The Decade’s 10 Goofiest Fashion Trends

Though the “Aughts” weren’t the Most Embarrassing Decade — it’ll be awhile before the 70s are ever dethroned– the last ten years certainly didn’t go without their share of regrettable trends. Below are the ten we think best exemplify where we went wrong this time around. So pay attention, people! We don’t want these things to happen again!

#10 Ugg Boots

Yes, we know they’re comfortable. But so are sweatpants. If girls get to walk around all day in a pair of Uggs, I get to walk around all day in my  bathrobe.

#9 Ed Hardy

Basically our decade’s version of Body Glove. Loud, ugly, and inexplicably “high end,” at least for a while. Got money burning a hole in your pocket? Think about buying big-boy clothes without flaming skulls.

#8 Designer Trucker Hats

If you’re going to wear a trucker hat, at least have the balls to wear one Grandpa would’ve rocked. Anything else is weak sauce.

#7 Crocs

If Uggs are the footwear equivalent of a comfy pair of sweatpants, Crocs are cheap tearaway trainers: socially repugnant, ugly and not comfortable. When you wear plastic clothing, you are just telling the world that you didn’t want to get laid anyways.

#6 The Tramp Stamp

Oh, those poor, poor girls.  Despite all your urges to do so, don’t point out how silly those women will look when they’re old. They know already, and think about it all the time.

#5 The Emo Haircut

Quit taking pictures of yourself looking at the ground for your Facebook for two seconds, and get that crap out of your eyes! Your tool-itude is driving us crazy.

#4 Skinny Jeans on Fat People

We are not saying that everyone has to start starving themselves. But if your jeans are squeezing fat rolls out like a tube of toothpaste, it’s time to think about going to “relaxed” fit.

#3 Gargantuan Sunglasses

Sometimes you shouldn’t take trends to their logical extreme. It’s not some algebraic equation wherein the bigger sunglasses get the cooler they become. So stop treating it that way!

#2 Fake Vintage Shirts

Thanks, Napoleon Dynamite. Now the whole world can buy irony at the nearest Hot Topic.

#1 Shiny Striped Shirts

Ideally worn opened halfway down the chest, exposing your shaved, orange pecs.