Which was the worst decade for fashions?

[Lady Effingbroke]

Poll question: Which was the worst decade for fashions?

Feel free to include decades from other centuries - horrible fashion knows no limits!

[Sanity Claws]

1. I chose the 80s because

of the shoulder pads. Around the mid-80s, women wore enormous shoulder pads, like football players. I also remember wearing a lot of red -- remember Nancy Reagan? I think we can blame her for a lot of the bad 80s fashions.

[Left Is Write]

7. Yeah -

Shoulder pads. High-waisted, tapered leg pants (I had to unscrew my feet to get into some of my jeans!). Stirrup pants. Lots of spandex. Brightly colored plastic jewelry. More shoulder pads.

I did have some really cute things in the 80s, but some of the stuff I wore is....unexplainable. The late 80s were much worse than the early 80s.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

43. What was with those shoulder pads?

Mercy, those things were just ugly. Those high wasted tapered jeans were torture. I am short with long legs and those were not designed with that body structure in mind. The waist would almost reach my ribcage in those things.

[barb162]

58. agree, the 80s

[geomon666]

2. The 70's

Followed very, very closely by the 80's. The 70's take it though, I mean come on, it's just disgusting. :)

[candy]

10. The seventies-----Nehru jackets,leisure suits,polyester everything--

huge bell bottoms dragging on the ground etc.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. The '70s, absolutely.

Double-knit polyester.
Garish floral prints.
Shirts with huge pointed collars.
Platform shoes.
Leisure suits with wide white belts and white shoes.
Nasty colors - lots of brown, gold, pea-green.

This was the dark age of fashion. The '80s were bad -- the monster shoulder pads and big hair were pretty awful -- but the '70s were truly horrific.

[Mike Niendorff]

13. Just in case anyone needs a reminder:

Partidge Family.
Brady Bunch.

(I rest my case :) )


MDN

[KurtNYC]

57. 80s

Taking bad to a whole new level.

[flamingyouth]

35. The '70s

Absolutely. Positively. No doubt about it.

[ret5hd]

3. the ice age...

women started wearing clothes. (i know i know)

[Lady Effingbroke]

5. lol! Fashion faux pas are timeless, aren't they!

[donheld]

44. You really wanna see janet reno like that?

:spank:

[proud patriot]

4. the 80s Two words : parachute pants

yep I had a turquoise and red pair myself

[YankeyMCC]

8. Another three

Thin Leather Ties

[Sanity Claws]

9. I forgot about them!

I had a pale blue pair and I loved them at the time. I wore them one summer all the time.

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. i miss when clothing had its own style

clothing is so bland nowadays. There's like no real fashion anymore. Men just wear jeans and regular shirts.

I think we've come to the end of fashion. Nothing much has changed since the late 90s.

[Massacure]

Most guys were cargo pants around my school, not jeans

Plus you have the fashionable headphones around the neck, and can't forget the trusty ol' cell phone and pda in your pocket. Who said ring tones are not fashionable??? O8)

[geomon666]

14. Well it's really no different than the 50's.

Late 50's, early 60's. Guys just wore jeans and a shirt. I'm sure some new fad style will creep back in soon. Remember all that crap a few years ago about how the 70's were coming back? That lasted. :eyes:

[CanuckAmok]

18. are you kidding?

The seventies are being constantly rammed down our throats... knitted caps, the 'Fro, flares, brown leather belts and purses, hipsters, That 70S Show...

are you nuts? It's the biggest style marketing campaign in history.

I blame Doctor & the Medics.

[Left Is Write]

23. And ponchos.

The industry really seems to be pushing the 70s ponchos.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Yesterday on the bus I saw a young woman who could have stepped out of

my college yearbook (1972).

She wore long straight hair parted in the middle, small square metal-framed glasses, pants with flared legs, platform shoes, a corduroy coat with a tie belt, and a woven shoulder bag. The only thing that convinced me she wasn't a time traveler :-) was that she was talking on a cell phone the whole time she was on the bus.

[Left Is Write]

31. Yes, the cellphone would jar you out of the scene, wouldn't it?

It sounds kind of anachronistic paired with the outfit you described!

I have some old Seventeen magazines from the 70s. My teenage daughter loves looking through them at the clothes they were modeling.

[geomon666]

25. Easy cowboy

I know all about that. And yes, that is true to a point. Point being, it's not the flashy 70's style we've come to know and hate. It's much more toned down, otherwise it would've been flat out rejected. And I choose to blame Quentin Tarantino for it. :)

[CanuckAmok]

39. Well, as long as we can agree to blame QT for stuff...

that's all I need!

[tigereye]

54. Tarantino does seem to have a lot to answer for, no?

[Lady Effingbroke]

28. the band Doctor and the Medics who covered "Spirit in the Sky?"

that was in 86 or 87, if I recall correctly. So it all started with them?

[bettyellen]

51. Do you know what year they started doing the 70's again? 1985-86...

I remember this- it was on runways and mass market designers tried it out and it flopped. Took a few maore years, but off and on, it's been back in one form or another for 15 years...They've been working the eighties in NY for a while and that's a tough sell. Not too many people want to label it as such, and the shoulder pads, ugh! not again. please!

[bettyellen]

15. you are right about that... theclothing biz is going down the tubes,,,,,

it's kind of good in a way, people are less lemming- like than they used to be- all needing to look alike and more comfy in their own style or being retro or goth or whatever.
the new lemming behaviour is in the tech field.... DVDs, ipods, computer... that's where the $$ is, that's where people care aboutkeeping up with the joneses these days.

