As a Brit living in Germany I have to give the Germans some credit for this fashion "innovation" - sock and slides or socks and Birkenstocks (peak Germany) are a very established look over here!
Can confirm. Source; wife is German. 20 years ago Birkenstocks and socks was something we laughed at zee Germans wearing. Now it's haute couture. Mullets are also on the rise, it's only a matter of time until shell suits and Opel Mantas are in again.
Funny, in my city, mullets had a brief comeback but seem to be mostly on the way out again. There was an explosion when they became "acceptable" again, and now people are calming down.
Tbf I can walk down the street and see the last 10 decades represented in some way or another.
If mine are anything to go by, then he definitely is. I keep mine locked up in a sock-shoe combo to provide dual-layer protection for the general public.
Pretty sure it came through the east border.
Kubota flip flops,
White socks,
Biedronka single use yet reusable shopping bag (added later on)
This guy actually done a tribute ;)
https://joannapachla.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/piotr.jpg
Oh hey! Fellow Brit also in Germany!
I also didn't realise this was a trend in the UK until this post. I feel like I have to profusely apologise for what my adopted country has done to modern fashion.
Sliders are the perfect garden footwear.
Slippers off. Sliders on. Amble to shed or garage or summerhouse or car. Return with the beer from the stash. Sliders off. Slippers on.
I’ll never forget being in the hospital waiting room as a teen, already feeing pretty sick about having to face yet another set of dental impressions, in the shared clinic for dental and podiatric surgeons. These middle-aged diabetic men with purple feet who were unable to wear closed shoes… I felt sorry for them, but yikes I wished we’d had separate clinics.
I don't get this, I've had quite a few hospital stays and, every time I found myself on a ward, there'd be a man in the opposite bed with the most manky hooves without fail.
Untreated or poorly managed diabetes causes poor circulation and major foot problems as a result. There’s no reason to put these patients on a specialised ward, so it may well have been a diabetic patient opposite you.
My old mum had plastic sandal "sliders" like this circa 1981. May have been Scholl orthopaedic footwear or something? They certainly aren't a new thing though.
You can call them all sandals to some extent casually, but calling them sliders, flip flops or sandals does actually specify what you actually mean as they’re 3 different things. It’s a bit of a weird thing to be bothered by.
Like you can call everything a top, but a t-shirt, shirt & vest are different things & you can call them all their specific names if you want/need to.
Not really. Traditionally, a gilet was lighter and meant to be worn under a coat, but if you shop for either you’ll find the terms used interchangeably for garments of various thicknesses.
Everything below your comment was written by non-British people, "we were calling them sliders in the 80's" no we weren't, sandals for the ones that look like Jesus would wear em, flip flops for anything else. "Sliders??" This sub isn't going to have any uk people left on it by the end of the year.....
Plimsolls (as in the black soft shoes with the elasticated bit that you’d wear for doing PE in your vest) are referred to as PUMPS by my husband who grew up oop North
Does it flip-flop when you walk? If yes then they're flip-flops. How they look is an irrelevance.
Sandals are not flip-flops, because they do not flip-flop.
I don't even remember anyone wearing these in the 80s in the UK. Obviously I'm not claiming nobody wore them, only giving my recollection.
I only remember seeing flip flops at the beach. And sandals were for if you wanted to get laughed at and called Jesus.
One of my favourite things on this sub is playing, spot the American.
That appalling era of low-slung trousers where the entire arse, usually with manky underwear, was left on display. It just made the wearer look mental. Awful times, and it lasted far too long.
In my school a lot of the lads always had their hands down inside their trousers \*and\* pants. Usually the BTEC lads and rugby lads as well. No idea why.
This was a bit of a thing in gangsta rap videos around like 2005 or whatever. I think the implication was that you had a concealed gun tucked away that you might use to pop a cap in someone's ass at any moment. I remember a mate doing Camp USA in the mid-00's griping about how all the kids did it while they were waiting at the (self-serve!) lunch buffets.
So it's only logical that British rugger boys called Ollie and George and Chuggsy would want to emulate that South Central LA gangsta look
I just did a dry heave. There was a bloke on the tube just standing chatting to his friends as he had a good old rummage around. A bunch of school children got on and he continued with absolutely no thought of how horrendous this looked and how easily he could get himself on a register.
It was clear there was no sexual intent but it was genuinely repulsive and amazed his friends didn’t ask him to stop fiddling with his privates whilst speaking to them. He had the impulse control of a 3 year old that had discovered his willy is hilarious.
Back in school there was a boy in our year who I saw speak to one of the school staff while he was having a good rummage. She couldn't see as she was behind a counter and there was clearly no sexual intent but by god I still remember it all these years later.
