Your worst fashion fail?

hollydolly said:
Must have been '76, that was the year of the famous drought and 90 + degree temps all summer .. I gave birth in that heat... 🥵
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Yes, most likely 76. Goodness! does your daughter have any idea how inconsiderate she was to arrive during a heatwave! Being pregnant that summer must have been awful but giving birth in those temperatures! My memory of hospitals was how warm and stuffy they always were.
 

Roadwarrior said:
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 trim that caught on with all the sport members & coaches.
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You were a trailblazer! :)
 
Junior year in high school. To make a long story short, I ended up with orange hair....Ronald McDonald orange.

My mother said I'd "made my bed" and I'd just have to wear it til it grew out. About two inches of black roots and the rest of the hair every color of orange later, she gave in and let me go have it dyed back to black.

Over 50 years later, I make the same mistake and end up with magenta hair. I wore a hat for three months and finally went to a salon and said to cut off everything that wasn't black or silver. I looked like Zippy the Pinhead.
 
jujube said:
Junior year in high school. To make a long story short, I ended up with orange hair....Ronald McDonald orange.

My mother said I'd "made my bed" and I'd just have to wear it til it grew out. About two inches of black roots and the rest of the hair every color of orange later, she gave in and let me go have it dyed back to black.

Over 50 years later, I make the same mistake and end up with magenta hair. I wore a hat for three months and finally went to a salon and said to cut off everything that wasn't black or silver. I looked like Zippy the Pinhead.
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I am laughing at the Zippy comment but, at the same time, it must have been difficlt for you at Junior school having to face the world looking like Ronald McDonald!

I have a friend who colours her hair magenta and it actually looks really good on her but, would look awful on me so, not for everyone :)
 
Trish said:
Anyone care to share their own fashion fails? 😊
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Fashion can be defined as, popular, or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour. Fashion is also defined as self-expression. The black & white photo is that of 1920's Hollywood golden couple, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr and Mary Pickford. You see his shoes, the style might be over a hundred years old but how I love them.
My shoes do get comments, then again, so do my hats, and my baggy trousers, the spearpoint collared shirts, even wearing a neck tie has drawn a remark or two and not always favourably. Do you think that I care?
 
horseless carriage said:
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Fashion can be defined as, popular, or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour. Fashion is also defined as self-expression. The black & white photo is that of 1920's Hollywood golden couple, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr and Mary Pickford. You see his shoes, the style might be over a hundred years old but how I love them.
My shoes do get comments, then again, so do my hats, and my baggy trousers, the spearpoint collared shirts, even wearing a neck tie has drawn a remark or two and not always favourably. Do you think that I care?
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I have no idea @horseless carriage but I hope you don't.
 
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Yikes, I was just reminded.... Back when I was between wives (mid '80s) I went and got a perm. And believe me, its painful. Anyway, I thought I'd end up looking like Tom Selleck in Magnum P.I. Ha, I ended up looking very much like Gene Wilder (Silver Streak). No more perms after that.
 
So many.

For many years I truly longed to work in a nice office where a certain level of dress was expected. But I never had jobs like that and now, in semi-retirement, I'm in mostly jeans and stretchy tops everyday. No reason to dress up.

As a result, since I have so little practice dressing up, when the rare occasion comes along when I need to, I usually mess it up. I'll look for trends for sale online, try some, and they look terrible on me. Then I'll try making something, and even clothing pattern companies follow the fashion trends, so it can even be tough to find patterns that might work on what I'm dealing with in body shape.

I think some people have a naturally wonderful sense of style. I have seen this with my own eyes with family members. No one taught them much on how to put an outfit together - they are just very instinctual dressers. I do not fall into that category of person.

One thing I have also learned to do is to get away from the famous pattern makers you find at JoAnn's and go looking for small pattern companies because they will buck the trends, or take whatever is trending and put a new spin on it. The small pattern makers also tend to be much more realistic about how women are sized today. Simplicity, Vogue, McCalls, etc. still have patterns sized the way they were way back in the 1960s, even though American women have gotten much fatter and/or taller since the 1960s.

Anyway - it's fine. We all have things we're good at, and things we're not so good at. Tis the way of life.
 
jujube said:
Junior year in high school. To make a long story short, I ended up with orange hair....Ronald McDonald orange.

My mother said I'd "made my bed" and I'd just have to wear it til it grew out. About two inches of black roots and the rest of the hair every color of orange later, she gave in and let me go have it dyed back to black.

Over 50 years later, I make the same mistake and end up with magenta hair. I wore a hat for three months and finally went to a salon and said to cut off everything that wasn't black or silver. I looked like Zippy the Pinhead.
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Do you color it yourself? When you color at home you're supposed to test a new shade on a swatch of your hair first. You do this by getting a piece of sticky packing tape, cut off a lock of your hair about 1/4" wide and maybe 3" long, stick the top of the hair swatch to the tape, fold tape over. Then mix a tiny bit of color with same amount of the toner, put it in a plastic cup (never metal) and let the hair swatch sit in the color for 45 minutes or so - whatever the color instructions say.

Then rinse the swatch in water, dry and see what color you got.

If your hair is 50% to 100% gray in real life, that is a whole new thing you have to tell your colorist or take into consideration for yourself because gray hair doesn't take up color the way brown, black or blond hair will.

I learned all this online by reading about it. Learned initially from my daughter who used to color her own hair when she was in college to save money.

If you go to Sally's Beauty, sometimes, not always, the salespeople there can help you with choosing shades and toner.
 
Leisure suits. I'm wondering what clever marketer ever got men to buy those. Today the "leisure suit" jacket is a hoody. It is debatable if that is better or worse in certain situations.
 
Have to say, some men and many women can make anything they wear look good!

Remember the Nehru jackets? They were short lived here for sure. I recall going into a Sears and they had a long rack of them, heavily discounted. The light colored ones showed a lot of dirt/dust for sitting out so long.
 
Nehru jackets: Every once in a while some man will resurrect that fashion for the Oscars or some other fancy dress event that gets pictures in the news. It is a good look on some men.
 
I guess this would have to be what I now call my "Big Bird Dress" after the Muppet character. Good gracious... it was bright yellow and a mini like the Brady girls wore. I was... maybe like 14. It wasn't until many years later that I saw a pic of me in that monstrosity and I was appalled... and immediately wondered which of the people I knew back then were giggling behind my back. 😲
 
Trish said:
You are a braver gal than I am @PeppermintPatty :)
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No! I was more foolish than you are.
I left home at 16 so made all my own choices.
This was my 16 year old brain thinking I was ‘hot.’ It wasn’t a fashion that lasted long. In my 20’s my fashion changed. Thank goodness. I got called a few names at times.
It’s an embarrassing part of my life. I’m the complete opposite now. I cover up everything no matter what the season or weather . It was foolish not courageous
 
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hollydolly said:
listen bruv... when they say Hipster they don't mean wearin' your dungarees around your hips...:sneaky::D
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OMG! That reminds me! Yesterday, I was in the supermarket and a young guy's trousers fell down! Honestly! Not sure if it was the style or whether he had pulled them too low on his hips but, as he sauntered to the self-service area, his baggy jogger style trousers slipped down to around his ankles! I felt a bit sorry for him as everyone just burst out laughing. Last I saw of him he was red-faced, clutching the waist of his trousers and being told off by a security guard!

Damn! I should have taken photos :ROFLMAO:
 

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