10 Worst Fashion Mistakes Men Should Avoid Right Now
Just because something is in fashion, doesn't mean it's right. As these 10 trends
to be avoided highlight only too well...
Fashion is a prickly beast. While you might be fooled into thinking it's on your
side, it's worth remembering that every now and then it comes up with a handful
of trends guaranteed to make you look foolish. So from crazy prints to two-tone
shoes and tighter-than-tight jeans, these are the 10 trends that are out to get you
this season. Warning: bad fashion inside!
Cartoon prints
Every season a trend comes along that accomplishes only one thing - to make the
wearer look like a fool. Take the current vogue for cartoon and animal prints on
men. Influenced by MTV music videos of the 80s and 90s and the kind of
crazy-print fabrics you only used to find on Bermuda shorts from the early 90s,
these cartoon prints only succeed in making the wearer look like a failed kids TV
presenter.
Vests
Once the preserve of the kind of man who drinks premium-strength lager on the
couch at 11am, the vest has now become 'fashionable'. Walk down any high
street on a sunny Saturday afternoon and you'll see umpteen young men wearing
this new breed of low-cut vest consisting of little more than a slither of fabric that
fails to cover even the nipples. Completely armless and adorned with images of
Rihanna or quirky retro scenes, these offending items of clothing must be
stopped.
Cut-off denim shorts
Two-tone shoes
Tight jeans
Camouflage
The preserve of ageing rockers and teenage skate kids, camouflage should have
been left in the 90s, but instead we're being told it's hip once again. From
camouflage combat trousers to T-shirts, anything that makes you look like an
aged military war correspondent is never a good look. Even the digital
camouflage prints that adorn the rails of trendy snowboarding shops have had
their day. There's no escaping it - camouflage is one trend that needs
