Atrocious fashion choices by decade

[Machine Head]

I don't remember exactly, but I think the rat tail more coincided with my Jams and Shark Watch phase. Mainly because my parents wouldn't let me grow it until after the school year was over.

In any event, I'm sure it was glorious!

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Was it just us? I've really wondered since whether it was a very localized, very stupid fashion trend. I've never heard anybody else talk about their cycling shorts days.

It was not just you. It hit my ghetto part of Pennsylvania, but around 1989 and with a variation of colored bike shorts as well. I was too fat of a kid to pull off the look, but one of my friends had a pair with the jack Nicholson joker on them. Like yours , it lasted just under six months. Except my buddy with the joker...he rocked those for way too long.

 

[Huggy]

Was it just us? I've really wondered since whether it was a very localized, very stupid fashion trend. I've never heard anybody else talk about their cycling shorts days.

Remember painter's pats/caps and neon K-Way jackets here in Canuckistan in the 80s?

 

[Machine Head]

It was not just you. It hit my ghetto part of Pennsylvania, but around 1989 and with a variation of colored bike shorts as well. I was too fat of a kid to pull off the look, but one of my friends had a pair with the jack Nicholson joker on them. Like yours , it lasted just under six months. Except my buddy with the joker...he rocked those for way too long.

What, this 'fashion' plague found its way across the border to the States?

I assumed it was isolated to remote pockets in far-flung reaches of Canuckistan.

That's it, we need another wall.

I'm voting Trump.

 

[Machine Head]

These were a thing in the 70s. Don't ask me how I know:

 

[Spartan Squad]

This decade's man bun will not be fondly looked upon in decades to come.

And I get the decade confused (80s/90s), but the linebacker shoulder pads for women's suits were pretty awful.

 

[swingline]

I have no idea how wide this trend was, but for about six months in the mid-'80s, everyone at my high school wore cycling shorts. Like, black lycra shorts. I don't know how to say this without getting gross about it, but there were dances that must have set records for the most teenage moose knuckle per square foot.

Girls at my high school got into wearing guys boxer shorts as shorts. They had their own underwear underneath, but still.

 

[Batman]

Satin starter jackets, anyone?

 

[Batman]

And lest we forget and repeat our mistakes, 1970s coaches shorts:

 

[Machine Head]

Forehead horn implants and ear lobe expanders are two today I don't know will age well.

Maybe, I suppose, if that's going to be the road you're on the rest of the way.

 

[Machine Head]

Prom dresses in the 70s.

Still makes my wife mad.

I think she burned all our pictures. I had on a FABULOUS baby blue tux in one. Really picked up my eyes. Think Paul Newman!

Quite a contrast to go to parent pictures the last few years for our kids before their dances..

 

[SpeedTchr]

And lest we forget and repeat our mistakes, 1970s coaches shorts:

Egads. To my eternal shame, there are some pics floating around out there of me wearing exactly these Bike shorts in the early 80s.