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its funny how something rediculous becomes a trend. here, in gloomy,pretentious Portland, dressing like a trucker or a buttrocker (think Poison/Motley Crue) is now the norm. i just laugh it off, ya know, just people playing dress up but honestly, these people look really lame.
anyone notice any peculiar local fashion trends?
why do you think people dress this way? i don't think you can say "to be an individual" because everyone looks so cookie cutter and stereotypical.
hey people like to be part of their tribes.
who am i to talk, i still love legwarmers and tukkas
Sheridan
2nd May 2003, 04:04
the best trend is the backwards upside down visor. supa hot!!
i think almost 90% of the german people haven't a good fashion taste... 2 days ago i saw a really fat woman walking... but the hardest thing on her wasn't that the cloths were 2 sizes too small... no, i saw green plastic shoes... hehe... looked like a fat frog, really...
and i get afraid when i'm shopping with my girlfriend and see all the old women in the shops... do they buy for their grave? sometimes i think so...
but at least... my girlfriend has a really ugly green shirt... since i know her, i don't allow her to wear it... maybe somebody now thinks i hate green cloths... :-)))))
walkerbelm
2nd May 2003, 08:27
when I went to Berlin last year for a weekend break, we went out to this club and as well as the usual styles there was this big group of guys with these really weird jumpers on. They looked like they were from 1990, and had really mad orange, green and red stripes , waves and shapes. The jumpers looked old and cheap but everything elese they were wearing looked really expensive, like gold watches, armarni jeans. I asked some guy: 'what do those jumpers mean?' but he said it was too complex to explain.
Does anyone know which subculture these people were part of?
i think people who have the worst kind of fashion sense, if they have one, are them plastic ravers...neon shirts,trumpettrousers,platfor m shoes all that you know. it´s ridiculous ugly...
Originally posted by Sheridan
the best trend is the backwards upside down visor. supa hot!!
im a visor man too....
Undress
2nd May 2003, 09:31
Here in BCN it is trendy nowadays to wear hippy-country clothes. It's a full american influenced trend and consists of old kind of jeans washed with amoniac and decolorated, and with flower cushions all around and "flecos"... well it's a shit.
Basic 2: The Revenge
2nd May 2003, 09:44
The worst group of dressers I've came across of late were all the punters down Hoxton way when I visited the other week. Absolutely appalling, I think they were on a day off from that hideous R:ISE breakfast programme. They all had t-shirts on with a scarf round there neck, and also loads of purposely garish v-necks and just general wanky "ironic" couture. Obviously I had a field day with such quality raw material to work with muhahaha.
mr franks
2nd May 2003, 10:04
Originally posted by Basic 2: The Revenge
The worst group of dressers I've came across of late were all the punters down Hoxton way when I visited the other week. Absolutely appalling, I think they were on a day off from that hideous R:ISE breakfast programme. They all had t-shirts on with a scarf round there neck, and also loads of purposely garish v-necks and just general wanky "ironic" couture. Obviously I had a field day with such quality raw material to work with muhahaha.
...for my work i sumtimes have to visit london wanky places and this eighties ironic thing i enjoy looking at, eighties girls but blokes who have bed hair, but the kind you have to gel. my bed hair is authentic. fashion is wank.
invisibleplanet
2nd May 2003, 10:11
lowriders/hipsters: look great, but impossible to wear underwear with for fear of it showing - apparently a source of annoyance for men whose girls go out without them, (knickers and b/f), for fear of what the predators think.
g-strings...sure no vpl, but how many women have u spotted out and about in pubs and clubs showing their fetching g-string wedgie? *hähä*
high heeled shoes: crippling yourself so that your old age is full of bunions, and backache...a true fashion nightmare! last time i wore a pair, I stood a wonderful 5 ft 11 inch, and towered over most yorkshire men, who stand proud at an average 5ft 6in. Great for getting seen at the bar, crippling to dance in. alienating to the vertically challenged.
clubbers fashion a la uk average: skimpy clothes, sun-bed tan, artfully applied make-up, and no coat! where do these girls get their constitution from? perhaps they can't afford coats because of their high 'designer label' expenditure?
backless/halter neck tops: i have a love-hate relationship with these and trying to find a halterneck bra in my size to wear underneath has so far proved impossible.
