Serious Fashion Blunders

Some fashion blunders I have encountered repeatedly, that make me shudder every time:

1. UGG BOOTS. Why? Why am I so adamantly against these hideous things? Everyone's wearing them, right? That's because everyone hasn't looked at themselves in the mirror while wearing ugg boots, obviously. Ugg boots are large and shapeless. They are fat. How does that reflect on the person who is wearing them? If the person is average sized to large, ugg boots make her (or his, in rare cases) legs look shapeless, fat and short. If the person is thin, the ugg boots are usually wider than the legs and thus you have the illusion of toothpick legs. Need I say more? Some people say they're comfortable. I don't think image self-sacrifice is worth "comfort." Bah!

2. Shrug sweaters. They are short, and most of them are rounded in the front. Large women wear them under the impression that they will look slimmer in these things. Nope. They look rounder, and like they have less of an hour-glass figure. You get more of a butterball turkey look. And on average to thin women? They just look silly. Come on now, it looks like you couldn't afford a whole sweater.

3. Wide-leg capris (aka gaucho pants). Not only are they usually made out of the same material as sweatpants (on the University of Arizona campus, anyway), they have a weird flat stomach panel thing. And guess what these do to your rear end? It looks larger than life, and shapeless--and that's not just because most women have that sort of rear. These pants are shapeless, creating a shapeless image for the wearer. Comfort, you say? Ugly rear-view is what you're really getting out of it.