Fashion Trends and Revivals Of Past Atrocities

[Boozy]

One trend I see around here that's been around for a long, long time is wearing a hoodie with shorts...usually, if it's a girl, very short shorts. What's the point? The top half of your body is the only part that gets cold? I don't get it.

I don't get how a sweatshirt with shorts is different than a tank-top with jeans. In both cases, one half of your body is more exposed than the other.

I don't think its a "trend" so much as what people end up doing in the summer. I throw on a tank-top and shorts in the summer, then grab a hoodie to take with me if I get cold. I can throw a hoodie on in an overly air-conditioned restaurant with more ease than I can change my pants, you know?

[Shangri-laschild]

When I was thinner, I still wore low cut flares. I always will wear flares. They are the only jeans that make my thighs look skinny and my overall legs look longer and thinner. Pair them with a nice pair of heels and it's perfect.

I confess to being weird about the whole jeans but that's more because I have trouble wrapping my brain around the idea. It doesn't look bad when I see it, in fact sometimes quite the opposite. But my brain has trouble with the concept for some reason and so it sometimes makes my brain twitch no clue why, my brain is just weird like that.

If I may add something else, and this will probably tick some people off - Corsets.

The ones I wear aren't super tight. They remind me to check my posture more often though which for some reason puts me in a more confident better mood even when no one else can see the corset. I like the middle ground. Now if I had to choose between the super authentic ones or no corset at all, it'd be none at all all the way That may very well be the difference to some extent. While not always super comfortable, the modern stuff (especially ranging towards the bodice end) isn't anywhere near like the older stuff. Hell, sometimes I actually find it a little comfortable but I'm also one of those people who sometimes likes to be wrapped up tight blanketwise.

I don't buy bags for the logo, I buy them for the quality. I don't like the Louis Vuitton bags because you can't find one without that horrible print.

I put too many sharp things and metal bits in my bags to ever go higher quality I think most of my last few purses have been canvas because it's harder to accidentally poke a hole through. Whenever I get more feminine ones, I always end up ruining the lining fairly quickly!


See I'm one of those people who used to wear the huge baggy jeans in high school. Not baggy around the waist or sagging but they were fairly big going down the leg. Honestly, they amused me and tended towards way more pockets than just about any other pants I could find. I also wear my work boots (those generic type yellow/gold construction work boots) with my long jean skirts too. It's comfy and I liked doing it. One of the guys at work thought it was awesome and since he's passed, wearing the combo now has the added bonus of making me smile and think of him as well. I confess to having picked out outfits simply on how much they amused me though sometimes just dressing up in nice casual office clothes amuses me so there you go

I think skinny jeans only bug me because the really super skinny ones bug my brain worse than jeans with heeled shoes. My brain keeps getting stuck on the idea that it must suck getting those over your heels! I get that they stretch but that is where my brain is stuck, giggling away. Silly brain, I can't take it anywhere!

[BrenDAnn]

You have a good point, Boozy. I didn't think about it that way. Still, it doesn't help that when I see the hoodie/shorts combo around here it's usually in the dead of winter. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to stick with agreeing with what everyone else has posted here! Ha!

[blas87]

Girls going tanning to get as dark as possible, and dying their hair jet black.

I'm talking about girls naturally as fair in skin and hair as me, getting as dark as someone of another race, and dying their blonde or red hair black. It looks so fake and stupid.

I have nothing against tanning, I still do it once or twice a month so that I don't have people coming after me with garlic and stakes, and I think I look better in the summer when I've had some color, but DAAAAMN that bronze looks awful on a lot of people. And I have nothing against dying your hair black if it's what you want to do, but just because a bunch of drunken Guido skanks and people who work at The Buckle do it, doesn't mean it will suit you.

[Dreamstalker]

if I can get the pants over my hips/butt, they're too big in the waist. Weird, but true.

Huh, I'm the same way and am otherwise fairly thin (somewhere around a 28 waist). If a pair fits in the waist, they're too tight across the thighs and I a) can't move; b) it looks bad.

The only brand of jeans that actually fits me well (Chicos) are sadly a bit too expensive right now. I can't find just straight-leg jeans anymore (when I started college they were all over the place), everything's skinny or bootcut.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Orange tans, fake eyelashes, spadefuls of makeup etc in the "WAG" or "TOWIE" style.* It looks trashy and fake. Note; if you require industrial paint stripper to remove your makeup every night, you're wearing too much. Save the fake eyelashes for parties, and don't trowel on the fake tan so that you look as tho you've been Tango'ed.


* For the Americans who may not know what I'm talking about; a WAG is a woman who's married to a footballer (soccer player) or is his girlf. TOWIE is a TV "reality" (seems scripted to me) show featuring several brain dead Essex people; the full name of the show is The Only Way Is Essex. It's the origin of the vajazzle. If you want to know what that is, google is your friend.

