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 *****
EMMA WALTERS
November 20, 2012 at 9:01 ammy friend wore an awful green sparkly dress to the xmas works do, i told her she looked like a xmas tree lol
@emmav6
EMMA WALTERS
November 20, 2012 at 9:02 amtweeted:)
@emmav6
EMMA WALTERS
November 20, 2012 at 9:02 amfollow via emails 🙂
@emmav6
dubliner
November 24, 2012 at 1:59 pmRunning 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 .
ashleigh
November 20, 2012 at 9:57 amMy husband used to have a tshirt I really hated, it made him look really old!
ashleigh
November 20, 2012 at 9:59 ami have tweeted as @ashlallan
ashleigh
November 20, 2012 at 9:59 ami subscribed with google reader as mummy24
Carolin
November 20, 2012 at 9:29 pmDespite 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
Carolin
November 20, 2012 at 9:31 pmI have tweeted as @caro_mad
Carolin
November 20, 2012 at 9:32 pmI am already subscribing via RSS feed x
esther james
November 20, 2012 at 9:52 pmmy brothers white wedding suit was terrible!
esther james
November 20, 2012 at 9:53 pmtweeted @esthermate
esther james
November 20, 2012 at 9:53 pmsubscribed to your emails
Red Rose Mummy
November 20, 2012 at 10:21 pmMy 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 😉
Red Rose Mummy
November 20, 2012 at 10:24 pmI’ve tweeted @RedRoseMummy
Red Rose Mummy
November 20, 2012 at 10:24 pmI am subscribed by email.
Carolina J.
November 20, 2012 at 10:41 pmThe only thing my husband wore that I hated was his really short flared shorts! I asked him to get rid of these….
Carolina J.
November 20, 2012 at 10:41 pmTweeted! @pandcands
Carolina J.
November 20, 2012 at 10:42 pmI am subscribed to your blog.
Caroles
November 20, 2012 at 11:15 pmMy daughter puts together weird combinations in clashing colours – I’ve spirited some away
Caroles
November 20, 2012 at 11:16 pmI’m already a subscriber by email
Caroles
November 20, 2012 at 11:17 pmHave tweeted
Kathryn Phillips ✩
November 21, 2012 at 7:00 ammy other half had a flower pot hat and 3/4 shorts oh he looked like he had wandered out of the desert – terrible!!! 🙂
Kathryn Phillips ✩
November 21, 2012 at 7:01 amtweeted – @mummykx
Kathryn Phillips ✩
November 21, 2012 at 7:02 amfollowing 🙂 x
Ali Thorpe
November 21, 2012 at 5:34 pmWhen 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 🙂
Ali Thorpe
November 21, 2012 at 5:35 pmTweeted as @alicomps
Ali Thorpe
November 21, 2012 at 5:36 pmSubscribed via email.
Emma
November 21, 2012 at 11:10 pmMy 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!
kathleen hooper
November 21, 2012 at 11:15 pmOH 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
emma
November 22, 2012 at 7:49 pmMy 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.
emma
November 22, 2012 at 7:51 pmhttps://twitter.com/handbag2000/status/271702292485509120
emma
November 22, 2012 at 7:52 pmI am subscribed to your blog.
Julia B
November 23, 2012 at 10:28 pmMy sister has a horrible snow flake jumper.
Julia B
November 23, 2012 at 10:30 pmI’ve tweeted https://twitter.com/PaigeBrown5/status/272104499005497344
claire coates
November 24, 2012 at 9:19 amThe 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!!
coco-chips
November 24, 2012 at 9:21 amMy Aunt…Sandals (big chunky walking sandals) with socks! Absolutely horrific!
Cheryl Lovell
November 24, 2012 at 9:24 amMy sister wore an awful dress with cats all over it! Eek
Joanne Curtis
November 24, 2012 at 9:30 amA male friend wore a Hawaiian shirt and Bemuda shorts to a wedding???!!!
Gill Gaffney
November 24, 2012 at 9:31 amOn 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!
Hayley Payton
November 24, 2012 at 9:32 ammy 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
Brigitte Leprince
November 24, 2012 at 9:40 amA 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
Kim Winter
November 24, 2012 at 9:51 amFollowed 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!
Emma Gallagher
November 24, 2012 at 9:54 amMy 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.
