Clothes you used to think were cool (illustrated)
 

I think this is a fine time to bring up our personal fashion horrors from times past.

I wore tuffskins when I was a kid. You know the jeans with the big-ass knee patches? I was teased big time.

I bought parachute pants when I got old enough to buy my own clothes,

I finally wised up, got married and now I wear what I am told.

I am a handsome man, not sure how I look tho.

i wore the same shirt 2 years in a row for school pictures once. It was a new shirt, but my mom had gotten another one because she liked it, and forgot that I had worn it the year before. pretty funny.

I not only had tough skins, I had Garanimals. Yeah, baby, yeah!

And at one point, I had an entire outfit of Dallas Cowboys clothes. socks, sneakers, underwear, jeans with a helmet on the pocket, a shirt, sweatshirt,a jacket, mittens and a knit hat.

i used to have a few pairs of these:

and i wore this same exact t-shirt all the time:

I had a T-shirt that said "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here"

And then the phrase became popular for a while and the shirt was hack and no longer clever.

And I had some men's bikini underwear until I got fat. sorry for the mental image this conjures up

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Back in the 1988 era, I wore leather ties.
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Much to the chagrin of practically every female in my life, I have less than zero interest in flashy dressing. So I don't have any past fashion disasters to apologize for. My mom despaired at my choice of a plain black tuxedo for the prom when light blue and taupe (think Ben Stiller in "There's Something About Mary") were all the rage for tuxes.

I now have a suit and a couple sport coats that I drag out for special occasions when needed, and my tuxedo for concerts. But beyond that I pretty much wear khakis and button-down shirts, with occasional jeans and tshirts. Mrs. Dallas considers it insufferably boring, but it means I don't have to think about what I wear and that's how I like it.

Bolo ties. God, I feel so dirty.

Just wait for Cellar gear to get hot.

Leisure suit. Miami Vice wear. Baja pullover (whatever we called those rough cotton things). Carharts. Its been a long strange trip.

jeans with a chinamen collar button down and a vest.

and a woven leather belt.

I was a child of the 80's coming of age in the 90's. It was not a pretty time to be clothed.

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If I didn't know better, I would swear you were my brother by that description. Are you into classic rock and car engines? :)

I'm hoping everyone else is too young to remember Nehru jackets & fruit-boots...
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Hey, I had one of those Baja pullovers! Man, I was the shit when I wore that thing back in the day. The chicks would come running, and I -- well -- I would have no idea what to do.