Mother Talkers

MT Diversion- Bad Clothing Edition

by lilianna28

Sat May 03, 2008 at 07:02:29 AM PDT

Can I let you in on a secret? I am SO EXCITED that stretch pants are back in (if not in fashion, at least in stores). Sure, they're kept under dresses now instead of just with shirts, and I am by no means of the appropriate size to wear them as anything except tights-replacements but lordy do I love them. I loved the in the 80s, early 90s and let me tell you, if I lost enough weight I would be back in those suckers full-time so fast. Yeah. I loved too wearing em with a super long men's button downs shirt with a vest over it! I had so many vests! Sigh.

Which leads me to the diversion:

Whether they're in the back of your closet or you've managed to allow yourself to be shamed into giving them up, everybody had clothes they adored despite their fashion shelf-life (or no life). So fess up- what is your favorite fashion "don't"? Did you get rid of the clothes? Do they hang at the back of the closet just waiting? Do you still wear them proudly anywhere you please? Share your secrets! Pictures speak volumes too, friends.

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Tags: diversion, fun, clothes (all tags)

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  • Big Flannel Shirts (0 / 0)

    Ah, the Grunge Era. So comfy. So amorphous. I loved being in college in the 90s. I still have several in my closet and I wear them when I really want to annoy DH. For some reason, the Man of 10,000 Old Navy T-Shirts thinks he can dictate what I can wear . . .

    I can totally live without stretch pants in general. I have a flat stomach and wide hips and thighs, so the stretch pants/oversize shirt look tends to minimize my good parts (tummy) and emphasize my worst ones (hips). Boycut, boycut, boycut, say I.

    I had a couple really pretty vests back in the day as well. Went spiffy with my Outback Red turtleneck and my Limited pink suede mini. I was HOT :)

    by minnmom on Sat May 03, 2008 at 07:16:02 AM PDT

  • Old t-shirts. (0 / 0)

    I love only a certain, perfectly fitting segment of all the t-shirts I buy, so when I find one I like, I wear it until it disintegrates.

    I have a couple right now that are so thin they have holes in them, but I still love them. I can't get rid of them! They have to fall apart on their own.

    by tarantula on Sat May 03, 2008 at 08:19:06 AM PDT

  • Overalls (0 / 0)

    I have three pairs- one shorts, one khaki and one huge denim pair.  I lurve them all.  All those wonderful pockets....

    by Laura on Sat May 03, 2008 at 09:25:42 AM PDT

    • I look like an Oompa Loompa (0 / 0)

      in overalls. Less orange, but still an Oompa Loompa.

      A person's ability to love "bad fashion" is directly proportional to their ability to look good in "bad fashion". If you can rock it, rock it!

      For instance, drunk or not, Amy Winehouse totally owns that freaking beehive. I'd like to see anyone else do it.

      Me, I just dream about clothes. I am in maternity hell...summertime in the Florida Keys. Only 2 more months to go.

      by Suzanne77 on Sat May 03, 2008 at 03:21:46 PM PDT

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    • This was mine, too. (0 / 0)

      I haven't worn them since college, but back them I wore them almost every single day! Kindergarten Chic!

      by jenna on Sat May 03, 2008 at 06:53:20 PM PDT

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    • Yes! (0 / 0)

      I haven't worn any since I started having young babies around (the clasps make horrible spots on their little baby faces) but boy did I used to love wearing them.

      by Anu on Sat May 03, 2008 at 09:42:14 PM PDT

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  • Oh! Also??? (0 / 0)

    I have dressed a friend of mine for two seperate costume parties from items in my OWN CLOSET, in the last 7 months!!!

    First, gypsy, using the cotton Mexican dress my Mom brought me to wear to my sister's themed wedding. I gave her a fringed shawl to wear around her waist and some dangly hammered brass earrings and some great beaded necklaces.

    Tonight, 80's theme. She was wearing pegged jeans (her own). I added an oversized white shirt, vintage red scarf for the hair, bangle bracelet, red loafers, my husband's tuxedo vest, a black, white and red "flirt" novelty tie... and my daughter (she's 5) had just given me sparkly, Lucite, gold-glitter, heart shaped dangly earrings, (as God is my witness) for my birthday! I even found some blue eye shadow in an unused eye make-up sampler.