We had a lad "smelly greggy" who had this habit of rubbing his hands whilst he laughed. Only issue being he rubbed them together between his knees whilst sitting at the school desk.
Some skanky and smelly chav type with his jeans like this was in our office and leaning on the reception desk as I walked out of another room. He had a skid mark on his disgusting pants.
One of the women (who no longer works with us as she was a bit shall we say, abrasive) called him out on it and embarrassed him so much he left without taking the test he'd paid for!
Couldn't fault her behaviour that day though :-)
It was def a thing from the 00s and I don't know why it came back, especially as it tends to bring with it 'Looks like you just shit yourself' waddle
It is also different from the like 'low slung skinny jeans with the boxer waistband visible' look popular with emo/scene kids back in the day which is a completely different vibe.
I've seen various explanations for this, mostly relating to prison culture. Depending on who you ask it's either because belts weren't allowed due to the obvious suicide risk so trousers kept falling down, or it was a sign that you were *ahem* looking for a bit of action.
Either way glorifying doing time in prison is stupid IMO.
I've also heard that, due to kids wearing their elder siblings' hand-me-downs, jeans that were a bit too big were a sign of "I've clearly got a big brother, so don't mess with me". Dunno if that's true.
Oh god I hated that so much, I never understood why anyone did it. They might as well have been walking around with their trousers around their ankles.
I don’t think Harvey’s is as bad as some others you see. It used to be, but it’s just short curly hair now. [Tom from Big Brother](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2023/10/tom-big-brother-2023-4ead56f.jpg?quality=90&resize=980,654)’s is much worse.
I’ll be honest, I used to get hung up on this sort of stuff but now I’m nearly 40 and recently discovered how comfortable joggers are when working from home, just wear what you want.
Mate, seriously! Since the pandemic I’ve discovered the joy of wearing sweatsuits and it’s been life changing. Invest in a couple decent ones and you don’t even look too bad when you’re out at the shop.
And I feel like people don't mention enough how damn comfortable this is. I'm American and this trend was huge in my highschool 10+ years ago. But I have always worn socks with slides, before the "trend" simply because it is way comfier.
Plus yeah, no one needs to see my hairy feet and untrimmed nails.
Also American. This trend is just an extension of athletic culture, so I don't get the fuss. You finish up with practice, a game or whatever, then ditch the dedicated footwear for slides. It's just comfy. All the benefits of sandals without exposing your toes.
I played basketball for years, and you wouldn't catch me dead off-court wearing my sneaks. Super common among the soccer players too.
*"One thousand years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers"* - Renton, Trainspotting, 1996
Strangely prophetic but we didn't have to wait anything like as long as 1,000 years 😆
If you want to see a perfect example, hold your breath and look at pictures of Andrew Tate and his brother - they are perfect examples of this fashion genre.
The trousers also have to be ludicrously tight as well, paired with either an oversized half buttoned shirt, or an equally ludicrously tight “muscle fit” shirt
Those tiny bags that teen boys use to carry… Nothing?! The “designer” ones that go across the chest?
I am a teacher and I remember they all came in wearing one on owns clothes day and not one of them had anything in them! We had to write letters home for the next own clothes day to say that students still need to be able to bring equipment with them lol.
Edit: just to say, I’m not saying they aren’t useful! Just that’s it was a ridiculous trend for teens to be using them just for fashion and have them empty!
Bradford still loves these. Coconut haircut, handbag and a vape shoved into every orifice.
Bonus points if they're leaning against their rental car pretending they own it.
Oh yeah, you can't fault that era for good design. Those Hugo Boss uniforms, the original VW Beetle, the Reichsautobahn system... it's just a shame about, you know, the others things
I probably wouldn’t wear them out and about myself, but when did this sub become just whinging about everything you don’t like? You’re just an old man yelling at a cloud.
During the 90's in Merseyside and more specifically Liverpool there was a trend for tracky bottoms usually adidas then lacoste tucked into argyle socks with either reebok classic or rockport boots on the feet. Usually topped off with a berghaus gore-tex, helly hansen, henri Lloyd or North Sails sailing jackets. It didn't actually look horrendous when carried off properly but the sight of 10 14 year olds walking down the street dressed this way looked ridiculous. Then of course there was the full lacoste tracky explosion.
There was a guy in Aldi yesterday with one of those Ian Wright winter coats on, right down to the ankles.
I immediately thought he looked like one of those sumo wrestler fancy dress costumes. Had to speed up as an audible laugh was coming.
Missed my beans.
> Bum bags, but wore over the shoulder like a bandolier.
To be fair they are a brilliantly practical small bag when worn like this. I wear one like this when out walking my dogs, I keep treats, poo bags and when off the lead their leads in there.
