What is the most bizarre fashion statement you ever made?

[EFerrari]

(That can be posted in the Lounge.)

H2O Man said something about square dancing and reminded me that when I was 9 or so, we had a square dancing unit at my grammar school. We all needed to come up with the right clothes to wear for some assembly where our parents would be guests.

My family was still in mourning for President Kennedy two years later so, my mom made me a purple dress in the style of dresses you wear to square dances. It had lace trim, with a thin black velvet ribbon running through the lace, around the neck and sleeves and at the ruffle around the hem. Petticoats and all that but she kept strictly to the colors of mourning as she knew them.

Most of the other kids wore normal bright colors but no one gave me a hard time for my purple mourning square dance dress. Bunch of liberals at my grammar school.

That was pretty bizarre. :crazy:

[fizzgig]

1. hard to say

i usually look like i got dressed in the dark :rofl:

[EFerrari]

3. Lol! The "girls" in my family were really uptight about how they were dressed

so I took every opportunity to find an excuse to dress as I wanted. Maybe that's why I liked gardening so much. :)

[fizzgig]

8. i have a few outfits i wear just to mortify my sister

i find it hilarious that she is so bothered by those outfits because she too looks like she got dressed in the dark.

am i a bad sister? :rofl:

[EFerrari]

11. LOL!

:rofl:

[livetohike]

2. I'm a child of the 60's so you name it and I wore it

I had a favorite dress which was green with purple polka dots the size of quarters. I wore it while we were on a family vacation in DC. We had a picture taken with a wax figure of LBJ and there I am, in my favorite dress :-).

[EFerrari]

5. Same here. After I turned teen, my closet looked more like a costume shop

than anything else. lol

[livetohike]

7. I saved some of my clothes and when my nieces had a dress up

day at school they went as hippies :-). Very cute. I only wish I could fit into them now.

[EFerrari]

10. I have one niece that I watch because she likes to play

and my brother and his ex aren't bent that way and they tend to worry when she tries new things. I sent her tie-dye when she was born, lol, and she still has that little t-shirt. A girl's gotta do. :)

[Chan790]

4. Plenty...

I like to dress uniquely. I dig spring-season scarves. Dress coats. I have a plaid trilby on layaway. (Hats are so fall.) I like dress pants and rarely wear slacks, dockers or khakis. Never jeans. I hate jeans. Denim is the worst feeling on skin ever.

[EFerrari]

6. You just haven't slept enough nights in a row in your jeans.

:rofl:

[terrya]

9. Doing drag

Although that thankfully ONE time couldn't be thought of as a "fashion statement". It was, in my particular case, just plain stupidity.

[EFerrari]

12. When I dress to accomodate other people, it always feels like drag.

Corporate drag, daughter in law drag, Mommy drag, producer drag -- you get the picture. :)

[XemaSab]

16. Oh, I hear ya

Anything outside jeans and a t-shirt feels odd... like drag. :D

[EFerrari]

17. We were talking about drag in one of my Shakespeare seminars

one day and there was this great moment when my mentor said, "Well, all women are in drag, anyway." And it was so funny because everyone sighed and nodded. Just for one minute, our wing of Wheeler Hall knew exactly what we were dealing with. lol

[tigereye]

45. I'm trying to picture you in drag...

intriguing...


I should show you a pic of one of my male family members in drag for Halloween one year - he looked better that most of we females did!

[Redstone]

13. I don't believe I've ever "made a fashion statement." Unless it counts that I wear

black pants and a dress shirt (Western, with snaps instead of buttons, when I can find them around here) and a black suit jacket (or a Navy-blue blazer) every day, and have done so for about 30 years.

Redstone

[EFerrari]

15. But, see, you can wear your snap Western shirt and it's your clothes.

If I wore that, it would be messaging. That's weird all by itself.

I used to have an "invisibility" section in my closet. Every item in there would guarantee that I could fly right under the radar. It was anti-drag. :)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

14. My dress

for our square dance event in 4th grade (1958) was black with lots of gold rick-rack. My mom made it along with the shirt worn by my partner. I still have a picture of our square taken in the school cafeteria. (Wonder what happened to those people, I remember only one from HS).
In college, I has this dress with about five or six neon colors. Looked like something out of Laugh In. The only compliment I got was from my Art History prof who was considered 'eccentric.'

[EFerrari]

19. There is a picture of me in that dress holding my baby brother.

We were both laughing at the same time. But, it's black and white so you don't really get the funereal effect of its purpleness. :)

[Inchworm]

18. JUMP! Silly!

he is ok now...

:hi:

[many a good man]

20. One halloween I went out as the Flaming Carrot

"I like my coffee piping hot."
...
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Piping hot!"

[Xipe Totec]

21. Are you ready for this? (No pics)...

Interviewing for my first job, with an aerospace firm (not important which)...

Red T-shirt with breast pocket.

Red and white box of Marlboro's in said breast pocket.

Red and white plaid polyester pants, with wide bell bottoms and cuffs.

White braided leather belt.

Red-white-and-blue suede elevator shoes.

a white lab coat.

And a full 6-inch afro.

[Chan790]

23. I don't suppose you got the job?

I know if someone walked into my office (when I had an office) for a job interview dressed as a smoking clown that'd make an impression on me.

[Xipe Totec]

26. Got the job

offer in hand, 6 months before graduation.

And a 30% raise three months after starting the job...

... at the Johnson Space Center.

[Xipe Totec]

28. PS: Forgot to mention, full beard...

:rofl:

[LisaM]

24. Well?

Did you get the job?

[Xipe Totec]

27. see above...

