Your greatest satorial disasters, or, at what point in your life did you dress most like a complete twat?

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Prompted my the discovery that the G in Mikey G stands for GOTH PONCE.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had a photo.

I went through a stage of wearing five metre long head wraps, erykah badu style. Let me just say, there are somethings whitey just can't play.

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago)

There is a photo somewhere of me in short-shorts and these:
http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/2h/tzrz.safeshopper.com/images/bf0surlb.jpg

I was 13 at the time.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:21 (twenty years ago)

heh, i went through the same stage. Stockings and shorts, what was i thinking?

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I think my greatest crime against good taste was my short-lived grunge phase in about 1994. Nasty checked shirt, big shorts with DMs and massive socks and long hair that made me look like Mike Mills. Never, ever again.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and little round Yoko Ono sunglasses as well. I forgot those. No wonder I never copped off with anyone.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago)

ages 0 through 18.

No wonder I never copped off with anyone.

i resemble that remark

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:24 (twenty years ago)

15 going on 16. I'd been to San Francisco! I had a battered leather coat! And layered slips over flared jeans and all alterna-chick eyeliner and 3 belts at once. Shame on me!

http://poptext.blogspot.com

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago)

I used to host the annual st patricks day bash at my high school. I distinctly remember wearing bright green tartan stockings, a kilt, a vest with embroidered celtic knotwork on it and my hair in large orange spikes. I also had a massive crush on bob geldof at the time. What a dork I was/am.

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I rocked the big shorts and big fuck-off boots look for a bit as well.

Though I probably looked most like a twat during my post-baggy wide jeans, big trainers and loud shirts 5th & lower 6th form years.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago)

My gangster phase in high school. Kani jeans, black fluevogs, Star-Tac celly, gold chain, motherfucking Spyderco knife on my belt (Versace), Growing Up Gotti hairdo, shiny LA Raiders starter jacket.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I had a battered leather coat! And layered slips over flared jeans and all alterna-chick eyeliner and 3 belts at once.

Please tell me you had dreads as well...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I definitely had a grunge phase but so did everyone who liked music at my high school. I'm realizing lately that I wore a lot of baggy clothing when I was a teenager: dickies jeans, thrift-store soccer tops, etc. I was all about the workwear at age 15-16. I didn't start dressing better (well, more like I do now, judge as ye might--wearing skirts and nicer stuff) until I was 18/19.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago)

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago)

oh fuck, i keep thinking of bad fashion mistakes i've made.

For most of 1998 I wore a tweed three piece suit with a necktie and chisel toe lace-ups.

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago)

on which i revealed my 1990 penchant for fluro tracky bottoms and paisley shirts (together at last!)

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago)

For most of 1998 I wore a tweed three piece suit with a necktie and chisel toe lace-ups.

This sounds kinda good, similar to what's in stores for ladies now? or maybe I'm getting the wrong impression?

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:32 (twenty years ago)

This is different from the other thread though, Steve. Its about really bad image decisions rather than individual articles of clothing. Double lame points if, like me, you dressed like that ALL THE TIME for however long.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)

The idea of it sounds good, but i live in a humid part of australia, so wearing a woolly tweed suit was kind of foolish. But yeah, to be honest i'd give the fucking world to carry off that look these days.

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)

oops x-post

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago)

my flavor flav clock wearing phase in 1988. got a busted nose because some townie didn't like it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago)

and i'd do it again!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago)

i've always dressed like a dumbass. band t-shirts with jeans or khakis of some sort.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh crumbs. The long tasselled tie-dye hippie skirts were pretty bad per se, but then there was wearing them with bright satin camisoles over clashing long-sleeved ill-fitting tops circa age 15 or so. And my hair was terrible ages 14-20.

Arrgh now I'm remembering some of the things I wore to go out in at university: holy crap. Well, that's what low self-esteem will do for you.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago)

No dreads I'm afraid, just ponytails tied with scarves which was probably just as bad, what with the black liquid 50s eyeliner...

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Grey ribbed turleneck jumper from 14-18. Actually, I still think I looked alright.

Collarless striped shirts age 13-14.

2 pairs of corduruoys, one purple, one grape green age 12-13, worn with blu lumberjack shirt. I was grunge.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago)

in college my friends and i labored under the delusion that to wear anything but levi's cords, old tshirts that said things like "HW INDUSTRIES SOFTBALL," new balance or pony velcro-fastened trainers, and multicolored 80s vintage ski jackets was madness. exceptions made for "formal" cocktail parties, when you had to dig up a dusty old frock and attempt to look like a member of the ronettes or anais nin's slightly trashier cousin.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago)

oh, and i had dorothy hammill haircut when i was ten but i don't think that should count. stuff your parents forced upon you is different than horror you eagerly brought upon yourself.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Aggh grandad t-shirts.

