8 Terrible Fall Trends (with pictures!)

I am currently at a loss for what to blog about. I'll start by catching you up on the most recent happenings in my life. The weekend of Halloween I was living the RA life and being on duty. It was a most eventful weekend, and I am sworn to the utmost of secrecy about most of the things that happened. Let's just say, there were several incident reports filed! Yay!

The following week, I rode the struggle bus everywhere I went. Mostly this is because it was the week of my birthday and I had 500 things to do that I actually did not want to do. But, it was all worth it on Friday, November 7th; the glorious day of my birth. I turned 21 this year, and I must say that it was one of the best birthdays I've had in my life thus far. I'll leave it at that. As today is Monday, I don't have much to say about this week so far, other than I have noticed some very horrible, horrendous trends this fall. I have consulted some of my colleagues about their thoughts on this topic and these are some of the collectively worse things we have all seen within the past 2 months.

1.) EXTRA EXTRA long t-shirts. As in, when a girl wears a t-shirt down to her knees and it kind of looks like a night gown.

2.) I read this second "worst fashion trend" from allure.com. **DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS "WORST TREND"** Sockbuns. According to allure, "They're big, they're bulbous, and no one really knows what's inside them: They're the UFOs of hairstyling!" Maybe it's because I'm wearing a sockbun as I write this, but I really think they're the best thing to ever happen to womankind. I mean, come on, what is better than not having to wash your hair or try hard to make it look nice, and it still looking nice in the end anyways? Sockbuns rule. allure.com is wrong. Bye.

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3.) The return of 90s grunge. Not cute, 90s style. I'm talking about 90s grunge, grunge, grunge. Just think about the word grunge, in itself. I mean, it's gross, and so is the excessive use of grunge style this fall. Just stop it plz.

yikes.

4.) Black lipstick. Black lipstick makes me think of dogs. As in, when I was like 5 years old and obssessed with animals (Animal Planet was my jam), I would pretend to be a little puppy dog. Once when I did this, my cousin Stacy told me that I couldn't be a dog because dogs have black lips and I didn't have black lips because I was a little human girl. Is it weird that I remember this? Probably, but every time I see a girl wearing black lipstick I think of a dog.

5.) White tube socks and Nike free runs as every day attire. I would only wear this if I was going directly to the gym to play a game of pick-up basketball or something like that. Even when I was 8 years old I didn't want to wear socks that came above my ankles because I thought that was nerdy. However, on an 8 year old little girl, socks above the ankle with some sparkly lil tennies is really stinking cute. On a 19 year old? Not so much. I don't get it, but maybe I'm just behind on the times.

8-year-old me: *folds down lace to below heels*

6.) Ew. This terrible trend comes from elle.com Wearing a dress over pants. This is something I wanted to do when I was 11 years old. This is not something I would do 10 years later, or ever for that matter. If you need to wear something under your dress, wear leggings or cute little tights or nude hose. Those are classic fixes for cold legs in the winter time! Not pants. Just no.

*cringes*

I know it can be difficult, but if you wear hose, you too can be a princess! But just look at Mia Thermopolis, she ended up rocking those hose! 

7.) Speaking of leggings, wearing leggings as pants but not wearing a shirt that keeps all of your everything from being revealed is another Terrible Trend. I'm not saying that I would never wear leggings as pants. I've done it before and I'll do it again. Also, this might seem to contradict Terrible Trend #1 (too-long t-shirts). The point is to cover things that should be covered (i.e., booty) and to find that perfect balance between covering up and wearing a nightgown and longjohns.

8.) Here I present to you the worst of them all: wearing tights underneath shorts. This is so weird. Like, I know you want to "be like the cool kids," but really. This is weird. Why don't you just wear...hmm...pants?!?!?! Why, someone please enlighten me, would you even desire to wear tights when you don't have to? (This may also seem to contradict the argument against Terrible Trend #6; to be clear, tights/hose/leggings should be worn with dresses or skirts. Tights are very uncomfortable no matter how old you get, so you should only wear them when necessary. As in, only wear them when you're wearing a dress and you absolutely must.)

brb, crying.

In conclusion, there are probably lots of other terrible things that people wear but to be honest, I just can't think of any more right now and the ones I've got are pretty bad. I would love to hear about some of the worst things you've seen this fall, partially because some of it is hilarious and some of it is just plain fascinating.

P.S. - My sincerest apologies if I have offended your unique, personal style. I probably couldn't pull it off anyways.

Thanks for reading!