One of the biggest disputes you will always find online is which decade takes the trophy as the one responsible for the worst fashion trends. Today, one of the most common opinions is that 2000s fashion was truly the master of bad outfits. But while the early aughts did have their fair share of questionable outfits and trends, a lot of people will argue that the ’80s and the ’90s weren’t any better. Others might say that whatever is in fashion today is the most hideous style since the 15th century hennin.
As with any other matters of taste, fashion styles are a subjective issue. Often, when something new becomes trendy in fashion today, we are very excited to try it out, but a decade later — or sometimes as soon as just a couple of years — we look back at the trend and seriously question everyone’s sanity for ever choosing to wear it.
In this article, we’ve collected some bad fashion trends as named by users online. How many do you agree with? Vote for the ones that you would never want to come back, share this article with your fashionista friends, and in the comments, tell us what the worst outfit ever in your wardrobe was.
#2
"Fake pockets. To hell with them I say."
OutrageousMix5145 comments: "The shorts I'm wearing right now have fake back pockets. I've tried putting my phone in my back pocket about 10 times today and am ready to just rip the damn shorts off my legs at this point. Yes, I checked to see if they were sewn shut. They're just fake."
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65points
#3
"Lip injections like half the size of your face don’t make you look more attractive."
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58points
#4
"Still has to be guys with their pants falling down and their underwear showing. How in the world did that ever become fashionable?"
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57points
#6
"Cut outs in every dress and crops everywhere! Like just let me buy something that covers up all my pudgy belly."
keillamarie replied: "I look like Winnie Pooh with all that cropped stuff."
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50points
#7
"Most women's clothing products are thin and aren't quality, if I'm paying for a $40 shirt I'd expect it not to be see-through or shred up in the wash."
user agreed: "Yes! I feel like I waste money replacing worn-out clothes, and it’s so hard to find anything of quality because even ‘high-end’ expensive stuff is thin and flimsy."
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49points
#8
"Treating the human body as a fashion trend. Plumped-up lips, fox eyes, labial trimming, b*tt implants... just let bodies be bodies. Change the clothing, the makeup, but surgery for fashion really grinds my gears."
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44points
#10
"Text on everything! No, I don't want to wear a shirt that says 'Sweet angel'. And clothing with city names I've never been to."
Lextube comments: "I'm from the UK and bought some cheap t-shirts from Primark a few years ago and one of them had the name of some American university on it. A few months later I'm out shopping and an American tourist comes up to me all excited telling me he went to that university and asked when I graduated I felt bad explaining to him it was some 3 quid t-shirt from Primark and I'd never heard of the place."
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38points
#11
"Burberry literally burns their merchandise, just for the sake of maintaining their 'luxury' and 'exclusive' corporate image. Literally destroying perfectly usable clothing or products and wasting our world’s finite resources. Screw Burberry!"
37points
#13
Women's jackets that stop just above the bottom rib. When I'm wearing a jacket, I'm wearing it because I'm COLD, not as a fashion statement!"
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35points
#14
"This is not clothes related but these Instagram house decors where everything is either beige or has an accent of sepia colors. Even the kid's clothes match the decor. That ain't real life."
TAOS086 comments: "Grey faux wooden floorboards have entered the chat."
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34points
#15
"Fast fashion. Not just because of short-lived seasonal trends that are in for 3 weeks. Rather because of the damage fast fashion production does to people and the planet. Everyone suffers from it, but especially the people forced to make clothes in cramped spaces and horrid working standards for minimal pay just so people can buy a shirt for 3 dollars from H&M."
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33points
#16
"More than anything else women’s shorts that are so short you can see the inside of the pockets hanging down. Obviously, it’s stupid but for some reason it really irritates me."
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33points
#17
"EXTREMELY ripped jeans. Every year it gets worse and worse."
BlackGuysYeah comments: "I grew up working construction. Lots of rips in my jeans. Every once in a while the trend would circle back and there I’d be, in fashion, accidentally."
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32points
#19
"As a woman, sheer shirts and dresses. I don't want to have to wear a cami under every damn shirt!"
yma_bean replied: "I think it’s a way to get you to spend more money."
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31points
#20
"I'm not a fan of those wide panel sandals with the fur/fake fur over it. They look like you're wearing slippers out in public."
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30points