191 comments

1. 

   Hmmm – which one to pick? How about deciding to wear my highest heels which I could barely walk in during the best of times to watch the fireworks to close the Edinburgh Festival. Little did I know my friends had decided we’d be climbing Arthurs Seat to view the spectacle. Fail ….

   Suzanne F // February 11, 2013 2:36 pm
2. 

   So many to choose from…possibly a Burberry bandana (worn as an actual bandana) with denim bra and paint splattered jeans in the same colour denim. Mega cringe.

   Mieka Smiles // February 11, 2013 3:44 pm
3. 

   Would have to be the very 80s me. With my bubble perm , pastel jumper with matching skirt hutched in with an oversized black belt topped off with a rather fetching pair of Diedre Barlow’s finest

   TracyB // February 11, 2013 3:44 pm
4. 

   Worst fashion disaster was going out wearing all pink..when I was 18!
   I had pink boots, long pink skirt, t shirt AND a jacket. It was even a similar shade. It was not good! And it was not even in the 80′s but early 2000s! Argh!

   Catherine Sinead Mary Reynolds // February 11, 2013 3:45 pm
5. 

   my worst fashion disaster was when we had those body suits that had pop buttons underneath. the buttons came undone and the tails hung out of my trousers at the back like a tail.

   maureen findley // February 11, 2013 3:45 pm
6. 

   My 1st shell suit – without a doubt!! I remember getting it as we finished school for the summer, we were taking the ferry to Ireland to spend some of the summer holiday with family & this was my ‘travelling outfit’ I loved it, pale lilac bottoms & matching jacket, but the jacket had white, mint & pale pink panels along the top of the arm & shoulders. I rocked it with my Kylie Minogue t-shirt (which I alternated with my NKOTB one!) and LA Gear trainers – complete with crazy laces. I don’t know how many times it was washed whilst away as I lived in it

   Siobhan Timlin // February 11, 2013 3:47 pm
7. 

   high heels with socks on… i still do not know what I was thinking of back then!

   Charley Foulds // February 11, 2013 3:48 pm
8. 

   Its actually not my fashion disaster but a close friend of mine wore this hideous gypsy looking outfit to my wedding which i had no idea about until the day and it seriously looked awful.

   I had to say she looked nice but i was so embarrassed! She was obviously with me by my side throughout the day and obviously with me in a LOT of my wedding photos and i wanted to throttle her!

   I have to say she was not impressed either when the photos came back!

   angela sandhu // February 11, 2013 4:06 pm
9. 

   puffball skirt say no more…..

   Sharon mead // February 11, 2013 4:07 pm
10. 

    As a teenager, I once wore my grandad’s old long johns (had no money to buy leggings which had just hit the shops!) along with a man sized T shirt (that was the only size women’s T shirts came in then), with the arms cut off to leave gaping holes under the arms, leaving a very non-enticing view of my lack of bra. I teamed this with a delightful pair of old army boots from the army surplus shop, without even pausing to think why did the soldier not need his boots any more??!!?? One lovely old man stopped me to say I had just made his day and I thanked him. It was only years later I realised he meant I had brought a smile to his face with my ludicrous outfit.

    Heather M // February 11, 2013 4:09 pm
11. 

    When I was 15 I really wanted a fishnet top (I know, but they were in ALL the teen mags!) no money and rural shops meant this was an impossible dream until I had the ‘genius’ idea of cutting the feet and crotch from a pair of fishnet tights and putting them over my head………… instant fishnet top, worn with great pride, on photos of me in it you can detect camera shake from my Mum laughing.

    Lucy Taylor // February 11, 2013 4:10 pm
12. 

    In the mid 1990s when I was a teenage – I had some lime green nylon bumsters. I don’t think I need to say anything else really!

    Janie H // February 11, 2013 4:20 pm
13. 

    Where shall I start….okay, honesty laid bare and all that…which is a bit like my first disaster, a pair of jeans on dress down day at work, and the denim had worn so thin, the bum ripped on them.
    Then there was wearing two socks in different (day glow) colours, which I thought was so cool I applied it to lots of accessories, like fingerless gloves, earrings and even shoes.
    But my favourite is wearing a dress and forgetting to take the price tag off.Not only could everyone see how much of a bargain my dress was in the sale, but (in huge numbers) what size I am…..eeeek!

    Laura Harris // February 11, 2013 4:21 pm
14. 

    wearing oxford bags

    Elisabeth Aldred // February 11, 2013 4:22 pm
15. 

    I think my whole life up until the age of 18 was a walking fashion disaster, I mean don’t get me wrong I don’t get it spot on everytime now but I hadn’t developed my own style until I was around 18, before then I lived in my sister’s hand-me-down clothes and when I did get my own clothes I’d pick awful choices. I would walk around in my favourite colour – pink – not a bad choice but when you picture it as a pink tracksuit (one leg up at the knee and one leg down of course), pink trainers and a bandana on my head, I honestly thought I looked good this was around 16 years old now I look back and think was a mug I must of looked, or if not a mug a stick of candyfloss!!

    Stacey Gahan // February 11, 2013 4:23 pm
16. 

    I was uber excited for my year 7 school photograph at 11 years old because it was my first at ‘big school’. Unfortunately I hadn’t banked on my inability to know what looked good. My wire glasses broke a week before so I was stuck wearing my plastic-Dierdre-rainbow-print monstrosities which, of course, I didn’t have the foresight to remove before the photo was taken. Add to this my curly hair which I had ‘fashionably’ cut into a bob which sat at ear level and you get the mental image of what I looked like…. This isn’t the worse part though, I’d actually styled my ‘bob’ into a half ponytail which sat on top of my head and my frizzy hair sprouted out like an overactive fountain. The frizz, naturally, was secured in place by, you guessed it, a multi-coloured SCRUNCHIE. The shame….

    Marie Kidd // February 11, 2013 4:25 pm
17. 

    I wore a corset top upsidedown at the bar –all evening!!!!!

    barbara shaw // February 11, 2013 4:25 pm
18. 

    Has to be a purple pleated skirt – made me look two stone overweight – and being purple really stood out. That’ll teach me to impulse buy in the sales – the skirt should never have been manufactured in anything larger than a size 8 – really not for normal sized women!

    Michelle Best // February 11, 2013 4:27 pm
19. 

    Baggy mens jeans and t shirts all through college I though it covered things up which it did it also managed to make me look like a fat man as well!

    Lisa Williams // February 11, 2013 4:28 pm
20. 

    Going to a fancy awards ceremony for work, I was getting ready in a dimly lite hotel room, in a hurry. I ended up applying ample ampunts of Blusher to my face, neck and shoulders and then bronzer to my cheeks. Luckily, I noticed before I left but scrubbing it all off and starting again still left me red faced for more than one reason. Definitely took the shine off the evening – but not my sore pink face. And I was late! Awards fail.

    FreyaW // February 11, 2013 4:29 pm
21. 

    Running for the bus and I losing my underskirt… not a pretty sight trying to step out of it discreetly.

    Karen Barrett // February 11, 2013 4:39 pm
22. 

    A purple and lime green shell suit with matching head band. It was when I was 8, but still shameful when I look at old photos

    Becky I // February 11, 2013 4:43 pm
23. 

