I found the original one thread way back on page six--LOCKED!!!! sob sob sob sob sob sob. It was a fun thread, and I'm going to ressurect it.

But a quick reminder of the rules here: We don't want to be nasty, rude and viscious. This is just a place to vent about things we've seen that make us cringe, chortle, giggle, and sometimes outright guffaw. Major fashion faux pas. (At one time I had a thread where we could out ourselves for the fashion mistakes we have all made and continue to make.)

I think we also need to ressurect the thread: Cool Things I Saw.

So here is my addition:

This past Friday I saw a very attractive young woman, who really looked put together--her make up was flawless as well as her hair, but she was wearing a sequined/spangled velour track suit.

Yay! thanks, Matt.

Here's what I saw: I was food shopping after work and the woman on line in front of me was wearing great brown tweed pants, a beautiful wrap sweater, and a pair of neon green Crocs with huge fake red, white and blue jewels pushed into the holes. From the ankles up, she looked terrific. From the ankles down, she was an affront to the eyes.
I made some comment to her (no, I didn't say, "If only the Scary Things I Saw thread were still open..."), and she said she was a school teacher and today's lesson was about veterans. She tries to coordinate the color of the jewels in her Crocs with the day's lesson. The kids get such a kick out of her holiday color-coded Crocs that she makes a point of wearing them no matter how insane she looks.

Hmmm...maybe this should be in the Cool Things I Saw thread.

I saw a woman while shopping, wearing bright orange short shorts with ugg boots.

I don't understand...are you hot or are you cold?

I live in a university town, so I have plenty of material, but I will relate the one I saw at the coffee shoppe today:

Black skintight pants
Lime green skintight T shirt with an unsavory motto
Worst of all, the bottom of the shirt didn't meet the top of the pants, so the dragon tattoo enhancing her bu++ crack was glaringly obvious

A man I work with wears the same outfit every day: a denim jacket, denim shorts (same color), plain T-shirt, white running shoes with crew socks. Now that it's getting colder, he's graduated to denim pants, so that's one step in the right direction at least because you can't see his socks all scrunched up.

I swear, I've never seen him in anything else!

Matt,
The timing is perfect for this thread.On Saturday I helped two young women at the jewelry store,one looking for an engagement ring.Even though its November,they were wearing sleeveless thin knit tops that where cut EXTREMELY low and nothing underneath.I was more embassassed for them than anything.Every time they leaned accross the counter to look, point, or take a ring from me i had to look above their heads to maintain a gentlemanly posture and they kept turning around to see what i was looking at behind them.

I was at a college basketball game last week. The opposing school had a dance team that entertained at half time. They were wearing crop tops that ended just below the bust with low rise pants. A good 6 inches (at least) of belly was showing on every girl. Here's the shocking part... one girl was at least 6 months pregnant with her large bare belly hanging out of this outfit.

A couple of weeks ago when my son and I were walking home after his soccer game, there were three girls in front of us (I would guess maybe 20-year-old). One of them was wearing a very short skirt. When she suddenly bent to tie her shoelace, there was no way I could avoid a full view of her faded underwear.

So many good stories of women who should be more covered up. I can understand the dance team, though, performers live in another world (while performing, that is) -- unless it isn't flattering.

No story to share right now, just the joy I feel when my husband sees one of these WNTWs and turns to me with a horrified look on his face. Mind you, he's 27 (i.e., young) and some of these women/girls are otherwise very cute. My favorite was the hot blonde who bent over at the security line at the airport to take off her shoes, exposing much "nether cleavage". He didn't notice how cute her body was, just that too much of it was showing. It's a major turnoff for him (not, however, in the appropriate time and place, thank goodness ). So thanks to all of those WNTWs for reducing any competition I might otherwise worry about!

Earlier this week, we had a very nicely dressed man in the store--mainly in our gear--but I was shocked to notice that he was wearing braces--normally a guy who wears braces knows better than to do such a thing as I'm about to mention--and then a belt with them. But you can't just take the customer aside--as much as you might like to--and say, you're doing that wrong.