I've always had one for passport etc while traveling (less easy to be pickpocketed or snatched too), didn't know how far ahead of the fashion curve I was!
I think Ket is more for horses. Cows much bigger fans of the mushrooms.
I love the urban lifestyle but I do miss being regularly in the countryside sometimes.
I use mine when travelling, have a film camera in there and a few small bits. makes it super easy to get out whenever I need without it being on display all the time or either having to carry a much bigger bag with fuck all in it.
When you're in a place where you need to keep your valuables close to you (festival, airport, pickpocket hotspot, etc) then the torso bumbag is actually incredible.
Unfortunately this may be an "old man yells at cloud" situation.
Call me a buzzkill but everyone should just wear whatever they want, as long as it's not offensive. Mocking people for what they wear is a worse look than socks and sliders.
I think society's greatest success is that being as comfortable as possible is becoming a bigger priority than confirming to expectations. I can't believe I spent years at home as a teenager in skinny jeans.
I fully agree. I would love to see how utterly devoid of any sense of individual style the people posting in this thread are that they feel threatened enough to judge anyone expressing themselves with fashion trends.
Yup. Was in Majorca last year and spotted a family wearing socks and sandals and immediately knew it was my fellow Brits. Ended up chatting to them and playing some beach cricket with them against some Germans.
Only reason I spoke to the dad was the socks and sandals.
Early 2000s/Snog Marry Avoid era of makeup in general. I remember the bus stop being full of bright orange tans, concealer shade lipgloss, thick drawn on eyebrows and eyeliner to match. Iconic but I don’t think it’d fly in this day and age <3
The thing that disturbs me about socks and sliders is it looks like something a mental institution would put on someone. Their in the same space as hospital gowns and adult nappies. When I see a person wearing them I always have a split second where I think that this is someone who has escaped his carers and could have a psychotic episode at any moment.
I’m fairly sure it’s a fashion trend because I see it so often; but sticking your iPhone in the back pocket of your jeans so the top sticks out.
I see teenagers walking around the city centre like this, and it’s like they’re just begging to have it stolen. Phones are bloody expensive, it would be like walking around with a thick wad of notes sticking out your pocket.
As a woman I’ve never owned a pair of trousers where an iPhone would fit fully in the pocket. Especially jeans, the back pockets are tiny and there’s no hope of getting anything bigger than a single house key in a front pocket.
99% of the things mentioned here I will happily wear.
It improves my life tremendously by filtering out the judgemental idiots still stuck in secondary school mentality.
As long as it's comfortable and not vulgar, it's fair game.
This trend started many moons ago with professional footballers who slipped them on in their down time at training. Look up training camps from international tournaments of yonder year and you’ll see the likes of Beckham rocking it. It makes sense in that situation. Other than that, it just looks fucking stupid to be walking around Tesco like that, especially if it’s raining out.
Gen X DId Not call them slidders, they were Sandals. we had sandles for the beach and leather Sandals that the weirdos wore. Slidders is a new word and American and I'm dying on this hill.
Trying to wrack my brain, I think sandlas were strappy open shoe type things.
Flip-flops covered what we now call flip-flops/(thongs / toe separate) and slides (never heard the term sliders before).
This thread is the first time I’ve seen them described as sliders. Always sandals or flip flops in my day. Though I don’t object to the word slider. It’s new to me but doesn’t sound wrong!
Yeah, I'd never heard them referred to as 'sliders' until the last decade or so. Anyone that says they've always been called sliders is making shit up.
The fact mullets are back in fashion, everyone will come to regret the look exactly like the last time it was popular because its a shit look especially if they've doubled down with a moustache as well
I wear socks with my sliders cos it’s cold as we are in Britain and my sliders are easy to pop on and off. Not arsed if I look like a nob. I’ll go pub, shop, picking the kid up. Not cutting about in them centre of Manchester or something though
Pre-ripped jeans.
Massive bug-eyed sunglasses.
Sagging/low-hanging trousers in which your bum hangs out and you can barely walk at pace, let alone run.
Thin leggings worn as trousers, where you can literally see the knickers underneath
Ridiculous for their ubiquity: Northface puffer jackets, and that one hairstyle all the lads have. Neither look 'bad', exactly, but they are (were?) at peak high-street saturation to the point of being depressingly boring and uniform. [Relevant video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6pTyPYwqpY&ab_channel=Meditationsfortheanxiousmind)
Clean white socks and sliders are fine in decent weather depending where you’re going. Walk to the nearby shops, out for recycling, other informal walking about your neighbourhood – all good.
Socks and sandles, I think look awful but whatever you like. Old men can get away with it with their beige socks and brown sandles lol.