    Mine was a few years ago now, I was rushing back from work to be at a meeting. I was hurrying around my house frantically trying to get dressed. I picked a gorgeous LBD, kitten heels and a jacket. Left the house, hopped into a taxi and arrived at the meeting. I could hear sniggering as I entered the hotel lobby. Thank god a friend told me I had my LBD tucked in the back of my not so little knickers!

    kayleigh dawn // February 11, 2013 4:48 pm
24. 

    I wore a tight pair of white summer jeans – and forgot I had white polka dot pants underneath!

    Jen Rogers // February 11, 2013 4:52 pm
25. 

    This is so embarrassing to admit but I once wore a boob tube as a skirt for an entire day when I was borrowing my friends’ clothes to wear after a sleepover. I only found out what it really was when I returned it to her.

    Wendy Lam // February 11, 2013 4:54 pm
26. 

    My worst fashion disaster has either got to be yellow stilettos or double denim!! Can’t decide which was worse!

    Jayne // February 11, 2013 4:59 pm
27. 

    I bought a dress in a gorgeous fabric for a friends wedding. It was a last minute purchase, it fitted and I was happy. It wasn’t until the day that my helpful husband pointed out that the pattern was perfectly (or not) placed on my bossoms. Placed so perfectly I looked like Boudica about to go into battle with my bossom armour. Being of ample boobs I might have well gone to the wedding with a big sign saying ‘look at my boobs’.

    abby bookham // February 11, 2013 5:02 pm
28. 

    I used to have this aqua blue shiny catsuit that I wore with pink legwarmers and a white & silver belt. I loved it and wore it to many a party!!!

    Jo Young // February 11, 2013 5:14 pm
29. 

    My worst fashion disaster was a really pretty summer dress that I bought to wear on stage at my daughters dance show. It wasn’t until I was up there under a spotlight that I (and the entire audience) realised that it was completely see through!

    Fiona Bindley // February 11, 2013 5:16 pm
30. 

    Thought I was really trendy in the 70′s and used to make my own clothes. I made a pair of flared, purple, shiny trousers..in retrospect they were hideous but I loved them at the time and could not be persuaded otherwise

    Margaret Dunlop // February 11, 2013 5:17 pm
31. 

    At the start of the academic year, having just got a full time contract as a photography lecturer, I was well rested after the summer and full of enthusiasm for the term. September was still warm enough for a dress and I was still in the fake tan routine for bare legs. Nice new ‘back to school’ haircut, I’m ready for the challenge of YouTube obsessed sixteen year olds. On this particular day I’m wearing a lovely Karen Millen dress, black woven fabric with ruffle detail on the knee length hem and shoulders. The pattern in the weave lets the oyster mauve petticoat through from beneath. I’m in work early, the weather is nice and I’m doing my make up in the mirror above the kitchen sink, having coffee and talking to other lecturers that are sat at the table behind me. I’m doing my make up here because the light is good, there are large windows that run the length of the room. Now I’m leaning over the sink, sun on my back when Justin, the cool, good looking technician tells me I’m wearing a black thong. Horror! No my dress isn’t tucked into my underwear but with the right light it appears to be see through. It’s almost nine, I have nothing in the car to change into, my colleagues have renamed me Flash and what’s worse, i’ts not the first time I’ve worn it to teach. Not quite the look I was going for, roll on home time.

    Emma Parsons // February 11, 2013 5:32 pm
32. 

    Style for me is not ingrained,
    Over the years i’ve had to be trained,
    Media has helped in spotting the trend
    fashion advice always on lend.
    Prior to my fashion learning,
    i gave in to a goth and grunge yearning
    So my worst fashion horror,
    well it has to be a studded dog collar!

    Claire Osman // February 11, 2013 5:52 pm
33. 

    Getting ready for work in a hurry I put on a pleated, knee-length sheer skirt with a cream jumper and black tights. Nothing wrong so far, until I grabbed a pair of thick soled, sensible black shoes and headed out the door. It wasn’t until I saw myself in a mirror at the end of the day that I realised what a mistake it was.

    Christine Constable // February 11, 2013 5:56 pm
34. 

    Growing up in the early 90′s my worst fashion fail- which there are pictures of just to prolong the shame was salmon pink ski pants and a green and white striped jumper with a big pic of Goofy on it!! Oh the Shame!!!

    Ruth Lurring // February 11, 2013 6:02 pm
35. 

    ‘MC Hammer style’ baggy trousers in purple and green – they definitely belong in the 1980′s/1990′s vault of fashion-horror!

    M. Holder // February 11, 2013 6:16 pm
36. 

    My worst fashion disaster was a purple matching shellsuit with neon green legwarmers. Dear me !

    Suzanne Cooke // February 11, 2013 6:25 pm
37. 

    It would have to be a stripey tights, DMs, mini-skirt, checkered shirt, sky-high ponytail combo that appeared regularly between ’88 – 92! *blush, blush*

    Louise M // February 11, 2013 6:27 pm
38. 

    I still cringe…but I blame my mother. It was School Photo Day and my mother decided that I would look lovely in orange, textured crimpolene dress with a white frilly collar. dear me….

    L Bunning // February 11, 2013 6:38 pm
39. 

    Two weeks ago I cut my own fringe. Whyyyyy? Needless to say I’ve been wearing a lot of hats lately.

    ‘It will be fine,’ the devil on my shoulder said, ‘you have straight, fine hair – how hard could it be?’
    ‘Put the scissors down,’ the angel on my opposite shoulder said, ‘Remember what I said about the perm? Who was right then?’
    ‘Quiet you!’ said the devil. ‘Do it, just one straight line across your eyebrows. Think of how skint you are! Everyone will be jealous of your awesome new look.’
    ‘Everyone will ask you if you used safety scissors,’ moaned the angel. ‘Please, I’m begging you. Just leave it to the professionals.’
    Me: *snip snip snip*
    ‘…oh fifty shades of ****.’

    Tara Gallagher // February 11, 2013 6:40 pm
40. 

    I once wore an extremely lovely white halter top (not) that had a big plastic ring where the halter bit came up. I wore it with a pleated black skirt and knee high leather boots. I also had my hair slicked back in a big scrunchie. Clearly I was going through a chav stage at that point and have attempted to burn the evidence but mother will have none of it!

    Laura foulds // February 11, 2013 7:10 pm
41. 

    I think probably the above knee length kilt that wouldn’t stay put in windy conditions and blew up to reveal my undies while I was in front of an electrical shop that had one of those cameras that puts you on TV in the window!

    Hazel Wright // February 11, 2013 7:28 pm
42. 

    My worst fashion disaster was my baby pink tracksuit that i used to wear with my heeled ankle boots and my fury bag. I ditched it when my handsome work colleague saw me in tesco in those and smiled at me. I was quite of embarrased

    Audrey J // February 11, 2013 7:28 pm
43. 

    a 1980′s raa raa skirt but at least 2 stone overweight

    sam mcginty // February 11, 2013 7:43 pm
44. 

    PURPLE ski pants (in the 80s) they were tragic, even worse that they were teamed with a multi coloured fleece jumper – i still remember them today – cringe

    Sarah Smith // February 11, 2013 7:50 pm
45. 

    Still has to be black leggings tucked into yellow socks with a big yellow over size shirt pulled in with a white belt……off which hung HUNDREDS of plastic, horrible keyrings!! The 80`s had a lot to answer for!

    Joanne McGawley // February 11, 2013 7:51 pm
46. 

