Your worst fashion fail?

Trish

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I know it will surprise you all to learn that, I have made a few fashion errors in my time ;) but, what reminded me of one fashion fail was browsing in the shoe shop yesterday. Yep, I know I should steer clear of shoe shops as I have a condition which makes it neigh on impossible for me to leave a shoe shop without buying at least one pair - it's a burden and, as yet, there is no cure except to buy a bigger wardrobe. :cool:

Anyways, espadrilles, the ones that have the straps which tie up round your legs. Don't be tempted ladies (and gents of course). Many years ago, they were the height of fashion, I bought a pair and wore them on a night out. We got a cab so it wasn't until I got to the venue that I found I couldn't actually walk in them because the foot part was too heavy for the fabric ties! :(

Still on the subject of shoes, those big platform sandals! In my younger and less sensible days, I bought a pair and the first time I wore them, I felt so tall and elegant until, I fell off them! My foot actually slipped off one of the platforms, I wobbled to the side and fell, sprained my ankle and spent the next couple of weeks hobbling around in a pair of my mum's sensible shoes. Remember that saying? Pride comes before a fall :rolleyes:

Perhaps the most embarrassing though was the flesh coloured silk top I splashed out on. I wore it under a summer suit and when I noticed a few double takes I thought folk were admiring my lovely new top. It wasn't until I got to work that my colleague whispered that, at first glance, it looked like I wasn't wearing a top at all 😱 It did explain why a bus driver nearly crashed the bus, his eyes popping out of his head! Still, I was 18 years old and at least I can rightfully claim that I once stopped traffic! 😊

Anyone care to share their own fashion fails? 😊
 

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Oh the first 'fashion fail'' I had I was 13... I'd just got my first pair of Tan stockings... I was not going back to socks ever again, now I was grown up. I just had the one pair of stockings, and when I got home the first day from school after wearing them, I did what I was told to do, and that was to wash them out by hand and leave them to dry overnight..

Well..I never seen anything like it before or since. The colour ran, and when they dried they looked like Camo stockings, all big patches of dark and light tan ,... and I'd thrown all my socks away. I had no option but to wear the Camo stockings to school until my mother got me a new pair.. 😧🤣
 

Harness boots were the only thing I bought for a fashion trend. The pair I bought were only worn once to work. After a few hours I had more respect for the high heels women wore. The front of my legs killed me & the boots came off within a few miserable hours, never to be worn again. I couldn't wear cowboy boots for the same reason.
 
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hollydolly said:
Oh the first 'fashion fail'' I had I was 13... I'd just got my first pair of Tan stockings... I was not going back to socks ever again, now I was grown up. I just had the one pair of stockings, and when I got home the first day from school after wearing them, I did what I was told to do, and that was to wash them out by hand and leave them to dry overnight..

Well..I never seen anything like it before or since. The colour ran, and when they dried they looked like Camo stockings, all big patches of dark and light tan ,... and I'd thrown all my socks away. I had no option but to wear the Camo stockings to school until my mother got me a new pair.. 😧🤣
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I didn't know whether to laugh or give you a hug. :) Were they American Tan stockings?
 
I had to wear a tuxedo once. I was Best Man at my cousin's wedding.

The tuxedo was a rental and it came with a handful of pieces I didn't recognize and wasn't sure where they went and what they were for. "What is this weird white thing? What the heck is that black thing? Is this little purple thing supposed to go around my neck? Are those actually socks?!"

I had to ask the bride's father to help me put everything on. That really embarrassed me...not because a man I'd just met had to help me dress, but because I had no clue. (I was 23)

I really liked how it looked, though. I was a sharp-dressed man. And they're not as uncomfortable as I expected....a little bit around the neck and upper chest, but not too bad.
 
VaughanJB said:
I found a photo of me back then recently (no, I'm not going to post it.) :D

I went full on - I had a head of hair like the lid of a trash can. I was so cooooooool......... not.
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It was the footballer. Kevin Keegan who was responsible for the bubble perm fad, 1970's men loved a bubble perm :)
 
VaughanJB said:
Back in ye olde times, I had my hair permed. :D
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I had an opposite issue, my hair was really curly and I tried to straighten it. I tried hot combs and home kits, and I always wound up with part of it straight and part of it curly.

Strangely, now my hair is only curly in the back. For years, I let the curly bit grow, and kept the rest short, and wore it in a pony tail.

Now I just buzz it all off every couple months.
 
Trish said:
It was the footballer. Kevin Keegan who was responsible for the bubble perm fad, 1970's men loved a bubble perm :)
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Weird, I was just thinking: Why did I get a perm anyway?!?! But you may be correct, Liverpool were very successful then, and Keegan was a big part of that.

Murrmurr said:
I had an opposite issue, my hair was really curly and I tried to straighten it. I tried hot combs and home kits, and I always wound up with part of it straight and part of it curly.

