'Fashion Accidents'

[Spitchen]

Have you ever wondered where some fashion ideas come from?

I was thinking the other day about David Beckham's (England soccer player) new 'mohawk-style' hairdo and wondered if the style was more a result of a 'fashion accident' than a true hairstylist's concoction.

I mean is the hairdo more a result of some bloke, perhaps famous rockstar, DJ, model or other person in the public limelight, who got out of bed one morning after sleeping on both sides of his head and didnt have enough time or couldnt be arsed to fix his hair. He heads out to his latest cafe, pub or shopping centre with his hair unfortunately stuck in some' pseudo-mohawk' style and is noticed by a few fans/punters who decide that his new hairdo is kinda cool. These same fans then go home and get their 3-litre tubs of gel and fudge out and begin the sculpturing of their locks. 3 weeks later, every Tom, Dick and Harry has the latest 'mohwawk' look and its all down to one lazy fooker who couldn't be arsed fixing his hair one morning!

Other fashion accidents could include:

Accident: People dancing in clubs with backpacks on in the early 90's
Cause: Student leaves Uni late and doesnt have time to dump his bag full of books before heading out so takes backpack to club, and wears it whilst dancing. Hey presto! It takes off. Gerling still haven't lost theirs!

Accident : Wearing sunglasses in clubs.
Cause: Overly trashed rockstars rocking up to clubs eyeballed up and not wishing to impose their split eyeballs on unwary punters. Hey presto!. Its cool to wear sunnies in clubs even though I can't remember the last time the sun rose above a DJ desk. It looks bloody stupid too!

Accident: Trilby hats.
Cause: A red-faced drunken Tommy Smith (famous horse trainer) stumbles inadvertently into Tank nightclub after some big victories at Randwick Racecourse one Saturday. He's wearing his famous trilby hat. He starts buying all the pretty girls in off-the-shoulder tops drinks and one of them steals his hat off him and starts dancing in it. He gives it to her as a present and all the other girls get jealous. The following week at Tank there are 12 girls wearing trilby hats and the rest is history. Remember, only 2 types of people look good in a trilby. Racehorse trainers and singers in ska-bands!

Accident: Off-the shoulder tops
Cause: A simple cause really. A bunch of groupie girls in standard issue white tops are waiting for a famous DJ to arrive at Home nightclub. Famous DJ in mohawk-style hairdo and sunnies arrives at club and there is mayhem as the group of girls clamber to get his autograph. One girl is floored by the mayhem and her top is ripped with the shoulder on one side completely gone. She is crying. DJ feels sorry for the this unfortunate girl and beckons her to come to him. She gets VIP treatment for the night and gets to hang with famous DJ all night. Of course, all the other girls are jealous and all begin to rip the shoulders off their tops to try and get the DJs attention. The rest again is history.

Does anyone have any more 'Fashion accidents'?

[breaksRbest]

Wearing a skirt over the top of pants. Bad move.

I imagine it started when a considerably trashed female punter left a club to go and change in preparation for the recovery. she was so trashed she forgot to take off her skirt and just slipped the pants on underneath.

Just more clothing for us guys to take off at the end of the nite.;)

[redambition]

i say the skirt over pants started when some unfortunate split her pants (a la gwyneth) somewhere and found something to wrap around it... looked like a skirt and hooplah!

as for the beckham do... some guy tried to copy it. he had black hair. he now has black hair with a skunk strip of blonde down the middle, all spiked up mohawk stylee. hahahahahaha.

[MissTrixi]

How about those denim jeans that are worn out in the front and in the back...
Really hott-looking cowboy heads up to the big-smoke for a night on the town to see how the other half live. He wears his trusty boots and of course his trusty jeans that he doesn't even take off to sleep. These jeans are worn out at the front from multiple-rope tying, fencing and just having shit from his hands wiped on them in general. At the back the jeans are worn from spending all day on a horse or a bull.
At the club that night the city girls are taken with his cowboy charm (every girl loves a cowboy) and throw themselves at him like lassos around a steer's neck (tight man, tight). The city boys notice this and not to be outdone by some country hick, or to have their precious city bitches stolen away to the outback, set forth to wearing out the front of their jeans by rubbing themselves onto brickwalls, the road, each others prickly faces - you name it - anything with an abrasive surface. The same applies to the back. And thus the fashion trend is born. YEEHAA!

