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Win with Ariel and get rid of bad dress sense!

November 20, 2012 - By 

Are you one of the 1 in 10 British women who have admitted to intentionally ruining one of their partner’s items of clothes just because they didn’t like it? It’s not just women, apparently a quarter of British men and women frequently ask their partners to change their outfits because they’re embarrassed to be seen with them!

I must be lucky as my husband’s wardrobe doesn’t make me cringe. I love this advert from Ariel about a woman and her golf-mad husband. Can you empathise?

Ariel asked me to go under cover and put their theory to the test. I was sent a Lie Detector test game to play with friends to find out whether they had ever been guilty of intentionally ruining their partner’s clothes. My sister didn’t pass but fortunately they also sent me a £20 voucher so she could treat her partner to a new top!

They have kindly offered me an additional pack so one reader of the gingerbread house can take the test for themselves.

Giveaway:

I have an amazing prize to giveaway to one lucky reader of the gingerbread house. The prize consists of: one Lie Detector test game, Ariel detergent and Ariel Stain Remover to keep your outfits looking squeaky clean, and a £20 John Lewis voucher (so you can treat a friend who has bad dress sense to a new top).

For your chance to win leave me a comment and tell me about the worst item of clothing a friend or relative has ever worn.

For an extra entry tell others about the competition using the Retweet button below or tweet this message: I want to #win with @gingerbread_mum and eliminate bad dress sense!

For a final extra entry subscribe to the gingerbread house via RSS or sign up to email updates (in the top left corner).

Small print:

The giveaway consists of one Lie Detector test game, Ariel detergent and Ariel Stain Remover and a £20 John Lewis voucher. The giveaway ends November 28th at 8pm. The winner will be selected at random from all entries received and notified by email or their twitter handle. The prize is as stated: no cash alternatives are available, and will be sent via courier by the PR company.

***** The winner is Caroline S *****

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285 Comments on “Win with Ariel and get rid of bad dress sense!”

  1. my friend wore an awful green sparkly dress to the xmas works do, i told her she looked like a xmas tree lol
    @emmav6

    1. Running late for a date . I once wore purple trousers with a yellow top that was ok however , I put two odd boots on one black one brown .

  7. Despite my OH and me telling her it looked absolutely horrible, my sister bought a bright yellow blazer and skirt. She looks like a lemon in it. Horrific!

    @caro_mad

  13. My partner’s brother bought him a Borat Mankini a few Christmases ago which he took to wearing over his clothes because he thought it was funny. We ‘lost’ it I’m sorry to say 😉

  16. The only thing my husband wore that I hated was his really short flared shorts! I asked him to get rid of these….

  22. my other half had a flower pot hat and 3/4 shorts oh he looked like he had wandered out of the desert – terrible!!! 🙂

  25. When we were in our late teens, my best friend had these tight multi-coloured tie dye trousers that had a frill around the hems at the ankle. They were bizarre and awful … but kind of wonderful too! She would wear them clubbing 🙂

  28. My friends old coat which I hated caught fire when they leaned over a candle at a restaurant, I told her good job you set fire to that coat, if you hadn’t I would have done!

  29. OH dear. my OH has appalling dress sense, and doesn’t care what he wears. After almost 20 years of being married to him, I tend not to notice now and we are both oblivious to disapproving looks from a very fashion conscious friend

  30. My mother used to make clothes for me. Once, she bought fabric that looked like pajama fabric and made a playsuit for me and made me wear it outside. When I was an adult, and I was pregnant, she made me two maternity outfits. One looked like Strawberry Shortcake meets the hippies….only it was a pantsuit with short puffy sleeves….and the other one was exactly like it, only in a wild sort of African fabric. And both had drawstrings.

  35. The worst item of clothing my dad ever wore was actually a turquiose silk bomber jacket. He got it as a gift so had to wear it but it was hideous!!

  39. On holiday in Florida my dad wore a hat which made him look like he was in Dr Hook. He wore it all the time and when we got home, we bought him an eyepatch so that he had the whole Ray Sawyer look!

  40. my mum bought me a disgusting top when i was pregnant with my 1st my excuse was it didnt fit me, it was a red vneck fleece thing i looked awful in it, i was really pale

  41. A friend who was slightly overweight wore some patterned tights and the patterned was all distorted and when I guessed what the pattern was supposed to be, naturally, I was completely wrong!
    Tweeted @Rainbow222

  42. Followed and tweeting as @kimwinter91 and subscribed by RSS.

    When I was in early secondary school,loads of my friends wore these baggy trousers in really bright neon colours (especially pink or orange) and they had chains on them..kind of like baggy skater pants! They were hideous!

