Just like we don’t eat gourmet dishes for every meal, we don’t dress up for every occasion as if it had a black-tie dress code. Sometimes we just need calories in our stomachs and sweatpants might be the ideal candidate for stuffing our faces with mac and cheese.
However, some clothing items are so off, you probably wouldn’t even wear them if nobody was watching. We at Bored Panda have already showcased such atrocities in our previous publications here, here, and here, but the fashion industry keeps producing them, so we decided to shame them one more time.
From little annoyances like ultra-small pockets to design fails that make tie-dye socks look like they were dragged through poo, continue scrolling and check out the funniest Spring collection.
#1 In Case You’ve Ever Wondered Why Women Get So Frustrated With Our Clothing Sizes – Every Pair Of Jeans Pictured Is A Size 12
Image credits: chloemmx
#2 Puma’s Latest Trainers Go Viral As They Look Like Adolf Hitler
Image credits: Baddacaci
The fashion industry is huge. Around the world, people buy about 80 billion new clothing items per year. But it has way more problems than employing designers who don’t know what they’re doing.
For starters, of all American buyers’ total yearly clothing consumption, 85 percent ends up as waste in landfills.
And fast fashion is a big reason why—the term describes the quick production of inexpensive clothing to keep up with rapidly changing fashion trends.
#3 S21 Ultra In My Wife’s Jeans vs. My 18-Month-Old Son’s Joggers
Image credits: ben_j_davis
#4 Best Way To Wear This Sweater
Image credits: NixisTM
#5 My Christmas Contribution
Image credits: ColdFireplace411
Take Zara for example. The popular brand boasts a business model that produces over 20 different collections per year—meaning that on average, the business churns out new clothing pieces every five weeks or so.
Then there’s Fashion Nova, a California-based fashion company that creates relatively inexpensive womenswear and releases more than 600 items per week on its platform.
#6 Women’s Jeans, I Want The Rest Of My Pocket
Image credits: evening_shop
#7 Lobster Flip-Flops. 10/10 Would Wear
Image credits: LydiaAgain
#8 Life’s Too Short For Boring Pants
Image credits: ohyeesh
This model of clothing production and sale presents ethical problems, primarily with environmental sustainability and labor exploitation.
Did you know the industry uses massive amounts of water? At present, fashion companies expend one-tenth of the total water used worldwide to operate their industrial factories.
#9 Thinger Strangs
Image credits: Scrimmybinguscat
#10 Summer Sandals
Image credits: gabbois
#11 This Portuguese Football Team Shorts
Image credits: EletricoAmarelo
#12 You’ve Heard Of Jorts Now Get Ready For The Jong
Image credits: anustickl
However, brands also often outsource their manufacturing processes overseas in an attempt to lower the cost of production, in part by avoiding paying minimum wage to domestic workers.
Subcontracting this labor promotes hazardous, unhealthy, and below-standard working conditions in low- and middle-income countries.
#13 The Brand Name Of My Daughter’s Shirt
Image credits: Durph08
#14 What’s That? My Clodhoppers Are Making You Uncomfortable? You Haven’t Even Tried Them On
Image credits: heluhowyalldun
#15 This Bear Jacket
Image credits: Querray
#16 Barely There Jeans
Image credits: BlueChainsawMan
Currently, fashion brands operating in the US face little regulatory intervention.
But activists, policymakers, and community members are calling for greater accountability for these companies to reform the quality and safety of their manufacturing methods.
#17 Seen It On A Weird Secondhand Finds Group. It Did Not Go Home With Them
This is a result of a husband getting ahold of his wife’s new embroidery machine
Image credits: KortanaXO
#18 Business Crocs
Image credits: audummy
#19 For “Knight” Time Activities
Image credits: shop_bekker
#20 Which One Of You Designs Clothing For Target?
Image credits: TheLadySif
And luckily there have been some changes. In response to sustainability concerns, for instance, the New York Senate introduced the New York Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, which would mandate that retailers and manufacturers publish their social and environmental policies online. The bill would require businesses to implement more sustainable processes on supply chains.
If passed it would be the first in the United States to require fashion companies to address their social and environmental shortcomings.