    I mean I never wear all of these pieces together, but it has to be a bad sign that they all live in my closet, right?

    by Suzanne77 on Sat May 03, 2008 at 03:28:47 PM PDT

  • Polyester thrift store shirts (0 / 0)

    and definitely that fake velvet stuff, what is it called?  It's stretchy and collects lint like crazy, and you find it in thrift stores.  Darn.

    by anarchist mom on Sat May 03, 2008 at 06:03:10 PM PDT

  • Bell-bottoms (0 / 0)

    made my own in high school and found some recently at the lane bryant.  They come in and out of style and I wear them regardless (big boobs, small waist, big hips and butt).

    It is hard to find anything that fits me (I'm abotu a size 14, so too big for regular an too small for plus size), so when I do, I hold on forever.

    What I dream of is a nice dress that I can wear to my in-laws weddings, dress-up parties, etc.  I don't look good in dresses unless I'm pregnant (or in a corset underneath).

    What do you mean, uh-oh? baby pictures

    by round peg inna square hole on Sat May 03, 2008 at 07:02:52 PM PDT

    • That drives me nuts (0 / 0)

      I'm around a 12, and regular clothes don't fit well, but nothing in Lane Bryant works, either.

      by Erin on Sat May 03, 2008 at 09:21:32 PM PDT

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    • I think a flared pant (0 / 0)

      could look good on someone with your figure. I am also curvy and as long as the bell isn't too exaggerated it seems to help balance me out...'specially with the right shoe. When not pregnant I am also a 12/14 and its a hellacious size. Stuck in the middle... how tall are you? I am 5'4" and so I have shortness to deal with on top of it all!

      by Suzanne77 on Sun May 04, 2008 at 05:58:40 AM PDT

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      • I agree (0 / 0)

        my favorite pants in my wardrobe are some Express pants I bought the last time I was in the US - the Editor range (I know, I know!). Flared leg, nice fit around the hips and waist. And being a classic hourglass figure (with round hips and thighs), the fact that they a.) fit well and b.) seem to elongate my leg while also emphasising a small waist makes them a dream come true!

        by Rachel on Sun May 04, 2008 at 06:15:01 AM PDT

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      • Me, too (0 / 0)

        I'm 5'3"!

        I do like the flared pants, and DH thinks they look good as well, but I love how quickly they go out of style.

        What do you mean, uh-oh? baby pictures

        by round peg inna square hole on Sun May 04, 2008 at 08:36:24 AM PDT

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        • depends on how flared (0 / 0)

          bootcut, for example, has lingered for almost a decade now, because they're just so darned flattering to a woman's shape. If you've got, like, 60s-bellbottom flares, I can see those dating pretty quickly. But flared pants done well? Honey, if they make you look like a million bucks, that never goes out of style!

          by Rachel on Sun May 04, 2008 at 04:32:24 PM PDT

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  • i am in love... (0 / 0)

    with clothes that have holes in them.  especially pants. i love the levis i have had since college and the army pants i've had even longer.  just love them.  neither looks particularly good, but they are great comfort items and are especially fun to wear around in my current stomping ground.  surprised i haven't been arrested by the over-zealous fashion police, 'cause they are in full force in this area.  

    by slackermom on Sat May 03, 2008 at 09:05:52 PM PDT

  • Birkenstocks (0 / 0)

    I love my sandals. Mind you...I've got some pretty svelte and stylish ones. They aren't the originals.

    Other than that...I should really get rid of my jeans that are unflattering (Gap, high waist....a bit on the mom jean side), oodles of t-shirts that have really had it, and college sweatshirts that have seen better days. But to be honest...I'm not terribly trendy, so my closet doesn't change dramatically with the fashions.

    by aussieyank on Sun May 04, 2008 at 07:05:01 AM PDT

  • I guess I have "mom" jeans (0 / 0)

    although I don't see what's so wrong with wanting your pants to cover your arse when you bend down.  

    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

    by lonestar canuck on Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:26:13 PM PDT

    • Mine cover my butt (0 / 0)

      however they are not highwaisted... well, the damn maternity jeans are. They go up to my boobs, but I digress.

      I only have a medium sized torso, necessitating "mid-rise" jeans. A most rare animal, and one that has sent me to three stores in one day till I found them. Then I buy multiple pairs of them.

      My interpretation of MOM jeans is in any jeans in an unflattering light wash, too tight, verrry highwaisted, creating a very short torso.

      Covering your butt should be mandatory! Not maternal! :)

      by Suzanne77 on Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:34:00 PM PDT

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  • peasant blouses and Mary Jane shoes (0 / 0)

    I have loved both of these items since high school. Since then, they have each gone in an out of style at least 3 or 4 times. I don't care...I just keep wearing them!

    (but not together). ;-)

    by Erika on Sun May 04, 2008 at 07:32:59 PM PDT

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