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Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

I just saw a teacher wearing this and it just gave me the idea to start a thread about it. Bad fashion trends in Korea.

Here's what I don't like,
1) This teacher was wearing one of those blouses that looks like a dress and she was wearing it over a pair of pants. Make up your damn mind! Choose either the pants or the dress, but don't wear both. It's not cute and the dress part here doesn't make you more feminine. Choose!

2) K Gals wearing oversized baseball caps. Who ever thought this would be cute??? It's not cute. It's tacky and hides your natural beauty. What are they trying to say with these caps anyway? I'm sporty? I'm cute? Just looks like you're wearing a plastic waste basket over your head to me. Get some taste K-gals! Thank God other Asian women have not adopted this trend!

So, what fashion trends in Korea make you sick? Smile

periwinkle · Joined: 08 Feb 2003

I wear a cap when I'm having a bad hair day or really want to tone down the attention, like when I'm going to the gym with no makeup on or something....

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

side ponytails.

ForceOne · Joined: 25 Aug 2005

Wearing skirts over the leggings that go down to their knees.

Anything (ie watches or T-shirts) that a 9 yr old would wear.

Anything that a woman over 50 would wear.

Yo!Chingo · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: Seoul Korea

Plaid and stripes. makes me shudder everytime I see it. I mean what the heck are they thinkin'?!?

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I kinda like #1 (the dress/jeans thing)

I HATE men that dress like women, act like women, wear makeup like women, and have hairstyles like women. (not saying they all do it, but there are too many)

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Fat chicks who wear clothes too small. Oh wait...

kiwigirl :O) · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Bundang

jelly shoes...leave them in the eighties they are not worth the pain!!!! Mad

the oversize t shirts (some are ok but for the most part are not!!!)

butterfly adidas style shorts (another 80s relic) Shocked

the bright blue eye makeup and bright red lipstick Wink

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

Painting one toe nail.

Wearing shoes too big or too small and not correctly.

Knee socks with high heels.

ugg boots in winter

clown shoes for men.

those stupid shrugs that woman use to cover their shoulders when wearing a nice dress...

Lao Wai · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: East Coast Canada

Hey,

I'm sorry to hijack this thread, but I have to comment. The entire time I lived in Korea I lamented that, while Korean women are quite attractive naturally, I think they ruin it by the way they dress, hairstyles, and makeup. I now live in Hong Kong and it's roughly the same thing. The exception would be the business women who work in Central District. They have very tailored clothes and sleek haircuts. That being said, most of the women I see in HK have this scraggly, masacred, mullet thing happening, while wearing bright purple leotards under a baggy shirt with a kitten on it, with pink sneaks and green socks. Anyway, you get my point. Kind of like their closet threw up on them.

In my opinion, Western women, for the most part, are way better at co-ordinating clothes, hair etc. I mean, my mother shows more skin than a lot of Korean women and she's 53! She's thin and will wear tank tops in the summer ****GASP!**** What a hussy!

I just got back from having lunch with a former Korean student of mine who is visiting Hong Kong. She's 22. She used to have nice, long hair. Very natural looking. I barely recognized her when I saw her because she cut her hair short and got a perm. Very adjuma-ish.

I know a lot of people comment on this board about how fat western women are etc., but everytime I go back to Canada (or Lan Kwai Fong, the foreign district in HK) I'm struck by just how beautiful and put together a woman can be. She might even have a few extra pounds, but the way she dresses makes up for it. Simple hair, simple makeup, simple clothes.

Feel free to flame me, but that's the way I see it.

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: pc room

Mmm I actually love a lot of what people are deriding in this thread. Side ponytails? Lol, that's sweet. Korean girls sporting mullets? Very Happy

Obsession with pink, jelly shoes, trucker hats, bright purple leotards with kittens(!) on them, red framed glasses, I like all that.

BoA with serious mullet: http://boa-nation.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=3161&sid=ff67efbc583112a1c4b2e2ab7efee577

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Not a major issue from a male POV but women who wear white pants but can't figure out you pretty much need to wear white undies.

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject:

Ajumma are way too easy to take pot shots at.

How about waygooks?

Many of us dress like such slobs that none of us should feel real comfy taking the moral high ground when it comes to fashion.

JeJuJitsu · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Location: McDonald's

The disturbing increase in 45-55 year old moms who dress like they are going to a rave: camouflage flight pants, glitter grrrl T-shirt, bball cap. Not a terrible look...on a 20-year old.

But thank God:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/oddities/story.html?id=4074f847-9cbe-4a5d-8648-44d741b02775&k=3243

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - While most donors are sending food to help impoverished North Koreans, a South Korean cosmetics company said Wednesday it has delivered other necessities: lipstick and eye shadow.
"Since cosmetics are not luxury goods, but daily necessities, we thought North Koreans would really need them," CEO Yang Soon-ho said in the statement. "We decided to send the makeup aid in hopes of enhancing the lives of the North Koreans."