You are right, Lauren. It's not comfort though when I remember the way my mum used to cut my hair.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago)

I REGRET NOTHING!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah anna - if you look back and haven't worn some stupid shit in your time then you haven't lived your life properly.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.imomus.com/wearing1.gif

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago)

(although some may question the Deee-lite/ Katie Puckrick inspired phase - I was an odd 12 year old - and some may question the bad indie look - Ned's t-shirt, indian skirt, stripey tights that made even skinny teenage girl legs look HUGE - or the Britpop period, or the skate-chick phase, or the I-will-die-my-hair-pink-but-wear-very-smart-antihippy-clothes phase, or the bra tops and glow stars in hair clubbing phase, or the heavy electroclash phase or ... or ... or did somebody say victim?)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago)

my mum tried to trim my hair once when i was six and nearly put my eye out with the first tentative snip. after that, i went along to the salon with her.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Momus, what about when you dressed up as the dude from the Admirals Insurance ads?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking he looked a little kula shaker.

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Age 13: flared jeans dyed purple in mums washing machine, purple batik t-shirt, my dads way too large military green jacket, red shoes, hair parted in the middle.

― Hanna (Hanna), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I also dyed my hair purple at one point. Don't know what the deal was with all that purple stuff.

― Hanna (Hanna), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Momus looks about to vomit at the horridness of his own jacket (which isn't that bad though really).

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago)

If the trim is gold and not yellow as it appears -thumbs up.

― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could find and scan the photo of 4 year old me wearing the cap with a grey trunk, big grey ears and two big eyes. I looked so damn fresh.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the "dandy" phase.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Dandy as in, too-big double-breasted charity shop DJs worn instead of a school blazer.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago)

And a stick.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

aren't you still in it?
;)

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

And purple sunglasses.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

My entire university career has been a reaction to it Abby! You think I'm bad now, YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE HORROR.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:20 (twenty years ago)

And a monocle, my dear chap?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:20 (twenty years ago)

*tries to find picture online of Robert Smith in red polka-dot shirt and bad bad lame white Hi-Tek hi-top trainers with black-and-white laces, fails*

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)

God. You're right. The horror is beyond my limited capacities!

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago)

And a monocle, my dear chap?

After a while one of the lenses of my purple glasses fell out, I think I sat on them or something. So I WORE THEM AS TROTSKY GLASSES WTF.

I seriously have no idea just what the hell I was thinking until, like, mid-2002.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago)

maybe 14-16, flared cords, bad indie hair, just sloppy and studenty before I was even a student. at least I got it out of my system though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)

16. Working as a junior hairdresser. A violently multi-coloured blouse fastened at the neck with an enamel iron cross with a death's head in the middle.

― Jesus Christ, Paraplegic (Mark C), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Nothing's changed, then.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh. My. God.

I imagine you looking like a cross between Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen and Lemmy.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Most of high school, I was rockin' the Docs over socks over striped tights with skirt and ugly sweaters from Goodwill with plastic necklaces and burgandy hair. I also had no idea how to put on make-up at this age and thought glitter eyeshadow was the coolest thing ever.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago)

The two threads I've read today on ILx have been both shocking and aweing in one inhuman leap of madness. Congrats, you awful, AWFUL people.

I think personally my "sack of potatoes" look which I have been rocking since 1981. I need help.

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Or possibly the skirt that Katie made me buy that was horizontally striped with pink and yellow bright stuff on it which I actually then WORE OUT to Dr C's gig. No wonder you all look at me with "that" look...

NB I have never worn it since. Lucky it was cheap eh.

Oh and as for my hair, well, it's never been... international.

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I had a hawaiian shirt when I was about 15. AWFUL. irredeemably awful.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I think Mark wins.

I still have hawaiian shirts :/

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Hawaiian shirts! going for that New York ILX flavour eh?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.protu.fi/lehti/tiedote1-00/kuvat/rock1_iso.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago)

(It might not be that clear, but that's a long-sleeve shirt with American footballers in it!)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Nehru jacket: 1986

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Mark really does win.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I also dyed my hair purple at one point. Don't know what the deal was with all that purple stuff.

I did this too, back when I had a long hair. Believe me, long purple hair didn't suit me!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Starlight Express roller skates.