    There have been a few but the most memorable was back in the 80′s when I made a Ra Ra skirt from green taffeta and found a blouse with puff sleeves and a ruffle neck trimmed with ribbon in the same shade as the green taffeta…..and the shoes, well….ivory pumps with a bow……what was I thinking!?

    Allison // February 11, 2013 7:57 pm
47. 

    had a tight pink skirt and wore an orange long sleave top

    susannah southurst // February 11, 2013 8:03 pm
48. 

    In my younger days I wore white stileto shoes, & thought I looked great, but on seeing some photographs, the shoes made my feet look huge.

    JO JONES // February 11, 2013 8:08 pm
49. 

    Everything I wore between the ages of 10-18 was a disaster! No idea of fashion, everthing I owned as a teenager came from aunties cast offs and things that were bought new tended to be lime green! Thank god there were no camera phones or facebook!

    Victoria // February 11, 2013 8:17 pm
50. 

    Back in the day (the 80′s that is) when I thought I was cool. I wore multi-coloured see through harem trousers with green reebok high tops, set off with a stunning pair of Deirdre Barlow mahoosive glasses. Top that! Photos appropriately destroyed.

    Michelle Gordon // February 11, 2013 8:18 pm
51. 

    Red tartan jodphurs with a denim shirt to match… yes I was an 80′s child !

    Nicola Biven // February 11, 2013 8:41 pm
52. 

    I guess back then I had the figure to take my mind off of my fashion disaster! I had gone clubbing with a new dress a nude colour dress I hasten to add not expecting what was to happen next! I wondered why people were sneering and staring at me…… My underwear had become illuminated under my dress when the flourescent lights came on! Total devastation and fashion disaster!

    kirstine meredith // February 11, 2013 8:43 pm
53. 

    My worst fashion disaster was when I was a teenager (in the 80s) and wore a pair of shiny metallic skin tight trousers. I looked like I had been wrapped in a roll of kitchen foil. (and I thought that I looked fabulous!)

    RHIAN THORN // February 11, 2013 8:50 pm
54. 

    Got to be the lilac shell suit and the poodle-style permed hair!

    Anne B // February 11, 2013 8:52 pm
55. 

    My worst fashion disaster was a couple years ago when I came to London for the very first time. I was going to a party and wanted to look very stylish so put on a denim jeans, denim shirt, denim jacket and a denim hat. Omg what was I thinking?

    Katarzyna Lewandowska // February 11, 2013 9:01 pm
56. 

    An awful bright pink tracksuit

    Rebecca Boucher // February 11, 2013 9:14 pm
57. 

    When i went to London Fashion week, we were all ushered into the catwalk arena and had to stand for the duration. I had no idea but for the whole time i had my skirt tucked into my knickers – major fail!!!

    katie robinson // February 11, 2013 9:14 pm
58. 

    I remember buying a bright neon yellow sweatshirt dress with tassles which I wore with pale pink stockings and Doc Martin’s. Well, it was the 1980s.

    FionaLynne Edwards // February 11, 2013 9:16 pm
59. 

    Head to toe turquoise, including shoes, socks, shirt and a hand made white skirt with turquoise dots! I’m coming out in turquoise bumps just remembering it.

    Jacqui Williams // February 11, 2013 9:35 pm
60. 

    My worse fashion disaster was the day I wore a yellow silky dress to a pals wedding, turned out to be see through so all eyes were not on the bride as they should have been…

    Dee Dmonte // February 11, 2013 9:59 pm
61. 

    Flares, a crop top and cowboy boots surmounting to a very accurate appearance of a giant helium balloon!

    Sarah-Jane Laycock // February 11, 2013 10:06 pm
62. 

    During an interview my trousers ripped i was so embarrassed that i just walked out

    Nisha koya // February 11, 2013 10:18 pm
63. 

    Bought/ wore a v short silky dress to a posh do. Turned out it was a chemise and v see through!

    joan gray // February 11, 2013 10:25 pm
64. 

    Has to be the shell suit

    Val Swift // February 11, 2013 11:00 pm
65. 

    I wore three pairs of neon socks at a time, jellies, my mum made me a hot pink, spandex mini skirt, I rocked side ponytails, I wore 3 or 4 slap wraps on my arm.

    Solange // February 12, 2013 12:14 am
66. 

    I had a lovely figure as a teenager but thought it would be a marvellous idea to borrow my boyfriend’s green and red baggy combat pants to wear for college. They were far too big for me so that the whole of my thong was on display every five minutes, so I probably scared lots of little children…

    Jacqueline // February 12, 2013 12:19 am
67. 

    Without a doubt as a child it would have to be the KNITTED swimsuit (think about it!) – then as an adult, the swimsuit that looks good in the store, but later you realise it goes transparent in water – you don’t find that out ’til it’s too late!

    Jo Nice // February 12, 2013 1:35 am
68. 

    I was looking through some photos the other day and found one of me wearing a green and orange shellsuit! I was mortified!

    Alison // February 12, 2013 2:17 am
69. 

    My worst fashion disaster was in front of a very long queue of people waiting for the changing rooms, I decided I couldn’t wait to try on the gorgeous new top I’d found in the sale so I whipped my top off, and to my horror discovered that I had forgotton to put my vest top on under my jumper, flashing the waiting crowd – needless to say I made a quick exit without my bargain!

    Susanne // February 12, 2013 5:11 am
70. 

    I once had a bright pink sweatshirt with Desperate Dan eating cow pie

    liz denial // February 12, 2013 9:22 am
71. 

    Has to be a bright purple pleated skirt – “a bargain” in the sales. It was not flattering at all and really should never have been manufactured in anything over a size 8. I have since tried very hard (and failed often) not to be seduced by the huge reduction on the price tag!

    Michelle Best // February 12, 2013 10:28 am
72. 

    I remember in the 70′s there was a paper dress on offer! Greeny/Blue – in the national newspapers. I immediatly sent off for one and the first time I wore it out with white knee high platforms, I thought I was the “bees knees”. Whilst dancing, my friends noticed the seam had split open from under my arm down to my waist, much to everyones amusement and my embarrassment! Lets just say, paper dresses did not catch on!!!

    Gail Hales // February 12, 2013 10:48 am
73. 

    Socks with sandals! Need I say more, on my trip to the USA in 2009 I now have a painful reminder of my fashion disaster sitting in a photoframe on my parents bedside. Safe to say those days are over!

    Laura Sherrington // February 12, 2013 1:43 pm
74. 

    When I was in my early teens, there were some horrible trends around and my friends and I loved them all! One shuddery bit of styling I managed when I was about thirteen was teaming’Thirty Belows’ – a type of jogging bottom with an illuminous or coloured panel – with Wallabees (a chunky suede shoe, for want of a better description). Bear in mind that my Thirty Belows were cream and illuminous orange and my Wallabees were purple. Still, I take solace in the fact that I never stooped as low as to own a shell suit!

    Having said all this, later on, I became daring and fun with my hair, clothes, look in general and I don’t regret that for a second. Perhaps I have the hideous experiments of my early teens to thank for my later creativity!

    Ali Thorpe // February 12, 2013 1:48 pm
75. 

    As a teenager I splashed out on a pair of stilhetto denim boots. They came just below the knee and had silver studs and silver glitter up the sides. At the time I thought they were amazing and often wore them with a denim mini skirt and a denim jacket. Looking back I was actually a walking mismatched denim disaster and the boots were totally trashy!

