What fashion trends do you hate?

Fashion is a reflection of society, and from the look of things, our society is regressing. The 21st Century doesn't look at all the way I had envisioned it. A lot of the current trends aren't so "current."

FOR MEN: What's up with the facial hair? Didn't they get the memo that the hippie era was over with by the 1980s? Beards were fashionable in the 19th Century; once the safety razor became widely available circa 1900 there was no longer any reason to walk around looking like a fur trapper.

FOR WOMEN: The tightly pulled-back hair tied up into a bun was fashionable for an 1860s schoolteacher. The giant fake eyelashes with loaded-on mascara belong to the 1960s.

FOR BOTH SEXES: There is a general trend towards slovenly attire in public. I believe in dressing comfortably but some take it too far. The way some people dress in restaurants is enough to make you lose your appetite. Then there's the sleazy tattoos, piercings and "plug" earrings which do permanent damage to the body. And they spend big money on this stuff.

Many of today's celebrities and pro athletes look like they stepped out of a time machine from the Woodstock Festival with their hippie hair and beards. If this weren't bad enough, now they have started covering their arms with trashy tattoos. Pro athletes are supposed to represent their team and the city or region in which they play. Kids idolize and want to emulate sports stars. Do they ever stop and think about what kind of message they are sending to impressionable children? I'm surprised the team owners haven't said something about this.

Come on, folks. Let's start taking pride in our appearances once again. It's fine to dress casually, but show some dignity and self-respect.

As a guy I hate when certain trends catch on it feels like every guy does them and looks exactly the same so I really don’t like tattoos, men’s skinny jeans, and beards.

Men:

Baseball type caps worn backwards

Short pants with black athletic socks and those striped blue & white Addidas sandals

"Popped" collars on polo type shirts

Women:

Those sunglasses with hideously large frames with each lens seemingly 4 inches in diameter. They make every woman who wear them look bitchy and full of attitude. Basically the 'Jersey Shore' look.

This is an old one, in the 90's during the Spice Girls thing platform shoes were really popular with women. I was working a lot of concierge shifts at the time and I would see these attractive women walk in wearing bricks on their feet. Looked awful. I never understand why strippers wear those chunky shoes either. It does nothing to compliment the line from the legs and ankle.

Also flip flops seem to be really popular now and are ugly. As well as people who only wear track pants even if they do not look athletic at all.

Face, neck and hand tattoos.

Earlobe stretching earrings.

Jeans with holes and tears in them. The fact that people will stupidly spend $50 to $100 on a pair of jeans like that makes me shake my head.

I hate ripped jeans. I think it's silly to see wealthy people and even older people wearing ripped jeans. Ripped jeans used to be for bums but they are now fashionable.

I don't like frivolous trends in general; they only highlight the fact that most people are fickle and sheep-like. The only trends I like are ones that have some sort of functional improvement over the old way of doing things, such as the trend toward front disc brakes on cars rather than drum brakes that started in the 1960s and became standard practice in the 1970s.

Fashion trends are just people trying to look good, and then other people see it and think that if they copy them, they'll look good too. The funny thing about it is: as if by magic, what looked good to them yesterday looks bad to them today, even though nothing has changed other than the "pattern" of chaotic misfirings in their haphazardly-wired brains.