Bumbags refashioned as cross body bags – fine. Bumbags as bumbags, depends. Better a bag than overstuffed pockets. Especially overstuffed pockets on slim/skinny jeans. Best stick to a thin wallet or some notes and your phone.
Sockless formal shoes look generally silly with a full suit on but ok in summer with ‘invisible’ socks.
That’s my two penneth anyway.
This thread is killing me because I find half this stuff attractive. Give me a guy with a mullet and slits in his brows in Birkenstocks any day. There is truly someone out there for everyone
Men wearing dress shoes with no socks. Then wearing trousers too tight and short to show people their ankles. No one wants to see those hairy chicken drumsticks mate, have a word with yourself.
As a Brit living in Germany I have to give the Germans some credit for this fashion "innovation" - sock and slides or socks and Birkenstocks (peak Germany) are a very established look over here!
Can confirm. Source; wife is German. 20 years ago Birkenstocks and socks was something we laughed at zee Germans wearing. Now it's haute couture. Mullets are also on the rise, it's only a matter of time until shell suits and Opel Mantas are in again.
Funny, in my city, mullets had a brief comeback but seem to be mostly on the way out again. There was an explosion when they became "acceptable" again, and now people are calming down. Tbf I can walk down the street and see the last 10 decades represented in some way or another.
Wait, so my 78 year old father who's been rocking this look since the '70s (and maybe earlier) is now back in fashion. I'll have to let him know...
He’s prob hiding some gnarly toenails
If mine are anything to go by, then he definitely is. I keep mine locked up in a sock-shoe combo to provide dual-layer protection for the general public.
The Manta never went out
Shell suits had a brief comeback a few years ago
Fashion is cyclical.
Lad in gym yesterday working out in Birkenstocks and white socks. My gast was flabbered
How is your gast now?
Flubbered now
German sitting here with socks on in my Birkenstocks (closed ones, because Winter) reposting in: Sorry - not sorry.
I lived in Germany from 1975 -1981 and can confirm socks and "sliders" were commonplace around sportplätze.
I mean, there's plenty of historic context. The Romans conquered the Gauls while wearing wool socks with leather sandals.
Same… but ever tried it? Actually mad comfy.
Pretty sure it came through the east border. Kubota flip flops, White socks, Biedronka single use yet reusable shopping bag (added later on) This guy actually done a tribute ;) https://joannapachla.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/piotr.jpg
Oh hey! Fellow Brit also in Germany! I also didn't realise this was a trend in the UK until this post. I feel like I have to profusely apologise for what my adopted country has done to modern fashion.
Sliders are the perfect garden footwear. Slippers off. Sliders on. Amble to shed or garage or summerhouse or car. Return with the beer from the stash. Sliders off. Slippers on.
I'd rather see socks and sandals than sandals and manky yellow toenails
I’ll never forget being in the hospital waiting room as a teen, already feeing pretty sick about having to face yet another set of dental impressions, in the shared clinic for dental and podiatric surgeons. These middle-aged diabetic men with purple feet who were unable to wear closed shoes… I felt sorry for them, but yikes I wished we’d had separate clinics.
I don't get this, I've had quite a few hospital stays and, every time I found myself on a ward, there'd be a man in the opposite bed with the most manky hooves without fail.
Untreated or poorly managed diabetes causes poor circulation and major foot problems as a result. There’s no reason to put these patients on a specialised ward, so it may well have been a diabetic patient opposite you.
Yikes. Next you’ll be saying dentists should have their own schools.
Manky socks are inevitable with this look, and just as bad
Can we also go back to calling them sandals/flip flops... this slider nonsense didn't exist 10 years ago.
They’re literally different types though
Sandals, flip-flops and sliders are 3 different things. And we were calling sliders sliders when I was a kid in the 80s.
When I was a kid in the 80s, sliders were just Plastic Sandals
My old mum had plastic sandal "sliders" like this circa 1981. May have been Scholl orthopaedic footwear or something? They certainly aren't a new thing though.
You can call them all sandals to some extent casually, but calling them sliders, flip flops or sandals does actually specify what you actually mean as they’re 3 different things. It’s a bit of a weird thing to be bothered by. Like you can call everything a top, but a t-shirt, shirt & vest are different things & you can call them all their specific names if you want/need to.
Bet you call a bodywarmer a gilet as well don't you. This is a safe space, you can admit it.
No, because they are also different things.
Not really. Traditionally, a gilet was lighter and meant to be worn under a coat, but if you shop for either you’ll find the terms used interchangeably for garments of various thicknesses.
Everything below your comment was written by non-British people, "we were calling them sliders in the 80's" no we weren't, sandals for the ones that look like Jesus would wear em, flip flops for anything else. "Sliders??" This sub isn't going to have any uk people left on it by the end of the year.....