Laura Dye
November 24, 2012 at 10:00 amWhen I was little, my mother matched my brother and I in matching red-and-green polkadot onesies. I suppose it was the eighties.
Andrea Shaw
November 24, 2012 at 10:02 ammy boyfriend had the most awful khaki trousers, that one day mysteriously disappeared!
Becky Morgan
November 24, 2012 at 10:12 amMy 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!
liz denial
November 24, 2012 at 10:20 amA bright pink sweatshirt with a huge quilted picture of Desperate Dan eating cow pie
Ellen Griffin
November 24, 2012 at 10:25 amA pair of disgusting creeper sandels with white socks, combined with 3/4 length ill-fitting running trousers!
Amelia Kennedy
November 24, 2012 at 10:30 amA 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 …
Amelia Kennedy
November 24, 2012 at 10:32 amTweeted @MimiJane
Michelle Best
November 24, 2012 at 10:35 amMy 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!
kayleigh Dawn
November 24, 2012 at 10:37 amLeggins, tight legging with tight long denim shorts over the top! OMG! no way! I hate this look.
kayleigh Dawn
November 24, 2012 at 10:38 amFollowing and tweeted on twitter as @xxfluffywhitexx
kayleigh Dawn
November 24, 2012 at 10:39 amSubscribed via email – the same email as above ^
Suzanne Cooke
November 24, 2012 at 10:43 amI 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
Michelle leon
November 24, 2012 at 10:44 amMy dad does socks with sandals. Eek!!
marina wilson
November 24, 2012 at 10:50 ammy 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!
Leah Wheatley
November 24, 2012 at 10:50 amMy 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
Emma Manning
November 24, 2012 at 10:55 amMy friend wore a blue tabard style top. She looked like she’d turned up for work as the cleaner!
Tweet is @EmsM4
Charlotte Mountford
November 24, 2012 at 11:45 amThe 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
Charlotte Ingham
November 24, 2012 at 11:50 amMy boyfriend went through a phrase where he thought wearing a man-cardigan was a good idea. It wasn’t.
Adele
November 24, 2012 at 11:51 amThe 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!
katarina lloyd
November 24, 2012 at 11:58 amMy boyfriend has bright blue trainers that are horrid – having size 11 feet makes them even worse as they stand out so much!
Claire Jewiss
November 24, 2012 at 12:09 pmMy 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.
angela sandhu
November 24, 2012 at 12:16 pmmy 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!!
Anna Stickland
November 24, 2012 at 12:39 pmMy 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!
Samantha Sheppard
November 24, 2012 at 12:39 pmMy 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 🙁
Phil Darling
November 24, 2012 at 12:44 pmMy brother has a purple shell suit – didn’t look great in the 80’s – looks even worse now
siobhan tavener
November 24, 2012 at 1:12 pmdresses home-made from nasty flowery curtains when i was a child and had no choice in my clothing!
Stephanie Green
November 24, 2012 at 1:14 pmMy 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
Sabrina Blake
November 24, 2012 at 1:26 pmMy 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!!
Marcus
November 24, 2012 at 1:32 pmmy dads old shell suit
Laura Harris
November 24, 2012 at 1:39 pmWhere 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……….
Heather Haigh
November 24, 2012 at 2:03 pmHubby in a shell suit (long time ago thankfully)
Cheryl Edwards
November 24, 2012 at 3:30 pmMy Son has a raincoat which i think makes him look like Columbu.
holly houghton
November 24, 2012 at 3:34 pma 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
Lesley Derrick
November 24, 2012 at 4:05 pmMy 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.
Hilda Hazel Wright
November 24, 2012 at 4:26 pmThe 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!
Rosemary Drummond
November 24, 2012 at 5:16 pmMy mother wore a dreadful coat that looked like curtains for a wedding!!
Anna M
November 24, 2012 at 5:48 pmMy husband too big shirt, and he was arguing it is right size.
prillytee2@yahoo.co.uk
November 24, 2012 at 5:58 pmMy sister used to wear a bright blue shellsuit, I cringe at the thought.
Lisa-Marie Medley
November 24, 2012 at 6:30 pmMy friend has a green glittery top looks like a tree especially as she wear if with brown trousers
Cath
November 24, 2012 at 6:32 pmMy 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!