Strangely, now my hair is only curly in the back. For years, I let the curly bit grow, and kept the rest short, and wore it in a pony tail.

Now I just buzz it all off every couple months.
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My wife's hair is naturally curly. I love love love to see it curly, but she HATES it. She's always straightening it. :(

I have a full head of hair, but did try the bald thing. Boy, I hated that look. I looked like Uncle Fester.

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Murrmurr said:
I had an opposite issue, my hair was really curly and I tried to straighten it. I tried hot combs and home kits, and I always wound up with part of it straight and part of it curly.

Strangely, now my hair is only curly in the back. For years, I let the curly bit grow, and kept the rest short, and wore it in a pony tail.

Now I just buzz it all off every couple months.
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Naturally curly hair is nice.
 
VaughanJB said:
Weird, I was just thinking: Why did I get a perm anyway?!?! But you may be correct, Liverpool were very successful then, and Keegan was a big part of that.



My wife's hair is naturally curly. I love love love to see it curly, but she HATES it. She's always straightening it. :(

I have a full head of hair, but did try the bald thing. Boy, I hated that look. I looked like Uncle Fester.

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My boyfriend was a football fan and he really rated Kevin Keegan. I remember him saying that he didn't think he would have it done again because he had gone into the hairdressers on impulse and hadn't realised that it was cut-price for pensioners day and, of course, he ended up sitting with a row of old ladies all having their crinkley perms done :ROFLMAO:

My friends with curly hair all straighten it. I think it is a shame because, naturally curly hair is, I think, very pretty.
 
When I was seventeen, I gave myself an angular layered hair cut during the summer. I wet my hair before cutting which was a huge mistake because when your hair is wet it looks longer. Of course because of this I cut too much and looked utterly ridiculous for 6 months until my hair grew out. We didn't have hair extensions in those days so there was no way to fix my mistake. I just had to bear it. Even my closest friends laughed at me which made me feel worse.

Lesson learned. No more haircuts. :giggle:

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Trish said:
Oh no! Actually, I remember going to a club which had those strobe lights and they also had the effect of making white fabric transparent.
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yep my sister and I went Disco dancing every weekend, and we always dressed identically. At the time Maxi dresses were one of the fashions of the day ( early 70's).. and we wore these matching white maxi dresses to the Disco on Friday night... well that's of course when we learned that blue disco lights make everything see through... thank God we had underwear on... :oops::ROFLMAO:
 
hollydolly said:
yep my sister and I went Disco dancing every weekend, and we always dressed identically. At the time Maxi dresses were one of the fashions of the day ( early 70's).. and we wore these matching white maxi dresses to the Disco on Friday night... well that's of course when we learned that blue disco lights make everything see through... thank God we had underwear on... :oops::ROFLMAO:
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I tried to avoid using the word disco as I didn't want to give my age away ;) 😎

I had the misfortune of going to the disco club during the very hot summer of '74 (or was it '76 :unsure:). It was so hot that I decided to wear a cream dress with thin shoulder straps and, as it was so hot, my skimpiest underthings. It wasn't until I walked down the stairs and the strobe lights shone right over my head that I realised why all the guys loitered around the bottom of the stairway! 🤭
 
Trish said:
I tried to avoid using the word disco as I didn't want to give my age away ;) 😎

I had the misfortune of going to the disco club during the very hot summer of '74 (or was it '76 :unsure:). It was so hot that I decided to wear a cream dress with thin shoulder straps and, as it was so hot, my skimpiest underthings. It wasn't until I walked down the stairs and the strobe lights shone right over my head that I realised why all the guys loitered around the bottom of the stairway! 🤭
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Must have been '76, that was the year of the famous drought and 90 + degree temps all summer .. I gave birth in that heat... 🥵
 
I never liked long hair the 60's & 70's were dark periods for me. Mine was unruly, never looked good, never liked it touching my ears & appeared dirty. I never buzzed it until I went to my oldest sisters for a cut (she had been to beauty school), she was mad at the city council for one reason or another and my cut suffered. It looked like the bust of a Roman ruler. My BIL kept watching but said nothing. Next day at school I started a fashion trend that caught on with all the sport players & coaches. Especially the swim team.
 
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This didn't happen to me, but to band singer at a wedding. There was a singer in this band, at a kind of ritzy wedding. He was wearing a black tux. He started to sing that song that goes, "Please release me, let me go". He is getting really into singing that song. He's channeling every ounce of energy into every note. At one point, he's got the mike in his hand, and he arches his back way back, so his head is looking up at the ceiling, as he's belting out, "please release me, let me go". That repeats through out the song. The problem was his fly was open, so when he arched back, his tighty whities, against a black tux, showed- "Please release me, let me go!!!!!"
 

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