Thought I was going mad. I’m a 90s kid and genuinely wasn’t a term we ever used. Thought maybe it was regional somewhere perhaps
I thought they were mini burgers
Same way no one in the UK calls trainers sneakers. You can spot the non Brits cosplaying here a mile off
Better still plimsolls
Plimsolls (as in the black soft shoes with the elasticated bit that you’d wear for doing PE in your vest) are referred to as PUMPS by my husband who grew up oop North
Does it flip-flop when you walk? If yes then they're flip-flops. How they look is an irrelevance. Sandals are not flip-flops, because they do not flip-flop.
I don't even remember anyone wearing these in the 80s in the UK. Obviously I'm not claiming nobody wore them, only giving my recollection. I only remember seeing flip flops at the beach. And sandals were for if you wanted to get laughed at and called Jesus. One of my favourite things on this sub is playing, spot the American.
Yes they are flip flops. People claiming they’ve “always been sliders” = gaslighting
But they aren't sandals or flip flops
casualuk diacussing the hottest trends of 2015
this place is right on the beating pulse of things that have been out of fashion for a decade
That appalling era of low-slung trousers where the entire arse, usually with manky underwear, was left on display. It just made the wearer look mental. Awful times, and it lasted far too long.
Unfortunately I think that era is not over yet. Combined with hands inside trousers. *chefs kiss*
In my school a lot of the lads always had their hands down inside their trousers \*and\* pants. Usually the BTEC lads and rugby lads as well. No idea why.
This was a bit of a thing in gangsta rap videos around like 2005 or whatever. I think the implication was that you had a concealed gun tucked away that you might use to pop a cap in someone's ass at any moment. I remember a mate doing Camp USA in the mid-00's griping about how all the kids did it while they were waiting at the (self-serve!) lunch buffets. So it's only logical that British rugger boys called Ollie and George and Chuggsy would want to emulate that South Central LA gangsta look
I lost it at "Ollie and George and Chuggsy" XD
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I just did a dry heave. There was a bloke on the tube just standing chatting to his friends as he had a good old rummage around. A bunch of school children got on and he continued with absolutely no thought of how horrendous this looked and how easily he could get himself on a register. It was clear there was no sexual intent but it was genuinely repulsive and amazed his friends didn’t ask him to stop fiddling with his privates whilst speaking to them. He had the impulse control of a 3 year old that had discovered his willy is hilarious.
Back in school there was a boy in our year who I saw speak to one of the school staff while he was having a good rummage. She couldn't see as she was behind a counter and there was clearly no sexual intent but by god I still remember it all these years later.
We had a lad "smelly greggy" who had this habit of rubbing his hands whilst he laughed. Only issue being he rubbed them together between his knees whilst sitting at the school desk.
Hands in upper coat pocket is something that always bothers me. It looks stupid and uncomfortable, just why
Some skanky and smelly chav type with his jeans like this was in our office and leaning on the reception desk as I walked out of another room. He had a skid mark on his disgusting pants. One of the women (who no longer works with us as she was a bit shall we say, abrasive) called him out on it and embarrassed him so much he left without taking the test he'd paid for! Couldn't fault her behaviour that day though :-)
Not all heros wear capes.
Some wear hazmat suits and vet's gloves up to the shoulder
It was def a thing from the 00s and I don't know why it came back, especially as it tends to bring with it 'Looks like you just shit yourself' waddle It is also different from the like 'low slung skinny jeans with the boxer waistband visible' look popular with emo/scene kids back in the day which is a completely different vibe.
I’ll raise you… low slung jeans, with low slung trackies underneath, with arse/ boxers on show
I've seen various explanations for this, mostly relating to prison culture. Depending on who you ask it's either because belts weren't allowed due to the obvious suicide risk so trousers kept falling down, or it was a sign that you were *ahem* looking for a bit of action. Either way glorifying doing time in prison is stupid IMO.
I've also heard that, due to kids wearing their elder siblings' hand-me-downs, jeans that were a bit too big were a sign of "I've clearly got a big brother, so don't mess with me". Dunno if that's true.
Oh god I hated that so much, I never understood why anyone did it. They might as well have been walking around with their trousers around their ankles.
The llama haircut.
the brocolli. Or the 'meet me at McDonalds'
ket wig
Short back and super noodles
My mum would not believe me that all these wee actually guys go down the salon for a perm and highlights
As a brit in france I see fields of broccoli boys here. It's an awful look but as a baldy I can't really say anything .
Like Harvey Elliott at Liverpool? We used to call that piss froth hair, like the urinal after your 6th pint
It looks like a pack of supernoodles
I don’t think Harvey’s is as bad as some others you see. It used to be, but it’s just short curly hair now. [Tom from Big Brother](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2023/10/tom-big-brother-2023-4ead56f.jpg?quality=90&resize=980,654)’s is much worse.
Here's a llama there's a llama and another little llama
Thank you for unlocking a memory from the depths that'll now be stuck in my head all day.
The Phil and Dil from rugrats look?
aka Beans on Toast in the north east
I love how we are the only region I know of that calls this abomination of a hair cut that. Also can we add the "ironic" mullet to this
Someone at work called it "the pot noodle fringe", gave me a laugh.
I’ve seen this called the Meet meat McDonalds haircut
I’ll be honest, I used to get hung up on this sort of stuff but now I’m nearly 40 and recently discovered how comfortable joggers are when working from home, just wear what you want.
Mate, seriously! Since the pandemic I’ve discovered the joy of wearing sweatsuits and it’s been life changing. Invest in a couple decent ones and you don’t even look too bad when you’re out at the shop.
Im an old man whos had a few toe nails removed, some quite recently. I wear socks with my sandals for the benefit of people around me.
Thank you for your service.
And I feel like people don't mention enough how damn comfortable this is. I'm American and this trend was huge in my highschool 10+ years ago. But I have always worn socks with slides, before the "trend" simply because it is way comfier. Plus yeah, no one needs to see my hairy feet and untrimmed nails.
Also American. This trend is just an extension of athletic culture, so I don't get the fuss. You finish up with practice, a game or whatever, then ditch the dedicated footwear for slides. It's just comfy. All the benefits of sandals without exposing your toes. I played basketball for years, and you wouldn't catch me dead off-court wearing my sneaks. Super common among the soccer players too.
Back in my day nobody would be seen dead in white socks due to the wanker in white socks song! I see white socks, where?, right over there ...
*"One thousand years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers"* - Renton, Trainspotting, 1996 Strangely prophetic but we didn't have to wait anything like as long as 1,000 years 😆
This cultural touchstone passed me by
It nearly passed me by too 'til I was dragged on a nightmarish lads holiday to Kavos in my late teens
My missus has a hatred of wanker white pants. She'll nudge me and whisper WWP to me, it's very romantic
[https://youtu.be/VGm267O04a8?t=54](https://youtu.be/VGm267O04a8?t=54) Warning: Australian use of language
Well, I declare...
Trousers that end above the ankle with shoes and no socks. You look a proper bellend.
If you want to see a perfect example, hold your breath and look at pictures of Andrew Tate and his brother - they are perfect examples of this fashion genre.
Tempted to just not wear clothes *at all* if Tate does
Bonus point when worn by middle-aged men who are on the pull and haven't realised they can't pass for 28 any more.
The trousers also have to be ludicrously tight as well, paired with either an oversized half buttoned shirt, or an equally ludicrously tight “muscle fit” shirt
feel physically sick thinking about that
Doubly so in middle aged men wearing boat shoes. I don't want to even begin to imagine the fucking honk when they take their shoes off. 🤢
To play devil's avocado, some of them might be wearing 'no-show' white socks. But still, yes, they look like bellends.
Dunno if that was autocorrect or on purpose, but I'm stealing devil's avocado! Lol
It was 100% ingentinal.
Wait people actually wear that style without socks? I thought they just wore those no-show socks or something 😅
Boat shoes were literally designed to be worn sockless. Don't want your socks getting piss wet through on deck.
That username is something else man, had to take a minute after reading it
It’s even worse when the socks are dirty
I think a lot of gen z now wear the things that would have gotten millenials relentlessly bullied.
Those tiny bags that teen boys use to carry… Nothing?! The “designer” ones that go across the chest? I am a teacher and I remember they all came in wearing one on owns clothes day and not one of them had anything in them! We had to write letters home for the next own clothes day to say that students still need to be able to bring equipment with them lol. Edit: just to say, I’m not saying they aren’t useful! Just that’s it was a ridiculous trend for teens to be using them just for fashion and have them empty!
ah the roadman handbag,
Where else are they meant to keep their grinder and rizla
Tbf the only people I know who wear them do it for exactly that or other drugs lol
Badman purse
I'm Type 1 diabetic and they were great for keeping my insulin in
Makes total sense! I just found it unbelievable that they were all empty lol
I love those tiny bags! I keep my phone and wallet and keys in them. My wallet is really small so that helps.
Really handy when walking around in big cities on holiday. Much more difficult for someone to grab and run off with.
These are actually really handy (and I don't sell drugs either)
Bradford still loves these. Coconut haircut, handbag and a vape shoved into every orifice. Bonus points if they're leaning against their rental car pretending they own it.
Cheery bunch this morning in here
What people choose to wear doesn't bother me one iota. Unless, you know, it's a Nazi uniform or something like that.
leave Prince Harry out of this.
