Fashion trends that you HATE

14:58 / 31.07.08

Converse. Big, floppy sneakers.

For that Ramones 1977 look.

15:08 / 31.07.08

Skinny jeans with anything other than pointy elf-style shoes make one look like a walking golf club, another good reason to hate them (were one needed).

dark horse

15:25 / 31.07.08

i think converse sneakers and skinny jeans are a lot better than some of the "fashion trends" out there guys. what about :

- baseball caps; especially when worn "ironically"
- baggy pants that show people yr underwear - gross, dude, put it away
- tees with heavy metal or punk bands worn by people who've never listened to those bands!

(these are just some of personal top "hates")

13:41 / 01.08.08

A bit unsure why the shirt is made worse by whether or not the owner likes the band - or how anyone but them knows this - but re: hats:

You mean like this?

What about this this?

In both cases I think the problem - if there is one - is the fun. Compulsory fun, sort of thing. Still, they both manage to be quite attractive, possibly.

15:55 / 15.08.08

i would quickly like to add to my cry of angst about the Hitler mustaches upthread: we now seem to have gone far beyond them and i personally have recently witnessed both a 'handlebar' mustache and a 'circus strongman mustache' (there's probably a more technical term for it, it's the twirly one). i mean if it makes people happy then i suppose i shouldn't be such a misery but really, such things leave me stunned and upset. And feeling surreal, like i've come unstuck in time somehow.

17:43 / 15.08.08

Glorious.

unbecoming

18:24 / 15.08.08

A bit unsure why the shirt is made worse by whether or not the owner likes the band - or how anyone but them knows this

By aggressively asking them what their favourite song is?

The inauthentic T shirt problem is interesting to me-
Basically, if Topshop choose to churn out a shirt with the ramones graphic on it then no-one can wear that graphic authentically any more.
How dare people wear tshirts without fully comprehending their cultural significance?

in the words of Randy Tartt: "You're narrow minded and i don't like your hair/ You obviously don't think enough about the clothes you wear"

It used to bother me about Thundercats tshirts but i got over it eventually.

15:02 / 19.08.08

Basically, if Topshop choose to churn out a shirt with the ramones graphic on it then no-one can wear that graphic authentically any more.

You mean that once a graphic gets taken up and put on T-shirts in shops, as opposed to T-shirts bought from gigs, from then on you never know whether or not someone who wears the graphic is doing so 'authentically'?

It's an interesting effect, I think. Problematic, though, seeing as the Ramones have now split up, and you couldn't, were you an enjoyer of their music, pick up a new gig T-shirt anyway.

I don't tend to see eye to eye with people who want other people to be more authentic - whether that's me having a gripe with the idea of authenticity itself or just other things that go with it I'm not sure. It's like the argument about selling out in music - the terms are extremely slippery and more often than not seem to be all about finding a reason not to enjoy something or not to like someone.

Foretold Soldier

03:28 / 20.08.08

Must we quote the Tool song "Hooker with a penis" ?

unbecoming

11:25 / 20.08.08

more often than not seem to be all about finding a reason not to enjoy something or not to like someone.

That was what I was trying to get at- see also " I was into it before it was cool"

Which means that if too many individuals conspicuously consume a cultural product, the person who was into it before it became so popular is faced with a dangerous predicament: appear to be a bandwagon jumper and lose early adopter kudos or reject the cultural product and seek something more obscure.

Char Aina

15:24 / 20.08.08

Yeah, but there's also that thing where you wear a trucker cap because it was free and you need something to block the sun that won't fall off your face like your shades do when you're skating, and then later everyone's wearing them, and all of sudden you are imagined to be a wanker for wearing one.

I got chinned a few times, imagined to be adopting a pose of ironic working class chic, when all I wanted was to skate without the sun in my eyes for as little money as possible. I think Von Dutch selling similar caps for £60 was something to do with that assumption being made, and they were doing that because it became hip.