  43. My Aunt is a good seamstress however she once made me a long black skirt with a frilly edging to it ! Not my sort of thing at all!! It was handy tho at Halloween to wear as a Witches skirt.

  44. When I was little, my mother matched my brother and I in matching red-and-green polkadot onesies. I suppose it was the eighties.

  46. My Brother in law Rhys (aged 24) wears an awful old smelly pair of boxer shorts stuck together with safety pins! He also wears his jeans underneath his backside showing these badboys off. I have no idea how he ever gets girlfriends!

  48. A pair of disgusting creeper sandels with white socks, combined with 3/4 length ill-fitting running trousers!

  49. A friend insists on wearing leggins when she goes out. She’s rather large and doesn’t seem to realise that they show up every lump and bump! Not a good style …

  51. My husband still has some really nasty white sports socks which occasionally he insists on wearing, At least he no longer pulls them up (nearly to his knee!!!) like he did when I first met him!

  52. Leggins, tight legging with tight long denim shorts over the top! OMG! no way! I hate this look.

  55. I sent my friend a bag of clothes to see if they were any good for her. We went out the following weekend and she had on a little silky nightie that she thought was a dress, had to giggle. Tweeted as @angoraferrets

  57. my colleague thinks she’s 25 instead of 55 and loves wearing ‘crop tops’ in summer when the sun is out! But with stretch marks and liver spots on her belly, this is NOT a good look..even though she is slim!

  58. My brother’s friend was a culprit for wearing this horrendous snake skin shirt and he unbuttoned far too many buttons at the front lol! Since then he emigrated to Australia a good 15 yrs ago now but that is a memory that will always be in my mind. I guess it would be useful downunder with all the dangerous species! He would blend in with that shirt lol! Xxx

  59. My friend wore a blue tabard style top. She looked like she’d turned up for work as the cleaner!

    Tweet is @EmsM4

  60. The worst item of clothing a relative has ever embarrassed me by wearing is when my Dad rocks his ‘double denim’ look – pale denim jeans and a dark denim shit…cringe!

    I’ve also re-tweeted – @CharlieBarlie21

  61. My boyfriend went through a phrase where he thought wearing a man-cardigan was a good idea. It wasn’t.

  62. The worst day ever is when my dad wore an “Hawaiian” type shirt, been a few years ago now, however – he’s not exactly Magnum P I and it was no way that hot at the time either!

  63. My boyfriend has bright blue trainers that are horrid – having size 11 feet makes them even worse as they stand out so much!

  64. My hubby had a checked shirt when I met him that made him look like a lumberjack. I banished it to the bin when we moved n with each other.

  65. my sister used to wear these really weird purple ali baba style bottoms. She used to wear them all the time and we got so fed up and my mum said she would buy her a new pair as they were getting worn out. Mum bought her a new similar pair but she still refused to throw the old ones away-they were seriously awful. Both the old and new ones!!

  66. My friend turned up to another friends wedding in the tightest, shortest dress ever. Every time she moved everyone held their breath hoping it would not split!

  67. My boyfriend has appalling dress sense. From the time I first met him, he’d wear his dirty white trainers – with EVERYTHING – and could only be persuaded to part with them when they, quite literally, fell off. His next pair were black and luminous pink 🙁

  68. My brother has a purple shell suit – didn’t look great in the 80’s – looks even worse now

  69. dresses home-made from nasty flowery curtains when i was a child and had no choice in my clothing!

  70. My hubby use to have a black and white t-shirt that was full of holes. I would bin it and he wouls take it out again

  71. My other half has some awful Mohammed Ali Jeans, They’re 5 sizes too big and have garish patterned pockets on each side that go half way down the leg. I’ve tried every subtle (and not so subtle) trick I can to get rid of them but they’re still here..Gah!!

  73. Where do I start???? The outfit my mother wore to my nieces wedding (similar to track suit bottoms and a jumper), or the houndstooth smoking jacket my dad wears for ‘special’, or the shorts my father in law wears 7 months of the year (April to October if you’re interested) that are like hot pants……….