    Faye McCarthy // February 12, 2013 2:05 pm
76. 

    The most disastrous piece of clothing I’ve ever owned where baggy camouflage print combats with huuuuuge pockets and strings hanging from them. They were very in vogue back then but when I look back now they really did need to be burned! I wore them to death but they really were truly disgusting!

    Sarah F // February 12, 2013 2:26 pm
77. 

    My everyday wardrobe is my fashion disaster.

    Natalja Popsujeva // February 12, 2013 2:48 pm
78. 

    I seem to remember I favoured the denim jacket and Jean look once upon a time

    shane weir // February 12, 2013 3:04 pm
79. 

    My older sister dressed me for a school disco. As she was older than me I thought I looked cool. Looking back on it god knows what people thought. I was wearing a black school leotard, funny green skirt and what can only be described as welly boots!!!

    Julie Picton // February 12, 2013 4:39 pm
80. 

    … two words.. DOUBLE DENIM! I chose triple!
    DISASTER!!!!

    Laura-lee // February 12, 2013 7:15 pm
81. 

    It has to be the shell suit – I absolutely loved mine though! I am just relieved that this was a trend that went out of fashion before I was old enough to cook, and stand near an open flame!

    Jenny // February 12, 2013 7:40 pm
82. 

    My fashion disaster would have to be the emerald green and navy blue trouser suit that my Mum made me wear to the school Christmas disco when I was 14 – a long time ago LOL but I still cringe when I think about it

    Julie DAvies // February 12, 2013 8:53 pm
83. 

    Wearing work shoes to a fish factory! Should have worn older shoes….

    Hannah ONeill // February 12, 2013 9:11 pm
84. 

    I am the kind who goes into the hairdressers and give them the go-ahead to do what they want with my hair. My hairdresser ended up giving me a mullet which horrified my mum and my sister and me.

    sram // February 12, 2013 9:12 pm
85. 

    When the pop group krises kross in the 90′s wore their jeans back to front, remember trying to do the same.

    Jade Bennett // February 12, 2013 9:57 pm
86. 

    when I was younger I used to wear all clashing colours and sometimes If I was in a rush id put my clothes on inside out only to find out later that day by someone telling me

    holly // February 12, 2013 11:55 pm
87. 

    When I was 11 I had the most awful velvet sparkly skirt trousers, I mean….what even was that trend!?

    Rebekah Powley // February 13, 2013 2:01 am
88. 

    A T-shirt with “Phsysique” written on it in big black letters. Needless to say, at age 12 my “physique” made the Wimpy Kid look well-built. It hung off me like a rag…

    STeven Green // February 13, 2013 8:05 am
89. 

    My worst fashion disaster was wearing a white bra under a black top to a club with uv lighting. I spent all night in a boiling club with my coat on as all everyone could see was my lovely white bra shining through

    Kate Schofield // February 13, 2013 1:17 pm
90. 

    Cord trousers, a see-through black top I wore all the time when I was 13, wearing a green Snoopy bra under a white shirt without realising it showed through…

    K W // February 13, 2013 4:07 pm
91. 

    I have one word – shellsuit!

    Ali Johnson // February 13, 2013 7:03 pm
92. 

    When I was a kid. A dark brown pinafore dress with a hand knitted primary-yellow coloured jumper and a wonkilly cut fringe because I would never sit still at the hairdressers.

    Worse still, my older sister was wearing the same thing so we were matching! yikes!

    allie // February 14, 2013 10:44 am
93. 

    not so long ago actually – bought this brown and pink thing – purporting to be a fashionable top – cost a few quid as well – first (and last) time I wore it 2 friends giving me strange looks eventually they asked what /i was wearing saying it looked like a paint soaked sheet i had wrapped around me

    Lin Young // February 14, 2013 11:34 am
94. 

    I had a great tan and a fashionable white jumpsuit.. many years ago when they were fashionable the first time.. I thought I looked great until I was caught in a rainstorm.. The jumpsuit became totally see-through !… blush !

    Sue Harrison // February 14, 2013 11:38 am
95. 

    I loved a dress iin a shop, which my mother thought inappropriate and as I was 13 , keen to sew I decided to use a length of fabrinc- the table cloth.. to make this dress. Well In my opinion the finished item was perfect. So I wore it, I wore it almost everyday until I grew out of it! Looking back at the photographs now- I sigh, looking at the young girl, with shining eyes and her first designer dress- It looks wrong, so wrong, but I carried on and now people love wearing my creations!!!!

    Rosie D // February 14, 2013 11:40 am
96. 

    After a hair disaster perpetrated by my cousin, a trainee hairdresser, a bottle of bleach and a failed corrective measure with some black dye, my hair looked like a brittle birds nest sticking out horizontally from my head. (Think, Amy Winehouse crossed with Wurzel Gummage.)

    With this in mind, in a move that was almost genius, in 2008 I teamed this do with a red polka dot silk scarf, a white tshirt, and dungarees and skipped off to University.

    I was quite pleased with this look until I caught sight of my reflection in the lab. (Not even a lab coat could save it.) And realised I looked like the lead singer of Dexys Midnight Runners. In a room full of people who probably had no idea who Dexys Midnight Runners were.

    I couldn’t finish the day, and drove home in shame with ‘Come On Eileen’ ringing in my ears.

    Siobhan // February 14, 2013 11:43 am
97. 

    I am a fashion disaster every day. I’m coming to terms with the fact I fail at looking good… If I had to pick a worst, I guess I’ll go with the stripy leggings and oversized T-shirts I wore as a teenager

    Chantal Perez // February 14, 2013 11:52 am
98. 

    Late 60s.Me short, plump, 17. Fluorescent green trouser suit, fluorescent pink sleeveless polo, black corduroy cap. But I FELT great! Just hard luck on everyone else.

    Jennifer Ennis // February 14, 2013 12:07 pm
99. 

    I wore what I though was a lovely denim pinafore dress, I thought I was the bees knees at my friend’s son’s christening until about three or four people asked me that day when they baby was due. I was really upset and never wore the pinafore again and of course went on a diet.

    Anne Mackle // February 14, 2013 12:11 pm
100. 

     I once had a Laura Ashley tea dress that my friends threw away in a fashion version of being cruel to be kind. It was navy blue with a flower print and puffed sleeves. I took it on holiday to Spain with some girlfriends who were so horrified that, after one day’s wear, they threw it away the moment I took it off. It just wasn’t me and it offended their sense of me. I love the nostalgia of a tea dress and the delicate prints, but they don’t suit me. My shape is very straight, up and down, and you need curves for a tea dress. I keep buying them, though – especially expensive ones from small boutiques – hoping one will simply fit and make me look pretty. My natural style is a structured silhouette, but in my heart I am always wandering down a hill in Santorini, off to the beach with friends in a pretty tea dress with flip-flops on.

     Karen England // February 14, 2013 1:07 pm
101. 

     They say hindsight is a wonderful thing – I just wish we had an inkling of it aforehand. I could have, or maybe lessened, some of my fashion faux pas and unfortunate stares.

     One of my worst was a turquoise shell suit that had two tramlines of colour down the seams …one pink and one yellow. Because the legs were too loose I wore multicolour leggings over the top to hold them in. All topped off with a headband a-la-Olivia-Newton-John-wannabe over my stack-permed hair.