[blas87]

Our equivalent would be the Jersey Shore retards.

On that note, ANY guy who goes tanning more than to just get a little bit of color, who spends hours on their hair, who wears those ridiculous busy glittery and sparkly tight low cut tshirts..........you're a douchebag.

I am so tired of seeing girls who are trying too hard to look like that fat little troll Snooki and her bud JWoww. Honestly, you look better as yourself than trying to look like a Guido skank. Get out of the tanning bed, unpoof your hair, take off some of that eyemakeup, for Pete Sake.

I mean, I thought I wore a lot of eye makeup. Holy crud, not compared to those girls.

[guywithashovel]

I'm not sure how I feel about this "boot craze" that seems to have come over women recently. It's considered stylish to wear boots with almost any kind of clothing. Personally, I don't think knee-high boots are the best shoe choice when you're wearing jeans. It doesn't look offensive, but at the same time, I think there are better choices to make.

[tropicsgoddess]

Our equivalent would be the Jersey Shore retards.

On that note, ANY guy who goes tanning more than to just get a little bit of color, who spends hours on their hair, who wears those ridiculous busy glittery and sparkly tight low cut tshirts..........you're a douchebag.

I am so tired of seeing girls who are trying too hard to look like that fat little troll Snooki and her bud JWoww. Honestly, you look better as yourself than trying to look like a Guido skank. Get out of the tanning bed, unpoof your hair, take off some of that eyemakeup, for Pete Sake.

I mean, I thought I wore a lot of eye makeup. Holy crud, not compared to those girls.

Ugh...they look like overgrown carrots if you ask me. Especially the guys with the Dragon Ball Z Goku hair. Man, with the amount of gel they put on their hair combined with all the spiking is enough to pop balloons!

[Tanasi]

I don't know what they're called but those "boots" that look like someone has shoved their foot and leg down a small hairy dog's throat.
I noticed the other day my middle daughter had what looked like jeans on but they were so tight you'd have to grease up to get into them. I don't know if those are skinny jeans or not, I do know they leave very little to the imagination.

[fireheart17]

Girls going tanning to get as dark as possible, and dying their hair jet black.

I'm talking about girls naturally as fair in skin and hair as me, getting as dark as someone of another race, and dying their blonde or red hair black. It looks so fake and stupid.

For some reason, I'm getting a mental image of ganguro girls. (those Japanese girls who do exactly the same thing)

[Bloodsoul]

Except with ganguro girls I believe they bleach-blond their hair, no? Looks freaky in all of the photos I've seen, but translates surprisingly well in anime (I actually dropped a stereotypical tall/dark/mysterious character in "Adventure Quest" for one because I thought it felt a tad more unique.. or, at least, I haven't seen any other Battleon character with brown skin and blonde hair).

[blas87]

I really try not to judge people on how they want to look, but when it's done to purposely mimic a famous "trend" going around that is just obnoxious, it bothers me.

Most of these girls would look so much cuter with a more natural hair color and skin color, less eye makeup, a cute pair of jeans and a cute top, not the overly slutty minidress that barely covers the crotch.

[Boozy]

I don't think the goal of these Jersey Shore girls is to look as cute as possible to as many people as possible. They're trying to appeal to a specific kind of guy -- the Jersey Shore guy. The Jersey Shore guy digs the Jersey Shore girl look, and vice versa.

It's like Goths. I think that (with rare exceptions) men and women with light colouring look ghastly when they dye their hair black. Goths also tend towards overdone make-up and sometimes fussy clothes. It's "Jersey Shore" with darker clothes and paler skin.

The music's better, though. I'll give them that.

[Greenday]

Too many posts to quote. So I'll just respond without them.

First off, blas, I haven't seen an episode since Season 3, but Jwoww was hot. Snooki is definitely a dumb whore though and the poof doesn't look awesome by any means.

tropicsgoddess, it does indeed take a lot of gel to do it. I've done it a couple times as a joke and it's tough to do. Never tried popping balloons though.

It's uh kinda starting to upset me that "guido" has been replaced by "Jersey Shore". It really gives the Jersey Shore and the people there such a bad name. But because I'm from there, I get lumped in with the guidos we hate so much. My poor state and the most awesome part of New Jersey are being tarnished by people who aren't even from here. It's the damn benny's.

Stuff I've noticed out here - People who wear large headphones and have to super rock it out. When did it become cool again to wear oversized headphones? It confuses the hell out of me. Also, people who wear sunglasses everywhere. For the past few days, there has been so much dust that after about 10 meters, you can't see a thing. And that's in the middle of the day. But I'd still see people walking around with sunglasses on. Even if you are just trying to keep the dust out of your eyes, that's what ballistic goggles are for. Idiots.