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