― Jesus Christ, Paraplegic (Mark C), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I bleached the front of my hair blonde when I was 15. Oh wait, I looked good! Walked around school like that for weeks and none of the masters said shit, which was both exhilirating and unsettling.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago)

What, did you usually get chastised for your hair colour?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I found another old picture of me on the Web, I'm the one on the left. This isn't the silliest look I've sported, but it isn't the coolest either...

http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/taso/kuvat/matka2.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

(I might also add that my hair was dark red back then.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I think we're more amused by the dude in glasses, T. As for your question, I'm black, so it was a bit different.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Ah, okay. Still, your school must've been stricter than mine if you were even expecting to get some comments from the teachers. In Finland they just don't care.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Probably early high school: lots of huge band t-shirts, like for Alice in Chains, and I don't know what kind of pants I wore, but I think I refused to wear jeans for a long time, so maybe cords? Shorts? Combine with Tony Hawk haircut and thick glasses and VOILA.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Middle school and most of high school. I think senior year I finally stopped looking as much like a dick. But before that... man. I was so unpopular, but so willing to try any new trend to be cool, that I just made exponentially more and more of an ass of myself. The nadir was surely the "metal" years, with the long hair and the boots with chains on them.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Nick, your outfit sounds cool, I'm sorry to tell you.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

You see, I wasn't just uncool. I was made fun of by my friends. My very best friends would say to me some days, "What were you thinking when you got dressed this morning?" I'd be wearing, like, a blazer and bolo tie with my boots and ripped jeans. Or some matching orange and green pseudo surf outfit. I wanted to be noticed, always, and I was, always.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Trust me, I did NOT look cool. Ask any girl that went to my high school, they were all my "friend."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

When I was 10 (in 1989) my favourite pair of jeans had rips across the knee, chains from pockets to belt loops, elastic bands somewhere or other, writing in black marker... what a dick. What did my parents think they were doing letting me out of the house?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Still, your school must've been stricter than mine if you were even expecting to get some comments from the teachers.

Dude, the last day of GCSEs, I was walking around collecting my artwork and saying goodbyes and my housemaster saw me and shrieked "GET BACK IN THE HOUSE! YER UNPRESENTABLE!" because the boys shaved all the hair off my skull the night before. He even said if I wasn't going home already, he'd've suspended me 'til it grew back, wtf.

Which reminds me, our uniforms are widely mocked, thought I still quite like them.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I just have a massive smirk on my face reading this thread. Oh Mark. Oh Matt. Oh dear. People are giving me funny looks.

HOWEVER, wipe that smirk off lady and fess up:
Age 10-12: t-shirts *tucked in* to patterned leggings wtf
Age 12-16: mirrored waistcoats, jangly silver bells round neck like a cow, floral jeans, Guatemalan stripey hats (TEH HORROR), dungarees
16-18: enormous smelly knitted army jumpers over leggings, tie dye skirts, DMs, one ear pierced

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Between the ages of 17 and 18, a lot of my friends were wearing really quite grown up clothes, either designer stuff (bought with older brothers' credit cards or cards acquired by more dubious means) or stuff from the local department store where a lot of us worked. I didn't have the means to buy the designer, so it was off to Allders for me. A 17-year-old dressed in clothes from Planet. It seems really odd now. Stripey tights and three belts and all that kind of stuff seems pretty normal compared to our thirty-something fashion.

For my first day at university, I wore a pair of black leather ankle-high shoes that laced up the side (they weren't quite high enough to be boots), a black, mid-calf length skirt, a white cotton shirt with quite long, pointed collars and big turned back cuffs and a green wool sweater over the top, which had a low enough round neck and short enough sleeves for the cuffs and collars to be visible (I remember sweater over pointy-collar shirt being quite the thing). I finished off the look with a black, bowler shaped hat made of a soft, slightly fluffy, felty cloth. I looked like something out of a Good Housekeeping makeover feature.

You'll be relieved to hear that before the term was out I was obsessed with Blur, trying to be a mod and wearing sunglasses on my head at the indie disco.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 2 December 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

oh, and i had dorothy hammill haircut when i was ten but i don't think that should count.

Me too. I hated it. My mom thought it was a good idea.

I wore some thoroughly hideous things in high school after discovering the local Goodwill where I could buy whatever ridiculous clothes I wanted w/o asking parents for $$. Anything w/silver glitter, cutoff velveteen shorts, a pair of big fuckoff steel toe Doc Martens of course. Thanks grunge.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 2 December 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Pick a woman in nearly any music video in the late 80s**, and there I was. CFMDs, heels (or cowboy boots), lots and lots of hair, lots and lots of eyeliner, and a leather jacket. Woo.