[Spitchen]

Excellent work MissTrixi. I'll add that to my book of "fashion accidents'. :)

[djned]

most disturbing fashion accident of 2002:

clear lensed glasses.

was up in sydney in april and the number of fuckwits wearing them was really disgusting.

they came in to being when a slag was improperly anaesthetised for her fifth collagen injection, she awoke to see the plastic surgeon bending over her face, wearing safety glasses to protect from any spurting blood, or silicone, or whatever. as you do.

in her drugged up haze she thought 'ooh that looks good. i might try that.' then she fell asleep again, but when she got out of surgery, the first thing she did was drop in to mitre 10 on her way to pick up her coke for her 'collagen celebration' welcome back party at tank nightclub.

[MissTrixi]

:lol: One more for you Spitchen, although this one's a little more obvious. Platform shoes.

See there's this dude who's married to a midget. And well..., she has never given him a blowjob... he thinks that the problem must be 'cause she can't reach.... And walla... Platform Shoes!!!

Platform Shoes - giving short women all over the world a chance!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Spitchen]

MissTrixi, that story has already been used to explain the use of leather patches on the knee area of mens jeans in the 1970's.

[MissTrixi]

Classic Spitchen, classic.
I guess that only the kind, considerate 70's man had leather patches on his elbows too.

[redambition]

ned, sig = too long

[Technogeekery]

That style of dancing to breaks was an accident too... everyone just used to dance normally, then one day a power lead came unplugged from a lighting stack, fell onto the sweat-soaked dancefloor, and electrocuted all the patrons on the floor. Nobody noticed (being very high at the time) but the onlookers were amazed and impressed with the energy, staccato rhythms and jerky manoevers. From then on, thats how people danced to breaks.

[feeble]

The Story Of The Visor Revival

A fashionable young man (lets call him "Cameron"...they all seem to be called Cameron) was preparing to saunter on down to a nu skool breaks night.

Mummy had generously taken him shopping, and he had the perfect outfit planned...the jacket was Diesel, the jeans Tsubi, the sneakers Gola. All seemed well...but then Cameron was faced with a horrible dilemma.

He had planned to wear a cap, to compliment his Point Piper B-Boy style statement- but if the cap was worn, how would he be able to show off his new mohawk, crafted just that day at Toni & Guy?

Hair...hat...hair...hat...the choice seemed impossible.

Luckily Cameron was a resourceful lad, and with the help of a pair of scissors, he created a piece of headgear that gloriously combined the styling of hat, without messing up the hair. It went down a treat at YU that night, and thus the visor revival was born.

[Spitchen]

Feebs, another excellent accident story! :) I thought of the visor too but had no decent history of its being.

[MissTrixi]

How Elvis got his lycra-suit.

I reckon that the aliens gave old Elvis his suit.

[starlet]

Rat's Tails - a fine example of hair dressing excellence

see poll (http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19532)

[berniebern]

Socks rolled over the bottom of those adidas pants with the fluro stripes -- Dun know how it started

Those Jaguar tops - dun know how it started

[krafty_x]

One of the most famous.

Doctor Martins boots.

Bet the 'ol fella never would have thought 'eh.

k_x oxo

8-)

[auzziehood]

socks & thonges :lol:

[Kristi]

Yep sox with thongs yuk!! I also hate the cut-off ripped denim look, thats gay. And the really wide belts that aren't even belts and have those silver holes in them. And the off the shoulder tops. Everytime i see people wearing this i think instant fashion victim. Just add thongs!

[tankgal]

:lol: LYW Spitchen, very funny stuff. And feebs, that's classic! But I can't believe no one has yet mentioned berets... I mean please, no respectable girl, or guy for that matter, think that wearing this impracticle peice of clothing while dancing in a club with a dozen or so other impracticle looking people is gonna make them look cool?

[Mickstah]

How about spandex?
I hear it all happened one day when Richard Simmons found that the old trackky dacks (there's another fashion accident for ya) gave him unsightly sweat blotches under the arms and around the groin area. Searching for something a bit more revealing and constrictive, he stumbled upon the idea of wearing a full body suit that bonded to the skin after a rather horrendous shrink wrap accident after making his lover sandwhiches. Hey-ho a week later here's Simmons strutting his stuff in the hippest 70's clubs of Ney York, how tragic.
:lol: :lol:

[Bizzy]

Guys.....

I think there's more that could be added to this....

[ms money penny]

I was wondering who the hell half these people were before I saw the date is was posted :lol:


Funny stuff.

[Bizzy]

maybe someone could explain pointy shoes to me?

[Iain]

Accident: Hardhouse


cause: A Mr.whippy music started going haywire and speed up uncontrolably, someone with no musical ability or taste heard it and though "hey thats cool, i can make that on my danceraver mega mix software that i got for $30 when i sent away 4 kellogs cornflake tokens".

