https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:46:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap/page/2#post-354916 Tue, 24 May 2011 16:48:17 +0000 biscuitsmom 354916@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just remembered from WAY back (about 30 yrs ago when I was 20 yrs old) a friend and I went to the Mn State Fair and in the International Village they have a stage where dancers perform for about 75 people and for part of the show they pull people from the audience to come on stage with them. I was wearing a turquiose strapless top and slacks and with my red hair, I guess I was a easy target...a guy pulled me up, above my protests, and while he was moving me around on stage, my top slipped ALL the way down, exposing my bare chest! YIKES! I scrambled to get it pulled back up but *everyone* saw me...its funny now, but I was SO mortified! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354653 Tue, 24 May 2011 03:18:44 +0000 crazyone 354653@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>a few weeks ago, I went to a friend's apartment in order to give her a birthday present before heading out with her, her boyfriend, and another friend for dinner. I was wearing a white buttondown shirt tucked into my tweed shorts, so a different outfit from what I usually wear. My friend's boyfriend took some pictures of my friend the bday girl with me and my present to her, and as I looked at his phone from a distance, I saw that there was a much larger expanse of skin/cleavage than I expected to see, and then I looked down and found that one button was missing. My two female friends hadn't noticed, but my friend's boyfriend had and didn't say anything...and when I noticed and got distressed, he was amused and said something like, "oh, I thought you just wanted to look trashy today, that's why I didn't say anything". I retorted by saying that this whole episode proved the point that (straight) guys focus on a certain area when looking at a girl...</p> <p>I made him delete the pictures, of course. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354578 Tue, 24 May 2011 00:22:44 +0000 Kristine 354578@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>We have a work gala every year. It's a formal occasion with politicians, military members, wealthy donors, etc.. After getting away with little black dresses or skirts, last year I bought a colorful new dress. It was a fit and flare style with a full skirt. I felt very stylish! </p> <p>I sat through the long dinner and speech, not realizing that the dress had sort of stuck to the back of my legs in the meantime. When I stood up the full skirt stayed stuck right to the back of me. I pulled it down quickly but I'm fairly sure I flashed the people at the table behind me.</p> <p>It was one of our most successful galas yet. I swear it wasn't because I gave a free show. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354570 Mon, 23 May 2011 23:53:16 +0000 Melissa 354570@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have generally been able to laugh off my more mortifying adult fashion accidents, but I must admit that I still cringe when I think of those dark early teenage days before I learned how to deal with that time of the month. There weren't any women in my life to teach or advise me, and I had a ridiculous and painful number of accidents before I learned how often I needed to change out my pads/tampons. It didn't help that my period came before that of many of my peers. And I'm sure I wasn't fooling anyone when I'd tie a sweatshirt around my waist and hope no one could see.</p> <p>Well, this was a good reminder that sometimes getting older is good. Thanks, Maya! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354564 Mon, 23 May 2011 23:36:08 +0000 catgirl 354564@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is not a fashion mishap, but close. I went to India for the summer when I was 15. It is HOOOOOOOT in Mumbai in July, and this was 20 years ago when a/c was not as common. My cousins and I went to the movies, and my aunt gave me a hanky in case I needed to wipe my sweaty face. </p> <p>Well, the movie got out after 3 sweltering hours, and my cousins led me out of the theater. As we emerged the crowd outside parted before me screaming and pointing. I couldn't understand until my cousin turned around to see the cause of the commotion. She shrieked and threw her odni (the scarf women wear over their shoulders in India) over my head. </p> <p>Turned out my aunt had accidentally given me an brand-new hanky, and all of the dark green dye had come off on my face. My aunt laughed so hard when we got home... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354561 Mon, 23 May 2011 23:25:45 +0000 KristineK 354561@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't know if my story qualifies as a fashion mishap or just an incident of truly staggering klutziness, but here goes... in middle school, I remember having gotten a nice new pair of pretty silver flats. I thought they'd look nice with this floaty skirt I had back then, so I paired them with that the first day I wore them. Fast forward to me late for class and hurrying down a staircase in a pair of new, scuff-free and completely unbroken-in shoes. In a classic Marx Bros or Three Stooges pratfall, I slip and fall head over heels all the way to the bottom of the flight, skirt over head and undies in full view. As if that wasn't bad enough, when I recovered myself enough to stand up and pull my skirt back down, I realized I was missing one of my new shoes. A few moments later, a classmate walks up to me and silently hands me my missing shoe. I remember fervently wishing that I didn't have two more classes to go to that day </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354559 Mon, 23 May 2011 23:20:10 +0000 Maya 354559@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh man, these stories are amazing! You ladies have made me laugh hard at a time when I really need it. Thanks for sharing all your hilarious stories of mortification.