People Reveal The Most Cringeworthy Trend They Followed As A Kid

The Uniform

I had a shirt that said "You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same". The irony here is that I was still trying to fit in with the "alternative kids" and the shirt was part of the uniform.

- Lurkist

Flavortown

I used to wear those black button down shirts with fire at the bottom, like the kind Guy Fieri wears. I don't know if it was an actual trend or not but it still makes me cringe.

- Pyrrhape

You were in Flavortown and didn't even know it.

- bonafidehooligan

All Very Spice Girls

I bought into the classic 90s trends that immediately come to mind. the butterfly clips, frosted lips and eyes, platform shoes... all very spice girls. I am having to relive it because my 12 year old is now into the same things. Except instead of pulling back strands of hair with butterfly clips, she's clipping them haphazardly throughout her entire mane. I cannot wait for the trend to die!

- mrschestnyspurplehat

Emo

The emo/scene trend of the early 2000s. I was in high school, I'm black (female), and wearing band t-shirts, going to tiny, packed concerts, jumping around in the "mosh pit" and meeting band members made me feel unique. I even met Brendon Urie when he was a baby-faced 18 year old on their first big tour with Fall Out Boy and felt really cool talking about it after they blew up.

I remember taking "emo" pictures of myself with my flip phone and putting them on Myspace. I even titled them "emo pics of me."

- toussantlouverture

Polo Collars

Nothing said suave like a popped collar on a Ralph Lauren polo shirt.

- Ellsworth_Chewie

You mean you only had one collar? All the cool kids I knew wore at least two polos. The coolest wore three, usually hot pink, neon green, and electric blue.

- BrokenPug

Polo shirts are actually meant to be worn with a popped collar. They were designed to be easy to play Tennis in and to protect the neck from sun.

Culturally, we think of popped collars as "douchy" since the polo shirt is associated with a Frat bro image. It's actually very functional.

They aren't terrible work out clothes either, since they're short sleeved and breathable. Granted, popping your collar indoors is just posturing.

- iasserteddominanceta

"Tinted Green and Caked With Glitter" 

I used Bath & Body Works roll on glitter religiously (Cucumber Melon obviously). But I used so much of it that instead of having a little sparkle under my eyes, my skin was tinted green and caked with glitter.

- erbewhi

Hater

Thinking that hating popular things made me cool.

- 5Pearlescent

Avril

When I was like 13 I wore Jean shorts, a black band t shirt, torn up suit jacket, an old knotted mustard yellow tie and Chuck taylors. One day a girl I liked said that I must be a huge Avril Lavigne fan and I almost died from embarrassment.

- freedomink

Fun When Your Parents Are Spending Their Money

Sagging my pants because a kid told me "you don't have to wear them that high" and I was afraid of being bullied for high waters after that, thinking that my clothes HAD to have a Polo (couldn't be USPA) logo on it, or be plastered with Abercrombie & Fitch, Aeropostale, American Eagle (still wear their jeans though lol I love the stretch ones they make) or Hollister logos all over it for it to be considered "swag". Also, my obsession with Jordan shoes, often dreaming of the day Id be able to buy 100s of them.

I was so obsessed with trying to dress a certain way to appear trendy. Now I couldn't care less about that stuff lol. I rock clothing from Wal Mart (those color assorted t shirt packs are great lol) and H&M and until my shoes (usually vans) give out entirely, imma keep wearing them. It's all fun when your parents are spending their money but as I got older, I realized I didn't have money to be wasting on useless stuff like a Jordan collection right now lol.

- itssomethingcool

Kriss Kross backwards clothes wearing.

- brp

Edgelord In a Fedora

I wore a f*cking fedora for over a year. People had no clue what my hair looked like because I never took that f*cker off. When I took it off one day in English to scratch my head, my teacher stopped mid-sentence and just said "I've never seen your hair before....you have such gorgeous curly hair that any of these girls in here would kill for and you cover it with that hat??" and honestly that was a turning point. Literally taking off that fedora for the last time really helped me out of my edgelord phase.

- grabmyrooster

Mom Was Right

Neon fishnet fingerless gloves. Mom told me I'd be embarrassed about in the future. Mom was right.

- Mint_Tea_And_Trees

Totally. My mom would often take pictures and say "Oh, you're going to love this picture when you're 30"

- LootGrinder

Me last year with my daughter. Trying to take a nice sibling photo on one of the kids birthday's, there she is smack bang in the middle, Whipping some siiiiicc fidget spinner moves and poses 😂

- Onesielover88