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I'm wearing a KILT (a kilt!) of all things today and I am sure it makes me look like I have a big ass. I am also stupidly wearing WHITE TIGHTS after not being able to find any others. They are my ice skating tights that I wore to Streatham Ice Arena. Black messy trainers and a cheap black tshirt "complement" (HA!) the fright. I look like a twat.

What's the most stupid thing you've ever worn? How did you feel when you realised it? How do you get over it?

― Sarah, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to have some really vile purple trousers.

― Tom, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am going to Boots to buy some black tights. At least then when I get splashed by passing cars the mud won't show. Also considering an emergency clothes dash to H&M. I am sure a cardigan would make the world of difference.

― Sarah, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bought some gold Gucci shoes. What *was* I thinking? Never buy clothes when on holiday. I also had this long Adidas dress that was very tight and bright red.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Were they flared in the style of a tent? What material were they made of?

Am too lazy to rush clothes shopping. Perhaps I will make a quick stop off for a BIG CARDIGAN pre-KoC.

― Sarah, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, I think in nylon. I felt like a giant tomato. It was long and tight with this slit coming up to my bum. I felt like a tomota tart. Get it? Nevermind.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They were not flared. They were too short and too tight ew. And they were made of purple material.

― Tom, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Back in about 1991 or so, I customised a pair of jeans by inserting four big triangles of red material into the bottom of each leg, making them the most ridiculously huge flares in the world. Then I embroidered four little red hearts on each knee. Then I wore them out. In public. Several times.

― Madchen, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wearing one of my brother's primary school sports medallions to Uni in a misguided attempt to pay tribute to something (what it was, I can't remember) a few months ago. Wearing my grandfather's rancid 50 year old shoes. I really have an addiction to wearing unwanted items from my family's collective wardrobe.

In other news; could all the girls around Sydney please recognise that wearing Gemma 'Big Brother' off the shoulder T-shirts and Harajuku bags makes you look imbecilic and unable to think for yourselves. Thank-you.

― charles, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

>>>In other news; could all the girls around Sydney please recognise that wearing Gemma 'Big Brother' off the shoulder T-shirts and Harajuku bags makes you look imbecilic and unable to think for yourselves. Thank-you.

i coulda told them that.

i'm am wearing green tights today. they look like toxic waste. i'm also wearing brown knee high boots. $5 taa opshop

― di, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

URGENT AND KEY: I want some knee high boots. I do not want them to have HEELS. I want them to be like fancy grown up WELLIES basically. Where can I find these? I am sure they would make my outfit look AMAZING, that and a cardigan.

― Sarah, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah: I have seen a ton of boots like this around recently. True, there are more w/heels but these can be found without too much difficulty. My taste in clothes is ridiculous, so most things I wear = stupid. 2 steps away from Edina.

― Nicole, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sounds like you could be starting a new boxer beat trend with boots like that.

― Jonnie, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What colour should I get?? I am thinking RED.

(I'm singing Mambo Number 5 now Jonnie, YOU EVIL GIT).

― Sarah, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A pale sky-blue Fila shellsuit. I was fourteen. I had blocked the memory out until now.

Now I'm a gibbering wreck.

― Will, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nothing I wear is stupid.

― Ally, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Will, that sounds uber-cool. I had a charcoal nike one, with restrained lumo-yelloy trim, it were dead nice, in fact I'd wear the jacket now if my Mum hadn't chucked it away when I went to college, when she chucked out loads of my stuff that would have been nice to have now!

― chris, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yelloy?, ahem, yellow

― chris, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

not having much dress sense to speak of i've got quite a few "worn once" things lying around. see i try to be less conservative and it just comes out looking insane. i r insecure.

― Alan Trewartha at home, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I finally culled all the non-black pairs of stockings out of my wardrobe. Except for the pink ones and the sparkly silver ones. I've decided there is no place for navy, brown or green stockings.

I know I've had the occasional day when I've felt dismayed by what I have worn but I can't remember any of them in detail. I'm guessing it's when I've worn things that make me look fat.

