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 😮

Most of the men who have their trousers low hanging probably are as homophobic as can be, if their choice of music is anything to go by.

Birkenstocks.
Not necessarily cruel but they're the ugliest shoes ever invented and make all feet look like swollen hunks of pork.

Vega trainers.
Nothing objectively wrong with them but they're cruel in the sense that they cost an absolute packet for ridiculously basic, boring trainers.

Nude leggings. From a distance, it looks like the wearer is wearing no pants.

Those big, heavy eyelash extensions. It looks like the wearer is struggling to open their eyes most of the time. It can’t be good for the natural lashes underneath either.

Most recently - Jorts. Wide leg, baggy denim shorts at the knees…not cruel as such but they are not the most flattering of styles (on me anyway) I felt like a 12 year old skateboarder when I tried some on.

Fast fashion. When I was a teenager we’d mix stuff up a bit. I’d wear one of my mum’s old hats with DM boots and a mini dress. We’d think about pattern and colour and texture. I see so many young people in polyester PLT and Sports Direct and it just looks so generic and dull.

Face fillers and bloody stupid eyelashes. Katie Price used to look extreme but she just looks identikit now.

Skinny jeans and deck shoes with no socks on men. That whole over groomed to the point of looking plastic look is so unattractive. And why are you doing that to your balls with those jeans? They need to breathe.

Oh, and grey joggers on men. It’s like aspirational prison chic.

You're right, I'm not the target audience!

Heavily tattooed people don’t tend to get tattoos for fashion 😂 leg/arm sleeves have been around for a long time as well!

Oh dear, internalised misogyny at it's finest. Couldn't imagine a world where women aren't putting themselves on display.

I’d say this entire thread is a good example of fashion- based cruelty. Can’t imagine judging people because their fashion sense is different to mine. I thought most people grew out of that kind of mindset after school.

They are comfortable and practical - but unless the trousers are very slim fitting, it's not a very flattering look .

I'm currently wearing linen cropped trousers and debating whether to put trainers or sandals on. I think the sandals look better - but I'm only walking the dog so it doesn't really matter .

A few years ago there was a brief summer fashion for basically a bra top that looked like a scarf crossing over between your boobs and tied halter-neck style around the neck at the back. I never saw it look good on anyone as it was always going to look dreadful unless you had small, perky boobs and a super-flat stomach

Skinny jeans. I had many a pair but they remind me of sausage skins looking back.

Currently the body positivity movement that entails the wearer to go to the supermarket just in underwear of big pants and a crop top/bra. Yuck!

It just reads like a bunch of middle-aged women who've forgotten what they wore when they were younger.

None of the things mentioned here are cruel as no one is forced to wear them against their will, it's just "things I don't like", with the occasional slut-shaming thrown in.
Younger women wear more revealing clothes because they're fashionable, not to attract the "male gaze" ffs.

Oh no the dreaded middle aged woman Karen trope. Now that’s internalised misogyny.

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Do you not think the women here suggesting other women are deliberately dressing to attract men, judgements on other women's clothes based on their dress size, suggesting tattoos should only be for certain professions, derisory comments on make-up and cosmetic enhancements are misogynistic?

How are any of these cruel? There's a lot of things mentioned here that I don't like, but what other women do and wear is their choice and, lucky for me, I'm not forced to copy every trend.

Younger women wear more revealing clothes because they're fashionable, not to attract the "male gaze" ffs.

Speak for yourself, I definitely dressed up when on the pull back in the day 😂

Very short, flesh coloured shorts or playsuits. I was at a pavement cafe last week and a woman teetered past wearing one with high heels. It was so short I could see the bottom sections of her arse cheeks. It was not a flattering look and I was glad I hadn't ordered poached eggs as her buttocks would have quite put me off.
She seemed very happy with her sartorial choices, though, so c'est la vie.

Well, that's still true, but I doubt everyone is going around on the pull every day! 😂

🤣 i'm never going to look at poached eggs the same now!