  76. a old fashioned look reindeer jumper with loads of ball balls(pom,poms) on and it was very brightly coloured and so was my face as i had to were it to a party otherwise i would be considered rude

  77. My mums next door neighbour ,late 70’s, wears the most bizarre clothing combos i’ve ever seen,his favourite purple paisley shirt is teamed with his Rupert Bear yellow checked trousers and don’t get me started on his jackets- however he is really tall and somehow looks OK and is also a really nice man.

  78. The dreaded ‘cow coat’ belonging to mum, a furry fleece with cow print…my other half will never stop his relentless p*ss taking about that one! Arggghhhh!

  82. My friend has a green glittery top looks like a tree especially as she wear if with brown trousers

  83. My Mum has an old mustard coloured anorak that was my Grandad’s and she wears it in the garden. It is way to big so she ties it in the middle with a piece of string. We keep telling her to get rid of it as it is so awful but she won’t as she says it is really arm and she is only gardening in it!

  86. Once my friend came out wearing this Maxi dress, but it bared no resemblance to the Maxi dresses you see in the fashion magazines!

    It was the most hideous colored floral print I’d ever lay eyes on.
    Think out of date curtains.
    And it was so unshapely she may as well have been wrapped up in a sheet, or a potato sack!

  89. My father in law used to wear a pair of pale blue, towelling swimming trunks! As we were due to go on holiday all together we treated him to a new pair that wouldn’t soak up the water in the pool!

  94. When I was 14 went to pick a friend up for a disco and she had on brown nylon trousers,red polo neck,crocheted red,yellow and blue waistcoat white socks and sandals 35 years later I can still see it !!

  99. I hate to say this, but I’d have to nominate my friend’s wedding dress! I was chief bridesmaid, and my peach blancemange was bad enough, but hers was like one of the enormous dresses from the King and I! She had to go through doors sideways, she couldn’t sit down, and there was enough lace to have made 100 Kate Middleton dresses!

  100. My mum sent me and my sister to a school disco in homemade patchwork skirts made of old curtains. Towards the end of the evening they were falling apart. I cringe even now.

  105. My husband has a BRIGHT yellow tshirt, covered in a blood stain pattern and with the words “Zombie Response Squad” on it. It is awful, but he loves it.

  106. OK it’s not that bad, but my boyfriend wears the same (10 years old) football shirt EVERYWHERE (well nearly). Wouldn’t be so bad, but the player who’s name is on the back of the shirt left 8 years ago and my bf has more up-to-date shirts, but insists on wearing THAT one. Oh and he likes to wear it in the rival town just to annoy the people there.. Good luck to everyone 🙂 😀 x

  108. My boyfriend got a load of free t-shirts from a gaming company and wears them all the time. He refuses to get any new ones claiming that they are fine.
    They are really corny and have massive slogons on them all.

  111. My nan always wears snowman earrings every year, they have gone yellow with age though . . , , ,yukky

  112. My friend once wore the most hideous Xmas jumper for a works party. It looked almost identical to the one Colin Firth’s character was forced to wear in Bridget Jones’ Diary!

  113. My prim and proper friend went to a works do and wore a lovely light blue sparkly blouse – it looked really nice but when the lights came on during the dancing time it became very see-through … no one had the guts to tell her!

  119. i bought my husband a pair of swimming shorts and myself a vivid blue swim suit. said to husband that his swimming gear was on the bed. so he goes upstairs to try it on. all i heard him say was “im not sure weather this is my colour or not what do u think”?? and he swanks down the stairs wearing MY SWIMSUIT !!!!!! his *manly bits* where dangling out either side. and what was worse i had the front door wide open and 3 of the neighbours where standing there !!!! yer right they didnt know quite where to look lol and he was right blue wasnt his colour 😉

  120. The night I met my now husband, he was wearing a red polyester shirt with dragons on it. Good job I could see past it, and eventually persuade him to part with it!

  121. My husband has an awful old Bugs Bunny Tshirt he has been wearing for the last 15 years. It has holes in it and I actually discovered it was part of a pjyama set – still can’t get him to part with it.

  122. a friend once turned up to my house in a flurescent bright yellow shirt ..l nearly had to wear sunglasses because it was that bright

  124. When I first moved in with my partner he used to wear his dad’s awful woolly jumper in a burgundy colour, lets just say it soon disapeared!