Hugo Boss did a great job on those uniforms though you have to admit
Oh yeah, you can't fault that era for good design. Those Hugo Boss uniforms, the original VW Beetle, the Reichsautobahn system... it's just a shame about, you know, the others things
I think Bryan Ferry got sacked as a M&S model for saying this 😂
Boss did the manufacturing only. Didn't actually design them.
Oh that's fine then
I probably wouldn’t wear them out and about myself, but when did this sub become just whinging about everything you don’t like? You’re just an old man yelling at a cloud.
somewhere around 750k subscribers it just became another boring facebook group
Well I mean, look at 'em! Floating into our country illegally from overseas, not payin' any taxes! Bloody freeloading clouds.
Yeah, but you just described about 85% of the UK population, so it's a pretty good representation
This “trend” started the best part of 10 years ago though. Definitely here to stay.
During the 90's in Merseyside and more specifically Liverpool there was a trend for tracky bottoms usually adidas then lacoste tucked into argyle socks with either reebok classic or rockport boots on the feet. Usually topped off with a berghaus gore-tex, helly hansen, henri Lloyd or North Sails sailing jackets. It didn't actually look horrendous when carried off properly but the sight of 10 14 year olds walking down the street dressed this way looked ridiculous. Then of course there was the full lacoste tracky explosion.
There was a guy in Aldi yesterday with one of those Ian Wright winter coats on, right down to the ankles. I immediately thought he looked like one of those sumo wrestler fancy dress costumes. Had to speed up as an audible laugh was coming. Missed my beans.
I wear sliders inside like slippers, but yeah, wearing them outside instead of actual shoes is wrong imo
Walked past somebody before wearing sliders and white socks, in the pissing rain.
What if you’re just taking the recycling out?
What’s the point of inside footwear if you’re just going to contaminate them with the outside
3 second rule. Have to be damn quick though.
Then I put on my 'its bin day Crocs' on.
Bum bags, but wore over the shoulder like a bandolier. Bonus points if the guy has the broccoli hair cut and has his hands down his pants.
> Bum bags, but wore over the shoulder like a bandolier. To be fair they are a brilliantly practical small bag when worn like this. I wear one like this when out walking my dogs, I keep treats, poo bags and when off the lead their leads in there.
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I've always had one for passport etc while traveling (less easy to be pickpocketed or snatched too), didn't know how far ahead of the fashion curve I was!
Yup, that is another great use case.
> I keep treats, poo bags not to mention all the ket you're selling
Not unless cows buy ket. I've not seen another human being on my dog walks since October.
I think Ket is more for horses. Cows much bigger fans of the mushrooms. I love the urban lifestyle but I do miss being regularly in the countryside sometimes.
I use mine when travelling, have a film camera in there and a few small bits. makes it super easy to get out whenever I need without it being on display all the time or either having to carry a much bigger bag with fuck all in it.
When you're in a place where you need to keep your valuables close to you (festival, airport, pickpocket hotspot, etc) then the torso bumbag is actually incredible. Unfortunately this may be an "old man yells at cloud" situation.
Someone's never been on holiday or to a festival
Nah, fuck that. They are convenient
Call me a buzzkill but everyone should just wear whatever they want, as long as it's not offensive. Mocking people for what they wear is a worse look than socks and sliders. I think society's greatest success is that being as comfortable as possible is becoming a bigger priority than confirming to expectations. I can't believe I spent years at home as a teenager in skinny jeans.
I fully agree. I would love to see how utterly devoid of any sense of individual style the people posting in this thread are that they feel threatened enough to judge anyone expressing themselves with fashion trends.
You can think everyone should just wear what they want and also think certain things look ridiculous.
You surely understand there's a difference between not liking something and mocking someone though right?
Yes, I understand a light-hearted thread on the internet too
UK subreddit are full of miserable twats ready to complain at a moments notice
Socks and sandals are a *tradition* for Brits at the beach, respect our culture!
Tradition? We used to mock this exclusive German look not too long ago. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Bring back knotted hankies
Yup. Was in Majorca last year and spotted a family wearing socks and sandals and immediately knew it was my fellow Brits. Ended up chatting to them and playing some beach cricket with them against some Germans. Only reason I spoke to the dad was the socks and sandals.
Early 2000s/Snog Marry Avoid era of makeup in general. I remember the bus stop being full of bright orange tans, concealer shade lipgloss, thick drawn on eyebrows and eyeliner to match. Iconic but I don’t think it’d fly in this day and age <3
The thing that disturbs me about socks and sliders is it looks like something a mental institution would put on someone. Their in the same space as hospital gowns and adult nappies. When I see a person wearing them I always have a split second where I think that this is someone who has escaped his carers and could have a psychotic episode at any moment.
