What's the strangest piece of clothing you've ever owned?

Your description of the cocoon dress really made me laugh. I grew up in the 80s and I don't remember that. Probably blocked it out. I always thought leg warmers were strange. I loved them as a child though for some reason. Stirrup pants were also a favorite of mine.

I have worn quite a few strange and trendy things in the past sweetheart but I think one of the worst had to be my time of puffball skirts in the 80's! They were all the rage at the time but when I see photos from that time I cannot believe how ridiculous they looked on me! lol xxx

During those teenage days I am not so fashionable, and even now. But would you believe I have those bell bottoms slacks and the most blazing color of denims. It is still in my drawer. How I wish I did not wore it, but I did.

In the 80's I wore alot of harem pants thinking they were the sexiest pants out! I also had fluro green and fluro yellow socks and I used to always wear one of each and also different coloured shoe laces. If I wore the socks and the shoelaces together I was very cool indeed! Also leg warmers were the thing and sweat bands around the forehead and wrists. What I find interesting is how fashion comes in and out again. I have seen so many leg warmers on the young girls around my area. Embarressingly enough, I think I still own some of my old pairs, should take them out for a walk one day.

I grew up in the 60s and early 70s with flower power and hippies, bell bottoms and beads. My wildest thing I had I think was my "elephant leg" bell bottoms. If you remember the MC Hammer parachute pants of the 80s, imagine that they also flared out at the bottom. Tight at the top, HUGE at the bottom. Of course, we also had the original platform shoes, crocheted vests (I loved mine!), beaded neckties for the girls to wear (made from beads - I also loved that). Then came the floor-length dress craze that shared space with the minis and micro-minis. But, I also had lime green sneaks for gym with bright orange on the inside and I would wear totally different colored socks with them. In fact, we NEVER wore white socks - EVER. All socks had to be color coordinated or at least black or brown. White was a huge no-no.