Cath
November 24, 2012 at 6:33 pmTweeted @styxl
Cath
November 24, 2012 at 6:33 pmI already follow your blog
Summer Davidson
November 24, 2012 at 6:52 pmOnce 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!
Hannah ONeill
November 24, 2012 at 7:03 pmMy mum had this horrendous knitted jumper!
Hannah ONeill
November 24, 2012 at 7:05 pmTweeted @hammahnator
Sarah Mathieson
November 24, 2012 at 8:17 pmMy 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!
Laura
November 24, 2012 at 8:31 pmHot Pink & Brown Cords!
Julia Spencer
November 24, 2012 at 8:36 pmOur family collections of shell suits and bum-bags
amanda lewis
November 24, 2012 at 8:42 pmsleeves that make huge people’s shoulders look huge.
Andy D
November 24, 2012 at 9:29 pmLeg-warmers
Jacquiline Brassington
November 24, 2012 at 9:58 pmWhen 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 !!
Farhana Haque
November 24, 2012 at 10:14 pmA PVC dress worn by a collegue
Farhana Haque
November 24, 2012 at 10:15 pmTweeted @muslimahi
Farhana Haque
November 24, 2012 at 10:15 pmfollowing via MyYahoo feed
Victoria C
November 24, 2012 at 10:29 pmA pink and purple shell suit!
Jay Scales
November 24, 2012 at 10:38 pmI 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!
laura cope
November 24, 2012 at 11:23 pmMy 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.
Gerald Ludlow
November 25, 2012 at 10:49 amMy mun made wear a horrendous mutlicoloured booble hat!
Jay K
November 25, 2012 at 11:20 amHorrid rust coloured cords and waistcoat I had to wear as a child!
iain
November 25, 2012 at 11:31 amtweeted @maci234
iain
November 25, 2012 at 11:32 ama jumper that was 10 times too big
beverley
November 25, 2012 at 12:14 pmMy 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.
Miss Tracy Hanson
November 25, 2012 at 12:35 pmOK 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
geow480@gmail.com
November 25, 2012 at 1:12 pmtweeted
Catherine Sinead Mary Reynolds
November 25, 2012 at 1:29 pmMy 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.
Kelly Dutton
November 25, 2012 at 1:40 pmA black blue and yellow shell suit that I used to own many moons ago.
Kelly Dutton
November 25, 2012 at 1:42 pmHave tweeted
@kellywd
Liz smith
November 25, 2012 at 1:45 pmMy nan always wears snowman earrings every year, they have gone yellow with age though . . , , ,yukky
Christopher Burns
November 25, 2012 at 1:49 pmMy 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!
denise cross
November 25, 2012 at 2:03 pmMy 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!
Eleanor Jones
November 25, 2012 at 2:27 pmI once wore a salmon pink dress that resembled an old pair of curtains!
Alex Brownlee
November 25, 2012 at 2:33 pmMy Brother once wore a christmas jumper with a dodgy looking santa on the front
anne ross
November 25, 2012 at 2:48 pmtweeted and foolowing
anne ross
November 25, 2012 at 2:49 pmtweeted and following oh dear sorry for the spelling above
Pauline Simpson
November 25, 2012 at 3:37 pmA Mustard yellow suit with short cut jacket and shoulder pads
catherine west
November 25, 2012 at 3:42 pmi 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 😉
Dawn Smith
November 25, 2012 at 3:54 pmThe 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!
Lou Taylor
November 25, 2012 at 4:26 pmMy 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.
a.rana
November 25, 2012 at 4:59 pma friend once turned up to my house in a flurescent bright yellow shirt ..l nearly had to wear sunglasses because it was that bright
Annie T
November 25, 2012 at 6:05 pmA friend wore an electric blue rubber dress to work Christmas party……
Micky Ricketts
November 25, 2012 at 6:42 pmWhen 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!
sweir1@talk21.com
November 25, 2012 at 7:17 pmmy mate has polka dot chinos
hunnycat2009@gmail.com
November 25, 2012 at 7:57 pmMy husband used to have a pair of jeans where the legs were about 30″ wide each!!! horrendous
Keith
November 25, 2012 at 8:09 pm@cunardfan
greigspencer@live.co.uk
November 25, 2012 at 8:25 pmmy brother has a onsie that he wears shopping! its zebra print!! omg
claire woods
November 25, 2012 at 8:43 pmMy dad has had some awful jumpers in his time. Some I have dreaded going out with him in.
claire woods
November 25, 2012 at 8:44 pmTweeted – @clairew137
claire woods
November 25, 2012 at 8:44 pmFollowing via networked blogs.