[djsimonmann]

Pointy shoes.

somehow it seems a oxy moron, there is no point to those shoes.

Back in the 1700's it was cool to get your feet bound if you were a girl, sure, it used to be a torture but so did a gerbil up the arse. So anyway, once this poor women with bound feet entered a bar and the man behind the bar said "We don't serve your type here" Since elitism was pretty cool at the time, everyone went and got their feet bound and started a club called "stumps" where everyone could have their feet bound and still get drinks. Since then the club and the binding of feet has gone out the window but girls seem to think constricting their feet is still cool and attractive. Thus pointy shoes.

As for berets, that's easy, a cub, a scout and a venturer walked into a club, everyone thought the cub was cute but he just dibbed and dobbed, so they moved onto the scout, he was more interested in camping than girls so they moved onto the venturer, he could tie knots, cook a decent meal and was accepting to the females.. the only probalem was all the girls he met had really bad fashion sense and kept stealing his hat.

bad hey, look I tried... nothing can compare to Spitchen's efforts.

Oh, that washed out tralier trash look, that's just skater envy :P

[Chiapet]

Originally posted by auzziehood
socks & thonges :lol:


agreed.. I saw these two young girls @ chatswood last weekend..

both with..

- short denim skirts
- black and pink striped knee high socks..
- white thongs..


seriously... :-*

can't think of a reason as to why they would..

[Busty]

Fashion Accidents...


Thats so funny, I accidently slipped over and fell into this really ugly striped shirt and brown slacks!!!! and just as I was leaving I ran into the door that had a pair of sunglasses on it!


:lol:

[Warren G]

Originally posted by Busty
Fashion Accidents...


Thats so funny, I accidently slipped over and fell into this really ugly striped shirt and brown slacks!!!! and just as I was leaving I ran into the door that had a pair of sunglasses on it!


:lol:

smartarse:lol: :lol:

[weazelsbuddy]

Originally posted by breaksRbest
Wearing a skirt over the top of pants. Bad move.

I imagine it started when a considerably trashed female punter left a club to go and change in preparation for the recovery. she was so trashed she forgot to take off her skirt and just slipped the pants on underneath.



au contraire!

leaving club in early hours of SUNLIT am... with exquisite sweat patches a fine nine to ten shades darker than the remainder of one's garment (usually of the denim trouser commonly known as 'jeans' variety) in such a lovely crotch shaped pattern that tsubi couldn't even pass off as the latest wave in neo-facionnnn....

the true trashbag accident... and imho the saw the dawn of the skirts over pants thang...

wb

~of course has no exprience of such ill feted occurences~

[PlayDj]

Originally posted by Bizzy
maybe someone could explain pointy shoes to me?

I agree I don’t think they are very sexy, I think they make girls feet look quite big, & I personally don’t think feet are a feature you want to bring attention to, especially if they already have large feet.

I tried my girlfriends on & they are NOT comfortable.

But they are SO popular??

[Debz]

hmm coz theyre halfway in between wearing dressy shoes & casual i suppose... (mine are anyway, they dont really have heels) ... and sometimes you cant wear sneakers to every club (or just dont feel like it) ... or thongs for that matter :P

I cant find any other shoes that i like apart from pointy ones if i ever want to get dressed up... but those soft ballerina style shoes :-0 ... whats the go.. i may as well put on my old split-soled dancing shoes for clubbing & try to look fashionable...

I'm sure witches are the ones that started the pointy shoes craze... first seen at "the cauldron" nightclub.. haw haw! :P

ps: playdj they might not be comfy if you have bigger feet than yer gf :P

[PlayDj]

Debz I'm with you on those soft ballerina style shoes - shocking!

I agree that you can’t always wear heels, but I don’t like the points, your right with the witches’ concept, that’s what they remind me of. I just find the point on the end of the shoe very uncomfortable and awkward to walk in & I wear allot of heels often so it’s not the fact that they were heels.

My girlfriend and I have the same size small feet & she had just bought them & was having second thoughts.

;)

[Antwan]

Fluffy pants:

One night there was a hobo traveling the country side. It was a very cold night and he was seeking shelter as he walked he started to hear a strange sound which grew louder eventually he came upon a spectacle of lights and music. He was unimpressed with the party but decided to get warmth by cuddling up to some munted ravers. At one point some younger punters noticed his "fur pants" obviously taken from some wild beast. They decided that they were cool in there munted state.....At the next rave they wore there own version of the hobo's pants made up from any garish fluffy material they could obtain from around the house and voila! A candy generation was born.:lol: