What fashion trends do you think suck?

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Converse (and especially Doc Martens) just scream "I have multiple mental illnesses".
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Can confirm, I'm a Converse/Docs ride or die and I'm a crazy sperg.

I started wearing them 20 years ago as a pretentious proto-hipster who was really into the Ramones and the Smiths as a teen, with gigantic feet that didn't fit into normal women's shoes. I moved onto vintage army boots, but now I wear bespoke Doc clones from an orthopedic shoemaker because they're great at hiding all the adjustments I need for my malformed feet and ankles. And they're supposed to look gigantic, so you don't notice my clown feet are actually clown feet.

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Cringey over obvious mass produced fandom shit head to toe, especially the swing dresses with hideous prints. That shit was cringe as fuck even during the American Apparel era, and it's even cringier on 30 something women than it was on high school/college kids. I'm a Trekkie, and anyone dressed like that outside a con is the most annoying type of SJW fan and to be avoided at all costs unless you want to "squee" about representation.
 
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I don't like it when people try and fuse 2 styles together. For example when people wear sweatpants with blazers, it looks confusing and kinda hideous. Also square big blazers tend to look off as well.

Case in point (even models can't make this look good):
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Men wearing skirts was mentioned earlier, but I would like to second it with more elaboration. Nobody ridicules the men in Roman togas, Buddhist robes, or the generic garb of medieval peasants. The Scottish kilt is occasionally a subject of ridicule but most people still seem to understand that it is a man's article of clothing, even if it doesn't match what most people think of as men's clothing.

However, every time I've seen a man wearing a skirt or dress, it is a woman's skirt or dress, and it doesn't work with his body at all. It seems to be more for the purpose of virtue signalling than for actual functionality and that in itself makes it automatically lamer. The ideal female body and ideal male body are different, and as a result women's clothing and men's clothing accentuate different body features from one another. This is why if a man wore a bikini, he would look ridiculous, not attractive. This is why even though women can wear suits, they are fitted differently than men's suits.
 
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I hate when people switch genders for clothes. I did it as a teen because I thought I was doing the NLOG shit and I just looked stupid. Gender neutral clothes are the label lying to the consumer. Fit in ready-to-wear clothing is based on a mix of averages, ideals of the designer, and pure made-up bullshit. Gender neutral clothes are a fantasy, it's pretty much just a men's cut that they sell to both. In general, switching genders does not lead to flattering fit. Women will look boxy and men will look choked up while having excess fabric in the chest. Even a skirt will sit in a different spot on this hips and drape differently between men and women. I wish people would stop being unique for uniqueness sake. It's worthless! (and usually very ugly)
 
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Freya said:
seeing Y2K come back is just yuck. I thought it was trashy stripperware when I was growing up in the 2000s and i STILL do now.
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I don't mind some Y2K stuff but I get really sick of shitty bootleg-looking Nick Toons and 2 Pac shirts every time I go out to buy clothes. It makes me wonder if this is how gen x felt when the 80s made a comeback in the 2000s.
 
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CharcoalChkn said:
Australians and North Face jackets.
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This also applies to all roadmen and black teenagers in the midlands and the south of England. During the heatwave I saw plenty of them walking around in puffer jackets and those gay little balaclavas they've taken to wearing. Not sure why they feel the need to cosplay as cartoon bank robbers.

Agent Abe Caprine said:
Cap sleeves. If I wanted a sleeveless shirt, I'd just buy a sleeveless shirt.
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Fuck cap sleeves. They're pointless and if you have broad shoulders they make them look even broader and fuck up the fit across the chest. I've had several cute dresses and shirts which were massively improved by cutting off the cap sleeves and modifying the armholes. It's easy to do with a sewing machine and it takes 10 minutes tops.
 
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This also applies to all roadmen and black teenagers in the midlands and the south of England. During the heatwave I saw plenty of them walking around in puffer jackets and those gay little balaclavas they've taken to wearing. Not sure why they feel the need to cosplay as cartoon bank robbers.
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I think they wear the balaclavas so their "ops" don't recognise them and catch them "lackin".
 
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Agent Abe Caprine said:
How are they not dying of heatstroke?
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...because it's winter down south?

AbyssStarer said:
I hate when people switch genders for clothes. I did it as a teen because I thought I was doing the NLOG shit and I just looked stupid. Gender neutral clothes are the label lying to the consumer. Fit in ready-to-wear clothing is based on a mix of averages, ideals of the designer, and pure made-up bullshit. Gender neutral clothes are a fantasy, it's pretty much just a men's cut that they sell to both. In general, switching genders does not lead to flattering fit. Women will look boxy and men will look choked up while having excess fabric in the chest. Even a skirt will sit in a different spot on this hips and drape differently between men and women. I wish people would stop being unique for uniqueness sake. It's worthless! (and usually very ugly)
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Yeah, all 'unisex' T-shirts are just men's T-shirts but one size smaller. Square and unflattering.

To add to the thread,
- whatever the fuck Harry Styles has fished out of a dumpster in the last year
- Disney prints on adults
 
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People wearing their clothes inside-out. That is so 2015
 
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Not directly related to fashion trends per say, but why is it that every time I go shopping for pants I end up finding that the overwhelming majority of them have no crotch space, thin legs, and massive waists? Are the majority of adult men really fatasses with swollen gunts and thin tiny bird legs and micrococks? Where is the clothing for extremely thin-waisted men with thick tree trunk biking legs and immensely massive balls?

Also, elastic ankles on pants are atrocious. My hate towards them stems primarily from the increasing difficultly of buying pants without them, even jeans have them now. All the men's sweatpants I see for sale are these gay baggy things that bunch up around the bottom and have elastic ankles. Is this some nigger shit? Is this how nigger pants hold themselves up and stop themselves from bunching up around the feet?

I don't really look at what other people wear so I can't tell if this is really a result of fashion trends or if it's just the limited selection at my local stores.
 
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FBI-chan said:
Men wearing skirts was mentioned earlier, but I would like to second it with more elaboration. Nobody ridicules the men in Roman togas, Buddhist robes, or the generic garb of medieval peasants. The Scottish kilt is occasionally a subject of ridicule but most people still seem to understand that it is a man's article of clothing, even if it doesn't match what most people think of as men's clothing.

However, every time I've seen a man wearing a skirt or dress, it is a woman's skirt or dress, and it doesn't work with his body at all. It seems to be more for the purpose of virtue signalling than for actual functionality and that in itself makes it automatically lamer. The ideal female body and ideal male body are different, and as a result women's clothing and men's clothing accentuate different body features from one another. This is why if a man wore a bikini, he would look ridiculous, not attractive. This is why even though women can wear suits, they are fitted differently than men's suits.
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As a tomboy growing up, and as a woman today who wears whatever "gender" of clothes I feel like without having to change how I identify: if it fits and it's appropriate to your setting wear it.

That's the rub. It has to fit. Even certain women's body shapes aren't as flattering in female clothes. Men in dresses or skirts aren't my thing (though a guy in historical robes or kilts are neat) but if you actually get something fitted to your body shape it can look just fine. There's no law in biology that men can't wear ___/women can't wear ___." If someoene says you can't, screw em. I would love a nice tailored 3-piece suit, with a fancy waistcoat.

Observation: I finally came back on here with the tor browser. It's clear the...demographic of this board (beauty parlor I mean) has changed since the site left the clearnet.
 
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