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Because, let’s face it, it wasn’t us. We were just following our idols. We trusted them to lead us to a beautiful world of hot fashion trends and beautiful designs. We believed that, by mimicking their fashion styles, we too, would be fashionable. How were we to know they would betray us with such horrors as…double denim. We weren’t to know women’s straight cut jeans didn’t need, or want, a matching denim jacket and denim hat.
We can laugh at it now, right? Let’s look back and laugh (and cry) together over the weirdest fashion trends we all subscribed to…
Corsets On Top
Underwear is meant to be worn, well, under our outfits. Unless you’re a celebrity. It was Madonna who made underwear as outerwear famous in the nineties with her cone-shaped corset designed by Jean Paul Gaultier (thankfully, this garment never met the high street). Lindsay Lohan was also once seen on the catwalk with a black corset top layered over a white shirt — paired with a bootcut jean of course. In 2018, we’ve seen the Kardashians bring the trend back with a ‘mini corset’ worn around the waist to show off curves over a loose shirt dress. Other celebrity influencers have also taken on the trend, although they’re not as big as some of the trends we’ve seen.
Denim overalls were another quirky fashion trend from this time. A low-maintenance look made famous by the Fresh Prince and other nineties celebs. If you wanted to look uber cool, you’d wear it with one strap undone.
Crop Them Or Match Them?
The nineties and early noughties saw a trend for cropped trousers, which was wonderful for those of us who couldn’t be bothered to shave all of our legs because we only needed to shave the lower half of our legs. Hurray! For a jean — pedal pushers were definitely in and they were either denim or a pale pastel shade. This denim trend was rocked by fashionistas at the time including the Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera. It seems this one is coming back around too, with many celebrities sporting their designer cropped jeans – Jennifer Lawrence wore them with heels and a sheer top for Dior’s SS17 Paris show and Selena Gomez has been spotted in a pair, teamed with patent loafers and a casual white shirt.
Cropped combat trousers were also big. British girl band, All Saints, was a fan of this fad and rocked cargo pants, crop tops (having your midriff on show in the 90s was compulsory too, apparently) and trainers with the tongue out of the trouser leg.
If your preferred your trousers to cover your shins, there was always the two-piece tracksuit. It was Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Paris Hilton who started this trend off. Britney even had her bridal party dressed in two-piece tracksuits ahead of her wedding to Kevin Federline. Then, they became slightly over-worn by more Z-list celebs and fell off the radar…
Fancy footwork
It’s thanks to the Spice Girls that platform shoes took off. Whether they were white tennis shoes, lace-up boots or sandals, they had to have a huge platform to allow you to stomp around. We’ve seen this trend return with Rihanna’s range of Puma platformed trainers and (for something more alternative) Gucci’s rainbow platform metallic sneakers that are currently on sale.
Then there were jelly shoes. It is thought that they were invented due to a leather shortage during World War II, leading to a French shoemaker creating shoes from plastic. This is one of the trends that has come and gone throughout the years, with a surge of the shoes in 2002 and another rise to popularity in 2009.
Fashion trends always seem to return again and again, so maybe we’ll be sporting some double denim again soon. And, there’s bound to be many more fads to come that we’ll cringe at before buying into.
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