https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:52:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025859 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:23:42 +0000 rae 1025859@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am trying to do the same with cat prints (though I can't say I love every print made) - total crazy cat lady here, and I'll never stop wearing them. Have also never stopped wearing&nbsp;ripped jeans, flannel, and combat boots... they went out for a good while but are thankfully having a moment again.&nbsp;</p> <p>I think that if you generally dress in a current/modern and flattering way, you can get away with a lot of stuff that is technically "out."&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025833 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:55:52 +0000 Andrea W 1025833@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the detailing/patterns you describe too. &nbsp;Basically I don't think it matters whether someone declares a trend passe - if you love the item then why shouldn't you wear it. &nbsp;</p> <p>Think about how the trends are cyclical - they'll be round again before you know it and you'll already be ahead of the game!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025772 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:38:51 +0000 Lisa 1025772@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It sounds like you have elements of your style persona honed in and that is always "in" </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025770 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:33:33 +0000 AnnieMouse 1025770@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think a lot comes out in how you wear it. Like, a lot of people thrive on vintage wear, but they update with something current. To me, it only looks outdated when there is nothing fresh about the look. Wear a McQueen blouse, but update with more current pieces for pants/ shoes/ arm candy. Wear an older pant line, but update the blouse and topper. </p> <p>I'm not the best person to answer this, though, since I'm still wearing my Docs from 1993 :"&gt; (In fairness, I'm not wearing them with a floral minidress or overalls, though... :P) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025377 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:33:52 +0000 FlorenceFearne 1025377@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, this has been really encouraging. I guess sometimes it feels like everyone else is always on top of the latest trends, and I'm the only one still clinging to something that went out of style 5 years ago. Ha ha.&nbsp;</p> <p>But now I'm wondering, what's really the difference between wearing&nbsp;things that are no longer trendy&nbsp;and thus looking dated or unfashionable, vs&nbsp;wearing items that are no longer trendy but are part of your&nbsp;personal style? I mean, I assume that you're not wearing a sign that says, "I know this shirt is no longer on trend, but it's totally part of my signature look." So what's the line?&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025105 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:25:35 +0000 catgirl 1025105@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in. Snapping up camo while it lasts. In fact, I was just thinking about how this is the difference between fashion and style. I will always love oversized/slouch, chunky shoes and boots, camo and snake print, black... I'm in a moment of clinging to what I love rather than experimenting with anything new. I just hope I'm able to recognize when I'm dated or stagnant. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025066 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:04:36 +0000 AnnieMouse 1025066@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*raises hand* </p> <p>As a "recovering" goth, you can have my skulls, bats, and bugs when you pry them out of my cold dead hands! I have two cardigans that I appliqued bats and skulls on several years ago, and I often wear them on the weekends. In fact, I'm not ashamed I've not been wearing them because they <i>are</i> trendy, and I want them to be less prevelant! (They are appliqued in silver vinyl, and the skullie is wearing a pink chiffon bow - I was quite distraught when skulls in bows became a "thing," as it was <i>my </i>thing for ages!)</p> <p>There will always been room for the darkly inclined, I suspect, thanks be to Siouxsie! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025063 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:57:07 +0000 rachylou 1025063@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I read hi-lo skirts have been moved to the Out column. I intend to keep on wearing my dress. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025033 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:34:49 +0000 Anonymous 1025033@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><i></i>I buy what I love and what suits me, so it matters not if WIW goes out of style. When I feel the need to update, I will; but it will be based on what I love and what works for me and my lifestyle. Also, my fussy feet will only tolerate certain types of footwear, and I refuse to be uncomfortable.</p> <p>I have a niece who says she only wears solids because she's convinced that prints look dated after a while. My thoughts on this is that wearing only solids takes the joy out of life. Spend my life wearing only solid colors--no prints whatsoever? Never! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1025032 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:28:03 +0000 Diana 1025032@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm hoping that today's blog post means we'll start seeing some trumpet skirts in stores soon.&nbsp; And you can bet when they show up, I'll be buying them up so that I'll have them for the next five years when there won't be any.&nbsp; </p> <p>I am wearing a trumpet skirt today that's probably at least 8 years old, back from when they were in style last time.&nbsp; I never stopped wearing it.&nbsp; I have this one and one other from back then; I'd have kept more, but I gained weight and no longer fit into the woven ones, so all I have left are the stretchy jersey ones.&nbsp; </p> <p>I'll always wear chunky shoes and floral prints, and my favorite colors whether or not they're in style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024824 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 06:52:28 +0000 Hil 1024824@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I agree with the others in that some things are just part of your signature look... I agree with Ceit and the clunky shoe thing... and I definitely get the goth thing! In fact not that long ago one of my kids told me that I was a little bit goth :)&nbsp; I didn't even know that they knew the term. But being an alternative, slightly goth girl is just part of my soul and I guess it may always come through a little. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024723 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 01:41:51 +0000 Jaime 1024723@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have thought about this is in a more tame way - I am gorging on crossover tops and what if they go out - not just not trendy but look hopelessly dated? Well I hope to be sick of them by then. I would not hesitate to wear skulls and bugs if they were my thing, but they aren't! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024683 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:40:37 +0000 Traci 1024683@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I'll always wear chunkier footwear. In part because I developed my sense of personal style in the 90's when chunky shoes were the norm, but also because I feel like chunkier shoes fit my form better. Very dainty and ladylike styles just feel like they highlight that I'm neither dainty, nor ladylike. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024678 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:33:01 +0000 Gaylene 1024678@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I suspect that I'm guilty of this all the time because I'm a late adopter of most trends. That said, I think, like most of the people have said, if I like something, I'll continue to wear it as long as it makes me happy to do so.