</p> <p>Beth, "walking through a room gaily festooned with panties" had me in stitches. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354516 Mon, 23 May 2011 21:14:25 +0000 Aziraphale 354516@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have REALLY enjoyed reading all these funny posts. The most mortifying incidents make for the funniest stories afterwards. :-)</p> <p>I haven't any really awesome ones to add. I have had the detached bikini top thing happen (you know, where it's still tied around your ribcage, but the tie around your neck has come undone and the triangles are flapping about your waist), but since I was only nine at the time, there wasn't anything there to flash. I was mortified nevertheless.</p> <p>I've also had the leaking breast mishap on many occasions (where little circles of milk appear through your shirt), despite always wearing breast pads. One of the many reasons I loathed breastfeeding. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354515 Mon, 23 May 2011 21:09:51 +0000 Beth 354515@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah yes, I've also had the undies-falling-out-of-pants scenario. Back in the day when I put my jeans in the dryer, I had a pair cling to the inside leg of my jeans. Wore the jeans all day until I saw a bright pink flash at my ankle, reached down and pulled out a thong.</p> <p>These days I hang both my jeans and my undies to air dry. I hang the undies on anything handy in the laundry room...cabinet knobs, the handle on the furnace....wherever. Except for the time the electrician came and I let him in, forgetting my laundry. He was so busy talking I think he didn't realize he was walking through a room gaily festooned with panties. Horror.</p> <p>And just last week, I was wearing cream pants to work and eating a granola bar in the car. Somehow a tiny chocolate chip dropped down the seat, melted from the warmth of my behind and then smeared on the back of my pants in a most unfortunate location. Sigh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354514 Mon, 23 May 2011 21:06:01 +0000 morethanbeige 354514@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>These are so funny! Now I don't feel so alone! When I was first getting used to wearing a bra, I changed into my bathing suit from underneath my sweatshirt. Well, there I am at the swimming pool, running and jumping into the water, going on the low and high diving boards having a grand ole' time....allst the while with my bra showing underneath (and spilling out of) my bathing suit. My brother was there and I asked him "Why didn't you tell me???!!!***@@." He said he thought that's what I wanted to do. @!!!**###!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354513 Mon, 23 May 2011 20:56:11 +0000 Laura 354513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>These are hilarious!! Great thread, Maya. </p> <p>My friend and I were once shopping in Bloomingdale's. Friend was checking out umbrellas, and in the process, mistakenly pushed an umbrella's button, causing the umbrella to rocket upward, cracking her under the jaw and knocking her out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354505 Mon, 23 May 2011 20:15:05 +0000 Jenava 354505@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mine was when I was walking through Ikea and suddenly my husband pulled me aside; my skirt had split up the back seam right at bum-height (it wasn't even a tight skirt! Just cheap). And...I was wearing a thong, so no coverage was afforded me. I tell myself that my husband was the first to notice, because the horror of thinking of all the people who may have noticed is just too much for me! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354483 Mon, 23 May 2011 18:29:03 +0000 biscuitsmom 354483@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lisa, you can get non-skid pads (for the bottoms of any shoe/boot) that work GREAT at Target shoe dept for around $3....make sure its non-SKID, not the non-slip ones that go inside the shoe....HTH! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354474 Mon, 23 May 2011 18:08:00 +0000 Irene 354474@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>First time I used eyeliner (black), I sort of overdid it. I was fourteen. It looked okey when I left home before English class, but by the end of it, it didn't. I can remember going back home with a friend and my neighbour (and also classmate) passes by and says something like 'you look soooooooooooooo pretty today', and laughs. Basically, it looked like I had been crying petrol. </p> <p>I've also had a student ask me if I had been exercising. I say 'no, why?', she signals my sweaty armpits on my tight tee. And today I had a momentarily wardrobe malfunction when one of the boutons of my blouse came off. Fortunately I noticed within a few seconds and fixed it. </p> <p>Everybody can suffer from an embarrassing moment, Emma Watson is proof of that! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354470 Mon, 23 May 2011 17:54:34 +0000 Scarlet 354470@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, all these bras giving out are frightening. Are there tell-tale warning signs? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354440 Mon, 23 May 2011 16:24:29 +0000 Lisa 354440@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've had more than one occassion where I was dressed to the nine's, and walked on a flick floor with heels, and down I went. Especially embarrasing in restaurants. If I do not have rubber on my heels now I walk on my tippy toe's on a freshly waxed/shiny floor to prevent slipping. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354436 Mon, 23 May 2011 16:20:35 +0000 Diana 354436@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have had two instances of my bathing suit slipping down and exposing a boob. Once was in the middle of the ocean, and my friend pointed it out to me before anyone else had seen. The other was at a lake, in front of a boy I liked... oops. </p> <p>And interestingly one was a two-piece and the other was a one-piece... </p> <p>I have also flung a (heavy and loud) chunky platform sandal across a crowded restaurant. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354411 Mon, 23 May 2011 15:56:07 +0000 Mo 354411@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have also had the breaking bra situation. I was waitressing at a brand new job in Oregon that summer. The plastic clasp on my front close bra broke and I had to not only duck out to remove it, but finish my shift braless. Luckily, I was hostessing, so I had on a ruffly black blouse that worked well to disguise . . . otherwise I'd have been in a tshirt if on the floor and things would have been much worse. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354344 Mon, 23 May 2011 14:03:08 +0000 biscuitsmom 354344@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>About 2 years ago we went out to eat at a nice restaraunt (rare for us) and I was wearing a knee length skirt, sleeveless top and cardi. We had a great dinner, a few drinks and before we left I used the restroom at the far end of the place...walked out of the restaraunt, across a busy parking lot and decided to go to the mall next to it. After leisurely walking the length of the mall and going in a few stores (didnt see anything I wanted to try on) we went to the jewelry store where my DH had bought my wedding ring. While browsing the displays a salesgirl came up on my side and whispered I had part of my skirt stuck in my underwear! So half of my butt had been showing that whole time! Who knows how many people had seen it-lol </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354321 Mon, 23 May 2011 12:44:25 +0000 krishnidoux 354321@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This thread is a very interesting read! Lots of mortifying stories... glad I'm not alone... Isabella, what bad luck with NY subways! That must have been a horrible day for you. Apparently what they find most in the lost and founds of subways are umbrellas and shoes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354316 Mon, 23 May 2011 12:07:38 +0000 Marigold 354316@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, here's mine: I had my own Marilyn Monroe flying skirt moment in the middle of a busy street in Brooklyn.. I had my brother visiting and we went shopping and sightseeing, we were busy talking and having a great time and I wasn't paying attention and the next thing I know, my skirt is all the way up all around, I caught it in the front in time but my backside was exposed for the longest few seconds ever! I ducked to the nearest store and was hiding there until I got my composure back... but from then on, I walk as far away from the subway vents as possible, skirt or not!</p> <p>Another one: in my very early 20's, when I first came to the US, I was working as an au-pair on the outskirts of NYC. Went to see the fireworks of the 4th of July with some friends (which required taking the commuter train to and from the city), and on the way back, while getting on the subway, was pushed around by the huge crowd behind me trying to rush into the subway car as well, and my thong-style sandal slipped off right into the gap between the train and the platform.. No way to retrieve it, before I know it, I was pushed well into the train and the door closed and off we went. We were rushing to catch the last commuter train out of the city (if we hadn't, we'd been stuck there in Grand Central till the morning!) and no way to try to look for replacement shoes... I ended up hopping my way around the streets on NYC, the train station and back into the car in the suburbs, had to drive bare foot too (not easy). Needless to say I scrubbed and scrubbed my feet for a long time that night. The signs :Watch The Gap! are on the subways for a reason! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354314 Mon, 23 May 2011 11:52:02 +0000 chouette22 354314@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, what funny stories, in retrospect of course! When you are in the midst of it, it's an entirely different thing.<br /> Krishnidoux, I totally feel for you, because when you are in front of a class, such events are especially embarrassing.<br /> I don't have such a story, but was very nervous that my water could break while teaching! My son was born on May 9th and the semester was over just one week before. Since I was feeling absolutely great, I was determined to finish the semester, provided that he didn't decide to come early. However, the possibility of the water breaking in class was a real possibility. Just imagine! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354302 Mon, 23 May 2011 09:50:05 +0000 RoseandJoan 354302@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not really a clothing mishap but I did have to run across a store half naked to recover my toddler who had crawled under the fitting room curtain. Even more embarrassing was the time I attended a wedding and my bra strap broke resulting in a lopsided boob effect for the rest of the day *the shame*. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354285 Mon, 23 May 2011 06:25:06 +0000 Steph 354285@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This happened back when I was 14. Early 1990s, so my top was a garish zip-up black shirt with graffiti-like squiggles. I was in school and class was about to begin, so I was joking with a male friend. He was much taller than I was, and was putting up his arm and I was jumping to see how high I could go to slap his hand. As I jumped to reach his hand, I heard a noise, looked down, and saw that the cheap plastic zipper on my top had broken at the bottom, and completely unzipped itself. All I had on underneath was my bra, so I basically exposed myself to my entire freshman French class. </p> <p>I have to admit I have always been proud of my reaction. I held the shirt closed, walked to the gym locker room, put on my gym shirt, and came back to class while laughing the whole situation off. I remember a classmate saying "I would have cried," but really, what were my options at that point? Of course, inside I was completely mortified. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354279 Mon, 23 May 2011 04:16:23 +0000 Sally 354279@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This happened about 13 years ago. I was walking down a street in a Japanese city strolling behind my mum and my sister. I was wearing a light cotton minidress because it was summer and underneath had a pair of very unattractive beige oversized undies. I was wearing a back pack and felt cool and confident. my family stopped and I went on ahead into a shop. My mum let out this ferocious scream because my dress had had crept up my back by the movement of the backpack and for some reason so had my undies and there exposed to the whole street (and there were cars passing down it and people on the street) was one large foreign white cheek! I have been very wary of minidresses ever since....and backpacks! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354252 Mon, 23 May 2011 02:42:10 +0000 krishnidoux 354252@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Talking about undergarments escaping... I have two malfunctions moments. You decide which is more embarrassing. </p> <p>Moment #1: Late 80's. I'm teaching a class. The fashion of the moment involves wide short sleeves (rolled) and detachable reinforced shoulders. You can guess what comes next. I'm gesticulating into an explanation when suddenly something like a bird flies across the room and land on the forehead of a poor girl. Everything stops for a moment, before I realize what flew was my detachable shoulder pad. Shame!!!! I wanted to disappear under the ground. I NEVER wore shoulder pads again.</p> <p>Moment #2: Early 1990's. I'm still teaching, and am a struggling underpaid student. I want to stress this in regards to what follows, because it is so embarrassing. Again, I'm wearing wide short sleeves. Hey, it was summer and it was hot what can I say. I'm launched into some intricate explanation when I suddenly feel something pulling from my sleeve. I look down to see, in a surreal moment, this thing that looks like a guarder belt emerge from my sleeve. The room is now silent. Bewildered I pull it, and pull it, and it comes easily and I'm thinking what is this? Then realize in full horror that it is my defunct bra! At which point I look up to see 20 people looking at me embarrassed. At which point I run out of the classroom to regroup myself if you will. I had to go back and face 20 people and try to laugh it off and continue with the class.<br /> I now make SURE my bras are in good shape and fit properly. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354250 Mon, 23 May 2011 02:39:43 +0000 Patty 354250@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Have had the undy thing--luckily it wadded up and formed a tumor in my pant leg while at work---then I had to conceal my undies to get back to my desk and stowed once I got them out in the bathroom.</p> <p>But my real most embarrassing--had to do with white shorts and that time of the......groan.......... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354242 Mon, 23 May 2011 02:05:24 +0000 Maya 354242@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, I have never heard of the undies-falling-out-of-pants thing before. It just makes me even more glad I wear skinnies most of the time. Hopefully there isn't enough room... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354241 Mon, 23 May 2011 02:03:20 +0000 Girl X 354241@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>(a decade ago)<br /> I'm at a club on the dance floor. Suddenly a girl reaches over and gives my top a slight tug to the right. I realise that she has just covered my half exposed nipple. She assures me it was only visible for a moment, but sheesh! And no, I hadn't been drinking.</p> <p>The best story ever is, quite fortunately, not mine. My friend wakes up late and in a rush, pulls on her jeans from the night before. She hurries out of the house and dashes to catch her bus. She reaches her destination - a casual brunch spot - and as she enters the restaurant she feels something odd at her ankle. She looks down and sees that last night's undies have just fallen out of the leg of her jeans. </p> <p>What's even funnier is that this same sort of thing has happened to my guy, and my sister. Is it far more common than I think? Is it that difficult for us to keep track of our undies? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-most-embarrassing-fashion-mishap#post-354235 Mon, 23 May 2011 01:48:45 +0000 Angie 354235@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! *chuckle*</p> <p>I just deleted my mishap. It's too embarrassing to leave on this forum </p>