make-up: why bother? the heat/sweat makes it slide off, monkey's were hideously tortured to produce the majority of it, even if they don't need to test anymore, they still did it in the past.
clubs with clothes/dress rules: these places are guilty committing a heinous crime of encouraging the 'show' of never wearing the same thing twice....there are more important things to put one's mind/will to when out cavorting...
anything which says DRY CLEAN ONLY on the label.
mr franks
2nd May 2003, 10:19
IP - does this mean your not the kind of girl who nips up to gateshead for a night out in newcastle city center (at a club called 'Rio' or somethiong) with a backless skimpy dress (probably made from crap nylon shiny stuff) and no coat in december?
bitch one
2nd May 2003, 10:23
hahaha - 3/4 length combat trousers with unfeasibly pointy glam shoes, cracks me up every time, looks utterly spazz - you know the look, one of the bbc dancing trails has a troupe of girls with red socks on sporting it.
the worst fashion trend I see is all that shiny wu-tang shit, it's fucking everywhere (should that be every-wear) here....big pants (like 10 sizes too big) hanging round peoples knees so you can see their boxer shorts, and they have to walk around with one hand holding the fuckers up......I dream of running these people over when they are crossing at the lights
mr franks
2nd May 2003, 10:28
Originally posted by bitch one
hahaha - 3/4 length combat trousers with unfeasibly pointy glam shoes
classic london wank fashion. Michelle Gale was wearing this combo on R:I:S:E the other day. looks shit and a bit uncomfortable....
mui, did u get that fubu jacket the other day?
bitch one
2nd May 2003, 10:32
it's one of those fashions you just know that cunt stewart maconie is going to be making smug comments about on 'i love 2003'
yes phil, then I went and hung around the food court with my homies
Basic 2: The Revenge
2nd May 2003, 10:34
Bitch One,
I know the type. It is far too funny, almost as funny as white socks and high heels.
invisibleplanet
2nd May 2003, 10:36
Originally posted by mr franks
IP - does this mean your not the kind of girl who nips up to gateshead for a night out in newcastle city center (at a club called 'Rio' or somethiong) with a backless skimpy dress (probably made from crap nylon shiny stuff) and no coat in december?
is it obvious? *fg
mr franks
2nd May 2003, 10:38
...i didnt think u were.......
mr franks
2nd May 2003, 10:42
Originally posted by bitch one
it's one of those fashions you just know that cunt stewart maconie is going to be making smug comments about on 'i love 2003'
hahahatrue maconie is a twat.
bitch one
2nd May 2003, 10:48
i would go further and say that he is evil
animal night train
2nd May 2003, 11:00
i live not very far from shoreditch/hoxton so i see endless swathes of mulletted, sideburned, retro trainered, scarf wearing yellow tinted glasses wearing twats whenever i venture down there.
mr franks
2nd May 2003, 11:00
he is in league with jonathan king
Originally posted by Basic 2: The Revenge
The worst group of dressers I've came across of late were all the punters down Hoxton way when I visited the other week. Absolutely appalling, I think they were on a day off from that hideous R:ISE breakfast programme. They all had t-shirts on with a scarf round there neck, and also loads of purposely garish v-necks and just general wanky "ironic" couture. Obviously I had a field day with such quality raw material to work with muhahaha.
yes!!! as an east london resident i can confirm that i am continually impressed on an almost daily basis at the "fashion" disasters to be spotted in shoreditch and hoxton
i can now inform those of you that need to know that "the scene" has now drifted towards the mid-west american farmer/redneck look
this basically consists of not washing your hair ( despite the fact that most of these people are on £50K designa salaries and could afford a spot of wash'n'go) and moulding that electro pop mop into a sort of rat tail mullet then topped of with a baseball cap worn high on the head perhaps with a picture of a tractor or a cow on it
now folk can dress how they like ( especially farmers ) but when they are down haywire full of ching and sneering at YOUR lack of chique they can fuck right back off to there spiritual home of wyoming...
Basic 2: The Revenge
2nd May 2003, 11:12
Go home Hoxton fins!!
Goonie
2nd May 2003, 11:14
WORD - Virus!
wheezer
2nd May 2003, 11:43
I like those farmers baseball caps though
Basic 2: The Revenge
2nd May 2003, 12:02
Originally posted by wheezer
I like those farmers baseball caps though
That is the thing though, you have probably always liked them for what they are. The twats referred to above probably don't like them, but feel the need to wear them as part of their "individualist" uniform.
