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)

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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...

MORE ANSWERS.

― Matt DC, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.80stees.com/images/products/Save_Ferris_t-shirt.jpg

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

I've got images off, so I assume 696's picture is of a dude wearing white trousers and a fake fur coat inside a club.

― Matt DC, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

If you've images off Matt doesn't that ruin the thread a bit?

― kv_nol, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I seem to remember a regrettable period around '87 where I thought it might be OK to sport suspenders with casual wear.

maybe for some, but v. bad idea for me.

― will, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

xpost!

"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!"

Trayce was so OTM! I miss my high school pseudo-goth and hippie phases (in that order), but most of those close don't fit any more, and since then I've mainly just bought plain jeans, t-shirts, and clothes for office work. Last week one of my friends said, "I don't know if you realize, but you just come off like a well-put-together conservative young woman. Although the hair dye helps counteract that a little." Better to be interesting. At least, before you're too old to be interesting.

My worst dressed time was seventh grade though, due to a combination of my own lack of interest and my parents' low budget I wore about 2 mock turtlenecks and 4 plaid flannel shirts on rotation for the year.

― Maria, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Towards the end of high school beginning of college in the mid-90's I wore lots of very baggy jeans and khakis with baby t's and multiple ball chain necklaces and skate shoes. Also - lots of very ugly patterned thrift store shits I was reclaiming as so-ugly-they're-cool. I cringe now but I think it was sort of acceptable at the time.

Never acceptable - plack and white zebra print baggy cotton pants with neon orange splatter paint all over them. Worn with Neon orange top and hairsprayed bangs to my last day of middle school. I thought I was the business. *shudders*

― ENBB, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

i've always been a lousy dresser

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

People are way too harsh on their young selves.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

i would sell all this ill fitting hoodies

― deej, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

junior year of high school: bandana, jeans tucked into combat boots, leather jacket, giant afro, earring

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

People are confusing wearing yr jr high subculture on yr sleeve (literally) with dressing in a way that is interesting or stylish or wahtever, and not completely "mainstream". Putting the 18-eye DMs and the bb-chain necklaces and your raver/goth/etc days behind you is hardly "giving up" and resigning yrself to Teh Gapp.

― Laurel, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

PLS TO WITNESS TRACER'S LEATHER PANTS

― Laurel, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8927/jonhatoo3.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I went through an unfortunate acid-wash jeans phase in the late '80s

― Bill Magill, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody did.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

actually, now that i write it down, my high school outfit sounds pretty cool, maybe i should have saved that style for NOW!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it sounds very warriors!

― gff, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

If you've images off Matt doesn't that ruin the thread a bit?

sadly this thread is somewhat disappointing in the pics department. post more pics, ppl!

not one of my better looks (apart from poss the shoes):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/503423796_c19b708d6c.jpg

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, that jacket is kind of amazing.

― ENBB, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

haha yeah i don't know what i would think if i saw a grown man wearing that at a bus stop

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

When I was 17, I dressed like I was 40: pleated Pendleton skirts, linen blouses, dress flats, grosgrain ribbons, the works. It's kind of disturbing to me now. There are photos, but they're half a country away at my mother's house.

― Laurel, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

At least I had the good sense to veto the Laura Ashley jumpers and anything quilted, give me SOME credit.

― Laurel, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Putting the 18-eye DMs and the bb-chain necklaces and your raver/goth/etc days behind you is hardly "giving up" and resigning yrself to Teh Gapp.

Eat a scooby snack and take disco nap
Because i'm shopping at sears, 'cause i don't buy at the gap

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

fun people make their clothes seem fun.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Charlie that is an awesome jacket. I suggest you dig it out.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

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