OK, fess up. Admit your past fashion foul-ups here....

[kmla]

Honestly - I've never owned a Member's Only jacket, and I've never worn parachute pants.

But I will fess up to a really swanky, burnt orange leisure suit. I wore it with a pair of really cool platform shoes....

And I did have my hair in a mullet in the early 80's. AND it was permed at the same time.

Me? A babe magnet? Not so much.

Tell me, what was your fashion faux pas?

(Remember, we are all hiding behind our veil of anonymity. Except for Will Pitt, that is.)

[Robb]

1. Not much of a veil here, either...

...but I ain't too proud to admit it. I had an out-FIT in the early 80's! Matching white jeans and white jeans jacket, with (get ready) sleeveless turquoise shirt with buttons that were waaaaay out of line with one another.

That's right. Don Johnson. Only somehow looking more ridiculous. :)

[ozymandius]

2. I still wear plaids and stripes together.

But really, who didn't grow up in the '70s and once wear flairs that looked like a pair of pup tents?

With a mop of hair, I somewhat resembled a Q-Tip with a flaired end.

[Guaranteed]

3. I wore skin-tight biker shorts to school once.

Whoops. :crazy:

Never heard the end of it.

[Cheswick2.0]

4. After my kids were born in the early 80s and I lost all the baby weight

and more, being almost anorexic, I went/sang at a winter wedding. For this wedding I wore a too tight red silk suit. It had a straight shirt to my knees and a close fitted top that had long sleaves, a high ruffled collar and one of those big belts that tied in the back with a huge poofy bow. I looked like a blond Olive Oyl in a christmas doiley.

[lapislzi]

5. 80s day-glo clothes

with a felt hat, suspenders, and salvation army jacket. And probably a whole can of mousse.

Ouch! it hurt to admit that.

[chefgirl]

6. Certainly not by choice

It would have to be that disgusting green plaid Catholic school uniform I was forced to wear for 12 years.
NOTHING I could put together on my own could ever be as bad as that!

-chef-

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Leg warmers!

[LynneSin]

8. I once tried to dye my hair red

and it came out Ronald McDonald Red.

And I did 2 days before I was to start my new job.

I had to pay $100 at a Hair Cuttery that I found opened on a Sunday to clean that mess out.

:eyes:

[Lars39]

31. I once tried to highlight my hair

the morning before a very formal wedding. Turned out looking like leopard print. Kids haven't ever let me forget it. :(

[trof]

9. Double-knit, plaid bell-bottoms

I did. Yes I did.
Shirts with collars down to here.
Psychedilic, tie-it-yourself bowties.
Never owned a Nehru jacket though.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

10. I wore

every bad 70s and 80s outfit that there was, but the worst when I look at pictures is my hair. I have curly hair and thought it was so cool when I got those 80s asymmetrical hairstyles.

Now when I look at the pictures I look like I had big, topiary-looking triangular-shaped hair that looks like that triangle-headed woman in the Dilbert cartoon.

I now have somebody to cut it who knows how to layer it, fortunately.

[Padraig18]

11. How I discovered that I was color-blind:

Two Christmases ago, Tony and I were going to a holiday open-house at some friends, and I was planning on dressing in a 'festive' manner. I had just that afternoon bought red pants, a red-checked flannel shirt and a red cardigan sweater, and put them on. Tony took one look at me and asked, "Paddy, do you think that looks good together?", to which I replied "Yes, of course I do--that's why I bought it." He shrugged and didn't say anything else, and off we went to the party.

Also at the party was our local optometrist, and I noticed that he and Tony were talking at one point, but thought nothing of it at the time. Later that evening, Mark (the optometrist) asked me if I could briefly drop by his office the next day. I said "Sure!', and we went on to talk about other things.

The next morning, I went to Mark's office and he asked me in; he handed me this book of symbols made up of dots, blobs and squares (like pixels) and asked me if i saw figures, shapes, words, lines, etc. in them; in some I did, and in others I didn't. When I had finished going through the book, he told me that I was severly red-green color-blind, and marginally blue-yellow color blind; he went on to explain that what I had thought was my perfectly-coordinated holiday outfit had in fact consisted of brick-red pants, a fire-engine red cardigan and a maroon-checked shirt! *blush*

I now stick to neutral coordinating colors, or take Tony shopping with me when buying clothes! :P

[ozymandius]

14. Off topic - but I must say that I love your name.

My wife and I almost named our son Padraig. The old Celtic form of Patrick was in the top five list.

[Padraig18]

15. Thank you!

An old and honorable name it is. :)

[SOteric]

27. Oops. Posted the wrong place.

Nevermind.

[kmla]

28. Bwahahahahaha!

Too funny!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. The 1960s-early 1970s were not a good time for me

They were the era of hip-huggers and bodysuits, a lethal combination on me, but I wore them anyway.

With thin fine hair, I wore it long and straight.

I was too old for teen fashions in the 1980s, but my first teaching job required me to get up at 5:30AM to make an 8:00AM class way on the other side of the metropolitan area, so I decided I needed an easy-care hairstyle.

I got the perm equivalent of an Afro. My brother told me that I looked like Art Garfunkel.