** Okay, any Warrant or Great White video.

Shut up.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I don't have just one bad phase. I have many. I'm not so fashion-y. But the one that was simply retarded was the X-Large phase -- everything I wore was grossly over-sized. I guess I was subconsciously trying to hide my body. Anyway, it continued through college and it was made even worse by my horrible punk rock dye-job that made me look like Andy Warhol.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

So many.

I recall buying lots of pink things circa 1987, and thinking tassles on slip-ons shoes were grebt. I thought I looked like a million dollars.

I spent the first week of March 1993 (International Women's Week, natch) wearing a velvet dress I borrowed from a female friend. Jesus. Normally around that time though, I wore shorts (occassionally tie dyed dungarees), docs, hair shoulder length in a pony tail and shaved all around the sides and back, and always with a bandana on.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago)

luna, what are CFMDs? I should know this...

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I've always dressed kinda the same.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Come Fuck Me Dresses? At a guess.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Centre for Math and Dilemmas

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I spent most of the entirety of my high school experience wearing cut offs created from my dad's jeans (he's 6'4" and 250lbs), torn fishnets, striped or argyle knee socks worn over the fishnets, combat boots, and military surplus thermal tops. Somewhere my mom has my last school photo at 15, with the dyed black hair and the ridiculous outfit and the extremely surly scowl, and she drags it out to email my friends and frighten them. I have somehow managed to avoid her doing this to Tom though she threatens to do it at least once a month.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

omg, it must be a 13 year old thing, but when I was 13 I totally wore shorts with the stripey tights, too!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

The advantage of having the same look for about twelve years: I regard all this with bemusement because I sorta can't remember what I used to look like. The interim phase *while* growing my hair out, however, is not something I care to repeat, while middle school times were troubling back in the early eighties.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to see Ned in a 'Daria credits sequence' style fashion show

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Anna is correct - come fuck me dresses. Also worn with CFMPs - come fuck me pumps.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Dude Mandee! It was 'cuz we were Depeche Mode fans, I bet. Or maybe that was just my reason. I've got to try and find that picture when I'm home next. I rocked the look more than once but in the photo I'm doing a kind of hand-on-hip flirty pose and I was about to go to a party where we walked around Capitol Hill and some guy was biking on the sidewalk and totally ran right into me. The tights must've messed up his vision.

xposts ah right! CFMPs.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

When I was 21 and the air force let me start wearing civvies again I traipsed around for about 3 months or so wearing an old tweed hunting jacket that no longer fit across my shoulder very well and a selection of hats including a leather Indian Jones thing that looked more like Freddy Krueger on me and occasionally a black beret. This was on top of khakis, black adidas trainers and mock turtlenecks about 90% of the time. I looked like a fucking ponce though this one former stripper from Florida said I looked sharp. Gahhhh.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

It was totally because we were Depeche Mode fans.

I had SEVERAL varieties of stripey tights... purple and white, maroon and black, black and white, purple and black.. oh man. What a headache. I remember I went to junior high on the first day of school wearing the aforementioned cut-off shorts, black and white stripey socks (that went over the knee), and a depeche mode violater tshirt - the day before I'd dyed my hair purple. WOW, HOT. HOTTT.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Judging by everyone I knew in Amherst, Mass., Tom, I think being 21 requires you to dress like that, if you are male.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago)

If only I had some pictures of the JNCO years!

― Drake Beardo (cprek), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I still think those stripey tights are hot (with a skirt though, not with shorts), especially the hippie multicolour ones (as opposed to the "classical" black and white ones).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I only had the one kind of stripey tights, I think. Although I did wear fishnets then for the same reason. Damn, I wish I still had my Violator t-shirt. I'd totally wear it and mean it. I should probably be at least a little embarrassed about that but I'm not.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/1993-me-camp.jpg

― Remy Snush (x Jeremy), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I didn't do tights until I was in college, but they weren't stripey tights, they were just loud-colored ones (green, red, purple, orange) and/or sparkly ones. Worn under black dresses. I still like that look a lot.

My worst look was from age 10-14. A really butch short haircut, ill-fitting clothing, no sense of how to coordinate colors or apply makeup properly or anything like that. I was a disaster. I was around 12 when I started in with the rock shirts, too.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)

I had some really loud orange/red/purple zebra print tights as well as some bright sparkly silver tights, both from Commander Salamander.. I should find a reason to wear those again, actually.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago)

first year of college (1994) - bootcut and torn-cuff railroad-stripe overalls under, say, a green J Crew rollneck sweater. going out sometimes (maybe to a Larry Tee party - i think i only did that once) i would add platform keds-type sneakers and maybe a large two-tone driving cap, worn backwards. as bad as it was, i think a certain outlandishness worked for me in context.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago)

I still wear stripey tights :(

And I am having problems figuring out what is so hideous about some peoples clothing descritions. Hippy skirts? DM boots? band tshirts? Jesus people, this stuff is fine!

