Bookgirl is Begging the Question. Like, Totally.

I was walking through the West Village today, and I saw a girl. (Technically she was a woman, but I consider anyone under 25 a girl. Sorry, Pandora.) So this girl was wearing jeans. Acid-washed jeans. With ankle zippers and little bows at the top of the zippers. Shudder.

I owned those jeans in the late 80s. And I rocked them, tucked into my aqua slouch socks and my leather hi-tops. Rocked. Them.

But there was one catch. See, the trend coincided with that awkward period when shaving was new. Which meant that my ankles were gashed up for that whole  time. Scabs meet zippers and well... You can imagine the rest.

My aunt always told me sometimes you have to put up with pain to look good. And anyone who's seen my shoe collection knows that I'm willing to bleed for fashion. But still, ouch...

I think of a whole new generation of girls in those jeans. Those poor little ankles.

So tell me, what fashion trend do you hope will never come back?

Comments

[Polly Poppins]

I think it's too late, but: day glo. I hate day glo. I just do.

If there is one thing I really and truly adore about being in my thirties, its the ability to wholesale ignore trends I don't like without feeling the slightest bit awkward about it. I just take one look at skinny jeans and say, yeah, I'm waiting that one out.

[The Dol]

Skinny jeans would be at the top of my list, but they've already come back (shouldn't they be back *out* of style again yet?).

Since that's done, I guess the next one for me would be high-rise pants. You know, the unflattering "Mom jean" look. I totally get why people like them--they hold in the "Mom tummy," but they look bad in every other possible way.

Oh, and mullets.

[Mia]

neon animal print leggings.

[Bookgirl]

Polly, I agree about waiting out trends. When I lost the 70 pounds last year, I was able to reconstruct almost an entire wardrobe from items I had kept from before I gained it. I try to keep my clothes classic. And I can go years without buying a particular item if everything in the store would look bad on me. That said, if anyone who follows trends hears that skirts are about to become long and/or poofy, can you give me a heads up so I can stock up on black minis? Thanks.

Dol, Mullets. Ugh. Does anyone else watch American Idol? I don't care how talented he is. The kid with the mullet should be voted off for bad hair alone.

Mia, I don't remember that ever being in fashion. It may very well have happened after I was old enough to ignore trends. See above.

[kelly]

Anything neon! Ugh, it just doesn't make anyone look good!

[Pandora]

Crocs:

Never wore them, never will.
Anyone over the age of seven should never even consider putting them on. I don't care if you claim they're comfortable!

[Pandora]

For the record, I enjoy my skinny jeans.

[Alice]

I love my crocs, Pandora - I wear them to take the dogs out and get the mail, etc. They are totally my house slippers.

Polly - what the heck is day glo?

Dol - right on mullets...

When I was in elementary it was super cool to wear like 2 or 3 pairs of different colored socks. Or maybe it wasn't - but I was doing it. A LOT. I hope to Hank I never have to do that to be cool again.

[Diosa]

Mullets = Yuck.
Mom Jeans = Hideous.

I do remember rocking day-glo, hi-tops, skinny jeans and layered sox. I think it may have been possible I did it all in the same outfit.

I'd like to see palazzo pants go out permanently. And the feathered hair and heavy black eyeliner, I'm done with that look too.

I could also live w/out grunge coming back. And I'd love if the boys wearing pants with their underwear hanging out phase is over by the time mine hit pubery.

My son totally rocks his crocs and he's almost 9. I have never been able to wear them myself, though.

[The Dol]

@Alice, I did the multiple socks, too! And did you do that fancy roll-up of the jeans so that they tapered? Also, layered polo shirts.

@Diosa, yes! The boys with the pants hanging down is so wrong. I thought for sure it was a passing fad, but it's "hung around" (ha ha!) for years now. I don't know that I will ever understand that one.

[Finch]

i am surprised no one has mentioned acid washed jeans. they are absolutely horrible and sadly they are trying their best to make the come back. there is this one girl in my studio that wear them all time with her dock martins and all i can think is "do you think it's the 80s?"

oo and they are now colored and skinny also. while i do like my skinny jeans as well acid washed with purple die is just no bueno.

[Pandora]

Finch, I ♥ you despite all your spelling errors. Beware, you're in a blog full of literature and writing junkies.

[Pandora]

That funky symbol was meant to be a heart, but you know that I love you.

[The Dol]

Pandora, don't scare her! Gawd. We love Finch, whoever she is, and we especially like that speaks Spanglish. And we are speaking in the third person now, apparently. Weird.

[Finch]

dang, i thought about running it through word but was like nah, i read over it...and all it errors. sorry to all...hope can decipher it.

[Mia]

@Bookgirl. Its mostly my mom's fault as this happened when i wasn't old enough to dress myself. so...

[Bookgirl]

Mia, I'm older than you, so there are pictures of me in the late 70s rocking plaid polyester bell bottoms. I feel your pain.

[Bookgirl]

And dude! What happened to Chance?? Someone might need to make a joke about masturbation or come up with a pet name for their juicy bits quick, before I go into withdrawl...

[Pandora]

Dol, Finch isn't going anywhere. She's only the second leading lady in my life. You doll face, of course, are the first.

[teag bag]

hm....I would have to say that platform wedges should never return, or even exist. Oh, and Pandora, I'm sure you can indeed pull off a pair of skinny jeans but most of the whiny little boys who try cannot. Of course, those lycra bike shorts from the 90's of my youth should be dropped into a gaping pit of doom. I do, however, believe we should bring back late 18th century men's fashions, like short pants and stockings with powdered wigs. I could so rock that.

[Pandora]

Teag Bag, thanks old chap. If you're getting a powdered wig, I want a corset!!!

[teag bag]

We'd all look like pirates or King George. Either are good looks.

[Chance]

Sorry bookgirl I have been at back to back to back four hour interviews this week. As much as I love to talk about myself, this process is making blood come out of my ears.
@BTQ As a man that likes to look good in and out of clothes I have to say I try to avoid trends as much as possible. But I do look back fondly on the days of camo pants with the red bandana tied at the calf. Of course my mom still has the picture of me in my miami vice outfit...and then the whole flannel-I am too depressed to move-I could cure elizabeth wurtzel's sadness if she would just sleep with me- time period. But after that I tend to just go more classic in style. So now the only time clothes look better then when they are on me is when they are on your bedroom floor.

[The Dol]

Did anybody else get an image of Chance's eyebrows sort of wiggling up and down when they got to the last line of his comment?

And I glad Finch back. Have good happy! Tatonka.

[Bookgirl]

Chance, When you did come back, you brought it right to sex. I knew we could count on you...

[Chance]

Bookie...I am a man. Therefore even though I can talk about the inner workings of the Senate, why Thomas Friedman is always on my cocktail party guest list, and how although Dom Perignon did not invent Champagne, he did develop many advances in production of the drink, including holding the cork in place with a wire collar (muselet) to withstand the fermentation pressure. I would much rather talk about a little
ba chicka bow wow!