So yeah. I stopped wearing the hat, because that conversation got really fucking tired really fucking fast. I have since lost that hat. I now have too much hair to bother with hats most of the time.

13:39 / 21.08.08

I've been in a similar situation with regards to glasses, you know. I've always liked the big ones, you know, national health style, and this one time in the queue for a cash machine I distinctly heard someone hiss something about fucking show-offs who don't even need glasses. It made me realise a lot of things, in so much as once upon a time I would have been, if not hissing at people, then at least thinking along similar lines. I suppose everybody won.

23:45 / 23.08.08

The Soul Patch:

The soul patch was once a utilitarian configuration of facial hair for Jazz trumpeters.

Now worn mainly by middle-aged businessmen in an attempt to portray themselves as "hip," it has become the 21st Century's answer to the mullet. I look at these people and say to myself, "Why?"

Surely that thing takes more effort to shave around than to shave off. Why go to such trouble to look ridiculous?

Why not just grow a real beard?

16:31 / 25.08.08

Less 'soul', more, well, porn? It looks like porn facial hair.

00:40 / 26.08.08

More like porn pubic hair.

On your FACE.

Eek! A Freek!

11:43 / 26.08.08

Why not just grow a real beard?

Yeah... Like it says in the Torah/Bible/Koran! How dare someone try something different, or trendy!*

*I don't wear a soul patch, I just defend the right to wear one. Hell, I get annoyed by them sometimes as well, but I just had to pick on your "real beard" comment...
BRING BACK THE MULLET!

Mysterious Transfer Student

16:39 / 26.08.08

BRING BACK THE MULLET!

Please don't.

Don't get me wrong, everybody has the right to do what ever they want with their clothes or hair. I'm just asserting my creator-endowed right to tell them they look stupid.

Tsuga

18:10 / 26.08.08

Liger, you've got a problem with the Kentucky waterfall? I mean, it's a hairdo named after your state, how can you not like it?

Closed for Business Time

20:40 / 26.08.08

People, people, mullets have already come back and gotten old again. Haven't you met any Scandos the last ..oooo.. 10 years? Or even young white people congregating in the East End a while back?

21:21 / 26.08.08

Men's shirts. In particular a certain type of hideous striped casual shirt that seems to be everywhere at the moment - I swear I've seen at least five different people at work this week wearing one. Is it something in the Welsh water? Are these nasty things popping up elsewhere in the UK? Help me out please. I really, truly don't see the appeal.

This is a duff post because even though these shirts make me slightly sick to look at, they don't really excite enough dislike to generate any real venom.

18:57 / 27.08.08

I had a small "jazz curl" once upon a time, and I can report that while it may take some effort not to shave bits of it off, it's actually really comfortable. That's some sensitive skin down there.

02:21 / 28.08.08

Haven't you met any Scandos the last ..oooo.. 10 years? Or even young white people congregating in the East End a while back?

Scandos? You're talking Greek to me, Epic.

02:23 / 28.08.08

it's actually really comfortable.

As comfortable as Crocs or as comfortable as Chuck Taylors?

Closed for Business Time

10:16 / 28.08.08

Sorry, Liger, I meant Scandinavians. I seem to remember a lot of 20 something Scandos sporting an ever-so-fashionable designer mullet a few years back. Sometimes mashed together with a sort of floppy, limp mohawk like thingabob. Seemed to be quite the rage in La Liga footballers at one point as well, IIRC. Decidedly not to my tastes.

12:03 / 28.08.08

Yeah, those shirts aren't nice. Nice shirts are nice though.

13:59 / 28.08.08

Chucks, I think. I've never worn Crocs. Although, I suppose, it depends on how funny lookin' you find them.

16:30 / 01.09.08

Okay, that's it. A Salvador Dali. I kid you not. A damn great curleywirley Salvador frickin Dali mustachio. Worn underneath a massive Afro, what's more. I mean, seventies retro is frightening enough on its own but having to deal with a combination of those two at once makes me want to move to the countryside... urban existence and all its creative anachronism just makes my aesthetics hurt.