#21 The Latest Ed Hardy T-Shirt
Image credits: PandaLover69
#22 For That, Dipped In Mud Look
Image credits: ImRussell
#23 Why Socks Should Never Have Faces On Them
Image credits: reddit.com
#24 Dinosaur Jacket
Image credits: _misha_
The Old Continent, however, seems to be more willing to tackle these issues. The European Commission aims to put an end to fast fashion by 2030 in an announcement introducing a mandatory minimum use of recycled fibers and banning companies from sending any unsold clothing and textile products to landfills.
Under the new expansion of the EU’s existing eco-design rules, which set down energy efficiency standards for consumer goods such as toasters and washing machines, companies operating in the region will have to include a certain amount of recycled content in their goods, or curb the use of materials that make them hard to recycle.
The EU also plans to force large fashion companies to disclose how much unsold stock they send to landfills as well as improve global labor conditions in the garment industry.
#25 My 2-Year-Old Daughter’s Pockets Are Bigger Than My Wife’s
Image credits: That_Jonesy
#26 These Shoes
Image credits: mmonzeob
#27 Meat Coffee… Yum?
Image credits: carlsligh
#28 These Fake Pockets Went As Far Enough As To Put A Real Zipper On
Image credits: __No__Control
“The products we use every day need to last,” said Frans Timmermans, the vice president of the European Commission. “If products break we should be able to fix them.”
I don’t know about you, but I think the world would be a better place without most of these clothing items we see on the list. Sure, it’s nice to have a laugh at baseball caps with broken English all over them but do we really need to make a truckload of these absurdities every few weeks?
#29 Looks More Like “Debil” Than “Devil”
Image credits: reddit.com
#30 Orange Peel Jacket
Image credits: El_Don_Giovanni
#31 My Girlfriend Just Bought Some Tie Dye Socks
Image credits: Flapboy
#32 Elf Socks I Got My Dad For Christmas, When Wearing Pants Just Shows Will Ferrell Crotch
Image credits: Laundry-Champagne
#33 Not Sure If They Meant This Message Or Not (Rotate Image Counter Clockwise)
Image credits: Eoceol
#34 Always Forgotten, Remembered Never
Image credits: prodigious-starfruit
#35 Ok, I Don’t Even Know What They Were Even Trying To Attempt Here. Does Anyone Speak Whatever The Hell This Is? Or Know What This Could Have Been Trying To Attempt?
Image credits: Caitlin Rommel
#36 I Fist Pizza?
Image credits: jadalorrx
#37 Hmmm
Image credits: jjba_cursed
#38 Girls Is Can The Therefore Change Is World Brave
Image credits: BuffMonke
#39 Oh No, Must’ve Gotten The Whites Mixed With My Poop Clothes
Image credits: space_pdf
#40 Could Be Good Camouflage For The Zombie Apocalypse. Add A Cardigan And Wedges And This Versatile Dress Transforms To Perfect Evening Wear
Image credits: HabitRole
#41 Don’t Let Your Dreams
Image credits: sarahashtonsummer
#42 This Shirt That Looks Like It’s Covered In Coffee Stains
Image credits: TheMrMeatball
#43 If Only There Was A Letter Resembling The Shape Of The Eiffel Tower They Could’ve Used
Image credits: racheljobe
#44 Joes, Sheans Or Jeals
Image credits: sugar-biscuits
#45 Catch & Release But Now I Regret It
Image credits: drippin_honey
#46 My Off-Brand Sports Bra “Ok”. It’s Amazing
Image credits: reddit.com
#47 Forever21 Thinks This Shirt Says “Best In The World”. It Actually Says “I Don’t Care”
Image credits: MiaMiaPP
#48 Got This New Hoodie And Everybody Has Asked Me Why I Am Wet And I Have To Tell Them It’s Just The Design Of The Hoodie
Image credits: sirSosig
#49 The Socks Are Supposed To Say “Stitch” But When You Put Them On They Look Like This
Image credits: xxsoulpunkedxx
#50 Show ‘Em What You’ve Got, Son
Image credits: Ecrelia
Go to Source
Author: Akvile Petraityte 🇺🇦