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| What's the most ridiculous trend you've seen here in the ROK? |
| shoes with long pointy toes that eventually curl upward |
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17% |
[ 7 ] |
| silvery, shiny suits |
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20% |
[ 8 ] |
| large black plastic glasses frames often without lenses |
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28% |
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| moussed up swirling hair swooshed down to the eyebrows in an attempt to have a "small face" look. |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| colored contact lenses |
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5% |
[ 2 ] |
| couple Tees |
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17% |
[ 7 ] |
| other |
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10% |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:10 pm Post subject: Most ridiculous trend you've seen here |
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| Are there any trends over the past several years here that just made you shake your head? For the past couple years I keep seeing college-aged people wearing black glasses frames without lenses in them in an apparent attempt to look smart or gentle or something. |
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bekinseki
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Glasses with no lenses (or non-prescription lenses) is a hipster thing. Koreans have also embraced the fixie a little too closely. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| The most ridiculous trend anywhere in the world, ever is the one where guys wear their jeans halfway down their legs with their underwear showing. Which I believe started in the USA. Here it has to be the couples' matching pastel polo shirt and shorts honeymoon combination. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Thats a nice list. I'll vote for the pointy shoes. They've fallen off the map since about 10 years ago but that fashion just sat wrong with me. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Nice list flakfizer...you've got a good eye for bad trends. 
I'll add the brightly colored effeminate clothes on guys...pink for one.
For those that don't play golf...the latest trend on the course is brightly colored pants...and wow...is it ever popular here in Korea.
The Ricky Fowler look.
http://www.golfweek.com/photos/galleries/2010/jul/18/british-open-final-round/1788/ |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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For boys:
A few strands of hair bleached (or colored green/blue).
For girls (not ridiculous, but annoying):
Well, maybe it's not a girl thing, but a few years ago the girls would all try to be the first to day "hul!" if something was different in class. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:10 am Post subject: |
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The elf shoes is the one that sticks with me. I kind of stopped paying attention for a while after that. But I had just gotten here and was tripping out about all kinds of stuff and thought that was the damnedest thing.
Although the lens-less glasses are a trip. Hipster roots? Explains a lot lol |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| Capris pants on men. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| Capris pants on men. |
North American hipsters also rock this unfortunate look. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| The elf shoes is the one that sticks with me |
Similar to this...Anyone see people in the summer wearing those cheap fabric shoe-slippers, usually red or blue...they look like they're about to have the person's toe punch through...worn without socks, snug fit, the shoe fabric isn't properly adhered at the toe the way a normal shoe is, but looks like its glued on or something and is about to come apart...looks like they're made out of some nylon-canvas hybrid?
The biggest fashion foul I have ever seen. They go with absolutely nothing.
They're worse than the Sex & the City ruffle skirt craze, or Uggs, or leather jackets with zippers, or acid-washed jeans, or those stupid toy dogs, or sorry folks, Converse All-Stars. |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
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| The elf shoes is the one that sticks with me |
Similar to this...Anyone see people in the summer wearing those cheap fabric shoe-slippers, usually red or blue...they look like they're about to have the person's toe punch through...worn without socks, snug fit, the shoe fabric isn't properly adhered at the toe the way a normal shoe is, but looks like its glued on or something and is about to come apart...looks like they're made out of some nylon-canvas hybrid?
The biggest fashion foul I have ever seen. They go with absolutely nothing.
They're worse than the Sex & the City ruffle skirt craze, or Uggs, or leather jackets with zippers, or acid-washed jeans, or those stupid toy dogs, or sorry folks, Converse All-Stars. |
Sure, easy to say that here.
Let's see u try to get away with that one on Naver or in Hongdae  |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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In 2006, everyone seemed to have a Ramones t-shirt for some reason.
And every girl had a checkered black and white checkered burberry coat.
Not a big fan of the bangs + perm combo about half of korean women seem to sport.
The new (I swear it started in 2009) sound Korean women started making when they were displeased. "Chhhi!"
Guys with "elf" sideburns...pointy strands of hair hanging down the sides of their face.
Guys in general following stupid trends from the US: polo shirts unbuttoned with a popped collar, the lens-less glasses.
Bunny rabbit ear smart phone covers. |
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darkjedidave
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
Location: Shanghai/Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Uggs
Those were popular in 2002 (I remember nearly every high school girl wore them and a few guys as well) and haven't seen them until the recent Korean obsession for them |
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jacksthirty
Joined: 30 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| What's with the current fashion trend of girls wearing pants (or leggings) with patches over the knees? Where did that come from? |
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