I will also plead guilty to jackets with big shoulder pads, sometimes worn over dresses with big shoulder pads.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

16. Ug, those 80s shoulder pads

I already have big shoulders so I must have looked like a linebacker back then.

[kmla]

18. It wasn't just limited to women's fashion. Men wore 'em, too.

I had a jacket like that. Big shoulder pads. Mauve. Pulled up the sleeves. Looked like I could have been a cop on the TV show "Paducah Vice".

Also had a pair of tennis shoes with the Velcro pull-over straps. "Idiot-laces", I think they were called.

Eeps.

[RedEarth]

13. I'm almost too embarrassed to admit, but I thought some might get a laugh

Years ago, I showed up on the FIRST day of work wearing a freshly cleaned and pressed suit, new tie, recent haircut and TWO different shoes...one black loafer and one brown loafer. I wasn't aware of it until I walked in the office and the owner of the company pointed at my shoes and said "well it looks like you're trying to impress me". We both starting laughing so hard we could barely catch our breath.

Thank God he let me go home a change!

[Red State Rebel]

21. I did the same thing....

One black pump and one identical navy blue pump....I could have died!

[omshanti]

17. I wore lots of neon colors in the 80s - and owned parachute pants

My favorite pair of trousers were a carrot-cut, neon yellow pair of parachute pants. I wore it with a multicolor polka dot shirt.
UGH.
I also had those fluffy hair ties... you ladies remember them...

I wanted to be like Cyndi Lauper or Denise Huxtable but couldn't get my bangs stiff enough!

(edited to add more embarrassing detail)

[populistmom]

19. 1985-Lime green lace stirrup leggings paired with a mini at the age of 13

So hideous, need I say more? :puke:

[VermontDem2004]

20. I have no fashion sense whatsoever

I am wearing a white shirt with black basketball shorts.

[beyurslf]

22. I can say just committed a fashion no-no this weekend.

Bought a sweater at the Gap. Thought I great deal...on sale for 40 bucks. Get home and try it on. Yeah. The sweater is striped with smaller stripes gradually getting bigger. The stripe right around the waist is a big tan one, about 4 inches thick. It goes right across the belly. I may not have a big gut but there is a little pouch. The sweater makes it look HUGE, like I gained 30 pounds. I am too embarrassed to return it and tell them so I am keeping it. UGH! :)

[omshanti]

25. Return it!! Don't be embarrased.

Just return it. It's your right to return something, nobody is going to interrogate you or make you feel guilty about it.

That's why I *always* try things on before buying, even if it's a hassle.

[beyurslf]

32. True.

But you know how you always feel like you have to explain why. What would I say? It makes me look fat LOL

[seaglass]

23. I didn't wear a bra very often until I was in my mid-twenties, it

was a personal choice not because I couldn't have used one.

Anyway, I wore a loose knit sweater to work without a bra. Unfortunately it was very cold in the office and my nipples were sticking out through the holes in the sweater, they didn't exactly match the sweater color either.

Luckily the guy I was dating worked in my dept. and told me.

My favorite clothes at the time were suspender pants with a variety of buttons and pins on the suspenders. Remember that attractive look?

[Philostopher]

24. Child of the '70s here.

I had a pair of rainbow suspenders that I wore with straight-leg jeans. I looked like Robin Williams. I also had a button I wore on the suspenders that said 'I used to be disgusted -- now, I'm just amused!'

I also had a pair of those giant, bug-eye pink glasses frames with rose tint on the top half and a little gold fixture right at the temple. I looked like Elton freakin' John for a couple of years.

And all that was after my mother quit buying my clothes, but fashion faux pas that your mother insists on shouldn't count. Especially since she was still putting me in smocked plaid dresses until I was nine or ten years old.

Once I discovered the 'Annie Hall' look, I was golden. I was tall enough to pull it off. Wore my dad's neckties with a Oxford shirt -- I was one of those 'smart nerd' girls anyway, so it worked.

[geniph]

26. I had this pair of bell-bottoms that I truly loved

I mean, I loved those pants - they were a bright fuschia velveteen, hip-huggers cut right to the hairline (which I didn't have then - I was only 14 or so), and the bells were so wide that the pants legs used to sometimes wrap around each other while I was walking and briefly immobilize me. It must have been quite a sight.

I remember a little matching bolero jacket/hot pants set I used to wear to school. I'm still amazed they didn't send me home from school; those hot pants were so short you could tell what day of the week it was. I used to get a lot of attention when I wore that outfit; in retrospect, I realize I looked like a ... ahem ... 'professional'.

But I refuse to apologize for my 80's uniform of big white shirts with skinny black leather ties and tight black leggings and low black boots. I still think that outfit looked cool. And it was damn comfortable! I miss my leather ties.

[SOteric]

29. How about a 'Fashion-less' faux pas...?

I went skinny dipping with a group of girls my age at summer camp. (I was maybe 13/14 years of age).

The counselor who had night watch came through and we all ducked to avoid getting caught.

He didn't catch us! -But he did pick our swim suits and towels up off the beach and turn them into the lost and found.

[OneTwentyoNine]

30. I contine to wear white after LABOR DAY!! OMG..... n/t