(MSc) Sebinomics

Regina Castelberg put together the ten worst fashion trends in her article on tagesanzeiger.ch. I really needed to share this with you. It’s hilarious!

1. 1950s: Brassieres in the 1950s didn’t really highlight the natural shape of a woman’s body.

The 1950s Bra

2. 1960s: This kind of hair would have made Marge Simpson envious. 

Influencing Marge Simpson

3. 1968: Hippies and bell-bottoms rose and fell together. “How did people recognize that these pants’ bell bottom was too much bell-bottom? You had to think of an elephant when you saw those pants,” said Regina Castelberg, and I agree.
Picture: KEYSTONE/AP

The Boll-Bottoms

4. Sweatbands, as used by John Travolta, got very popular in the beginning of the 1980s and made cool guys like Travolta look like a girlish teenager. I think he looks cooler in Face/Off.

The Sweatband

5. 1980s: Neon-leggings, or leggings in general, as worn by Married With Children character Peggy Bundy, were/are considered to be a real turn off–not only Al Bundy found them tremendously ugly.

Neon-leggings

6. In the 1980s pop star Sandra Cretu wore jackets with big shoulder pads. Until today, no one really knows why even women felt the need to have shoulders like Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

Shoulder Pads

7. Seems as if we’re stuck in the 1980s. Remember our good ol’ Jelly Shoes? I loved them as a little kid, started hating them as a teenager!

The Jelly Shoes Cult

8. The 1990s saw the rise of the bib overalls as fashionable and trendy. I found them rather comfortable and cool. Nonetheless, I realized they didn’t make me as cool as I thought they would, when my bandmates made me take them off before a gig, because I looked stupid.

Bib Overall

9. The outfit of the rebellious teenager of the 1990s was the Grunge fashion, made popular by the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Somehow I felt that it looked very cool on him and his peers such as members of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains, but looked (and smelled) rather bad on teenagers not understanding the implications. 

The Grunge Fashion

10. The techno community saw their plateau sneakers as a trademark of their way of life and didn’t wear them only for their raves. The monstrous shoes found their way into daily life as an eye-catcher and to provide a few centimeters more to people who are not happy with their height.

Plateau Sneakers