[CelticWinter]

12. Todays fashion

is awful there is nothing about it that is appealing. Hopefully the next trend will be something that can be worn with style and individuality.

[bettyellen]

16. CAMOFLAUGE!!! UGH, I CANNOT DEAL WITH IT!!

If i see another toddler in camo I'm going to scream! What are people thinking???!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. I hate that, too

For years, there's been this tendency to dress little boys (and I mean really little boys) in clothing with macho connotations: shirts with garish sports, NASCAR, military motifs, violent super heros, wrestling, and gun logos.

This was not always the case. When I was a kid, there was very little logo clothing of any type, and none of it was trying to project a violent, he-man image.

The current trends (going on twenty years now) strike me as fascist.

[bettyellen]

42. just so violent, WTF? It upets me.

[Placebo]

17. You can't say the 1980's BECAUSE...

1980's fashion is officially cool again. If anyone has looked at the ads lately, the 80's are back baby!

[Lady Effingbroke]

20. I am a child of the 80s - Guess jeans, Generra, Esprit, Swatch watches,

Op, Town and Country, Sex Wax and Lightning Bolt (for the surfers), Bon Jovi fringe (and hair)...oh yeah! (blush).

[Left Is Write]

22. And Forenza, and Calvin Klein, and Members Only.

And those little Peter Pan boots. I had some that folded over and laced at the back of the ankle.

[Deja Q]

24. Oh dear lord, the decade of middle class posh status symbols.

:puke:

[Lady Effingbroke]

26. Yes. I was a clueless, drunken, mullet-headed teenager.

With Guess jeans, an Esprit shirt, and a Swatch watch. How embarrassing! :dunce:

[Left Is Write]

21. Not entirely.

If they bring back those high-waisted, tapered leg jeans, I'm going to lead a revolt. Those aren't flattering on ANYONE, not even the supermodels.

And no shoulder pads! The jackets the girls are wearing now are cute - those cropped tweedy things with lots of detailing (cropped jackets are a returning element), but none of those outlandishly bright, hip-length cotton jackets with football-sized shoulder pads.

If you want to see the most egregious examples of shoulder pads, catch reruns of Dynasty on the Soapnet channel.

The jewelry is cuter now too. Please spare me from colored plastic bead necklaces and the matching colored plastic earrings.

[tigereye]

55. I didn't mind the shoulder pads so much

very 40s- a la Sean Young in Blade Runner. She didn't look too bad in them.

[Left Is Write]

56. The 40s look is great, I agree.

I was thinking of the shoulder pads in EVERYTHING - those long, shapeless jackets in brights and pastels, in sweaters, even in silk blouses. It got so you sometimes had three layers of shoulder pads. Some bra manufacturers even sewed them to bra straps! :shrug:

[fluffernutter]

19. the decade that started pants so big that they hang off the butt.

[Longgrain]

27. The ninety's def.

The eighties were tacky but at least, back then, we had style...

[geomon666]

29. No you didn't...

you just think you did. The 80's was just the 70's with more pastels. Disco became Techno. Cocaine gave way to...cocaine and greed was always good, it just became popular.

[Longgrain]

32. I'm thinking clothes

Not fads...

Lot of junk in the 80's to be sure.

[geomon666]

34. Well clothing styles are really just a fad too if you think about it.

All fall away as something new and cooler (perceived anyway) comes along.

[Longgrain]

36. True, true

It's just. having reached sexual maturation in the early 80's, I still have a, Non political, affinity for the style of that time.

Here's what I'm talking about...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2150752

I don't care if it's cool or not, I just like it ;)

[geomon666]

37. Well...

having sexually matured in the mid 90's, I can honestly tell you that we still laugh at you. Of course we have no room to talk, we brought neons to a whole new extreme. :puke: :)

[Longgrain]

40. And the people from the fifties

laugh at you...the people from the seventies make fun of the fouties...

It's all Perspective I guess...

The more you try to stick things in a box...the more you find they ain't going to fit...

[roguevalley]

38. Don't forget afros for EVERYONE!

[lenidog]

41. To quote Dennis Leary about the 70s

"Here we are in the middle of a sexual revolution and we are wearing clothes that guarantee we won't get laid."

[donheld]

45. Why do we always turn on the styles we once loved?

Music and clothes seem to be the biggies, we love them for awhile then 5 - 10 - 20 years later we look back and say :puke: what were we thinking. Do you ever wonder what we are doing now, besides repuglican shit, we will soon look back and say WTF?

[jdots]

46. fashion always sucks when it gets watered down

the ganster wanna be has been around since the 40s,the preppy look for longer.Its seems to based all on those 2 things. The 60s hippy stuff was maybe a throw back to English fops in the 18th century and grew into the polysester 70s crap.The revolting conservative look of this century really sucks.The suit and tie shit has got to go and repukes always look like they have a broom up thier ass i guess i have no opinion on this -ha

[UdoKier]

47. Right now.

I hate the hip-hugger jeans and lower-back tattoos. Hate the piercings.

I'd say the mid-60's mod clothes were pretty cool.

I also like the 20s, 30s and 40s.

50s stuff was a bit too starchy and conservative.

[Piperay]

49. I agree and I hate those big pants

where the crotch is at the knees and they look like they are ready to fall down any second. :puke:

[China_cat]

48. Any decade

where women had to wear corsets that kept them from breathing.

[youthere]

50. Definitely the 80's..

Shoulder pads, big hair and Leg warmers?! :wtf:

[MsAnthropy]

52. I wore hot pants and go-go boots under my midi skirt

with fishnet stockings! Early 70's was the worst!

[billyskank]

53. Oh, how can I choose?

They were all awful!