Stylish people, what is your biggest crime to fashion??

sharronloves2spend

I'm currently reading Mrs Tinnes wardrobe- A liverpool lady's clothes (well looking at the pictures really) and hope to go and see it in sudley house in september. It got me thinking about how clothes come through the years then go out of fashion, then come back, some things should definetly stay in the past.

My biggest crime to fashion was the 'Acid suit' this would have been late 80's when i was a teenager. I wore it to death it was a psycadelic type tracksuit, absoloutly hideous. I should also fess up to the 'shellsuit' i know i know cue the 'calm down, calm down'. Well everyone did wear them!!

Okay what's your biggest crime to fashion?????

Spain_Shopper

Dungarees, hooded tops and trainers with the tongue hanging out!

Bronnie

sharronloves2spend wrote: »

I'm currently reading Mrs Tinnes wardrobe- A liverpool lady's clothes (well looking at the pictures really) and hope to go and see it in sudley house in september. It got me thinking about how clothes come through the years then go out of fashion, then come back, some things should definetly stay in the past.

My biggest crime to fashion was the 'Acid suit' this would have been late 80's when i was a teenager. I wore it to death it was a psycadelic type tracksuit, absoloutly hideous. I should also fess up to the 'shellsuit' i know i know cue the 'calm down, calm down'. Well everyone did wear them!!

Okay what's your biggest crime to fashion?????

Ah! I've heard this story and have just googled it to remind myself.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/stellamagazine/3353661/The-woman-who-shopped-for-England.html

Mrs Tinne was the original shopaholic, many of the clothes were never worn and everything was stored away, luckily for us as they now represent a slice of social history from 1910 onwards. Her husband, who was a GP used his private practice to subsidise treatment for the poor (pre NHS) and one theory Mrs Tinne's daughter had was that her mother bought for philanthropic reasons, as the shop assistants wages would have been boosted by comission!!

Interesting for me, as I believe Mrs Tinne's daughter Dr Alexine Tinnne was the same Dr Tinne who taught me Biology at school in Liverpool in the 1970's!

Back to Fashion Crimes.......back to my teens in the 70's.........tank tops.....hand-knitted by my mother in fair-isle patterns (she loved knitting fair isle , because it meant she could use up all her little scraps of wool as was her MS style) in a rather chunky double-knit wool.
A bit like these.......

http://www.advertisingarchives.captureweb.co.uk/images/trueimages/30/54/85/62/30548562-1.jpg

and EXACTLY like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LADIES-SWEATER-SHOP-100-WOOL-TANK-TOP-SIZE-8-BNWT_W0QQitemZ300331367978QQcmdZViewItemQQptZWomen_s_Clothing?hash=item45ed24fe2a&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1685%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Made my upper body look like a tree-trunk!!

goanmad

Most of my younger years were spent in the most outrageous gear (and I haven't improved much now) but a particularly horrid ensemble I loved to go out in back in the 80's was a 1950's conical bra dyed shocking pink with massively baggy Levi's 501's cut-off into hotpants and hoisted in with a black bullet belt, black fishnets worn over red tights and 12 hole Doc Martens accessorised with vintage diamonte jewellery. My hair was a huge spiral perm with a massive quiff at the front. :eek:

Bronnie

goanmad wrote: »

Most of my younger years were spent in the most outrageous gear (and I haven't improved much now) but a particularly horrid ensemble I loved to go out in back in the 80's was a 1950's conical bra dyed shocking pink with massively baggy Levi's 501's cut-off into hotpants and hoisted in with a black bullet belt, black fishnets worn over red tights and 12 hole Doc Martens accessorised with vintage diamonte jewellery. My hair was a huge spiral perm with a massive quiff at the front. :eek:

Sounds fine to me:rotfl:

FelinePrincess

Mine is crop tops, I used to love then! I know they are back in fashion now but I would never wear one unless it's layered over another top, wouldn't dream of parading about with my stomach out these days!

sharronloves2spend

ooo Bronnie what a small world!!! My husband grew up in the same road that her brother William brogden patterson lived, Aigburth hall road. She was an absoloute shopaholic, good for us as we get agreat insight into the fashions. What really surprised me was that in her later years she was classed as 'outsize' and she could have been no more than a modern size 14!!

Spain shopper, i did that too with tounges hanging out, anyone else put grolch bottle tops on their shoes???? That was my Bros era!! Goanmad i too also had a 'spiral perm' lol. I also did the crop top thing too, i wish i had the stomach i had then though!!

Keep em coming!!

piratefairy

Bright yellow 80s dungarees..this was only about 3yrs ago tho..loved those, wore them till they wore out, although everyone at college called me bob the builder! lol

Spain_Shopper

I also went throughh an incredibly boring phase of dressing during the late nineties of just combats or anything neutral from Gap. Mmm what else? Too many too think of, oh yes wallaby shoes, Julie Roberts (Pretty Woman) hairstyle, catsuits, tunics with zips in horrible cheap fabrics, anything from Pilot or Bay Trading,tartan, bermuda shorts with neon colours, scratch and sniff tshirts, plain lace up shoes with chunky heels, baggy tops with leggings, Kicker shoes, ski pants, anything from Chelsea Girl or Clockhouse in C&A, shoes from Dolcis or Ravel.

Alexnikov

sharronloves2spend wrote: »

I'm currently reading Mrs Tinnes wardrobe- A liverpool lady's clothes (well looking at the pictures really) and hope to go and see it in sudley house in september. It got me thinking about how clothes come through the years then go out of fashion, then come back, some things should definetly stay in the past.

I only live round the corner from Sudley House and I've still haven't been there Must go soon!

I don't think I've had too many complete disasters, mainly because I'm quite a boring dresser. Although some of my childhood outfits were flipping horrible - I had LOADS of culottes :rolleyes:

Bronnie

I remember my friend going to Disney Florida with OH and 3 kids years ago, the entire family were all kitted out in bright shell suits and spanking new white trainers....it was SO out of their usual style....I think at the time she just thought it was a comfy, practical way to travel with kids, which TBH it is actually!!