  126. My husband used to have a pair of jeans where the legs were about 30″ wide each!!! horrendous

  132. My son had a pink and silver t-shirt which was absolutely awful, it accidently got lost when he went to Uni !!

  134. My best mate has these trousers they are patch work with some rather unusual mismatch patterns, she thinks they are boho chic more like bobo clown lol

  137. A close friend used to wear a light blue safari jacket ( remember them, yuk!).
    The only trouble was that it was about 10 years out of date and he had grown somewhat in the meantime. still, he was happy1

  139. My dad used to wear a bright green shell suit with a pink stripe on it during the early 90’s, highly emabarrasing !

    @MrsWebster147

  142. I’m all for people being free to express their individuality and wear whatever they feel comfortable in but I do have a friend who only wears really baggy, scruffy looking clothes and I do wish that she would sometimes wear something that would show off her figure instead of hiding under unflattering clothes. (even if just once a week!)

  144. my friend, who is on the large side, wore a yellow and white stripped dress…………………… she looked like a big bumble bee

  145. My old man refuses to throw anything away, but I drew the line when he found in the attic an old Fairisle sweater, which his mother had knitted for him many years ago.
    There were holes everywhere and the elbows had worn thin. Either the jumper or him had to go!

  147. My granny often wears clothes that don’t suit her and make her look older. Just because she is a granny, she doesn’t have to dress like one…

  148. My sister-in-law still insists on wearing ski pants and white high heel shoes and I still say “oh you look nice on family occasions”

  149. i cant honestly remember any of my friends wearing anything tooo bad ………… i am the one who has the dire fashion sense in our family … the worst was probably some electric blue PVC pants and white lace top that i wore clubbing in my youth only to realise when the lights dimmed and the ultraviolet lights come on that you could see everything under my top 🙁

    @chanson2010

  151. I recently looked back at old pictures of myself wearing pink trousers and a bright blue coat, I thought I was so cool! But I really wasn’t.

  152. I remember my friend once wearing some thigh high leather boots, I think she was hoping to look really cool but ended looking a little like a transvestite as she’s quite tall! lol

  153. My sister used to wear a luminous shell suit I thought it was cool at the time but it was awful!

  155. I remember my dad wearing an awful wooley jumper which was grey, and worst of all it made my itch all day!

  157. My 19 year old daughter has a grey cardigan that is almost down to her knees – she insists on wearing it almost everywhere

  158. A woman I work with wears this blue top that is so long it could be a night-shirt, it also has a hood and it just looks weird, but hey the world would be boring if we all wore the same clothes!

  162. Many years ago when me and my best friend were about 18/19 back in the 90s, every Saturday night without fail she used to wear a mid-blue sparkly pvc “suit” consisting of a flared mini skirt and zip up biker style jacket. At the time we all thought it was the cutting edge of fashion, looking at the photo’s now gives us a giggle though!!

  163. my mother in law aged 61 went topless on holiday ..if that wasnt bad enough having to bear the sight of her saggy boobies .. when she rolled over onto her tummy her bikini bottoms were just a ‘thong’ … that whole scenario still gives me nightmares and makes me feel sick even now !!!!
    she should have married peter stringfellow !!!

  165. a blue towelin bikni when I thought loked good family veiw who’s the whale on the beach no more bikni 4 me

  166. Oh – my husband has just had a go at me recently for letting him go out of the house in a lime green polo shirt and fawn jeans. It was 1999/2000 but even then it wasn’t a good look!

  168. When my baby was very young, we all went to visit my inlaws, my mother in law had bought my beautiful baby boy a disgusting dark green towelling track suit, it was awful, she had bought the next size up so on our next visit I felt obliged to let him wear it, I still have the nightmare photographs to prove it.

  169. I have tweeted too, not sure whether I needed to put another comment to let you know, apologies if I wasn’t meant to

    Twitter ID: @TweetwithHelen

  170. My sister wore a so called fashionable cardigan that actually resembled my granny’s old carpet…..

  171. My friend was going through a mid life crisis and started wearing a really tight black almost see through shirt and a huge gold chain, thankfully he got over it 🙂

  172. The worst thing my sisters & I all wore was matching bright yellow jump suits, they were hideous & made us look like a row of lemons LOL! (It was the 1980’s LOL!)

  173. My friend has these cropped, shapeless, wide-legged trousers, they just make her look huge and square, I hope she never wears them again or I might have to drop a gentle hint that they just might not be the most flattering outfit!

  175. I used to love wearing my yellow dungarees and a stripey yeloow, red and blue tee shirt. I was 18 and thought it looked wonderful!