Originally posted by Basic 2: The Revenge
That is the thing though, you have probably always liked them for what they are. The twats referred to above probably don't like them, but feel the need to wear them as part of their "individualist" uniform.
yes it is the mindset rather than the hat that does my head in
my favourite mental image of these peoples lives is them flinging out a whole wardrobe of clothes that were "sooo last month" and then denying to their mates that they were ever into last months trend..
" no, that electro pop thing was all shite.. i told you all it was crap but you insisted in taking me to all these electric stew parties, honestly farmers is where its at..."
then next month:
"no i have always been into dressing like a space monkey, i never dug that whole farmer scene...."
you can dig whatever hats and dj's you want.. if you are into it you are into it, but i think these guys are not
animal night train
2nd May 2003, 12:36
Originally posted by Virus
yes it is the mindset rather than the hat that does my head in
while i do agree with this, i've noticed that everyone who wears any type of baseball cap seems to be extremely in need of a bullet through the brain.
invisibleplanet
2nd May 2003, 13:54
that's a bit of a sweeping statement, ant!
i've been known to wear baseball caps on really sunny days, and...
mux looks real cute in his visor :)
Annefrankingmachine
2nd May 2003, 13:55
it's all changed a hell of a lot since my day. In my day if you wore a grey skirt above the middle of your calfs you were sitting at the height of fashion. nowdays you get those children on roller boards with their hats and ripped up slacks, and young girls naked from the waste up in minus temperatures. i just don't understand it myself. it's madness. i blame the parents. they need a good clipround their ears. Anne says give the kids a break!
Originally posted by invisibleplanet
mux looks real cute in his visor :) i always get that... but thanks thanks thanks!
audiofelch
2nd May 2003, 14:02
my pet hate is the shoreditch/soho combats tucked into eighties stiletto boots thing. some sort of hooker/clown combo.
Basic 2: The Revenge
2nd May 2003, 14:03
I hate those saggy suede tucker boot things as well. It is like something from a pantomime.
old skool
2nd May 2003, 16:03
Look I beat you all. I live in Liverpool !!!
Trackies, whiter than white trainers and a Berghaus .... laffin kidda !
reebok classics 4 sure....
mr franks
2nd May 2003, 16:09
i often wear a tracksuit i like the sports casual look.
decadnids
2nd May 2003, 16:10
Its true - Mr Franks does sometimes go for the "Whitehawk" look.
tsr_tomas
2nd May 2003, 16:49
it´s not an nightmare. it´s reality.
http://www.buck-rogers.com/film_and_series/gallery/images/buck/buck08.jpg
hahhaa damn the 80's were horrible!
grobelaar
2nd May 2003, 17:37
Originally posted by aleks
i think people who have the worst kind of fashion sense, if they have one, are them plastic ravers...neon shirts,trumpettrousers,platfor m shoes all that you know. it´s ridiculous ugly...
Can't speak for Germany, but in the UK the plastic raver look crosses across a few subcultures... goth/industrial scene/fetish and of course what are or were affectionately known as Crasher Kids (after the Sheffield trance club - Gatecrasher). I think what gets me about these people, its not that they are wearing ridiculous clothes, clothes whose only design brief is to 'be different' its that they then walk around look like a fucking miserable wet weekend, that's the ugly part...
If you speak to a lot of these people, they get all defensive and start going - 'its our right to wear what we want and not to be constrained by rules of society - blah, blah, blah' fine, if that's the case then why are you walking around with that face of total paranoia everyone is looking at me cos I look like a dick in this overpriced, badly made lumo skirt with fifty pockets, bondage straps and of course the hilarious little pocket to put my pills in... teehee isn't that funny - of course I'm free to make my own decisions when I go out and stuff happy mind control pills down my throat every fucking weekend...
That whole culture is ugly to its heart if you ask me - full of people hiding behind a lot of different masks, some physical, some narcotic driven. Sure, I'm not saying they are all like that but I think a lot are, maybe its just cos I work in Camden, the home of Cyberdog Clothes (don't even get me started on this turdorama) and goth mecca...
you work in camden? damn! they sell HORIBBLE clothes down there! went to buy some puff and went for a stroll across that little stream / canal...
invisibleplanet
2nd May 2003, 17:56
you aint kidding Mux...
those market shops with their sparkley-christ t-shirts, giving me a good giggle last time i walked thru Camden Lock.
