Details Magazine Picks: The worst trends of the last decade
2010 will expire in a few months and thus, prepare yourself for an onslaught lists related to the past decade. Details takes the first shot with a quick slide show of their picks for the worst trends of the last 10 years. But don’t you have to raise an eyebrow & ask: “at some point, didn’t Details suggest some if not most of these?”
You know what to do, click on over to Details for the slide show, then c’mon back for a top three worst of their picks, plus additions from us. Feel free to leave any other most-hated trends in the comments section below.
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The Worst of their Worst
3. The indoor knit cap – A major sign that you’re trying too hard to look like you don’t care.
2. Skinny Jeans – At what point during the struggle to put them on, does the wearer not think: “Why?”
1. The Deep V Neck T-shirt – Leave it to the ladies fellas.
And some Dappered.com additions:
3. Carrot Fit Pants – Like skinny jeans, only worse. Looser towards the top and through the seat, then tapered to the ankle. It’s like they’re purposely trying to make us laugh. (See ASOS and their carrot fit)
2. Over-sized, droopy, acetate Aviators – Example: The Carrera Endurance. Was the inspiration for the silhouette shop goggles? They stick out in the same kind of awful way that a bad pair of breast implants do. They’re just so… there. Unavoidable in their presence.
1. Faux paint splattered “work” clothes – This goes a step beyond pre-ripped jeans or baseball caps. Not only are they trying to sell you the appearance of pre-worn, they’re trying to sell you the appearance of physical labor. Everyone from high end designers to The Gap jumped on board. And thankfully, they seem to have been rebuffed.
Your turn. Agreements? Disagreements? Want to add a terrible trend that got missed? Leave it all in the comments section below…
Definitely going to have to disagree with “skinny ties” and “bow ties” being mistakes. FIRSTLY, I want to point out that obviously they need to be done right (as with anything in style) but to dismiss them absolutely is wrong. I think they’re entirely acceptable ways to change up what hangs from your collar. Skinny ties offer variation in shape, in the same way as a knit tie offers variation in material. There IS a “too skinny”, when it starts looking more like a shoelace than a tie… but I don’t think the picture of the guy on the left (Zac Efron?) in their example looks bad at all… maybe a little informal for a black tie event, but not looking BAD.
Bowties, same deal, needs to be done right. Kanye isn’t doing it right in the picture they show. I think the key to a good bowtie is a lack of shine, and a colour other than black — a bowtie is eccentric, but don’t try to “balance” that out with a subtle colour, make it the visual center of your look by instead wearing a shirt and blazer with subtle colours and micro- or no-pattern. Bowties also look great with tweed more than anything else, a classic combination.
I have to agree on tess the tyrant on skniny ties and partly agree on bow ties.
Yes wearing a bow tie is eccentric and so, to avoid going over the top, better keep it simple and not step into the too much.
About skinny jeans: I guess that is a usual mistake of mine since I tend to lean towards a more pop punk state of mind and as such, paramore, the all american rejects, 30 second to mars are some of my references during my more casual moments. and I guess carrot fit pants somehow someway slides into this at some point, even if the one from asos is way too high waisted
I think they missed three obvious ones:
1. The ridiculous oversized horn rimmed glasses that fashion challenged people use to demonstrate their cleverness
2. Camo which for a while there was common on everything from hats to jeans
3. The growing trend of t-shirts as dressing up. Not just the jersey shore crowd thinks this way. I have friends that work 9 to 5 business casual jobs that believe that throwing on an affliction t-shirt or similar overpriced shirt counts as dressing up. Clearly not for weddings, but for upscale birthday parties/dinners.
I also disagree with the skinny tie, to a point. I think that Chris Pine looks fine. the tie isnt ultra skinny and matches his lapels, but that model just looks ridiculous.
And I like bow ties. I actually wear one on occasion myself. It does take some confidence and if done right it can look different in a good way. I agree that Knye West is the worst choice and probably why it made the worst trends list. I mean c’mon, bow tie with a denim jacket!?