You havent grown up wearing pastel pink sloppy joe tops with Nik Kershaw sparkley iron on transfers on the front of them, with a pair of blue leggings that had STIRRUPS on the bottom. You havent been dags at all!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:23 (twenty years ago)

first year of college as well. i remember wearing this orange velvet blazer, probably from aardvark's on melrose (not really a thrift store shopper, but my high school friends were), and this acid green mini/pencil skirt cos i saw some photo in vogue with really bright colors juxtaposed, probably lime green and peacock blue.

― youn, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago)

omg leggings with stirrups!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:26 (twenty years ago)

My mother bought them for me, I think. Worst Clothing Evar. They got seconded to being pyjamas very quickly.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb I had forgotten that I, too, had worn sweaters over railroad Oshkosh until now.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck, allright: in grade six or seven or so I got it into my head I was meant to be a Tony Manero-styled sex symbol. Wore black shirts unbuttoned to bare the chest, tight white pants (with a rolled-up sock, OK? I mean, I had to improvise. Now shut up.), slicked-back hair, and to top it off, I liked to suck in my cheeks at strategic moments for a "chiseled" look. I swear there is a picture of me somewhere reclining in my bed a la "Ricky Gervais Live" style. I have no idea what was going through my head. I mean, I was an undeveloped, retainer-wearing runt, even for my age.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:29 (twenty years ago)

there's a photo of a 9-year-old me doing a high kick while wearing a donald duck hat, a white t-shirt that reads MIAMI in hot pink, jams, slip-on shoes, a big smile and holding two sparklers. If I ever find it I'll post it. I highly doubt I will ever look so exuberantly gay again.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago)

if I HAD

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago)

crud, if i HAD to narrow it down it would be the week in 7th grade (age 12) that I thought it would be awesome to coordinate my pants with my shirt, a different loud color every day. it was the week school pictures were taken so my poodle perm is immortalized with a nasty aqua oxford.

― still wears stripey tights (teeny), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:43 (twenty years ago)

when my sister was going through her goofy fashion phase in elementary school/middle school I used to yell "BLOSSOM!" or "Cluh-RISSA explains it ALL!" at her. In public.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

erg, remember bodysuits? It was a fashion, a cruel one. When I was 16-17 or so, I'd wear baggy pants, ripped-up jeans or a short pleated skirts and this tight, black body suit with scoop neck. I also had a chain belt that looked more like something you'd fasten curtains with. And always, with everything, slip-on black DMs (the boots didn't come until age 18). Usually a flannel plaid shirt topped it all off.

But worse, when I was 14 I had this stretch-cotton matching skirt and top outfit that was white with large purple, green and black polka dots. So bad. What boggles me is that I had the sense to take out the shoulder pads.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago)

So I have to take my elementary school graduation photo. We are specifically told to wear something that won't look dated years from now. As such, my mother buys and forces me to wear parachute pants and a black shirt WITH NO SLEEVES, and I make sure I hide my spindly little arms behind other people.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:16 (twenty years ago)

When I was 17-18 I wore leather jackets and flared jeans and excessively skinny t-shirts and had red streaks in my hair and a tiger-print guitar strap and yecccch. I may have worn a spiky red belt once or twice as well.

I hope I don't think the way I dress now is really stupid in 10 years time.

My last school photograph continues to haunt me, as I was on the front row and the light caught these little blue lines on my socks and made them really prominent, and they put the group photos up next to the entrance, and even today, people from school will come up to me and say 'hey, you're blue sock guy! Was that deliberate?'

― Chadwell O'Cheese And His Cormorants Of Futility (Ferg), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to think, though, that my worst fashion days are yet to come.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago)

The thing I find funny about "OMG what was I doing!?" fashion threads is the way people are now aping hideous 80s gear like puffy, off one shoulder tops, asymetric skirts, huge sunglasses, etc and yet even 5 years ago peoeple would have laughed you out of a room for being dressed like something that stepped off ther Dallas set.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago)

shoulder pads and stirrups will NEVER be back in style.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Unless you're a guy, maybe.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago)

xpost hahaha Jody so OTM.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago)

did you call those stirrup things ski pants trayce? we did (and i had a hot pink and purple pair phwoar) and i could never understand why when i was a nipper because there is no snow in WA!! it was very confusing. i don't think it occurred to me that people in other locations wore clothes.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh christ. Now I'm remembering the period when my teenaged self went running around in sparkly sequined cheap and tacky clubwear during the daytime.

― mouse (mouse), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...