like Jonny in Hotel Transylvania 2 when they try to disguise him as a vampire.

Kappa Jackets, gelled hair all scraped back into a ponytail, anything with a playboy bunny symbol on it

Thong leotards, frosted lipstick. Banana clips!

Here's Vogue's 2023 article announcing the return of ballet flats.

I expect 2024's article will be around soon. It appears every year.

Vogue on ballet flats

As someone who never stopped wearing dresses over trousers

Why? I really don't understand why anyone would do this.

Sorry I know my question looks rude. It's just a look where I could never see what the point is was.

Dream matte mousse

The Maybelline foundation? That still exists.

Noooooo lol, this is slightly outing but there is a pic of me aged about 3 with a perm because my mum decided to try it out on me first O_o. Horrible stuff.

Oh, this is NOT OKAY!

Heels. They’re not even wearing them on The Apprentice this year.

Aww this thread is making me nostalgic. There's a lot of stuff I wouldn't personally wear (now) but had so much fun with at the time. Flattering never came into it! Now I'm middle aged and trying to get back to that mindset of clothes for fun rather than making me blend in/look as small as possible.

(Although I'm with you on communal changing rooms and those pornstar/playboy t shirts).

I was in my 20s in the 80s. I loved some of the Laura Ashley dresses, the velvet headbands, the coloured tights (I am wearing these again), jewel coloured cardigans and tops from Benetton, navy polka dot skirts, sleevless giblets, cotton pie crust collar blouses, and flat courts with bows and gilt.

I don't remember dresses over jeans being massively popular in the UK. I just remember American teen stars like Britney Spears and Hilary Duff wearing them.

They were everywhere!

Maybe my brain blocked out the trauma 😂

Those awful global hypercolour tees. Why anyone would want to draw attention to the fact they were hot and sweaty is beyond me....

80s jumpsuits à la Sheena Easton. I had one in turquoise, what on earth was I thinking?!

Donkey Jacket (or BinMan Coat as they were called ) they were actually quite nice and functional , single breasted darkest navy or black ...but then they evolved to be a bit over sized and cape like

Black tights and skirts with heeled court shoes in red/green/yellow/royal bue (just "No" )

Those hair irons that gave you waves (if you didn't have one you had to do tiny plaits and let it dry . Less damaging though )

Big jumpers tucked into jeans a la Haircut 100

BodyShop Extra Red Henna - smelled like an old ashtray , looked like cow turd , took hours to clean up, while you set aside an entire day to do the process ...but the glossiest auburn locks imaginable .

I'm still raging that I didn't get Monty Don earrings that had a crystal stud/pearl pear-drop and a tiny bow where they join .
But I did get some crystal/silver similar style in Argos

80s perms
Knitted dresses and suits
Pussy bow blouses.
Shoulder pads
Platform high heel shoes
Brown lip liner with a paler brown lipstick