Skinny tie = good
Anorexic tie = bad
Anyone have an Ed Hardy store near them? We have one in Dallas at one of the nicer malls and wow, place looks like a circus. The employees there, head to toe in Ed Hardy, look like they hate their lives. Dragons, lions, and tigers….no thanks.
Big floppy shoes. DC makes them as do several others. They took the 1980-1990s hitop and the skater shoe and combined them into one over the top floppy show that looks 5 sizes too big for the foot.
Saggy pants also go on the list. If someone wanted to see your underwear they probably want to see you naked, so they would probably work on getting you naked gents. Seeing your pants cupping the bottom of your butt is not enjoyable. At all.
I definitely disagree with the bow tie – I know plenty of people who can pull them off. The one time I’ve worn one, I got tons of compliments and everyone I know who wears them almost always receives a compliment when they sport one. It takes a certain amount of confidence and definitely good taste.
As for the fedora, I think it all depends on if you own it or not. If you’re just wearing a fedora to be ironic or hip, then that’s pretty lame, but if you’re rocking the fedora with your suit, then I think that’s solid.
“A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.”
— David Sedaris
Bow ties are precisely NOT a trend of the past decade. Really, how often do you see one worn by a real person in real life? They are always eccentric and always old fashioned, which is just exactly why I wear them. Plus they don’t flop and blow around.
David Sedaris does not give me an erection. Fly the bow tie!
I could never pull of a bow tie myself, and think they’re a bit over used by some. But points to Alan. I laughed at that one.
Pardon the pun, but I think Details are getting the details wrong. Skinny ties look significantly better than any corporate power ties. Hovering around 2 inches wide will look great, getting down to a 1 inch tie starts to get into the absurd.
Also, using Kevin Federline twice as an example for terrible headwear is funny, particularly his hideous “fedora”, but if you shell out some coin for one at a respectable hat shop and wear it right, why is that such a bad thing? It seems like Details doesn’t want men to keep their heads warm or protected from the sun. Stay away from cheap trilby hats at Target and you should be pretty safe.
Bow ties, arguable. Tough to wear right, but still possible. Everything else I pretty much agree on. I’d rather see a preppy overload, though, than a Ed Hardy overload.
At first I couldn’t quite determine what was bugging me about the prep overload… but now I can see that it’s just the dandy-ness in this picture. If some of those pieces were a lot more subtle, it would definitely be ok. As a whole, it works though.
Rolled pants cuffs is a silly trend right now. Unless one is on a boat dock and wearing boat shoes and actually trying to avoid getting the cuff’s of one pants wet, don’t roll them. If you like them with no break and showing a little bit of sock or ankle, then see your tailor, don’t roll them up. Thanks for allowing me to rant on my little pet peeve.
In the Mens Gap store near St Marks Place, NYC, last year I saw a huge stock of paint splattered khakis marked down to $6 and $7. I still couldn’t bring myself to buy any. So ugly… Hopefully some homeless people got them.
i disagree with the skinny jeans. everyone i know wears them, including myself. they say that the new trend is 50s high-waist jeans with a flare leg. WHO DOES THAT?!?! i am saying yet again, that skinny jeans are NOT a don’t. and everyone that doesnt wear them always complains about them being impossible to put on, when all you do is point your foot and pull them up! is that really that hard? X| ??
Not a fan of neckwear being used for a hip change-up. Skinny ties are so informal and silly to me. I can’t see them going over well in any event where a tie is actually required. As for bow ties, I am only used to them on older men. Younger guys look like they are pulling some style conscious move or oddball self-amusement when they wear them.
Skinny jeans are a no for me as well. Get jeans that fit and flatter, don’t go extreme on either end of the fit scale. They can skim your thighs, but they really shouldn’t be so easy to get the proportions of just by seeing your jeans.
I dissagree with the bow tie style trend and the fedora. I do have a problem with the cheap 10 dollar walmat versions that makes my grandfathers stetson fedora I wear look bad