     What was I thinking.

     Susan El Carter // February 14, 2013 1:34 pm
102. 

     Recently, my friends invited me to a Fund raising event for a playgroup, it was an ‘Evening do’, but with a twist – as the proceeds were going to a toddler/baby group, the ‘theme’ for the Evening was to wear something ‘baby related’, it could be anything from a bib, to wearing large pants over your ‘normal clothes’ (think the idea came from various ‘Moonwalks we had done in our Bras etc). We had many laughs about this, unfortunately this was because of the similarity to the ‘adult baby’ documentary that had appeared on TV. Anyway, we decided to compete for ‘who could be the best baby’ title, with a £50 prize for the winner, so determined not to be outdone, I ordered a full ‘Adult Baby’ type costume including tights,dress and a large Nappy with safetypin !
     On the Evening of the Event my family were in stitches with laughter (and the Taxi Driver seemed somewhat erm….embarrassed !), i had to run out of the Taxi to the place where the Event was being held, ignoring some rude comments from onlookers like “Excuse me i think you dropped your dummy!!”
     Not deterred i decided to make a GRAND enterance, so, with great gusto i flung open the double doors to the function room whilst at the same time shouting “Baba Here”, only to find a room full of ‘Black Tie’ clad ladies and Gentlemen’ listening to a speech from the Event Organiser, or rather ‘had been’ listening to a speech – until they were interrupted by a 40 something Woman dressed as a Large baby and shouting “Baba”!
     Set up – Oh yes, but one day i’ll get my own back lol!

     Kath // February 14, 2013 2:49 pm
103. 

     used to think i looked gorgeous in my purple corduroy trousers with a bib,a bit like large baby ware,accompanied by a very shimmery,blue striped blouse with a grandad collar,,,

     Jane orford // February 14, 2013 3:59 pm
104. 

     Mine is more of a fashion faux pas. I was getting ready for a very important interview many years ago. I was so pleased with myself. I’d treated myself to a fantastically chic up the minute and hugely expensive outfit, a fabulous bag and perfect makeup. I popped on my high heels and tottered off to the station. I thought the interview went well. It was only as I travelled home on the train I realised I had two odd shoes on. Same colour, same height, just two totally different shoes. Whoops. So those looks of admiration were probably ones of sympathy. Needless to say I wasn’t a shoo-in for the job.

     Annabelle Taylor // February 14, 2013 4:03 pm
105. 

     Worst item i ever wore was bright pink thick tights with a pink chequered wool skirt.. i have no idea why I wore such a hideous item without looking in the mirror first!

     melanie crumpton // February 14, 2013 4:34 pm
106. 

     Shellsuit. BRIGHT pink ( I mean illuminous) ahhhhh!

     Kerryvallance // February 14, 2013 9:34 pm
107. 

     I remember turning up to my school disco wearing bright bright green Adidas galaxies, bright green denim hotpants and a bright green cropped top with “Hands Off” emblazoned across my non existent chest!! Oh the shame!! I honestly thought I looked amazing!

     Hazel Christopher // February 14, 2013 9:56 pm
108. 

     First up I’m a man. Now I want this bag for my gorgous wife so here goes..I don’t know if it’s a result of having been single for a good chunk of my adult life, but I can never see the point in spending money on something no one else is going to see, barring anyone who has probably already been distracted well enough by my rapidly expanding paunch and milky-white moobs. It would be like putting a leather interior into an old Fiat Panda. I don’t know how long I’ve owned some of the pairs of the underwear in my collection, but when I tell you that one pair has one of the characters from the film Toy Story 3 on the front, you can hazard your own guesses. As I type this I realise that keeping what appear to be children’s boxer shorts in my chest of drawers is probably not going to do me any good if my room is ever searched by the police. “They were a gift from my aunt,” I would scream as they led me away, though I doubt even she remembers buying them now that so much time has passed by.

     It isn’t so much that I don’t want to buy new undergarments, as that I can’t see any reason to throw out the ones I have. They still do the job I ask of them where support is concerned and if my trousers were to fall down (a ridiculous thing to worry about given that it has never happened to anyone outside of the Police Academy films) they would protect any innocent bystanders from any nightmares.

     I hear that David Beckham will only wear a pair of boxer shorts once, before giving them away. I am proud to be the Yin to his Yang, or rather the Win to his Wang, and Chicken Run, Rocky and I will continue to save the world one pair at a time. That’s it, confashion over.

     david butterfield // February 14, 2013 10:08 pm
109. 

     I wanted to glam up but shell suits were all the rage so i decided it would be an ingenius idea to team my black shell suit bottoms with a cropped smart office style top and smart black boots. I thought i looked amazing! I cringe just thinking about it.

     katrina walsh // February 15, 2013 11:39 am
110. 

     Remember those Grolsch bottle tops on the shoes, a trend started by Bros back in the 80′s? Yup, I had to follow! And I went into business in the playground selling them as my dad was a dray man for a brewery and collected them all for me! Oh, and of course they went hand in hand with the fluorescent socks!

     Hayley Wells // February 15, 2013 5:57 pm
111. 

     The shiny polyester shirts that were all the rage in the 90′s (I had green & yellow) twinned with a pair of while platform shoes (made of plastic) I think I was channeling the Spice Girls (oh the shame)

     katie skeoch // February 16, 2013 8:14 pm
112. 

     A few years back a popular store was selling these mini-dresses in metallic colors like gold and silver. They were really stretchy and showed off your figure. I figured the silver would be perfect for a New Years party I was going to so I bought one and wore it. It looked great in my bedroom, but the minute I got to the party, I knew it was a mistake. It was made from such thin fabric that I was constantly nipping out. And the stretch fabric meant that every time I took a step, it would slide up my thighs and practically exposed my privates to everyone. Instead of looking sexy, I looked like a hooker.

     Karen Elizabeth // February 17, 2013 10:37 am
113. 

     The only reason I have kept my biggest fashion disaster is to remind myself never ever to make the same terrible mistake again. I am mortified by my tight-fitting, see-through lace dress, wearing it gave me all the wrong sort of attention.
     I bought the dress for £25 a year-and-a-half ago after seeing WAG Abbey Clancy wearing a similar dress on the red carpet.

     I knew it was a risky item to buy but Abbey looked amazing in hers and lots of celebs had been wearing lace so I thought I could get away with it. I didn’t realise just how revealing it was until it was too late. I went out with friends for a night out in central London and it was only when I started to get unwelcome comments from the wrong sort of men that I knew it must be down to the dress.
     When I look back at pictures of me from that night, I cringe. I look nothing like Abbey Clancy. I look like I’ve gone out in my underwear — and that’s never a good look.
     I’ve only kept the dress in my wardrobe as a reminder to never buy anything see-through again.

     Karen Butterfield // February 17, 2013 11:10 am
114. 

     Early nineties. Spiral perm in Sun-In laden hair (dark roots), stonewashed jeans, and a white crocheted top. I looked like a long-lost member of Bon Jovi.

     Jane // February 18, 2013 12:47 pm
115. 

     Very embarrased to say a wardrobe of shell suits. Eurgh!

     Sue Mason // February 18, 2013 2:51 pm
116. 

     In 1993 my parents brought me a purple shell suit for Christmas, I was (genuinely) thrilled. A few months later me and my parents flew to America in matching shell suits we also all had Global Hypercolour t-shirts as well. I am surprised they let us enter the country to be honest.

