What are the cruellest fashions of recent decades?

[Hosebush]

What are the fashions which are most cruel to the people wearing them? Either due to impracticalily, discomfort or embarrassment?

I was wondering about this in the park on the weekend. There was a lady wearing a short flippy skirt. When she was standing up, it looked an ok length and she looked nice (it would never suit me!).

But she had a kid with her and was bending over to pick things off the grass. When she did this, when sitting on the grass, you could see all of her knickers and bum. There were other families with her who would also have been able to see everything.

Is this not embarrassing for her? Does she not mind? Or does she not realise?

If the latter, then this is a cruel fashion and very impractical. You need to be able to bend down.

Another cruel fashion for me is tight pencil skirts with a slit up the back, because the skirt rides up 😮

Pencil skirts only ride up when they’re too small

Round these parts, the only acceptable shade of fake tan seems to be deepest mahogany, accompanied by tarantula leg eyelashes, pneumatically pumped lips and thick painted-on black eyebrows.
To complete the look, one must wear skin-tight, almost see-through leggings and a crop top. The pièce de résistance being a pair of sliders and a vape, draped artfully from the rubber lips. Divine.

Nude coloured leggings.

if I’m wondering if you are half naked from a distance because your clothes are the same colour of your skin, I don’t think that’s a good look.

In their day waterfall cardigans.

The black leggings and t shirt combo that cuts at an awful length.

Men in loose baggy tracksuit bottoms.

Not sure if this counts but.. mullet hair. Can't believe it's back!

Yes, not a fashion as such, but totally agree polyester is cruel. Why would anyone try to sell someone a polyester dress with fitted (so touching armpit) sleeves in the summer? The sweat!! There are no warnings for people that they will smell after 1 hour.

Another one for me is shorts which ride up between the thighs if you walk for over 2 mins. This happens for people like me who don't have a thigh gap, I think?

I have started to make my own shorts by cutting trousers to exactly the right length (mid thigh). I find the shorts in the shops too short.

I remember seeing a woman in a train station walking round with a nude bodysuit. She was very tall so she was noticible. I thought she was naked and had to do a double take.

I’ve seen a lot of young men wearing those slider shoes, you know the ones that look like slippers, teamed with knee length socks. Nowt funny about that it’s just a terrible sight to behold.

it's a signal that the wearer is "available" for sex

More likely that they were not allowed to wear belts for personal safety reasons and the safety of others.

When I was younger, anybody with the socks and sandles combo was seen as an anorak, very uncool. I still think it isn't a good look to this day!

Skinny jeans when you are, like me, rather doughy. Like a sausage squeezed into a too-tight casing.
Same for men too. I always see bad when see chunky fellas trying to do it the skinny jean thing.

What are the fashions which are most cruel to the people wearing them? Either due to impracticalily, discomfort or embarrassment?

Not sure which of these you think applies to Birkenstocks.

Piercings and tattoos

Lots of people just saying things that they don't like the look of on here, rather than answering the OP's question.

Cruel fashion:
thongs: UTIs and they look embarrassing
Pointy shoes and heels: torture for feet
Human hair wigs is a disgusting industry that exploits women on both ends
Fake nails cured with UVA lamps causing health issues and cancer
Pyjama and fluffy slippers, feathers on sleeves as going out outfit
Anything revealing like blazer with no top undernearth, bum cheeks hanging out shorts, it's the opposite of liberating to dress to the male gaze.

I know but she then said embarrassing so it got conflated

I really hate the trend of false lashes. Like someone else said, they look ‘mucky’ and like an eye infection waiting to happen. Just horrible. Just get a nice mascara and fuck off.

I love colourful, short-ish gel nails but acrylics give me the heebie-jeebies, especially if they’re really long.

I hate the trend for cheap ‘fast fashion’ pushed by online retailers such as PLT, boohoo and shein. It’s all such poor quality that even if it fits (for the majority of people it doesn’t) it just looks so awful. I was in Manchester City centre for the first time in a few years and most of the people out and about were dressed like an absolute disaster. When I was a teenager Manchester used to be SO COOL (early 2000s) but I think the rise of these awful online giants that sell shit clothes for 5p has kind of ruined that. I also blame ‘TikTok hauls’ and the cost of living crisis.

Any of the shit Molly-Mae wears. She looks like a thumb in joggers.

Has it ever occurred to you that some women and girls simply like to dress like that? Not everyone revolves their life around attracting the ‘male gaze’ 🙄

Camel toe playsuits. We always know when summer has arrived in A&E when those bad boys come out!

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That's your view and mine is that it's embarrassing for them.

I doubt they care what you think.

Not everything is for the male gaze. Some lesbian women wear/do these things too.

Personally l would not give a pair of heels houseroom but no issues with other people.

Thong bikinis. Yet to see anyone who looks good in them.