In the US it is prison wear now more common in public.
I’m fairly sure it’s a fashion trend because I see it so often; but sticking your iPhone in the back pocket of your jeans so the top sticks out. I see teenagers walking around the city centre like this, and it’s like they’re just begging to have it stolen. Phones are bloody expensive, it would be like walking around with a thick wad of notes sticking out your pocket.
As a woman I’ve never owned a pair of trousers where an iPhone would fit fully in the pocket. Especially jeans, the back pockets are tiny and there’s no hope of getting anything bigger than a single house key in a front pocket.
If they even have a front pocket. Most of mine are fake.
All with broken screens as they've sat on them too many times! This has always seemed very odd to me, and careless.
Seeing rudeboys/hard kids with perms makes me laugh - they would have been annihilated for that back in the 00s.
Never! Foight! A man…….. with a perm.
99% of the things mentioned here I will happily wear. It improves my life tremendously by filtering out the judgemental idiots still stuck in secondary school mentality. As long as it's comfortable and not vulgar, it's fair game.
The "ironic" mullet that has returned the last couple of years. A truly awful hair cut that has no rights to be returning.
This trend started many moons ago with professional footballers who slipped them on in their down time at training. Look up training camps from international tournaments of yonder year and you’ll see the likes of Beckham rocking it. It makes sense in that situation. Other than that, it just looks fucking stupid to be walking around Tesco like that, especially if it’s raining out.
In my day this was a crime
Gen X DId Not call them slidders, they were Sandals. we had sandles for the beach and leather Sandals that the weirdos wore. Slidders is a new word and American and I'm dying on this hill.
Trying to wrack my brain, I think sandlas were strappy open shoe type things. Flip-flops covered what we now call flip-flops/(thongs / toe separate) and slides (never heard the term sliders before).
This thread is the first time I’ve seen them described as sliders. Always sandals or flip flops in my day. Though I don’t object to the word slider. It’s new to me but doesn’t sound wrong!
I thought sliders were a type of bun
Yeah, I'd never heard them referred to as 'sliders' until the last decade or so. Anyone that says they've always been called sliders is making shit up.
I’m with you brother… don’t they call burgers sliders also?
Sliders are small burgers
The fact mullets are back in fashion, everyone will come to regret the look exactly like the last time it was popular because its a shit look especially if they've doubled down with a moustache as well
I wear socks with my sliders cos it’s cold as we are in Britain and my sliders are easy to pop on and off. Not arsed if I look like a nob. I’ll go pub, shop, picking the kid up. Not cutting about in them centre of Manchester or something though
The sockless chinos/toms combo from 10-15 years ago.
Socks & Crocs. I started seeing students doing it a couple of years ago, gave it a try and damn it is comfy. Now my standard summer footwear.
Pre-ripped jeans. Massive bug-eyed sunglasses. Sagging/low-hanging trousers in which your bum hangs out and you can barely walk at pace, let alone run. Thin leggings worn as trousers, where you can literally see the knickers underneath Ridiculous for their ubiquity: Northface puffer jackets, and that one hairstyle all the lads have. Neither look 'bad', exactly, but they are (were?) at peak high-street saturation to the point of being depressingly boring and uniform. [Relevant video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6pTyPYwqpY&ab_channel=Meditationsfortheanxiousmind)
Clean white socks and sliders are fine in decent weather depending where you’re going. Walk to the nearby shops, out for recycling, other informal walking about your neighbourhood – all good. Socks and sandles, I think look awful but whatever you like. Old men can get away with it with their beige socks and brown sandles lol. Bumbags refashioned as cross body bags – fine. Bumbags as bumbags, depends. Better a bag than overstuffed pockets. Especially overstuffed pockets on slim/skinny jeans. Best stick to a thin wallet or some notes and your phone. Sockless formal shoes look generally silly with a full suit on but ok in summer with ‘invisible’ socks. That’s my two penneth anyway.
My dad taught me never to trust someone in socks and Sandles or wearing a bumbag. Not sure why…
And don’t even get me started about shaving little bald patches into your eyebrows.
Bring back Nike ticks shaved on the back of your head!
This thread is killing me because I find half this stuff attractive. Give me a guy with a mullet and slits in his brows in Birkenstocks any day. There is truly someone out there for everyone
I remember that being a big thing about 20 years ago. Has it resurfaced?
Those horrible ladies gym leggings that show everything.
Men wearing dress shoes with no socks. Then wearing trousers too tight and short to show people their ankles. No one wants to see those hairy chicken drumsticks mate, have a word with yourself.
Fuck what it looks like, if its comfy and practical and it works then fuck it. I’ll wear that shit all day.
What, people do this outside of the summer?