Frugly
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If clothes or footwear styles are frugly, they are freaken ugly. The unfortunate reality is that clothing can be trending and popular even if it is frugly — there is no accounting for taste, and even super frugly styles can become common in the marketplace. Frugly is in the eye of the beholder: the list of potentially worst style trends — parachute pants, super sagging pants, diamond grills, sock sneakers, tiny fanny packs — depends entirely on who you ask, because many people absolutely love those trends.
If clothes or footwear styles are frugly they are Freaken Ugly.
Frugly clothing is out of fashion this year.
The unfortunate reality is that clothing can be trending & popular even if it is frugly. Unfortunately, their is no accounting for poor taste that runs rampid. Even super frugly clothing styles can become common in the market place. Let's hope that frugly clothes do not garnish positive feedback from consumers. We certainly don't want ghastly apparel spreading quickly. Trends are often hard to control even if they are displeasing to the eye.
Potentially the Worst Style Trends (depending on who you ask):
- Parachute Pants
- Super Sagging Pants
- Diamond Grills
- Sock Sneakers
- Tiny Fanny Packs
Again, the above list is depending on who you ask. Obviously many people absolutely love those style trends. Frugly is in the eye of the beholder.
Not sure if you have noticed, but fashion designers often create extremely ridiculous looking clothes & accessories for the catwalk. Fashion Week is filled with horrific designs. Even great designers are capable of creating horrible garments from time to time. Let's keep in mind that one of the purposes of fashion week is for designers to get noticed. Outlandish designs can certainly get them noticed and publicized. However, it can also get them ridiculed by Apparel Search. Frugly fashion week collections are either appalling or genius. A truly nasty looking design can actually make a designer famous.
Do NOT donate frugly clothing, shoes or accessories to thrift shops or sell them on consignment. It is preferred that freaken ugly fashion disappears from the planet. We strongly suggest breaking down the garment into fiber so that it it can be recycled into an entirely new garment.
Please try to stay stylish & trendy but avoid the frugly outfits.
Learn about ugly fashion bloggers on our fashion blog post (yes, it is a facetious blog post. Those fashion bloggers are actually extremely beautiful.)
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Why Fashion Week Breeds Frugly
Designers often create extremely ridiculous-looking clothes and accessories for the catwalk, and fashion week is filled with designs one viewer calls horrific and another calls genius. One purpose of fashion week is for designers to get noticed, and outlandish designs certainly get noticed and publicized. A truly extreme design can make a designer's name — which is why the frugly end of the runway never disappears, and why one season's joke is regularly the next season's commercial trend in diluted form.
Frugly and Taste
The word survives because the argument never ends. Every generation's everyday wardrobe contains items the previous generation judged unwearable, and the out of fashion, stylish and trendy entries in this directory mark the moving line that frugly sits on. The honest rule the term teaches is humility: today's verdict of freaken ugly is a data point about the judge as much as about the garment.
Common Questions
What does frugly mean?
Freaken ugly: a blunt slang verdict on a clothing or footwear style judged ghastly — a style its critic finds displeasing to the eye, however popular it may be.
Can a frugly style be trendy?
Yes, and it happens constantly: trends are hard to control even when they displease the eye, and outlandish runway designs can make a designer famous as easily as they can draw ridicule.
What should be done with frugly clothing?
Not donation, by this page's deliberately provocative advice: rather than passing a ghastly garment on, break it down into fiber so it can be recycled into an entirely new garment.