[EFerrari]

29. I bet those pants would get you a fortune on eBay right now.

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

43. You know, I looked in e-Bay and can't find the exact pattern

It was a WIDE plaid, the stripes were about 1 1/2" to 2" across.

The bell bottoms were about 24" circumference.

Not what you might call, a subtle pattern.

Yet, for the time (1977) it did not seem out of place.

[LisaM]

22. We had these kind of Benjamin Franklin outfits my grandmother made us for Thanksgiving

They had knickers and overshirts made of dark green velvet. The pants had two-inch lace ruffles at the bottom, and the sleeves (3/4 length) had longer ruffles. They were capped with lace jabots, and we wore them with white tights and black Mary Janes.

They really set off our stringy hair and glasses.

I have no idea what inspired them - probably Betsy McCall or something. They were very, very odd.

[Magrittes Pipe]

25. I wore nothing but a diaper to a college party called "Dressed to Get Laid."

[LanternWaste]

30. I did this one time and one time only...

I did this one time and one time only...

When I was in sixth grade, I wore an orange leisure with the precise same pattern as the upholstery of an early seventies Volkswagen Beetle suit to school.


(Not quite this bad, but you get the idea...)

[ThomCat]

31. I used to have a stripe bleached in my hair

from above my left temple to the nape of my neck. I had it colored a different bright color every month while I had it. :)

[av8rdave]

32. A couple....

Either these sunglasses,



Or this shirt:



Not my normal type of wardrobe...a friend I was riding with at the time had just given it to me, and I felt obligated to wear it.

[MicaelS]

33. I shaved my head once, never again.

I looked like a Klingon with all the ridges in my scalp. That is NOT a joke. I tried to take a picture and the camera broke. That isn't a joke either. :cry:

[applegrove]

34. When I was a teen wearing rubber boots and heavy socks in winter was in.

[mulsh]

35. In order to mess with our boss I started wearing all black and

silver, skeleton themed jewelry. Our boss had started picking on certain people in the factory and a couple of us decided to change the way we dressed, rather than doing anything violent to her.

I had been dressing in standard jeans and tshirts. I didn't wear any make up or dye my hair black or anything just wore an all black wardrobe for months on end. One thing I did during meetings with our boss was to make sure the boss noticed a skeletal hand shaped ring I wore on one hand then switch it to a silver band. I'd do this through out the meetings. that trick usually got her attention, poor over medicated thing. eventually she kept asking me why I only wear black. I told her I didn't only wear black. which was true, away from work it was jeans and t-shirts.

oh at one job the boss who as an old friend, didn't care for my bow ties so I wore bow ties exclusively for about a year and half.

still do in spite of that Carlson clod.

[unpossibles]

36. I used to be known as "Captain Distasteful" and still am sometimes

I occasionally get a kick out of seeing just how many clashing patterns and/or colors I can squeeze into one outfit.

[MadrasT]

37. Black leather and pink hair

I went through a phase in the 80's that involved a lot of black leather, spike heeled pumps, and hair dyed grapefruit pink. While attending an out-in-the-sticks college where my dad was a professor. People did NOT dress like that there at that time.

It was glorious.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

38. Back in college in the late sixties, I had a crushed vinyl raincoat with

matching hat and boots, as well as a crushed vinyl purse.

[Diabolita23]

39. the dark cowgirl?

heh, I wore cowboy boots and spurs to school under all black, with a black wool trenchcoat. Keep in mind I'm a lady...

[FloridaJudy]

40. Those six-inch platform shoes

I bought in the seventies, under the delusion they would make me look thinner. Instead I just looked like an overweight idiot who was tottering around on half a foot of cork. The seventies probably turned more people into Fashion Victims than any other time in history.

Oh, and once I dyed my hair green - but that was an accident. Also in the seventies.

And here's how I looked at the Medieval Faire this year. This time I had no excuses.

[Z_I_Peevey]

41. For a very brief time in the eighties,

I succumbed to the big-baggy-pants and spindly high heels fad. Oh God, I cringe just to think of it.

[MilesColtrane]

42. Bright mustard yellow parachute pants.

Don't laugh. They got me laid.

[Adsos Letter]

44. stripped down naked...

tied a full-size American flag around my neck and went twirling up the street, clacking my fingers like Carmen Miranda and her castinets, while bellowing out the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"...

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I take my meds now.

[tigereye]

46. how much time do you have?

:rofl:


At one time for me, every day was kind of like Halloween before I had to dress more professionally. I wish I had some pics of me in my "only orange and purple clothing" phase. Followed by the "several layers phase" in the 80, preceding the current trend for layering.

(and I was in grad school at the time.)

[Left Is Write]

47. I was in my early teens through my early twenties in the 1980s.

Does that give you any idea? :D

[Dr. Strange]

48. "Get my underwear off your head!"

[mopinko]

49. i went through a purple phase.

in high school. i wouldn't wear anything but purple, and would wear every shade of purple together. now i am so picky about color that thinking back at some of those promiscuous combinations makes me shudder.
it is a good memory to have, tho, when i look at my teenagers.

[u4ic]

50. I dressed like Boy George

for a high school presentation (in 1984) and then wore the costume and makeup for the rest of the day.

I went to a Catholic, uniformed high school. It was a 'dress as you will' day. I got a few looks. :P

[GoddessOfGuinness]

51. Pink ruffled jumpsuit

I wore it a couple of times. It was cute until you had to take off your clothes just to go to the bathroom.

[Fox Mulder]

52. When I was a kid, I wore Zubaz to school.

:wtf: was I thinking???

[struggle4progress]

53. I pioneered the "Amish Punk" look. But all you tasteless American culture pigs failed to adopt it.