</p> <p>But, then, I'm not the trendiest dresser in the world and I'm always a bit bemused when something I've liked for years somehow becomes the newest "it" thing. I've worn a tiny silver skull (with a hinged jaw, no less!) on a chain since the 70s because it reminds me of the Día de Muertos celebrations I attended in Mexico.&nbsp; I've also worn enamel pins of snakes, bugs, lizards, mummies, and other weird things ever since I visited William Spears' shop in Juneau in the early 90s. <a href="https://wmspear.com/catalog.php" rel="nofollow">https://wmspear.com/catalog.php</a>&nbsp; His designs were so intriguing and so much fun that I bought a bunch of pins to wear on my jackets when I was teaching my classes. Along with my Fluevog shoes, it was my way of having fun with my conservative teaching wardrobe. But I'm the furthest thing from a goth that you could imagine, so it's strange to think I could now somehow be associated with that subculture. ;)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024655 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:06:01 +0000 ironkurtin 1024655@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm still wearing Helmut Lang and Jil Sander from the 90s. So I'm the wrong person to ask. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024632 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:32:02 +0000 Deborah 1024632@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wear what you want, when you want I say.&nbsp; As Anna says goth is a little sub culture of it's own and in some respects is never in and never out (to my way of thinking) and I think what you are really describing is perhaps your signature.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024628 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:01:06 +0000 annagybe 1024628@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For record I used to be a goth.<br />So I think goth is it's own little subculture that will never go away. As long as your style is more Alexander McQueen or Rick Owens rather than Hot Topic you'll be fine. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024624 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:54:45 +0000 JulieJohn 1024624@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Neon colors. They are timeless and beautiful. Thanks for making me realize I better get on the stick before they disappear again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024622 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:52:00 +0000 Caro in Oz 1024622@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Have been wearing my whole life&nbsp;&amp; will continue to do so&nbsp;even when "unfashionable"<br />Birkies (in casual situations only &amp; not the really clumpy ones)<br />navy blue <br />flat shoes </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024544 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:20:47 +0000 Marley 1024544@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I thought that skulls were classic. ;-)&nbsp; Aren't they?&nbsp; I will always love my skulls and wear them.&nbsp; Also - I love metallics - they're still on-trend, but I have some left over from about 15 years ago when they were on trend then - and I continued to wear them all these years until they came back around!&nbsp; I also like distressed leather - I know its not as on-trend as it was a few years ago, but I plan on continuing to wear it.&nbsp; I figure if I mix these not so fresh looks with more current items that I'll still look and feel like me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024543 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:20:33 +0000 kkards 1024543@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like navy, a lot. The past few seasons, it's really been a fashion color, but I wear it in fashion or , out of fashion. I just hoarded it when it's available. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024532 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:02:22 +0000 DonnaF 1024532@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Clunky, rocker soled shoes.&nbsp; My right foot doesn't bend much now, and when the toe bone gets fused sometime in the future it won't bend at all. So much for refined shoes with bendy soles!&nbsp; I'm trying to embrace the f'ugly and my new $uper $pendy (at least for me) Fly London sandals: <a href="http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/fly-london-ylva-sandal/3598975?origin=wishlist" rel="nofollow">http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/fl.....n=wishlist</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024482 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:08:50 +0000 shedev 1024482@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I won't stop wearing studs, skulls, patterned pants any time soon. I've worn them since my teens. I have a bit of post punk in my soul. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024432 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:14:45 +0000 Echo 1024432@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I rarely partake in colour trends because I like the colours I like and I don't like the colours I don't, regardless of trend. I almost invariably choose straight leg jean regardless of whether skinny or boot cuts are trending.</p> <p>As for skull prints, I adore my Alexander McQueen scarves and generally buy a new one each season. They were very popular for a while and widely copied, and many people now think the skull trend is over. Well, like you, I never felt it was a trend for me in the first place, and I just love the print and the scarves, so I won't stop wearing them.</p> <p>Creepy and gothic edges to a person's style are rarely trendy, but they are never "out", either. If that is who you are, then buy things when you find them and wear them forever. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024429 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:09:23 +0000 L'Abeille 1024429@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Isn't this where signature style comes in? And stocking up when it just happens to be trendy?</p> <p>As for me, I expect I will continue wearing nautical stripes and menswear fabrics long after they depart from trendiness. (Although fortunately for me, some element of each of these reappears almost every year, So I can just upgrade when I see something better, or more current in shape, than what I already own.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024416 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:45:49 +0000 Angie 1024416@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't think patterns are ever really passe. </p> <p>Of course, some are forever fashionable - like a stripe or check, and some are very on trend - like digital prints and conversational patterns at the moment. But I really don't think that patterns date. So wear your bugs and skulls with pride no matter what. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/planning-to-be-unfashionable#post-1024399 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:31:35 +0000 FlorenceFearne 1024399@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm wondering if anyone else fully intends to wear a trend long after it's quit being fashionable. Or maybe if anyone already does.&nbsp;</p> <p>I don't mean things that are classic, or are always around in one iteration or another, like pencil skirts, or safari dresses, or even denim jackets. I'm thinking more like neon, flatforms, or hi-lo hemlines.&nbsp;</p> <p>I ask because I absolutely love skulls/skeletons,&nbsp;bugs, bats, snakes, victoriana, basically anything a little creepy or gothic.&nbsp;This stuff has been trending the last few years, and I'm buying it up as fast as I can afford to but it&nbsp;already seems to be tapering&nbsp;off. Pretty soon skulls will probably be "so passe" and I'll still have them printed on everything I own. I'm still happily wearing my bug brooches from when that trend peaked, too.&nbsp;So, will anyone else be doing something similar?&nbsp; </p>