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What's your idea of dodgy fashion?


We're all guilty of fashion crimes but everyone seems very keen to point the finger, and less willing to confess to their own fashion disasters.

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Jessie

Jessie, 21 I don't like people who have a lot of holes in their clothes and who have lots of earrings.

Ama

Ama, 16 I think I must have got it wrong back in the day when I first became a teenager. I wore a long skirt. It wasn't right. It wasn't in fashion at the time and everyone just looked at me.

Tia

Tia, 18 We were in Camden, me and my girls, walking on the road when we saw this woman with balloon trousers which made a whooshing noise. She looked like Aladdin. I took a picture of her while she was walking. But then again, it is Camden town. That's what happens in Camden, you get weirdoes dressing up like that. One time I saw a boy in shorts with pulled up socks at the bus stop and a lady in a dress with Wellington boots.

Tim

Tim, 16 It wasn't me but I saw someone in McDonald's and they had a tight florescent green jumper and florescent green jeans on. That was about two weeks ago, but that was the worst I've ever seen.

Kay

Kay, 18 There was a guy who had really skinny legs and he had shorts on. His legs looked like tooth picks in shorts and he wore these really massive clown shoes. He used to come to this college last year. We used to call him 'elongation' because he was so tall. He used to wear shorts and we were praying to God he wouldn't wear shorts in the summer but he blessed us with shorts and dungarees. He wore them and they were so short, his legs were literally like sticks.

Kerry

Kerry, 30 The worst fashion disaster I've seen is seeing students wearing trousers with their knickers showing. And some of them have little holes in their knickers as well. I see it loads. Sometimes it's not just knickers that are showing, it's arses as well.

Darian

Darian, 16 The worst fashion disaster is fat people who have thongs showing above their trouser line. That is just disgusting. I don't know why people want to do it.

Monika

Monika, 23 My worst fashion disaster. I don't think I've had one. OK, that's not true! When you're a teenager, you do stupid things. I'm originally Hungarian, so it's a bit of a different society. I think the worst fashion problem was turning up at school with green hair, which my parents didn't appreciate and nor did my teachers. And I managed to get hold of these trousers with lots of holes in them. In Hungary that's not very acceptable and I was kicked out of school for a week. It wasn't a disaster. It was very rebellious in that society. I don't think I had a problem really.


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