Quick question, or maybe not so quick

I've noticed that many of the men who bring their wives into the store as a wardrobe conusltant, the wives have very expensive tastes, and will openly tell their husbands they like the GQ/Esquire look and then direct their husband to a nice CK suit or some such.

But I've noticed the majority of the wives who say this, are stuck in old styles themselves. The most recent was a fairly attractive woman, but she wore extra dark liquid eyeliner around her eyes, and long, heavily bleached hair. Very 1980s, early 1990s. And yet she wanted her DH to be very 21st century and cutting edge fashion.

Anyone else noticed the same thing?

I can't say much as to that particular situation... but I've seen it once or twice. (No matter how poorly dressed a women is, chances are she's hounding her husband to dress up a little!) Perhaps they've figured out they "have style" and its taken 20 years to get their husband into anything new. That's just speculation.

On the bus the other day I saw a stunningly beautiful young mother and her child. The mom had gorgeous red hair, precise, striking makeup, a nice wool scarf and jacket (well, except for the bottle of Diet Coke jammed into the pocket)

But on the bottom.. she was wearing a long, asymmetrical, multi-tiered green camouflage skirt and hot pink knit Uggs-style boots.

Last weekend I was at a football game and saw what I would consider, if I were a man, a very attractive lady. She was probably in her early to mid-50s with pretty grey hair. Her outfit, didn't look that bad (looked to be a brown velour pant set) until you noticed the satiny cami she was wearing underneath. It wasn't the cami itself but the fact that the girls had gone south, she wasn't wearing anything to support them and you could see the outline of everything through the cami. Not a very polished look to me.

The lady in the photo was speaking from a podium in a public space (in Seattle), so she is fair game.
No need for me to comment.

(Apparently, it's possible to move the photos along. The one I am posting is #25 of 135.)

Well, I finally gave in and went to IE7 - and I now have all my little boxes at the top of my Reply Box. You were right, Pres.

This whole reorganization thing has definitely cut out a lot of people because posting is scarce.

About your scary thing, Pres: The awful truth is that I live where about 75% of the people look like that - it is very sad how they pretend they don't care, but you know they do. They don't/can't do anything about it.

I saw a great OH NO! the other day.
I was out for lunch and saw a terrifying middle aged woman.
- She had long, unkempt, wild gray hair.
- For some unknown reason she was wearing very shimmery silver eyemakeup at lunchtime, but no other visible makeup.
- She had on a big puffy faux fur coat (remember that goth/boho WNTW girl who had that red dead-dog looking jakcet? It was just like that) At some point in its life, it was white, but mostly it was just dingy.
- I've never seen anything like her skirt before: multilayered, with alternating tiers of black and silver metallic. It came to about three inches above her ankles and was worn with... ... ...
- Green stillettos!

Good gravy!

See! Here it is!

Cool!

Woman at the gym -- how can I describe leggings that show off every droopy saggy body part while at the same time turn a person's legs into knobby, knee-ey toothpicks? Topped off with oversized tshirt and bulky gym shoes (can't fault her for the shoes, it's the one place to wear those puppies), all of which just made the tummy look bigger.

People like this go on my "Future list of things not to become".

When I was about 25, I saw a lady in stretch pants with a huge gut drinking a beer out of a can and I've never had a taste of beer since.

This was a while back but still sticks out in my mind.

I live near a theme park and it is one of my favorite places to people watch. As this is one of my favorite things to do, it is almost worth the price of admission. Now, I am not small by any means but I dress according to my size. Here I am sitting waiting for my husband and oldest to get off a ride and I see a very big woman in a faded black sleeveless shirt. What drew my eye is that she had on faded black denim shorts but they were so small on her that she could have never dreamed of zipping them and she hadn't! They were completely unzipped and unbuttoned and stretched to the limit. As she sat down across from me I wondered if the pants were going to hold only to notice that she had topped the outfit off with a pair of black socks. I hate to sound horrid and catty but the image has been burned onto my brain and it hasn't gone away. Unfortunately it probably never will.

Oh that's awful! I can only imagine that she was either holding on to her former size or didn't have the money to buy new clothes. That's one of the big traps of gaining weight I've noticed on the show, holding on to that size number. Better to wear clothing that fits, even if it comes from the Goodwill store.

I imagine that would be a very hard image to get out of one's head and now I'm stuck with it too

tattooodduchess, I saw something similar to that on a child on a plane this summer. She was, um, chubby, and wore a denim skirt that obviously didn't fit, so she left it open and filled in the whole waistband plus the zipper opening. I don't expect it was a money issue, as she was with an entire family flying from London to Philadelphia, and mother and dad were very expensively dressed.

Yesterday in Oxford, I saw a young, slim woman in a velour tracksuit with diamante trim on the outer seams of the bottoms and around the hood, with a fur-trimmed boot-length coat over it. Stiletto boots--and one of the heels was in a hole it had drilled through the hem of the trousers.

My husband and I just went to his office Christmas party last night. This is a very big event. There are usually about 150-200 people, and it's held in a banquet hall with an open bar, hors d'oeurves, dinner, desserts and dancing. Most people dress up quite a bit.

There was a woman there last night that everyone was talking about, and not in a good way! She was wearing one of those one-shoulder dresses, and the side without the shoulder strap was much too low cut! Also she was fairly busty and obviously not wearing a br@, because her b**b was very low, but the dress was barely covering it. She was about 3 millimeters away from flashing the whole room. To top it off, she had this weird 1980s feathered hairdo.

There was another woman at the party wearing an almost identical dress, but with a completely different effect. The non-strap side wasn't too low so it didn't show off too much, and the "girls" were securely in place. Plus she had a sleek, modern hairdo. She looked fairly elegant, while the other one just looked trashy.

I asked my husband "Do you think she realizes how she looks?" and he said no, but I have my doubts. I have to wonder if she knew exactly what she was doing and did it for shock value, or just to show off, or whatever.

The other day i went to TJ MAXX for some retail therapy...see my post in the latest finds thread...and while waiting in the long line for help from one of two over worked clerks ,a lady in the back of the line who had been waiting only a few minutes starts literally yelling for another register to be opened and to PERSONALLY be helped by the store manager.The staffed explained that due to illness that they were short staffed but this didnt stop the woman who finally was brought to the front of the line to be helped...i was stunned and if i wasnt so tired from working 11 hour days helping customers myself i would have told the woman to shut her trap.Its people like this that reminds me why i hate Christmas because it is so commercial and material oriented.

Now, that is a lady who would greatly benefit from the internet experience. How incredibly crude to be so pushy around the holidays.

July 4th, Monterey Pier. A 45ish bleached blonde, in a white micro mini and 4 inch cork platfrom shoes. I actually snapped a pic from behind. I'm evil

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Originally posted by jaclynm:

I asked my husband "Do you think she realizes how she looks?" and he said no, but I have my doubts. I have to wonder if she knew exactly what she was doing and did it for shock value, or just to show off, or whatever.

Unless the woman is blind, has no mirrors in her home, or is simply downright delusional, I don't see how she could not know how bad she looked. You don't say if she had a date (reading your post, I assumed she is single), but if she is single, maybe she was trolling for a date!

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Originally posted by 3kittymama1:

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Originally posted by jaclynm:

I asked my husband "Do you think she realizes how she looks?" and he said no, but I have my doubts. I have to wonder if she knew exactly what she was doing and did it for shock value, or just to show off, or whatever.

Unless the woman is blind, has no mirrors in her home, or is simply downright delusional, I don't see how she could not know how bad she looked. You don't say if she had a date (reading your post, I assumed she is single), but if she is single, maybe she was trolling for a date!

Unfortunately, after having dealt with a lot of male fashion victims, I have to say that quite often--definitely more than they would like to admit to--a lot of these men and women think they look great. Just listen to the MOs on the show. "I didn't think there was anything wrong with my look." And you get that comment especially from the ones who go for the bleached look, micro-minis, and too low cut tops. So the chances are that she thought she looked absolutely stunning. Women spend too much time putting themselves together to walk out of the house thinking they look horrible.

Yay me!!! I finally got login to work, so I could post. Perfect timing matt.
Friday was my works annual holiday party. (I am the only teenage employee at a 200+ people cocktail party) People I saw:
A 36ish woman in a gorgeous green metallic silk dress, cut so low on her br3@sts, her nips were barely covered. I hope to god she was securely taped in- she was a bit tipsy and leaning all over the place.
Horribly fitting, boxy, mumu, housedresses- covered in sequins and ribbons and lace for the "festive nature."
Men in khackis and polos. Did i mention it was a cocktail party?? **cringe**
I regret my outfit choice already. I deserve to be on the list- black corset inspired top with metallic wine flower print (stature appropriate) The black skirt with wine silk ribbon trim & three inch stilletos were fierce... and fine. I wish I knew it was a cocktial party in advance. I would have bought a fancier cocktail dress. Oh well. I was covered up and not being embarrassing.

Mass last night (at the cathedral, no less!):

-the girl in front of me was probably late teens/early 20s. She had the messiest bun on the face of this earth, and off-center flopping over to one side at that (not trendy messy, it just looked like she hadn't seen a mirror in years). But even worse was her purple velour track suit. At church! What? It had a large rhinestone "DKNY" on both the top AND bottom (it wasn't across her rear end, it was across the front. Very odd.) She was with people who I can only assume were her parents, who had nice enough clothes on. So it's not as if she didn't have presentable role models....

-the woman behind me was wearing a trench coat for the whole service, so I couldn't see her clothes. But she was wearing a satin nightcap - the kind that look like shower caps, but made in satin to keep your curls in place, etc. And her hair was half falling out of it. I was so confused by the whole thing. If she wanted to cover her head or hair for some reason, didn't she have a real hat?

At church on Sunday a woman was wearing almost a mini skirt, with opaque patterned tights that looked like a Tiffany's lampshade and Ugg-style boots.

I'm not sure if this is scary, or just something rarely seen in Utah, but it set me back on my heels.

I was in Costco today and I passed a couple, the husband was African American. He was wearing black slacks, with a really wide trouser leg, black shirt with red tie, and a red zoot suit styled jacket that hung almost to his knees, with black striping on it. (it definitely wasn't a pinstripe.) The shirt color had a red tab about an inch back from the front, and his shoes were a red crocodile, or ostrich, with gold plated toes.

On the plus side of it, he was at least on the slender side.

been ivied. look for an addition to this thread in a day or two.

I've recently seen a woman wearing pink sweatpants with a saying across the arse and the legs stuffed into Ugg boots.

--Rant--
Ugg=short for ugly! In terms of the ugliest footwear ever, they're in the top two. They're slightly better-looking versions of what I'm certain our caveman ancestors wore, and they don't look good. At all. They are never appropriate!
--End rant--

I also recently saw a guy wearing teal sweatpants, a tobacco-brown leather jacket, and a Davey Crockett-style coonskin cap.

And I wish I was making this stuff up...

I love this thread! lol. Well, I have one thing to add to it. It's kinda sad but one of my teachers (well sub actually but we had her for 3 weeks) had a case of camel toe last class meeting. Pants were camel colored too. I can tell she really does care about fashion and the two other weeks she looked ok. She comes from her corporate job in advertising and has to dress that way but on thursday she missed the mark. Her leather jacket was nice and a red shirt under it. But the pants were too tight and she had on red boots which I guess were ok but just predictable. I like this teacher so feel bad for posting but that was the first camel toe I actually noticed in person.

I saw a guy in white athletic socks with flip-flops the other day. It boggles my mind. Plus we've got over a foot of snow on the ground now...I don't know why anyone would want to trudge through that without actual shoes on.

Back in my college days, I had a friend from California, who wore shorts all winter long saying "If I wear them long enough, summer will come back!"

