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The Year In Fashion Disasters
Bidding farewell to bikini jeans, fleece-lined Crocs, and (ugh!) Uggs—and other fashion faux pas of 2008. Plus: The Daily Beast celebrates the best (and worst) of the year.
Trends, by their very nature, are not meant to last. Yet sometimes they persist season after season, well past their shelf life. I mostly blame celebrities and teenagers for this problem, but the fashion industry is also to blame.
A new year is upon us, but rather than burn our mistakes and completely forget about the worst fashion moments (so 1968), we should examine the sins of 2008 so that we never repeat them again. A gallery of the year's worst fashion offend-ers, and some suggestions for what to do with them in 2009 if you’re still secretly stashing these items in your closet.
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The Right Dumps Carrie
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
What's Joe's Problem?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Geithner's Stock Plummeting
Jeff Madrick is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is the author of Taking America, The End of Affluence (Random House) and The Case for Big Government.
The Future of Fashion Week
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
Harvesting Fall's Fashions
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
How Chic Is J.C. Penney?
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
I just saw a croc someone had thrown away on a trail yesterday while I was taking a walk. Good move, whoever you were.
I had those nerd glasses in the 70's and it wasn't because I wanted to wear them. The writer called it: it's because we were poor. Still, now that I'm getting old(er), they are sort of cute on the kids. Maybe they came from Harry Potter.
Headbands we did when Olivia Newton John did it. In pink. terrycloth.
I'm unlikely to give up the uggs since they are really an excuse to wear house shoes out on errands. I know that isn't fashionable, but I'm far too old to care anymore.
The bikini jeans---the WORST!! Where did you find those? I missed them. Although I'm not sure the jeans Brandy wore the other day with the entire leg missing were much better. On second thought...anything is better than these things. Garish.
Sorry. Not giving up the Uggs. I live in Chicago where the snow is up to my shins and the wind chill right now is below zero.
They're not a fashion statement, although I happen to like the way they look. They keep me warm, they look good and I don't care about what some fashion maven says. I also have crocs...I don't wear them outside of my own property though.
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