Funny Fashion Mistakes
The fashion world is flighty and unpredictable; one minute something can be paraded along every catwalk, only to find itself gracing charity shop rails months later. To the amusement of parents who know better, countless trends often manage to enjoy a revival years afterwards. Some fashion mistakes, however, are just too ridiculous to be repeated and get pushed to the back of our collective wardrobes, never to be seen again.
Fashion mistakes can be as widespread as the craze for crushed velvet, or – mercifully – just one fateful choice by a wilful celebrity. One such celebrity in Lady Gaga, the woman who is currently dividing opinions in the fashion world. While nothing she wears in public could be described as conservative, she recently horrified every animal-rights group in the world by appearing in public wearing a dress made entirely of meat. Bizarre, unflattering and unhygienic, Lady Gaga epitomises individual fashion mistakes; but what is perhaps more terrifying is a trend that sweeps the nation and takes innocent fashion victims behind.
Nobody could accuse the nineteen-eighties of boasting understated fashion with everyone from Adam Ant to Wham sporting some outlandish fashion gimmick, but perhaps the funniest was hair crimping. Young women everywhere turned their hair into a straw-like mass by enthusiastically clamping them between crimping tongs until they looked like they had suffered a severe electric shock. Not only was crimping visually unappealing, it had the added disadvantage of being very damaging to hair, and it eventually went into fashion retirement.
Not wanting to be shown up by the previous decade, the Nineties rolled out a bizarre and unusual trend in tracksuit bottoms that had a row of poppers running along the outside of each leg. Best worn with light-up trainers, the craze was impractical for the kids who loved it so much as the poppers often came undone all the way to the top, leaving chilly legs and oddly-shaped trousers. If wearers weren’t shivering as they tried to pop their clothes back together, they managed to cause puncture wounds on the legs if their owners applied even the slightest pressure by going about their usual routine, such as sitting down.
The fashion mistakes of the past are numerous and varied, but perhaps the funniest fashion mistake was shoulderpads. Thanks to the Dynasty effect, shoulder pads make women everywhere look boxy and severe – yet they have crept their way back into fashion several times since. Shoulder pads are living proof that every generation has its ‘fashion crime’; and that every generation afterwards will relive them!
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