Excalibur Editorial Board, along with our frequent fashion writer Alex Hum, have chosen the worst fashion faux pas currently doing the rounds. If you’re one who likes to sport articles of clothing from time to time, prepare to be offended.
Michael Burton
Executive Editor (Online)
Indoor fashion scarves. I know a lot of people who do this, and I have been pretty quiet on this issue. But I could have sworn that scarves were for your health, not for being fabulous. I am expecting serious backlash on this one, but I have prepared myself with a fuzzy set of mittens, and a warm cup of chicken noodle soup.
Hamid Adem
News Editor
Suits at casual social engagements. It’s try-hard, and doesn’t work most of the time. If you know you’re going somewhere casual, like a dive bar or picnic, don’t wear a three-piece suit. It makes you look like a douchebag.
The least you can do is lose the jacket, which should be fitted and tailored. There’s only one thing worse than wearing a suit to a casual setting, and that’s wearing an ill-fitting suit to casual setting.
Marileina Pearson
Photo Editor
Victoria’s Secret PINK is a brand that is synonymous with tacky. I desperately needed a pair of plain black cotton leggings once, and it took me 25 minutes to find a pair in that store that didn’t have rhinestones, glitter, or a pop of neon.
I am sick of seeing grown asswomen wearing PINK plastered over their chest, butt, and lower leg. This store should be purely reserved for 13 year-old girls looking for pyjamas or cute lingerie to seduce their 13 year-old boyfriends.
Erika Madsen
Creative Director
Uggs. With the passion of a thousand dying suns.
First, they are super impractical for living in Ontario, since they are next to useless in any form of water, let alone snow. And I’m not talking about their “winter boots,” which may have actually been adapted for the snow. I’m talking about the people who wear their original boots in the slush and seem confused and upset when their feet get wet.
They also give your feet virtually no support. They are all-around dumb shoes, and they lower your IQ by 50 points when you wear them.
Tess Reid
Comics and Graphics Editor
Gaucho capris. Five years ago, they made a whisper of a comeback. You saw them around — not everywhere, but on the occasional girl who needed something other than leggings. These mid-calf parachutes were popular in the early ‘90s (not in a good way) and promptly left.
I hoped by now, their comeback would have ended and been thrown back into fashion obscurity, but they haven’t budged.
Your aspiring yoga-loving mom and grade school teacher are keeping these babies alive. Just stop it, folks: they brutally cut your calves in half and distort your shape. Capris sculpt your legs with tailoring and conforming to the body—gauchos just chop them off.
Alex Hum
Senior Staff
Double-denim: this horrid look has been threatening its return from the ‘80s, where it has been long buried and people were, up until recently, happy to let it rest. Thankfully, the ground is still relatively cold so we can put a stop to this before it spreads again.
Let me be perfectly clear that this look doesn’t do justice to anybody ever. It’s tacky, and you look like you’re in a too-blue full body jumpsuit that isn’t even comfortable. It is true that blue is a very in-season colour, but looking like a lost wannabe cowboy in Toronto is never in style, not here in the city.
Choose either the top or bottom half of your body for denim, but never both.
Abdul Malik
Arts Editor
Fedoras. When I see someone in a fedora, my go-to is to think, who do you think you are? It’s the lamest attempt at looking presentable you could ever make. They’re not adorkable, they’re just straight up dorky.
Even the most presentable fedoras, trilbys for example, are just unsightly on anyone living in the current day. You don’t look artsy, you don’t look nice. You look like a sorry mouth breather living out of mom’s basement, debating the intricacies of Babylon 5 on internet message boards.
It’s for good reason fedoras have come to be the symbol for all those that are lost, awkward, and under 25 in our culture. They flat out suck. Pair it with a goatee, and you might as well be wearing a sign that says, “Please don’t talk me.”
Ryan McCabe
Sports and Health Editor
Fashion jerseys.
These jerseys look nothing like the ones teams wear on the field and for whatever reason, most teams always make the base colour black or silver.
Either don’t be cheap and buy a real jersey, or just buy a team T-shirt, because people look funny when they wear jerseys in public.
Dustin Dyer
Features Editor