Julie Davies
November 25, 2012 at 8:48 pmMy son had a pink and silver t-shirt which was absolutely awful, it accidently got lost when he went to Uni !!
sue walsh
November 25, 2012 at 9:37 pmthe ex….he had a shirt with beer bottles printed all over it!!!
Victoria Leedham
November 25, 2012 at 9:57 pmMy 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
Vic
November 25, 2012 at 10:09 pmMy mum had a hdeous pair of algae green leggings, she wore a lot in the early 90s!
Sheena
November 25, 2012 at 11:56 pmVelvet slippers
lyn b
November 26, 2012 at 12:42 amA 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
Solange
November 26, 2012 at 4:49 amMy sister wore a green shell suit everywhere! Cringe!
Angela Webster
November 26, 2012 at 7:26 amMy dad used to wear a bright green shell suit with a pink stripe on it during the early 90’s, highly emabarrasing !
@MrsWebster147
S Edwards
November 26, 2012 at 7:27 ama very tight shirt 🙂
Angela Webster
November 26, 2012 at 7:28 amI have Tweeted 🙂
@MrsWebster147
ClairejB
November 26, 2012 at 9:58 amI’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!)
ClairejB
November 26, 2012 at 9:59 amI tweeted @Madrabbitgirl
elaine stokes
November 26, 2012 at 11:09 ammy friend, who is on the large side, wore a yellow and white stripped dress…………………… she looked like a big bumble bee
Frances Heaton
November 26, 2012 at 12:08 pmMy 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!
Frances Heaton
November 26, 2012 at 12:10 pmFollowing and retweeted. Twitter ID libra10001
Martina
November 26, 2012 at 12:41 pmMy 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…
Vicky Cole
November 26, 2012 at 1:31 pmMy 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”
niccicowdell@yahoo.com
November 26, 2012 at 1:40 pmi 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
niccicowdell@yahoo.com
November 26, 2012 at 1:40 pmtweeted @chanson2010
Aimee R
November 26, 2012 at 1:47 pmI 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.
STACEY WEBB
November 26, 2012 at 3:44 pmI 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
Hazel Rush
November 26, 2012 at 3:55 pmMy sister used to wear a luminous shell suit I thought it was cool at the time but it was awful!
liz
November 26, 2012 at 4:12 pmmy husbands friend once wore my flatmates bikini to a party. not a good look for him!
chrismdavies@hotmail.com
November 26, 2012 at 4:55 pmI remember my dad wearing an awful wooley jumper which was grey, and worst of all it made my itch all day!
annamarie riddiford
November 26, 2012 at 5:42 pmsecond hand shoes
Sue Robinson
November 26, 2012 at 7:02 pmMy 19 year old daughter has a grey cardigan that is almost down to her knees – she insists on wearing it almost everywhere
Gemma
November 26, 2012 at 7:40 pmA 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!
Gemma
November 26, 2012 at 7:41 pmTweeted @Lotsa_Smiles
Gemma
November 26, 2012 at 7:43 pmAlready signed up by emails!
bryan deegan
November 26, 2012 at 8:48 pmA bright pink hat
Yvonne Crook
November 26, 2012 at 8:54 pmMany 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!!
jeanette baker
November 26, 2012 at 9:18 pmmy 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 !!!
Sarah R
November 26, 2012 at 9:21 pmMy friend wore white skin tight trousers with bright red spotty knickers underneath.
pam
November 26, 2012 at 9:38 pma blue towelin bikni when I thought loked good family veiw who’s the whale on the beach no more bikni 4 me
Michelle Grundy
November 26, 2012 at 9:46 pmOh – 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!
Su
November 26, 2012 at 10:02 pmMy friend has a knitted Christmas dress which makes me think of a overfull Christmas stocking
Helen
November 26, 2012 at 10:19 pmWhen 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.