A few years back my mom made the mistake of introducing my father to sandals and sweat pants, in the good intention of giving him some variety. Now we have to beg him to get out of those silly sweat pants, and the only time he doesn't wear the sandals, is to church. And that includes winter time.

I thought holiday themed ties were bad enough, but yesterday shopping I saw something that made me even more nervous: Polyester Valentine's Day themed ties at the grocery store! Someone shoot me!

Buying ties from the grocery store. LOL. Nevermind the ghastly design...

A woman in the grocery store parking lot was wearing tapered leggings (the loose kind, from ~1990). I couldn't figure out the design at first and then I realized it was a print of the old acid-wash denim we wore back in the 80s. In gray. I can't imagine anybody could buy those now, so I suppose she's had them for 20 years. And still wears them. In public.

this is more about an accesory. riding the subway a nice looking man got on, bump my leg and gave me what I would call 'the evil eye', I smiled and said excuse me (I am sitting I don't know how he figured I hit him but he did). He grabs the pole and proceeds to pull out the cutest little purple and pink fan. It was a sight, I had all I could do to not laugh out loud.

Me! Perhaps I should say this is Scary Things Other People Saw. (For those of you new here, I will drop the dime on myself when I mess up. It helps me to take myself less seriously. I've done it before, and I'll do it again.)

Tonight I stopped in a local DVD and CD store to get a copy of "the Aristocats." As I was leaving the store, I caught a flash of white below me, I looked down and saw--to my extreme horror--that somehow or other I had managed to push my merino wool sweater to expose my white t-shirted belly. This is after having spent an extremely busy day in that sweater, and it had never gotten pushed up once!

I can just imagine, someone from where I live is a poster her, and will tell everyone else about me. Well if they do, you know where he/she lives now! LOL

Last night, 3 am after hours breakfast in a diner nearby.. She's pretty and she has a perfect body. Which we can see most of. Her whole middle is exposed between the bottom of her cropped tank top and her pleated skirt sitting below her belly button, all of 3 inches wide. Fishnets and platfrom knee high boots complete the ensemble. Nick would have loved her, her hair was in a very neat bob ;+D My partner made a big show of reading his paper after he got a glimpse of her. What a good guy;+D

Well, I have a few. Was at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona. You would think that women at an even populated by mostly men would at least dress better. Had the girl with the mini so short that if she sat down she wasn't gonna be sitting on the skirt. Several girls in hot pant length shorts and the doozy a heavier gal with shorts sooo tight that you would swear she would dislocate something. I was reminded of that quote by Stacy regarding that in one episode when I saw her. Now in case you don't know this is Drag Racing so you are sitting on metal grandstands which isn't bad but I couldn't do that all day in what these girls were wearing. I was wearing a nice solid color t shirt with details at the shoulder and neck and medium wash bermudas and I was better dressed than most. lol. Sorry this got so long.

Kim

i_shop_2much reminded me of a trade show I went to a couple months ago. I work at a company that provides services for auto recyclers, so this is a very male-dominated field and these guys are very manly men. When they go to the trade shows, they like to show their women off I guess because the first night (the night everyone got into town, and there were a lot of parties after the show) all the men were walking around in their t-shirts and jeans and their wives were following in mini skirts and heels. It was just ridiculous. I also felt very bad for the women representing their companies at the other booths - their employers either ignored the fact that they were women (and made them wear unisex or men's oversized T-shirts) or exploited it (making them wear high heels and short skirts). Thankfully the people in charge of getting company clothing in my office are all women, so they always give us a wide variety of options. I got to wear knit v-neck shirts and button-down blouses (actually, the best off-the-rack fit I've ever had in a button-down!). I was in tennis shoes because we had to stand at our booth all day, and my feet were aching by the end of the night. I can only imagine how much pain all those high-heeled women were in!

Temps randomly picked up to near 70 here late last week, so that brought out the booty shorts and crop tops! Not sure why, exactly- 70 isn't THAT warm, especially when it's mid-winter and there's no humidity.

