Worst Trends Of 2008 (SLIDESHOW)

As promised, here is a highly subjective, totally biased walk down memory lane for the naughtiest fashion and fads of 2008! See the Best Trends of 2008.

And if you want to go even further back, take a nostalgic look back at the worst trends of 2007.

• • • • • • • • • Sky-High Heels The stilettos that came trotting down the runways this fall were so over-the-top that not one, but TWO Prada models--women who are paid to walk down runways in heels--took a tumble. What would real women do?

Comments

[NWMidwife]

08:14 PM on 01/06/2009

gotta disagree about the boyfriend jeans. Love them.

[onalimb]

01:43 PM on 01/15/2009

Dito

[GeeBee]

12:39 PM on 01/05/2009

Heidi who? The only one I would recognize is Klum. The one in the before and after pic should shoot her plastic surgeon.

[random unknown person]

10:29 PM on 01/02/2009

Okay how can you have the guts to make fun of a purity ring? It has meaning and symbolism and I really can't believe anyone would make fun of it and call it a trend.

[Bentia]

08:41 PM on 12/31/2008

Models fall on the runway during every Fashion Week, it's not a trend, it's a fact and a fashion writer should know that.

I love high heels, they are a short girl's best frend.

[ibivi]

11:39 AM on 01/01/2009

Yes, maybe, but they are terrible for your feet. You can stand tall in good shoes and walk properly.
Your feet will thank you when you're older.

[dc2nm]

12:10 PM on 01/02/2009

The shoes in the slide are not high heels..they're stripper shoes.

[happycat]

08:31 PM on 12/31/2008

I love the boyfriend jeans and the uber preppy style. The rest of it just sucks!

[MadeinAmericaProud]

09:28 AM on 01/01/2009

The pictures I just reviewed of these girlfriends with boyfriend jeans on look as though they need a bath. They look outhouse smelly.

[Lahonda]

02:24 PM on 01/01/2009

The boyfriend jeans - great! Uber-preppy - gag!

[happycat]

05:55 PM on 01/01/2009

That was tacky uber-preppy. Check out J Crew. They have great stuff!

[ZimboChick]

05:28 PM on 12/31/2008

lol Heidi looks like something out of Madame Tussaud's

[ZimboChick]

05:26 PM on 12/31/2008

Hate the stripper shoes - only Shauna Sand can wear that mess.

Love the boyfriend jeans

Leave Kimora alone

[MadeinAmericaProud]

09:31 AM on 01/01/2009

Raul Paul has the real talent. He is a 6 foot male who has the talent to entertain as a beautiful female. Back in the the disco era, he dance too.

[ZimboChick]

11:33 AM on 01/01/2009

True although I have to admit I do not quite know his full body of work...too young...but will check him out....Ru Paul yeah?

[PeterVanKan]

04:52 AM on 12/31/2008

'What would real women do ?'
Real women have a life and don't need all this pathetic stuff.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

09:36 AM on 01/01/2009

As best I know, there is no animal as a real woman in America. They died off years ago.

The propaganda for over 400 years would not allow a real woman to live that long.

[gmlaster]

12:40 AM on 12/31/2008

When I saw those shoes, I fell out laughing because they remind me of that Wayans movie "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka". They're almost exactly like the platform shoes with the goldfish swimming in the bottom of them that the pimp was wearing when he got out of jail. He'd been in jail so long that he didn't realize that nobody wore platform shoes anymore.

[Vixter]

10:58 AM on 12/31/2008

I guess that the Wayans 'borrowed' that look from Rick James of Parliament Funkadelic. I went to a concert for that group way back in late '70's, & Rick James came out with goldfish swimming in his platforms - very funny & hip FOR THE DISCO ERA.

I am thrilled that Michelle Obama is a tall woman instilled with common sense. I have finally been able to find some flats that are stylish and comfortable - I can't wear heels anymore cuz of broken ankle.

[LeftLeanWing]

01:46 PM on 01/01/2009

Rick James ? or do you mean George Clinton or Bootsy of Parliament Funkadelic ?

Rick James was never a part of the Funkadelic Parliament Thang

[Agentlady007]

08:04 PM on 12/31/2008

Yes, the wild flowers shoved in the ankle are silly, but the shoe is Innovation as far as shoes go.
Oh well. ( IMO I hope we never go back to the barefoot age.)

[berrycooda]

11:54 PM on 12/30/2008

That is what happens when you are too short.....

You either look 5 inches or more taller or break an ankle if you are unlucky.....

[libbyrale]

10:12 PM on 12/30/2008

oh yea, and i h-8 kimora!

[libbyrale]

10:06 PM on 12/30/2008

"Because we're not sheep ... maybe we could afford to get a little more creative. Let's bring back originality in 2009."

BRAVO!

signed,
an unsheeple

[emily00011]

05:17 AM on 12/31/2008

Yes, if only...
Unfortunately most people are happiest trying to imitate someone else instead of being original.

[luluLA]

09:44 PM on 12/30/2008

That Heidi girl was pretty before the wax/ knife job.

[libbyrale]

10:07 PM on 12/30/2008

i totally agree.
much prettier in her before shot.

[DKLabRat]

03:16 AM on 12/31/2008

I keep seeing Jodie Marsh described as a 'glamour model'. Ugly, amatuerish tattoos all over her arms and huge new boobs paid for by a lads mag - she's about as far removed from glamour as it's possible to get!

[BigTex4Obama]

08:28 PM on 12/30/2008

I have a shoe fetish so I so love those clear hooker/stripper shoes to no end.......

[4Q-N4Q2]

07:19 PM on 12/30/2008

OOOhhh La La