Helen
November 26, 2012 at 10:21 pmI 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
Kelly Hirst-Padwick
November 26, 2012 at 11:23 pmMy sister wore a so called fashionable cardigan that actually resembled my granny’s old carpet…..
Daisybeebee
November 27, 2012 at 12:09 amMy 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 🙂
Vicky-Louise Robinson
November 27, 2012 at 12:19 amThe 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!)
Dee
November 27, 2012 at 1:27 amMy 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!
rlewney@gmail.com
November 27, 2012 at 3:49 ammy mum knitted snoopy jumpers for all my brothers and cousins to wear
Sue D
November 27, 2012 at 9:37 amI used to love wearing my yellow dungarees and a stripey yeloow, red and blue tee shirt. I was 18 and thought it looked wonderful!
Pat Stubbs
November 27, 2012 at 9:50 amMy friend has these french trousers which look like jodhpurs and do her no favours at all but she loves them!
Katherine Coldicott
November 27, 2012 at 9:56 amMy mom bought my dad a cardigan once. Definitely wasn’t his look.
tracey gibbons
November 27, 2012 at 10:00 ammy friend once wore a pair of illuminous pink shiny leggings, they did not look good at all
tracey gibbons
November 27, 2012 at 10:01 amtweeted your message @tracey0810
Wendy Collard
November 27, 2012 at 10:08 amWhen 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!)
jo mccarthy
November 27, 2012 at 10:24 amI 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)
Sheila Reeves
November 27, 2012 at 10:56 amA friend used to wear a pair of very tight red trousers in the late 70’s – I wonder if he still has them ;)) @compcake
Sheila Reeves
November 27, 2012 at 10:57 amHave Tweeted as @compcake
Sheila Reeves
November 27, 2012 at 10:59 amNow subscribing via RSS – Google reader @compcake
Kerry Robertson
November 27, 2012 at 11:05 aman apple green and white snake print fake leather jacket ( i gave it to my sister as a present, was hideous! sorry!)
Emily Hutchinson
November 27, 2012 at 11:19 amI remember all my friends wearing puffball skirts in the 80’s. I’m glad to say I never had one, they were ridiculous!
Gillian Holmes
November 27, 2012 at 11:47 amA friend used to wear a selection of garish kaftans, some with religious themes…
Gillian Holmes
November 27, 2012 at 11:49 amHave tweeted as @gholmes724
Gillian Holmes
November 27, 2012 at 11:50 amFollowing you via Google Reader as Gillian Holmes
julie mcdonald
November 27, 2012 at 11:56 amwhen 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
Anene Cee
November 27, 2012 at 12:10 pmI 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!!
Emma Thackery
November 27, 2012 at 12:21 pmmy sister with her mr blobby t shirt
Colette Mellor
November 27, 2012 at 1:28 pmMy sister used to wear a canary yellow trouser suit – it was in the 1980s though when fashion didn’t exist!
Colette Mellor
November 27, 2012 at 1:29 pmTweeted @littlelottee20
melanie crumpton
November 27, 2012 at 1:39 pma jumper with and elephant on!
Sarah Williams
November 27, 2012 at 1:57 pmMy 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.
James Seale
November 27, 2012 at 2:10 pmMy 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.
Robyn Logan Clarke
November 27, 2012 at 2:14 pmMy 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
Robyn Logan Clarke
November 27, 2012 at 2:16 pmTweeted https://twitter.com/robynlclarke/status/273429856820264960 @robynlclarke
Anthea Holloway
November 27, 2012 at 2:41 pmI 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!
MONTIE
November 27, 2012 at 2:44 pmWorked 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!
Michelle Ptak
November 27, 2012 at 3:00 pmMy 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!
Hannah Kennedy
November 27, 2012 at 4:56 pmMy 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.
Jo Smith
November 27, 2012 at 5:36 pmMy 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!
diane.lush@hotmail.co.uk
November 27, 2012 at 5:38 pmI 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
sue willshee
November 27, 2012 at 6:03 pmI 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 🙂
sue willshee
November 27, 2012 at 6:05 pmI’ve tweeted too @piperanddaisy
Kate Grimwood
November 27, 2012 at 6:23 pmA onesie .. ugh!
Karra
November 27, 2012 at 6:24 pmMy 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!