I have lots of Fletcher Jones tartan skirts but I never wear them anymore due to the fat-butt thing. I think when I was <20 my hips and butt must have been slimmer. So sad.

― toraneko, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Last week I wore this great houndstooth check skirt I had found at a thrift shop for $2. near the end of the day I notice a big moth hole, right over my butt. doh! I was wearing black tights though so I don't think anyone noticed. I hope.

― Samantha, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So Sarah, you look generally like a thrift store indie gurlie? rowr.

― Graham, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aww, cheers for the solidarity Chris. I too like zip-up retro tops. But seriously, this top was vulgar. It had this 'mad' design on the left shoulder, and the arms puffed out just as flamboyantly as MC Hammer trousers. And sky blue as well! I looked like a souffle. The worst thing was how cool I thought I looked... still you live and learn.

And I haven't even told you about my flourescent yellow skintight cycling shorts. With my knobbly thirteen-year old knees I looked like a flamingo holidaying in Chernobyl.

― Will, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

every day is a stupid clothing day for me. I figure that everything I wear will look silly sooner or later so I just what ever amuses me at the time. This evening I was wearing a sky blue 1970's vintage NZ logo Tshirt, mens suit trousers and a pink and brown knee length coat. I was accused of stealing it from an old woman.

I do own a nice selection of dress up clothes too, my favourite being a frock from the 60's that looks vaguely like a school dress. It is dark blue with white/red printed checkers all over it. I mean that the white and red mingle foully to surround the background of blue, and it also has a white vinyl belt. yum

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My Salvation Army kilt was all exciting at first because I'd been looking for one and didn't expect to find one that I could buy but then I went home and realized it was too big to look good with my knee-high boots. It's dry clean only and has apparently been shrunk once, as the size is much smaller than what the tag says, so I may as well do it again. Aaargh.

I wear stupid outfits fairly frequently. I think one I wore in eighth grade for an orchestra concert wins. It was a soft dark maroon miniskirt and a baggy 3/4 sleeve tan shirt with a red elephant on it. Oh, it was horrible. I didn't want to look too fancy for the occasion or too casual, so I went for looking wrong either way and felt v. stupid.

― Maria, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are a few for me. The saddleshoes was the first the teddy blouses & bloomers for gym class. and in the winter definately lyle stockings... lol Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah, good flat boots are EVERYWHERE. Try Shelley's, Office, and the shoe shops in Kensington (Atticus particularily good). I have some from one of the shops there which are UK 5's and are reasonably nice, but I rarely wear them. So if you find no joy, let me know.

As for stupid outfits, I haven't had that sinking feeling since junior high school, when my mum gave me a pair of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans with no obvious branding and knothead mall JAPs called them a forgery. Sometimes when I'm visiting home, my mum throws a 'you are NOT wearing that' hissy fit but I patiently point out that as she is dressed in some form of terrycloth track suit/busy jumper combination she has no room for criticism, and besides which, when did she last write for Vogue or Harper's? This usually shuts her up.

One of my friends has a missile-guided ability to seize on items which would normally be considered TwatWear, which I often find and present to him as a joke, only to discover six months down the line that he's wearing them to very stylish effect and/or Marc Jacobs has duplicated the intentionality of said outfit. EXCEPT for the bubblegum pink sportswear outfit. Actually this person should avoid pink trousers altogether, but WILL NOT be told (he knows who he is).

― suzy, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/news.cfm?id=16577&headline=Ex-councillor%20caught%20with%20child%20porn%20stash%20spared%20jail

who'd have guessed

― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:50 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

A paedophile who hid in a 12-year-old girl's bedroom and had sex with her for two days while her unknowing parents sat downstairs has been jailed.

Leigh Arendse, 25, of Brunswick Park, Barnet, groomed the innocent youngster on an internet chat room before going from London to her Cambridgeshire home to meet her.

He then spent 48 hours in her bedroom watching DVDs and having sex with her - and hid behind the door when her mum went to check on her.

Sick Arendse claimed he thought the girl was actually 14 and only realised her true age when her mum told her off for smoking in her room

― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 25 January 2013 11:56 (twelve years ago)

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