  176. My friend has these french trousers which look like jodhpurs and do her no favours at all but she loves them!

  180. When I first started dating my now husband he used to wear this awful loud green and yellow jumper he had got in Australia with a big picture of a map of Australia on the front. I mean, why? Why would you want to wear that. Needless to say it is now buried deep in a drawer, never to surface again.(fingers crossed!)

  181. I decided that i would try the whole colour block trend last year and bought myself some mustard yellow tights to wear with my maroon dress….Nan and grandad came down on Christmas day and asked why i was dressed as “Shrek”? Needless to say, those bad boys went straight to the back of the drawer (Well, i may be able to pull them off at some point)

  182. A friend used to wear a pair of very tight red trousers in the late 70’s – I wonder if he still has them ;)) @compcake

  185. an apple green and white snake print fake leather jacket ( i gave it to my sister as a present, was hideous! sorry!)

  186. I remember all my friends wearing puffball skirts in the 80’s. I’m glad to say I never had one, they were ridiculous!

  190. when my son was a toddler he told my mum i wanted a fairy (furry) bodywarmer for christmas , my mum bought me a large girls pink body warmer complete with glittery fairies on it and sat watching whilst i unwrapped it, i told her i loved it and i wore it to visit the rest of the family that christmas

  191. I remember when dungarees were the in thing, I used to wear mine with a tie-dye t-shirt underneas and clogs, I used to be a bit ‘arty’, SO glad there is no photographic evidence of this, hideously embarrasing!!

  193. My sister used to wear a canary yellow trouser suit – it was in the 1980s though when fashion didn’t exist!

  196. My friend wears a pair of really sad woolly ankle boots with reindeers on and a fake fur topping – these were worn when Christmas and reindeers weren’t appropriate.

  197. My friend has worn (and still does) an umbrella hat when it rains. It fits on his head like a hat but is a small umbrella that covers around his shoulders.

  198. My husband has a really outdated unfashionable coat that I’ve been trying to get rid of for ages! He’s not taking any hints, I think perhaps I need to join the 1 in 10 and come up with a plot with dire consequences for said coat

  200. I knitted a sweater for my husband over 40 years ago and he is still wearing it. It is very baggy now and has had numerous darns in it but he still insists on wearing it. Perhaps I should knit him another, more fashionable, sweater!

  201. Worked with a colleague who used to shop at Designer Outlets, Chanel Suits with gold buttons is not a good look when you are in your twenties!

  202. My sister in law wears some bizarre things but last xmas she came round in blue leggings and a tiger print shirt with a black sparkly cardie over the top … even my hubbie (her brother!) said ‘what is she wearing!’ … no accounting for taste!

  203. My boyfriend has this awful Hulk tshirt that he got free from being on a rollercoaster about ten years ago! I think it would have been dated then but now its just cringeworthy! He looks like a 10 year old going on 24 lol! Advert always makes me think of that.. its even worse that his friend is a massive hulk fan and encourages it.

  204. My neighbour has a thing about Snakeskin print clothes…and has a variety of awful items….leggings, tops, skirts, shoes, and they all look terrible on!

  205. I think I would have to vote for myself, in my defence my lovely Godmother knitted it for me and I wore it to please her. I was 10 and it was a surgical pink pixie hooded zip up jacket. Not even Noddy would have found it attractive

  206. I obviously couldn’t possibly comment on what friends or relatives wear (because they’d never speak to me again) but the worst thing I wear on a regular basis is a vest top and jogging bottoms that I wear when I’m decorating. They are covered in paint and other yukky stains – even though I wash them after I’ve worn them they are definitely the worse for wear!
    Last week when I was doing some plastering I kept wiping my hands on my trousers and I swear they could almost have stood up on their own when I took them off! Perhaps I need to try some Ariel 🙂

  209. My sister wore a beige dress out clubbing, not only did it look like a horrific piece of net curtain, it was completely see through and WAY too short! I was honest and told her…. but she still wore it out!

  210. My friend has a brown suede with orange embroidery design on it that she insists on wearing, it looks like something from Dr. Zhivhago! 🙂

  211. A friend once on holiday wore bright yellow shorts which were laced up down the front not a good look as he is a few stone over weight.

  212. I once wore bright blue satin trousers with a bright orange satin shirt!Don’t know what I was tnking :S @pipersky1

  218. When I was about 15 I always wore a vest/crop top that my Nanna had KNITTED for me. I seem to be wearing it in almost every picture ever taken of my teenage years. I cringe at the sight of them now!