Heather Jenkinson
November 27, 2012 at 6:32 pmMy friend has a brown suede with orange embroidery design on it that she insists on wearing, it looks like something from Dr. Zhivhago! 🙂
Mark Thomas
November 27, 2012 at 7:52 pmA 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.
Cheryll H
November 27, 2012 at 8:04 pmI once wore bright blue satin trousers with a bright orange satin shirt!Don’t know what I was tnking :S @pipersky1
Cheryll H
November 27, 2012 at 8:05 pmTweeted 🙂 @pipersky1
Cheryll H
November 27, 2012 at 8:06 pmAlready subscribed to emails 🙂 @pipersky1
sj wesley
November 27, 2012 at 8:19 pmA leopard print footless onesie, FOOD SHOPPING!
sj wesley
November 27, 2012 at 8:20 pmRetweeted @samanthawesley
sj wesley
November 27, 2012 at 8:20 pmSigned up for email updates 🙂
Paula Burnside
November 27, 2012 at 8:28 pmWhen 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!
Antonia Rookley
November 27, 2012 at 8:30 pmMy husband regularly wears Games Workshop t-shirts. He’s banned from doing so when he’s with me!
Alison
November 27, 2012 at 8:35 pmGreen corduroy pedal pushers and a purple ruffled top
Megan A
November 27, 2012 at 9:25 pmPartner wears a pair of jogging bottoms with holes in and paint splashes on. He wears them to the shops much to my embarrasment!
Alice Hindley
November 27, 2012 at 9:26 pmMy friend once wore a bright yellow t-shirt and matching hot pants!
LeePage
November 27, 2012 at 9:36 pmSilk ORANGE trousers!!!
rachel riches
November 27, 2012 at 9:46 pmShell Suits, my parents wore matching ones…….
Barbara Bunning
November 27, 2012 at 9:50 pmtight leopard skin leggings and cream leg warmers – gross!
Emma Howard
November 27, 2012 at 9:51 pmMy OH insists on wearing a denim jacket which is years old and looks terrible!
K DUNN
November 27, 2012 at 9:56 pmone christmas my sister wore a crazy reindeer cardigan almost every day!
Toni Arnott
November 27, 2012 at 9:57 pmTo be fair, it’s usually me wearing something crap, and my friends/relatives laughing at it.
Jayne Bojang
November 27, 2012 at 9:58 pmMy sister wore an all in one striped cotton jumpsuit – she looked as though she’d escaped jail!
Laura Hadland
November 27, 2012 at 10:13 pmI used to have a long, black PVC coat, with grey and white fake fur trim around the edges. Maybe that was a bad thing. Maybe.
ann carline
November 27, 2012 at 10:14 pmI wore a white Jumpsuit and found out it was seethrough
avril alexander
November 27, 2012 at 10:31 pmmy mum used to have shell suit – in the 90s – the thought of when she picked me from school still makes me cringe!!
claire little
November 27, 2012 at 10:32 pmmy 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
claire little
November 27, 2012 at 10:33 pmtweeted
claire little
November 27, 2012 at 10:33 pmalready subscribed 🙂
Lauren Main
November 27, 2012 at 10:39 pmIt’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.
sairz eastham
November 27, 2012 at 11:02 pmI 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!
Sharon McGuinness
November 27, 2012 at 11:03 pmThe 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.
Jeni fryer
November 27, 2012 at 11:04 pmGot to be dads speedos!
Laura Kefford
November 27, 2012 at 11:49 pmChristmas jumpers are never ok!!! Fact
Jo Kelly
November 28, 2012 at 12:00 amMy 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
Jo Kelly
November 28, 2012 at 12:01 amHave tweeted 🙂
@MrsD_Winchester x
Jo Kelly
November 28, 2012 at 12:01 amSubscribe via RSS 🙂 x
zareena khan
November 28, 2012 at 9:17 ammy 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
elizabeth barker
November 28, 2012 at 9:20 ammy 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!
Claire Nelson
November 28, 2012 at 9:24 amVery tight bright green leggings – I did not know where to look!
lorraine polley
November 28, 2012 at 9:29 ammy husband wears his west ham t-shirt everywhere! i think he is west ham’s only fan!!!!