     Rebecca // February 18, 2013 4:28 pm
117. 

     Has to be a bright pink shellsuit in the 80′s!

     mrs joslin // February 18, 2013 5:14 pm
118. 

     my worst outfit has to be my white and blue ra ra skirt me and my sister had the same one we thought we were the coolest kids on our row looking back we looked like right ididots lol.

     charlotte horsfield // February 18, 2013 5:49 pm
119. 

     When I was a student, I loved to revamp clothes from the charity shop. I bought a kids plastic rainmac, it was purple see through.. chopped it up to a mini skirt and hooded cropped jacket. I wore it over a black lycra catsuit… Oh I was so super trendy! Wore it out to the club ‘Choice’ in Glasgow (we’re going back to 1989 here), I kept getting strange looks in the club, I loved the attention… when we left the club I was chased down the street.. a crowd thought I was Betty Boo! Hilarious… I must have been ‘too out there’ so they thought I was a celeb… I never wore it again (probably ripped it running into a cab!) ha!

     Annee McBride // February 18, 2013 5:53 pm
120. 

     I once channelled (or so I thought) the models in Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love video with the tight black dress, red lips, lashings of eye makeup and slicked back hair. I’m not the most slender of people so resembled a burnt sausage squeezed into a black Dash (remember them?) jersey dress complete with thunder thighs (opaques were not yet de rigueur) and looking more like I’d had a brush with a chip pan than I had with Mr Palmer. Heigh ho.

     nicky R // February 18, 2013 5:54 pm
121. 

     Its got to be the black and flurescent green, pink and yellow bermuda shorts i wore one holiday in the early 90′s. Teamed with a bright pink quilted satin cropped jacket i must have been a right sight. Mind you some friends off holiday went and bought similar clothes so at least i wasn’t alone :S

     Karen Edwards // February 18, 2013 6:05 pm
122. 

     Mine would have to be when I was in my teens and my father bought me a white pair if high heeled wellies and made me wear them. To my horror when it rained they turned a vile orange colour and let water in. So as well as being a laughing stock because of the hideous boots I got soaken wet feet.

     Michelle Quinn // February 18, 2013 6:18 pm
123. 

     In the times when a party was called discotech, I was a skinny teenager. As every growing up girl, I was never sure what to wear and didn’t really have a sense of style. There was a particular weekend when I was invited to this disco at a friends house and I knew that my crush was also coming. I wanted to dress to impress so I wore my new Sunday-church black shinny skirt (it was huge with sequined flowers all over it..ahhh sickening), a white shirt with huge embroided collars and my favourite pink maxi jumper with two hugging bears on it (thought I will give a sign to my crush). I had my hair done in braids so I looked like Tina Turner. The only problem was – it looked really wrong and way too much, when everyone was wearing jeans and casual outfits. I was so uncomfortable that I had to go home and change.

     clara cort // February 18, 2013 8:17 pm
124. 

     Two words say it all… SHELL SUIT!!!!

     I’m not sure how they were EVER fashionable.. oh dear!

     Olivia B // February 18, 2013 11:19 pm
125. 

     Wearing long navy blue knee socks instead of tights (after being assured by my mother they were much cooler!) on my first day at my new high school. It was so much of a fashion faux pas that when I tried to speak to another girl at break time she told me I wasn’t cool enough to be in the “in” crowd so couldn’t speak to me. I never did recover my fashion status!!!

     Lucy Tyler // February 19, 2013 6:36 am
126. 

     bermuda shorts oh dear
     @emmav6

     EMMA WALTERS // February 19, 2013 3:41 pm
127. 

     When I was in my early twenties and dressed up to go clubbing, my friend pointed out I had odd shoes on! So embarrassing.

     Lynn Brown // February 19, 2013 6:08 pm
128. 

     In my much younger days I used to have (and love!) matching tartan trousers and jacket. And I’m not even the slightest bit Scottish. I wonder whatever happened to that outfit?

     Josie Mellor // February 19, 2013 6:12 pm
129. 

     I was collecting my daughter from school last Summer. It was a warm day and I was wearing my leather flip flops. To my horror one of the flip flop straps broke when I was almost at the playground. I hobbled in and stood still until it was time to leave. I then had to make a hasty retreat back to the car which was parked quite a way up the road. I had to walk with one shoe on and one shoe off – the pavement was hot to walk on too which was not pleasant to my pride or my comfort!

     caroline mccabe // February 19, 2013 6:34 pm
130. 

     hey

     Late ’80s, teenage boy trying to find his way with clothes, parents still advising on what to wear to go out to…end up wearing….Shell Suits….Yes, that was me!

     joeb // February 19, 2013 6:58 pm
131. 

     Shoes – when going on a weekend trip I quickly packed my black shoes to wear with a dress. When I put the shoes on one heel was taller than the other – I was rather embarrased as I accidentally packed two unmatched shoes! lol

     Diane Mooney // February 19, 2013 8:43 pm
132. 

     Circa 2004 a white ribbed vest, washed ripped and pleated denim mini skirt, lemon yellow handbag and yellow gingham high heels – in an attempt to look ‘older’ to go out dancing! I was only just out of my pink platform Buffalo’s, cheers Baby Spice! What a mistake, this was when I thought a fashion magazine was more!

     Sophie Flanagan // February 19, 2013 11:43 pm
133. 

     Probably the full Adidas tracksuit at the end of the 1990s, a la Sporty Spice.

     Lauren Burton // February 20, 2013 8:33 am
134. 

     Worst fashion disaster (although at the time I thought I was the ‘bees knees’) is immortalised on our University Hall of Residence dinner dance photo… it’s me, wearing a mightily frilly shirt AND a matching headband, which tied round my head and then HUNG DOWN to my shoulder. All I can say, in my defence, is that it was the ’80s and I was heavily influenced by Duran Duran.

     Helen Yendall // February 20, 2013 9:32 am
135. 

     I bought a lovely black boob tube in the 90s that I thought looked brilliant. Wasn’t quite so brilliant when the thing slipped down while I was busting some moves on the dance floor. My strapless bra was on show for the world to see. What made it worse was that I was wearing a white bra with a black top. Faux pas a-go-go!

     Helen Plant // February 21, 2013 5:01 pm
136. 

     During the 80′s as a teenager I once wore a Princess Diana ruffle shirt, with velvet peddle pushers and velvet hairband (with bow) to match. I loved it but looking back at photo’s I looked like a 45 year old woman, not a 15 year old girl!

     Sam B // February 22, 2013 11:16 am
137. 

     Style is an outward expression of your inner character,
     Trying to style outfits with that elusive X Factor,
     Shell suits, jeggings, culottes I’ve worn them all,
     When you take a fashion risk you can’t be afraid to fall,
     Every disaster has presented a valuable lesson,
     Some have caused a complete sartorial regression,
     An x-rated skirt rip, one of my many wardrobe malfunctions,
     Lead to embarrassment, flashing and in some cases injunctions,
     Through it all I learnt the greatest lessons in life,
     Approach fashion with humour, sassy and spice!
     Let the inner you shine through, show the world and be proud,
     Just be yourself, and share your message loud.

     Emma G // February 22, 2013 8:52 pm
138. 

     The mini dress was a serious’ fashion statement, bang on trend, and worn by long, leggy supermodels such as Elle Macpherson, Naomi Campbell, et al.