My father has an adjective for bad fashion :GOPPING.
Originally it was applied to poor taste in ties, but has by common usage become applied to ANY form of bad fashion sense.
LEFTHANDLOU
2nd May 2003, 19:40
"the best trend is the backwards upside down visor. supa hot!!"
Oh God please tell me you are joking Ian
grobelaar
2nd May 2003, 19:49
Originally posted by MUX
you work in camden? damn! they sell HORIBBLE clothes down there! went to buy some puff and went for a stroll across that little stream / canal...
Don't ever buy puff in Camden - apart from the fact the stuff that is about is shit... they've cracked down recently the place is swarming with Rentacops and Hobby-Bobbies...
And more alarmingly quite a few plain clothes policeman - only this week they had sniffer dogs at Camden tube...
grobelaar
2nd May 2003, 19:49
Originally posted by invisibleplanet
you aint kidding Mux...
those market shops with their sparkley-christ t-shirts, giving me a good giggle last time i walked thru Camden Lock.
My father has an adjective for bad fashion :GOPPING.
Originally it was applied to poor taste in ties, but has by common usage become applied to ANY form of bad fashion sense.
Gopping - quality British Armed forces word - IP do you know wat the Oggin' is?
animal night train
2nd May 2003, 20:01
cyberdog in Camden is great, i go there whenever i am in the area and point and laugh at the idiots in there. it's like going to a zoo, except the freaky animals actually want to be there.
Tomoki
2nd May 2003, 20:34
@grobbs
where is your new avatar from?
he looks like ernie from the sesame street
no no it's cereal charector i think... Sugar puffs?
Daddys Girl
3rd May 2003, 01:15
It's Zippy from Rainbow!!!!!
In regards to this thread - my current hate are those awful Timberland-Style Stilletto boot's I've been seeing - Tim's are actually very nice boots, but these things are just ugly - enough to the point where I could have slapped the girl in Uni who I saw sporting them today....
I have to be VERY careful how I tread on this thread - I think some stuff that I like has been mentioned!!!!!! In regards to that BBC Promo - yeah, I have to agree that those trousers and boots are nasty, but I reckon you can pull off that look if your wearing a pair of Triple 5 Soul parachutte combat's, and some FLAT pointed shoes, or good old skool trainers..... (P.S - the lead dancer in that promo is a good looking lass!!!!)
Please dont beat me too hard
D_G ;o)
carbonizedeyesockets
3rd May 2003, 01:18
i love to rock a burberry sock tucked into a black air max or occasionally i go for a green and red pringle tucked into a black rockport boot (with the silver trim)
I did the adidas hiking sock with matching pant and brown reebok hiking classic but the stripes were so wildly offset i looked like a right tit.
Funny that.
everybody who ever met me knows what a real fashion nightmare is.
long hair that didn`t get a haircut for more then 6 month and so on... but i like it cause nobody looks like me ;)
Sheridan
3rd May 2003, 04:12
Originally posted by LEFTHANDLOU
"the best trend is the backwards upside down visor. supa hot!!"
Oh God please tell me you are joking Ian
of course! I was totally joking. I don't mind visors, just as long as they are worn properly. the only thing I hate about writting on messageboards is it is real hard to convey sarcasm.
hope all is well with you.
wheezer
3rd May 2003, 10:16
really I think the most disgusting trend in some time is that "punk" diy look a lot costly clothing labels are going for now - how can it be punk if you can by it in s-xl at the local department store???
I suspect some designers are laughing all the way to the bank somewhere in this world...
Daddys Girl
3rd May 2003, 23:16
Macy Gray.
hahaha yeah macy gray all the way...!
"My new album drops Sept. 18, 2001.".
