Why, yes, at some point in my 46 years, I have worn every single one of these fashion mistakes, and hope that they never come back into fashion! If you’ve lived through the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, I’m sure you’ve endured these fashions as well.
Pictured above is me, on my eighth birthday in 1977, with a version of the Dorothy Hamill haircut. I was a horse crazy girl, and my mom cut that horse for me out from a sheet of chocolate. I loved that cake!
The bowl haircut definitely is on my list of fashion faux pas, along with:
Jeans
1. Bell bottoms (Boot cut, yes; bell bottoms, NO!)
2. Super skinny jeans with zippers at the ankle, worn with high heels and lacy bobby socks
3. Acid washed denim
Hairstyles are always fun to look at. My fine, blond hair needed a perm to be big, and even then it was hard to plump! I’m a freshman in college up above in 1987, and that was about as big as I could make my hair.
Hair styles
4. Farrah Fawcett feathered hair
5. Dorothy Hamill bowl cut (although her updated version is pretty cute!)
6. Working Girl big hair plastered with AquaNet
Shirts
7. Long, pointy collars
8. Tight halter tops with itchy elastic from chest to waist
9. Skinny ribbons tied with bows at the neck
Eyewear
10. Freakishly large bug-eye glasses (see my college picture up above!)
Yes, we survived all these bad fashion statements. I wonder what our kids will think is fashionable in the next 20 years? You can be sure there will be plenty of pictures of their fashion faux pas! What fashions do you hope will never come back?
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A few years ago I was driving a group to London when there were several women my age sitting right behind me and a girl about 20 years younger on the other side of the aisle. She wore leg warmers and me and the women my age just lamented the fact they were in fashion again!
The things I hope will never come back again are shoulder pads, legwarmers, pointy collared shirts and those garish 70’s colours that always hurt your eyes. Oh, and rara skirts. I never understood them in the first place!
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I never understood leg warmers at all! I really hope they don’t come into fashion again, although I did buy some leg warmers for Lily and Emmy when they were little, and they were very cute!
Ginny Marie recently posted…Ten Fashions of No Return
I survived so many myself and always wonder what my kids will think when they, too, look back now.
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My bangs are really great at doing a version of Farrah hair while I’m trying to grow them out. I almost wish that would come back in to style, so I could be accidentally cool!
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My bangs do that too when they get too long! We used to call feathery bangs “wings” back in college.
Ginny Marie recently posted…Ten Fashions of No Return
I love the way you broke this down into categories!
The major thing I’m glad hasn’t/won’t come back is the curled bangs craze. It was just dreadful on me. Also – blue eyeshadow. Although some people can pull that off today.
I am also glad that jeans without back pockets didn’t stick around.
Shudder.
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I agree–some people can pull off blue eyeshadow, but I’m not one of them. I used to wear green eyeshadow all the time in high school!
Ginny Marie recently posted…Ten Fashions of No Return
First of all, I can’t believe your mom cut that horse out of chocolate! Wow! I know I wore some acid washed jeans and had some talk bangs in middle school.
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She was a perfectionist! I think she must have used an exacto knife. Mom made all my birthday cakes growing up.
Ginny Marie recently posted…Ten Fashions of No Return
I was clothes shopping recently due to having dropped some weight and felt as if I were back in the 80’s all over again. Those dreaded acid washed jeans are back…and they are back in so many styles, including stretchy leggings that supposedly look like jeans. Oy vey!
I had bangs that resembled a mosquito trap apparently to a youth leader of mine at the time. LOL! Had big glasses myself in middle school. Born in 1972, I’ve seen it all come and go…and come again. What will the next fad be??? Great and fun post!
Ugh, I didn’t know acid washed was back! I just don’t like that look anymore, although I had a favorite acid washed denim jacket back in the day.
Ginny Marie recently posted…Ten Fashions of No Return
Fabulous! I remember so many of these things! I loved my acid wash jean jacket…miss that old thing. I actually have a couple of the elastic tube tops…that elastic was always so uncomfortable! LOL! Have a great week!
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Funny! I think we all fell into the fashion faux pas river at some point during those decades.