     I had to have one, and bought a skimpy electric blue number, which looked gorgeous on the rack.

     Unfortunately my figure was slightly more ‘generous’ than any self-respecting super model, and my chubby knees and legs just looked plain silly! I stuck to maxis after that little disaster.

     Frances Heaton // February 23, 2013 11:19 am
139. 

     My worst fashion disaster has to be my selection of shell suits. Not satisfied in one nasty outfit I had three, one shocking pink, neon green and turquoise. What was I thinking?

     Rachel Blackburn // February 24, 2013 2:37 pm
140. 

     high heels…to a festival! (In my defence I didn’t find out it was a festival until I got there)

     purpleshoes // February 24, 2013 9:59 pm
141. 

     White trousers and pink t shirt with shoes and no socks in my aspiring to be like Miami Vice days !

     James Holyland // February 24, 2013 10:37 pm
142. 

     Baggy jeans, I mean ‘you could fit 3 people in one leg’ baggy, with attached chains.. : /

     Leah M // February 25, 2013 12:22 am
143. 

     Its got to be the shell suit – i thought i looked great in it!

     jennie jackson // February 25, 2013 3:46 pm
144. 

     them trousers with the skirt attached that wrapped round. I think i bought one for every day of the week, i was obsessed. not cool!

     Ellen Burgoyne // February 25, 2013 5:47 pm
145. 

     So I was young but I thought wearing my pyjamas as outerwear was a great idea. Cringe.

     Amy Davis // February 25, 2013 5:58 pm
146. 

     Denim trouser suit, white stilettos, bubble perm, enormous plastic ‘pearls’. Ah, the 80′s!

     Linda Hobbis // February 25, 2013 6:10 pm
147. 

     It’s has to be when I was 18. 13 years ago now. And there were this style of dresses and skirts with panels taken out of the sides. I had a red skirt in this style, because if this style if skirt. You could not wear any underwear otherwise you see it. Me thinking that the skirt that came to my knees would be safe. Well I was wrong, fell down a stairs in some random bar and flashed the whole place my lady bits. I was more redder than my skirt!. It went in the bin the next day. And to this day I still cringe with shame.

     Portia Mattinson // February 25, 2013 7:33 pm
148. 

     nearly every day was a bad day for me. Had to wear my sisters hand me downs, they never fitted she was a 12 and I was an 8. My worst memory was a green pleated skirt, teamed with a lovely shirt with little houses all over and topped with a bright yellow tank top with a little duck on, not forgetting white knee socks. What a site still shudder now.

     ann scally // February 25, 2013 7:49 pm
149. 

     Has to be a chainmail type top that I wore to my leavers do at school. On the photo’s you can see my bra and it looked awful! xoxo

     DANIELLE VEDMORE // February 25, 2013 11:17 pm
150. 

     the worst was at my brothers wedding – i wore a banana yellow jacket with a black dress – what was I thinking!! I looked so bad in the photos..

     Phillippa Lee // February 26, 2013 12:01 am
151. 

     Green pedal pushers and a purple ruffled shirt

     Alison // February 26, 2013 6:14 am
152. 

     Has to be the 90′s outfit i loved so much at the time which was a velour skin tight body one of those leotard type things with poppers between the legs, it had a turtle neck and cut out shoulders combine with tight velour ski pants and high heeled boots with an over sized belt and huge curly hair lol pretty scary looking back

     rebecca jackson-makin // February 26, 2013 4:23 pm
153. 

     I remember one of the first rock concerts that I ever went to ( a long time ago now…). I was a bit of a goth at the time and was wearing a red satin corset, big goth boots & a black feather boa and thought I looked really cool! It was only when I got home that I realised that I had a coat hanger attached to my feather boa & must have been walking around with it all night! No one bothered to tell me! (Maybe they thought I was making some sort of statement!).
     I’m sure I’ve had a few fashion disasters since but that was the one that sticks in mind! I only wish I could still fit into the corset…

     ClairejB // February 26, 2013 6:38 pm
154. 

     It has to be ski pants from c&A, electric blue colour with a loud tshirt….YUCK!!!

     Clair // February 26, 2013 6:59 pm
155. 

     I think my worst outfit in the 80′s had to be a bright yellow jumpsuit worn with mis-matching fluorescent socks (one bright orange & one bright green!) & shoes with a big thick wedge-like sole Bros style & I also had tight perm! Not a good look at all & worst of all my 2 sisters also had the same bright yellow jumpsuit as me! What a fright we must have all looked together!

     Vicky Robinson // February 26, 2013 7:31 pm
156. 

     A canary yellow cat suit that I wore to my neices hen do in Blackpool. Men were singing Bananas In Pyjamas at me. Not impressed!

     WINIFRED VEDMORE // February 26, 2013 8:15 pm
157. 

     I had an outfit that I used to adore – brown suede trousers, brown suede top and brown leather boots..not sure what I was thinking, and this was only about 10 years ago!

     Kimberley Burton // February 26, 2013 8:42 pm
158. 

     Red velvet ski pants with seams down the front!! looked awful and kept falling down as they were too short!!

     nicola barter // February 26, 2013 8:49 pm
159. 

     it was a hot day, and my husband was driving to the party so i just jumped in the passenger side. 100 miles into the journey and I realised I hadn’t put my shoes on! I only had running trainers in the boot of the car, epic fail as I was going to a wedding party.

     hayley // February 26, 2013 9:31 pm
160. 

     I wore a Multi coloured homemade jumpsuit to a school disco – it was navy, purple, green and cream. It was actually very nice but way too fashionable for its time, and my age of 13, so I stuck out like a sore thumb.

     Victoria Cunniff // February 26, 2013 10:19 pm
161. 

     well it was a long time ago and i was 14, I was best friends with my next door neighbour Nicola, who was also 14, we had arranged to meet two boys we knew in town so went shopping, as we could both liked the same outfit and neither of us would give in, we both wore the same *cringe* and whats worse it was white trousers with blue piping down the side, a white puffa jacket and white moon boots!! I did say I was 14 and it was in the eighties!! Thats a real double fashion disaster!!

     Teresa Barnard // February 27, 2013 12:19 am
162. 

     Would have to be spandex trousers Shiny and too tight in retrospect, but all in the name of Rock LOL x

     Honora Livesey // February 27, 2013 2:49 am
163. 

     I think it’s quite bad that i have had to try really hard to whittle this down to just one disaster, which pretty much means I have spent way too many times in fashion disaster hell! And seriously not helped by my 11 year old daughter looking over my shoulder laughing and telling me that I would be here all day!
     My worst (or most memorable) has to be the yellow wool trousers that I made myself when I was 13, (Although i still maintain, that I was customising clothes long before any of the designers). Anyway, I found a bright yellow woollen blanket that my mum had knitted but got fed up with, so took it and folded it over, sewing up one side, then cut it though the middle to make legs, and sewed each one up. Then ta da!! my yellow trousers were made. I popped them on, and secured the large waist with a snake belt, and went off to meet my mum from the bus. When the bus pulled in, my mum took one look at me, and stayed on… yes, she actually sat back down and got off at the next stop up. I remember being really confused as I thought I looked fantastic.. so if ever woollen trousers make it onto the catwalk, remember .. I was there first!

     Luisa Lauren // February 27, 2013 10:34 am
164. 