  219. My husband regularly wears Games Workshop t-shirts. He’s banned from doing so when he’s with me!

  221. Partner wears a pair of jogging bottoms with holes in and paint splashes on. He wears them to the shops much to my embarrasment!

  228. To be fair, it’s usually me wearing something crap, and my friends/relatives laughing at it.

  229. My sister wore an all in one striped cotton jumpsuit – she looked as though she’d escaped jail!

  232. my mum used to have shell suit – in the 90s – the thought of when she picked me from school still makes me cringe!!

  233. my hubby has loads of slogan t shirts relating to mechanical stuff he’s got one I am the nuts with a picture of bolts on it! Hate it :O

  236. It’s basically one those nasty jumpers that are so fluffy that they look and feel itchy. It’s Christmas themed, and has a reindeer on it, and the antlers come off it, they’re 3D. It’s so cringey. It’s my Mum who wears it by the way.

  237. I went to a party with my friend, she has the most awful bright orange pepulum dress, the best thing for making shapely hips look extra wide! she looked like a trod on tangerine!

  238. The worst is when my friend wore a pair of pink knickers under a pair of stretchy black leggings which you could see the pants through….how lovely!. I had to be cruel to be kind and tell her.

  241. My sister wore some really, REALLY short hot pants once & totally did not have the figure to do so. She matched it with a snot green halter-neck & to this day I have no idea why she wore it! She normally has impeccable taste – must have been having an off day x

  244. my auntie has this awful gold outfit,she’s had it years.her daughter had thrown it in the bin,skip,but she finds it washes it then wears it.she says its her favourite outfit,but we all hate it

  245. my mum bought me a purple snake skin skirt and matching jacket. It was awful but I had to wear it a couple of token times!

  247. my husband wears his west ham t-shirt everywhere! i think he is west ham’s only fan!!!!

  248. My darling Mum used to dress really smartly in a black trouser suit and black shoes but spoiled it by wearing white socks with it. She looked like a dancing minstral but I never did dare tell her!

  249. My Mother in Law still wears a jumper my husband bought her when he was 18!!!!! (He’s nearly 37!)

  255. My mum used to make a habit of wearing green leggings with red suede shoes. It was interesting to say the least!!

  258. Tweeting @kimthomasandaim

    My worst was looking back on the some of the strange and repulsive outfits that my Mum used to dress my sister and I in when we were children. There were neon turquoise and pink shell-suits, blue ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Pyjamas that were worn as actual outfits and best of all a flower-print dress that was two sizes too big, draped around my ankles and had a massive white, lace collar. Frightening days heheh

  264. My hubby bought a light blue top from Egypt with white art work patterns.
    Every single picture I have of him over the last few years – he has that blimmin top on!!! Anyone would think he had no other clothes!!!
    Tried shrinking it in the wash – to no avail lol!!!!

  265. My friend wears the most awful things – ‘mutton’ springs to mind. Stuff a teenager would wear! There was one awful time she went out in black wet look leggings and a garish top. She’s in her 50s!

  267. My husband had to wear a cricket jumper knitted by his mother a few times when she visited that was miles too small.

  268. Ive seen people wear some grotesque stuff but I think shiny velvet dress from a neighbour takes the cake.

  269. many a times my friend as come out in the same outfit as me. I just wish shed learn that she does not look as fantastic as me in the outfit.

  273. My mother own a pair of canary yellow leggings with a fetching cartoon mouse-eating-a-block-of-cheese pattern. In addition they came with that stirrup type end to the legs and a very elasticated waistline. To make matters worse I ended up with the awful things as a hand me down aged 10, sadly numerous photos exist to record their moment in fashion history.

  274. Can I nominate myself? For the most awful baggy jumpers which look appalling but they are sooo comfy LOL.

  275. My brother-in-law wore a jumper with rudolphs red nose on the front – lovely jumper only it had shrank in the wash and he is not a small man so it was about 10 sizes too small. Still we all had a chuckle but wouldn’t let him go outside.

  276. My sister wore a shell suit for years after they went out of fashion as she said they were still cool.

  278. Urghhh my sister will insist on bloomin animal print which makes her look like cat slater grrrrrr I detest it!!!

  279. My dad was a teacher before he retired and ended up with a huge collection of novelty ties that he would wear to amuse his pupils. One was adorned with Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ – the humourless headteacher didn’t think it was funny and asked him not to wear it again!

  282. My friend once wore a bright pink mini skirt which she adored, I thought it looked awful but couldn’t tell her that eek!

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