Originally posted by animal night train
while i do agree with this, i've noticed that everyone who wears any type of baseball cap seems to be extremely in need of a bullet through the brain.
god! i am so with you on that one.
must distill the image down a little further though.
dont forget the tracksuits that have the elastic legsies, shit white trainers, lots of gold sovereign rings(bigger the better)
and have a skanky looking girlfriend with her hair in a greasy looking pineapple, on the top of her head.
ideally , they would be in a herd of 8 to 10 others all dressed the same and for added reality, i think there should be a couple of babies in prams included in this heartwarming little english scene.
please dont acuse me of making sweeping generalizations, i grew up on a council estate...all the above is every night down the bottom shops.
hey mike...
dont forget the Max-Power Car that has so many extra's that it looks like a catholic church altar
re:hats
it must help during the early ' breaking the ice' stages of the popular bruce willis W hairstyle
namshub
4th May 2003, 06:02
@mui and IP -----> WORD UP!
i fuckin hate that fubu shit and preppie slut wear.
the 80's faux punk thing is big here.... ppl wear shit that i wouldda gotten beaten up for wearin in the 80's.... and they're all SOOO straight......
I'm not really into goth styles tho i have a REAL thing for goth girls - i don't know why......
haha, thats funny, i like goth women too
i`m a real sucka for white panstick,tons of black eye shadow and doc martens.
pity you dont see that look too much nowadays.
wow... aleks , you changed so much since i last saw youlol
yeah, i know i put on some weight...
Tomoki
4th May 2003, 10:03
Originally posted by namshub
@mui and IP -----> WORD UP!
i fuckin hate that fubu shit and preppie slut wear.
Do you guys know Lugz-wear? When I was in the states 1998 most of the young people used to wear this brand. Is it something like Fubu?
i wear what my mum buys for me... ;)
ok not realy... but i don`t realy care about a lot of things... i have my own fashion and it`s called nightmare. normal jeans normal schoes some nice shirts (not enough cause i don`t like to wear something that everybody wears) and my cool uncut hair ;)
the hair makes the nightmare complete but it`s cheap to leaf them alone... getting longer and longer and longer ;)
Daddys Girl
5th May 2003, 00:58
On that whole FUBU look thang - Boys who wear REALLY low jeans - and I mean REALLY LOW -
I refer to them as 'Cack-Ppants', because they look like they are carrying a load of poo-poo in the arse of their jeans as they sit so frigging low!!!!
It just looks bad - don't get me wrong - I really like boys in loose-fit jeans, but just not the one where the arse is almost sitting on the knees....
D_G ;o)
gunjack
5th May 2003, 01:01
you mean you don't want to see my boxers?!
namshub
5th May 2003, 01:05
Originally posted by Tomoki
Do you guys know Lugz-wear? When I was in the states 1998 most of the young people used to wear this brand. Is it something like Fubu?
???? lugz - never heard of it????
must be a state-side-centric fashion.
its odd - cause a lot of homeless kids wear fubu and stuff here... kinda like "bling, bling - aint got no thing" - its weird. i guess it proves they're lil gangsta theives...
Daddys Girl
5th May 2003, 01:13
@ Gunjack - go on then - LOL :)
You see - this is the point where I sound like I'm about to contradict myself.....
1) = good loose jeans = the arse is where it's meant to be, they are baggy/comfort fitting, and if I can see the top of the (clean) boxers(!) - V.good....
2)= BAD Jeans - saggy looking, and the seat of that pants is literally on the backs of the knees, with the arse pretty-much outta the jeans... what totally takes the biscuit - when the belt is buckled-up UNDER the bum-cheeks to hold the jeans in place!!!!!
D_G ;o)
gunjack
5th May 2003, 01:21
agreed.
Sheridan
5th May 2003, 04:31
Originally posted by Tomoki
Do you guys know Lugz-wear? When I was in the states 1998 most of the young people used to wear this brand. Is it something like Fubu?
lugz are targeted mainly to black urban men. they mainly make shoes. big ol stompin boots to rival timberlands. but a few months ago there was an ad for these new lugz shoes. they were reffered to as 'driving shoes', and they had dj funk master flex as their spokesman. he's driving this big cadilac escalade and they show his shoes on the gas pedal. so my imediate assumption was that these shoes are only for driving your vehicle. and you change them when you reach your destination.
i absolutely HATE Buffalos! more than everything mentioned above. everyone wearing buffalos is screaming for a leg-amputation in my books.
and you know the worst thing that can happen? when you find clothes looking absolutely unique in a secondhand shop or something and half a year later it becomes a new trend and you feel ashamed to wear it anymore.
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