But the real kicker was when the temps went back down... Lady in the mall (why is the mall the black hole of fashion?)... Full on Cruella DeVille get up... The bad teased-up-so-big-you-can-see-thought-it hair, the shiny lycra pants and bright red open toe platform super high heels (only with sweat socks. I swear. I have no idea why)... And the atrocious fur coat. Now I'm not a fur-wearer to begin with, I've never met a fur coat/stole/whatever that I've liked, plus I just don't think they're necessary for NJ winters. Minnesota, maybe, NJ, not so much. But this one was especially bad. It was... mangy. That's the only way I can describe it. It looked like it was made from a very sick animal. I mean, ok, wear fur if that's your thing, I'm not here to judge, but for the love of all things PETA, take care of it!

Tonight at Arby's three teen boys came in. To begin with all three of them had their pants riding so low that their belts ran right across the middle of their bu**s! To up the ante, one of the boys was heavy set, and was wearing the jeans that are skin tight on the calf and thigh, making him look like a beach ball on toothpicks. And finally one of the boys had a hair cut that was straight out of the 1980s new wave style book. The part ran horizontally across his head, about 3/4 of the way back. The front of his jet black hair--straight from the bottle--was combed down so his bangs completely covered his eyes, and hit him across the bridge of his nose, just below the eye sockets, and the back of his hair looked like he have been wearing a Roman helmet all day! Someone shoot me! Or them. I'm not picky!

Her outfit wasn't really scary...but I was scared for her.

I was at the mall the other day and saw a very tall woman, very pretty, cool outfit that worked well for her -- nice blouse, fitted jacket (not a suit style jacket; this was leather, kind of cropped and very cool), great jeans -- not too "skinny" but fit her well. She had stilleto boots, too.

The scary part? She had a toddler with her who was very determined to be very independent and kept running ahead. You know how toddlers can be randomly fast? This poor woman was really trying to keep up with her kid, but apparently couldn't run in those boots. She did a little scoot-run. I was so scared she'd turn an ankle.

I'm sure she let the kid run because he was too wound up to be carried. She'd probably fall if she tried to carry him!

I live and work in a University town, so I have ample opportunities for frights--LOL!

Today--tall, slender male in skin tight black jeans (I don't know how he got them over his feet!), white socks and black penny loafers; hair was white blonde underneath and blue-black on top; one of those "button" earrings in each ear; under the jean jacket was a retro T--Buster Brown and his dog!

Awww Buster Brown! Now that is cute. With teens who are generally trying to "find themselves" I am not to terribly judgemental, but those big wide gauge holes do creep me out. I see a lot of that in SF.

I live right near the beach so I am used to seeing {and wearing} casual clothes but today I had to go to Union Square and I was really amazed at how sloppy everyone looked! I saw one woman in a nice skirt ensemble and one lady in grey plaid pants and a red jacket who looked cute but so many people in draaaab, baggy clothes denim. Even people wearing expensive denims looked kind if drab.

Sunday, at a museum. A guy in loose-fitting brown leather pants and a loose-fitting black leather blazer. Everything was so wrong, too much leather, the cut, and the combination of black and brown.

I work as a cashier in a very large grocery store, so I see a LOT of scary things... however the very worst thing I saw was a heavyset woman (in her 40's) wearing a filthy Tee and jeans- and her arms, face and hands were dirt encrusted and as she was checking out, she stopped unloading her groceries, stood tall, lifted her Tee way up to wipe the sweat off her face, exposing her long, saggy b**bs! I kid you not....

scary things that occur often: A female coworker. I would guess size 12 or 14. Dressing in the wrong size. Pretty and curvy but dressed in like size 8/10 pants and tops that are too short to cover the muffin top. And too low so we see a whole lotta c1e@v@ge. She's nice and early 20's, but this is very unbecoming on her.
Does anyone else have a coworker who you wonder about? You wonder if they perecive themselves like the rest of the staff does.... I also feel very uncomfortable when she leans or bends over. lots of cr@ck...