Personal fashion Faux pas

[????]

...i dunno, all this cool snearing at others.

My personal disasters have included

Diamond Pringle sweaters

Red Leg Warmers

Jellies with white socks (as a fashionionable look!)

...but I believe the Mullet wins, as some of you know ::o

[banned bloke]

I once wore a shell suit.

[banned bloke]

It was lime green with a red piping on the arms.

[Huguenot]

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00470/shellsuitRex_280_470726a.jpg

[red devil]

In the crossover period between Disco and Punk I was given a skinny red spangly tie one Christmas...in my confused adolescence I wore it with my brown leatherette bomber jacket, avec fake fur trimmed collar....nice

[Laddy Muck]

Knickerbockers and braces...ahem...

[Jah Lush]

Blue & white checked Oxford bags. It still makes me shudder when I think about 'em.

[Huguenot]

http://makebelievecostumehire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Bananarama-Ra-Ra-Set-Fancy-Dress-Costume.jpg

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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Blue & white checked Oxford bags. It still makes

> me shudder when I think about 'em.

Did they have buttoned low down side pockets Jah?

[david_carnell]

http://cdn.dealclick.co.uk/ukimgs/image/249394.jpg

That is all.

[Huguenot]

Did you tuck your jeans into them?

[Jah Lush]

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> Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > Blue & white checked Oxford bags. It still

> makes

> > me shudder when I think about 'em.

>

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> Did they have buttoned low down side pockets Jah?

No. I don't think so. Did yours?

[????]

Yup. Mine were green, 6 buttoned high weighsters, you could hide a lit Number 6 in the pockets when you bumped into your mum's friends

[katie1997]

Too many to mention for me personally and I humbly apologise to anyone I offended on the other fashion thread. You're all fabulous, string vests and city living wellie-wearing afficionados alike.

[red devil]

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> Yup. Mine were green, 6 buttoned high weighsters,

> you could hide a lit Number 6 in the pockets when

> you bumped into your mum's friends

that's so true...when my Dad came home from work and saw me wearing them for the first time he thought I'd joined the sea cadets

[Moos]

Huguenot, are you Toyah or Jim? Am confused.

Mine is probably a white-collared Black Watch tartan dress. Social death. I blush thinking about it now.

[Huguenot]

Ah, No. My own disaster was more of a Nik Kershaw courdroys-tucked-into-pixie-boots-and-a-grey-felt trilby genre.

I'm pleased to discover that trilbys appear to be 'in' again, but I've noted that none of them look as cool as I did.

[Moos]

I love a trilby, me.

[????]

red devil Wrote:

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> ???? Wrote:

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> > Yup. Mine were green, 6 buttoned high

> weighsters,

> > you could hide a lit Number 6 in the pockets

> when

> > you bumped into your mum's friends

>

> that's so true...when my Dad came home from work

> and saw me wearing them for the first time he

> thought I'd joined the sea cadets

Thank god for punk eh RD, saved us

[Laddy Muck]

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> Thank god for punk eh RD, saved us

Speak for yourself. I went from shocking pink, to electric blue, to emerald green, to blonde, to purple, to scarlet, and - eventually - when it started to fall out, back to black hair! Oh dear Lord...that and the "bondage" trousers...

[Jah Lush]

Ahem! Speaking of trilbies, I'd almost forgotten. A pork-pie hat. Oh yes.

[PeckhamRose]

Hot pants. I was eleven stone. Oh dear.

[maxxi]

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> Yup. Mine were green, 6 buttoned high weighsters,

> you could hide a lit Number 6 in the pockets when

> you bumped into your mum's friends

Ditto - Brown and cream six button high waist with buttoned turn down pockets (in cream to contrast the brown trouser) and spanner pockets half-way down the thigh. Made of the kind of material that - if you dropped a fag on it - melted rather than scorched. Worn with platform shoes, butterfly-collar shirt and checked 'sports' jacket (both in variations of brown) and hands bedecked with two or three stainless steel rings that you lied to girls about and said you'd made them in metalwork class.

[????]

You must have have had a silk Hammers scarf to wear like a tie or tied round your wrist too Maxxi? Cherry 8 hole DMs naturally, you daren't wear any with more holes or the Mile End skins would kick your arse (they might anyway)

[Salsaboy]

Have you still got them?

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Hot pants. I was eleven stone. Oh dear.