Shirley Harpley
November 28, 2012 at 10:09 amMy 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!
Emma Hart
November 28, 2012 at 10:13 amMy Mother in Law still wears a jumper my husband bought her when he was 18!!!!! (He’s nearly 37!)
Emma Hart
November 28, 2012 at 10:14 amI have Tweeted (@emmakiwi9)
Emma Hart
November 28, 2012 at 10:17 amFollowing your blog.
Caroline James
November 28, 2012 at 10:28 amMy mum used to wear boob tube tops in the summer when I was younger…ohhh the shame!
Rennene Hartland
November 28, 2012 at 11:04 amMy friend always wears this bright Green shiny Skirt and its awful
hannah welsh
November 28, 2012 at 11:10 amIt’s so embarrassing when your mum copies your clothes – leather trousers last week!!
B Lawrie
November 28, 2012 at 11:22 amMy mum used to make a habit of wearing green leggings with red suede shoes. It was interesting to say the least!!
Claire P
November 28, 2012 at 11:33 aminappropriate slogan tshirt
Pauline D
November 28, 2012 at 11:54 amI can’t comment on others but i once wore yellow shoes
Kim Howard
November 28, 2012 at 12:00 pmTweeting @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
Rennene Hartland
November 28, 2012 at 12:09 pmMy Friend wears a bright green skirt its awful
Rennene Hartland
November 28, 2012 at 12:10 pmtweeted https://twitter.com/RenneneH/status/273760685949849600
Adrian Clarke
November 28, 2012 at 12:11 pmMy wife wore a pink valour trackie! Yuk!
Leonie Gray
November 28, 2012 at 12:14 pmmy mum has a pair of trousers that look like she borrowed them from Mr Motivator but baggy.
antonia richardson
November 28, 2012 at 12:22 pmmy sister -green skipants with black rainbow leg warmers and a gray snood
Gul
November 28, 2012 at 12:39 pmMy 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!!!!
Jo C
November 28, 2012 at 12:48 pmMy 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!
Kathy Cakebread
November 28, 2012 at 2:31 pmprobably my mums curtain like tops!
julie
November 28, 2012 at 2:44 pmMy husband had to wear a cricket jumper knitted by his mother a few times when she visited that was miles too small.
sram
November 28, 2012 at 4:20 pmIve seen people wear some grotesque stuff but I think shiny velvet dress from a neighbour takes the cake.
aj
November 28, 2012 at 4:54 pmmany 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.
aj
November 28, 2012 at 4:55 pmi have tweeted @tigerfanjane
lesley doodnath
November 28, 2012 at 5:52 pma bubble skirt in the 80s. i look like a mushroom 🙂
Chris Blake
November 28, 2012 at 5:59 pmWas a few years ago but my mate wore a pink red and blue WOOLEN TANKTOP !!!! Yuck
Jojo
November 28, 2012 at 7:30 pmMy 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.
Sandy Hill
November 28, 2012 at 7:31 pmCan I nominate myself? For the most awful baggy jumpers which look appalling but they are sooo comfy LOL.
Steph Armstrong
November 28, 2012 at 7:55 pmMy 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.
Jenette ogborn
November 28, 2012 at 8:07 pmMy sister wore a shell suit for years after they went out of fashion as she said they were still cool.
merryl cain-o'grady
November 28, 2012 at 8:27 pmmy husband wore flurecent socks in the eighties, one pink and one yellow
Lynn Fancy
November 28, 2012 at 9:04 pmUrghhh my sister will insist on bloomin animal print which makes her look like cat slater grrrrrr I detest it!!!
Caroline S
November 28, 2012 at 9:07 pmMy 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!
Lynn Fancy
November 28, 2012 at 9:08 pmI tweeted https://twitter.com/LemonFancy/status/273895789019926528 🙂
Lynn Fancy
November 28, 2012 at 9:09 pmI am following on NB 🙂
Natalie holland
November 28, 2012 at 9:57 pmMy friend once wore a bright pink mini skirt which she adored, I thought it looked awful but couldn’t tell her that eek!
mark.andrena@sky.com
November 28, 2012 at 9:57 pmMy husband used to wear a terrible pair of velvet trousers
Natalie holland
November 28, 2012 at 9:57 pmI tweeted @starcatch3r