     Eeek …am I the only one who persistently continues to have these faux pas moments lol Just ask my kids!

     My biggest fashion error was when I was around 13yrs of age and a HUGE Madonna fan. I had the lot, pointy boobed top (custom made), Ra-ra style skirt, white ankle socks (bows head in shame), white lacy fingerless gloves, luminous nails and bizarre ribbony things adorning my head…what the hell was I thinking??? lmao
     Good job mobile phones weren’t around then or i’d have been an internet laughing stock!! :O

     Elaine K // February 27, 2013 10:45 am
165. 

     A baggy black dress which came below the knee, it had a roll neck with metallic paint splatters all over it

     Janet // February 27, 2013 11:06 am
166. 

     I have so many! but think my pink long shirt, worn as a dress with a piece of lace for a belt, worn with white booties with lace ribbon as laces and a Ginormous lace bow around my head was possibly one of the worst-I wore strands of pearls around my neck & wrists and truly thought I was Madonna in the ‘like a virgin’ video-my Poodle perm completed the look-Oh dear! Circa 1985

     Lila B taylor // February 27, 2013 4:28 pm
167. 

     worst fashion disaster was my first trip to a disco in the 80′s i was 16 and as i didnt want my perfect flicked hair to get messy i walked round with a shower cap on. i wore a black polo neck white bra, aqua blue skirt and white shoes, didnt realise the florescent lights would make the fluff on my top stand out so much or make it so obvious i was wearing a white bra (didnt own a black bra then), also where my hair had been in a shower cap it had gone all frizzy from the trapped moisture, so the long fringe and flicks didnt work

     meena // February 27, 2013 6:41 pm
168. 

     As a teenager I used to design & make a lot of my own clothes. I shudder with embarrassment now when I think the of the turquoise fishtail skirt, matching waistcoat & tie!!!!!

     Florence Cross // February 27, 2013 6:50 pm
169. 

     I can’t decide between my first shellsuit (green, white and neon pink) or my tartan jeans and mustard jumper combo. All when I was in my early teens!

     Jade Scott // February 27, 2013 7:24 pm
170. 

     Definately the goth spell I went through! All the black lace, black platforms, in fact, black everything! Including lipstick!

     Mary Gould // February 27, 2013 8:46 pm
171. 

     Its got to be the wrapover skirts…. they wrapped right around and fastened with a button blue and white checked – looked like i had tied a tablecloth around me LOL down to my ankles! gotta love the 90′s!

     Kate Edwards // February 27, 2013 9:40 pm
172. 

     it has to be the full on kappa tracksuit!

     Sophia Kearney // February 27, 2013 10:04 pm
173. 

     White stillettos and pale blue leg warmers – worn at the same time, very ‘Fame’

     LORRAINE ANDERSON // February 27, 2013 10:13 pm
174. 

     White ra ra skirt trimmed with red and blue ribbon, worn with either red or blue tights and white stilletos!! Well, it was the 80s and I am from Essex!

     Beth // February 27, 2013 10:27 pm
175. 

     My worst fashion disaster to date, would have to be during my confused skater phase six years ago, which on multiple days saw me wear black corduroy flares with silver chains draped down them.. and if that wasn’t bad enough, I’d team the flares with white trainers, chunky bright roll-necks and Avril-Lavigne-style checkered cuffs!! The funniest factor about this fashion faux pas, is that this phase only lasted a couple of months.. and these days I’m more of a designer-loving chic-attempting kitten!

     With love,

     Gabrielle x

     Gabrielle // February 27, 2013 10:35 pm
176. 

     From the late 80′s early 90′s there are so many but I think when I was a “brosette” probably stands out…. white t shirt… ripped pale washed jeans and doc martins with grolsch bottle tops…. oh the shame

     Donna Jauncey // February 27, 2013 10:40 pm
177. 

     Everything in my wardrobe!!! No seriously an ex once bought me a horrible lime green skirt and top which was so hideous it would make your eyes bleed. Sadly he thought it was fab so I wore it to placate him! Soon as we split it went in the charity bag!!!

     Jules H // February 27, 2013 10:46 pm
178. 

     The woollen dresses my Mum used to buy me in my teens (she liked practical things) which were itchy and always looked like something somebody’s Gran had knitted from a very old copy of ‘My Weekly’.

     Eliza W // February 27, 2013 11:43 pm
179. 

     Purple/Dark Blue Velvet look massively Flared trousers .. And i’m not talking in the 1960′s …. oh no, this was circa 1995/96 … oh the shame ….

     Lynette // February 28, 2013 1:07 am
180. 

     I still remember this moment vividly as if it was only a few years ago. I was merely 9 years old, my brother 12. We would walk to school together everyday. One day, I proudly wore my rainbow coloured neon animal print spandex leggings with matching scrunchie and he couldn’t walk far enough away from me! You could spot me a mile away. Needless to say, I attracted a lot of attention … to this day, I’m not sure if that was a good thing or not but regardless, I loved those leggings to bits. They’d be a huge hit this Spring, especially with the huge neon trends!

     Katherine L // February 28, 2013 7:13 am
181. 

     A black and yellow striped skirt and blouse suit which I made myself back in the 1980s, it had massive batwing sleeves and a short ra-ra style skirt, I wore it on my first date as a 17 year old, my date took one look at me, and told me that I looked like a grilled banana! The shame! I never did live that one down!

     Heather Jenkinson // February 28, 2013 8:34 am
182. 

     Baggy tartan trousers-need I say more!

     Georgia McAllister // February 28, 2013 9:45 am
183. 

     A full length black leather coat. I thought I looked soooo stylish but in actual fact I probably looked more like Darth Vader than a fashion icon.

     Karen Lloyd // February 28, 2013 10:15 am
184. 

     My mc hammer trousers this doesnt need further explanation… it was bad very bad …

     Annemieke Troost // February 28, 2013 12:20 pm
185. 

     There have been many… but the worst was wearing a jumpsuit with a two-way zip at the front to the office. I didn’t realise there was a problem until a kindly customer took me aside and explained that the bottom of the zip was undone and he could see my, in his words, “lady’s underpants”. Also, the whole cycling shorts thing was pretty awful, but it *was* the nineties and, in mitigation, I had the legs for ‘em

     Ann Murray // February 28, 2013 3:29 pm
186. 

     Tapered Jeans (I really don’t have the legs for them!)

     Lou C // February 28, 2013 6:00 pm
187. 

     Turning up at my best friend’s engagement party wearing the same dress as her and three other women!

     Alisa M // February 28, 2013 7:03 pm
188. 

     I think that this will date me, but when I was younger, I wore high waisted trousers that would make even Simon Cowell jealous.

     Maggie Coates // February 28, 2013 7:55 pm
189. 

     My mid 90′s “tank girl” phase. Bleached hair, nose ring, little mermaid tee shirt and combats WITH a teddy in my pocket. I am so pleased there are no photos!

     Katy Spence // February 28, 2013 9:38 pm
190. 

     It has to be wearing high stilettos at a function attended by Prince Charles and trying to walk gracefully by his table without tripping.

     Susan Cowling // February 28, 2013 10:36 pm
191. 

     I am male, i wore Sheep fur trousers from Camden, in Margate, Kent in the 90s

     I had a mixed reaction, and the hessian lining was uncomfy

     J.Gallant // February 28, 2013 11:14 pm