Fashions and Fads that are just Fugs

So through my existence I have partaken in many terrible fashion choices and have also been lucky enough to steer clear of many of them as well. Let’s take it back to say 7th grade (jr. high/middle school), because this is where I could no longer get away with just being me, and I’m sure this is the same for others as well. Entering jr. high means suddenly going to school with kids you’ve never met before who came from different elementary schools & neighborhoods. It is at this point that you suddenly realize that you need all new clothes because everyone else is wearing (fill in the blank) and you didn’t even know it existed! So, I can recall pleading with my mother with constant “everyone has it” to get all these “cool” clothes/shoes/accessories. My first victory was my Esprit book bag, all the girls had them & they were super pricey, for book bags. This was a fairly decent fad but it only led to some of the worst apparel choices I ever made. After this I did the diaper pants, hammer pants, used jeans, super oversized shirts, overalls with the one strap hanging off, body suits with huge jeans, pegged pants, stirrup pants with the long sweater, leggings, fedoras, jean jacket decked out with AuCoton pins, patent leather shoes with a thick sole & big bows, stacked socks, tennis shoes with no laces, penny loafers, the list honestly goes on and on. Well, once jr. high was over we moved on to high school & things only got worse. From 9th grade to 12th grade I went from a total prep to a grungy hippie chick & I hit every fashion faux pas rung on the way down. I was honestly most comfy in my hippie stage because I wore flannels & baggy jeans/cords, I didn’t wash my hair, I sported converse tennis shoes daily & my look took no effort at all other than some dark lipstick & black lip liner (true story). After high school I got fat but started to get kind of back to my preppy ways & now I’d say I’m trendy-ish/classic, fashionable in my own right, because labels are no longer important to me, sales are! So now that I dress in my own style I still keep up on trends & generally avoid most of them, but there are some that I severely question & when I see people wearing them I just don’t get it. Why do women wear a dress & then wear jeans underneath it? Why are leggings back? Why do people wear Uggs…in the summer? Why do people who don’t work in the medical profession wear crocs? Why do girls pull their thong straps out above their pants? Why do women wear sweat pants in public that have words across the ass? Why does anyone wear those stove pipe jeans with the giant legs? When I was recently in Vegas I noticed this new dress trend & it’s only asking for the wrong people to be wearing it, these dresses are skin tight around the ass/hip area & barely cover the booty but then the top is all baggy & bubbled out like & they are generally solid colored & bright yellow or hot pink & hideous! To me, this is the type of dress that I would wear with jeans because it’s barely longer than a shirt but it seems when ladies wear pants with a dress, the dress is already knee length or longer so I ask again, what is the effing point? In conclusion I say that you should totally find your identity, but you should also look your best, not your worst just for the sake of fads. A dress is a dress & should be worn alone, pants are pants & should be worn with tops, if you are fat you shouldn’t wear anything skin tight. Summer is right around the corner so lets try to get ourselves looking our best, not our worst.