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11 Celebrity-Inspired Fads We'd Like to Forget

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  • mynameisjonas, on 07/03/2008, -3/+84Ummm, wallet chains and Good Charlotte? I'm sorry, but wallet chains were around a lot longer than that. Wallet chains started getting famous at around the time when a lot of skater culture started coming into the mainstream. Some skateboarders would wear it so their wallets wouldnt go flying everywhere, or from getting stolen. Bands that would play skate punk (or anything similar) at around that time also wore the wallet chains, since it was pretty commonplace around the scene. When bands like the Offspring and Green Day went mainstream, they were sporting chain wallets. It was then that you started seeing many kids start to sport the look.

    Green Day - When I Come Around (0:11) http://youtube.com/watch?v=KXifq_5y04Y
    The Offspring - Self-Esteem (2:44) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kIZeVoRBuU
    The Ataris - San Dimas HS Football Rules (multiple times in the video) - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-vgGYTyJ0

    All of those waaaay before Good Charlotte.

    And yes, i know wallet chains were around from way before that (big part of a zoot suit), but the time when they got really famous was when all of those mentioned bands started getting plenty of airplay.
    • charbarred, on 07/03/2008, -2/+10True. I think I got my wallet chain after seeing the Greenday video. I have great memories getting caught on park benches and door knobs.
    • AsSubtleAsABrik, on 07/03/2008, -1/+17I wore a wallet chain in high school. Nothing huge and ridiculous, but it was there. I went to private high school and that technically wasn't against the dress code so I got to wear my shirt, tie, khaki's and blazer with a nice wallet chain. Man I was so cool.
      • CedEx, on 07/03/2008, -3/+0Well, you weren't too cool for school that's for sure!

        As evident by your eloquent grammar and spelling, obviously learnt by staying in school.
    • shamgarbrett, on 07/03/2008, -0/+16The wallet chain was only big among bikers back in the 70's and 80's. So i guess we have Hells Angels to blame?
    • Jared80KA, on 07/03/2008, -4/+5... you sure know a lot about wallet chains.
    • inhaler, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I used to wear mine in HS as it was against the dress code and we were thinking we had kept grunge alive well into 99. Man, come to think of it, I probably looked like as much of an ass wipe as these little black hair'd emo kids in schools now.

      Thankfully youtube wasn't around then, otherwise we'd all have drowned in a deluge of slow strum grunge rock.
    • Corrosionx, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7All the heavy metal kids in high school had a wallet chain and a bomber jacket in the 90's
      • Scrappy1850, on 07/03/2008, -2/+3bomber jacket? what kind of metal were you?
      • Corrosionx, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3Rough winters in Canada, with a couple of shirts underneath and we were good to go drink outside!
    • fictionalOne, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Matt Hensley, my inspiration for the chain wallet in '92. He was a great skater back in the day.
    • Chaindrop, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I also wore wallet chains during highschool. I remember seeing it in a store, and bought it simply for its' function.
    • bubba9999, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Wallets with chains were huge in the mid-70's. There's a reason they're called trucker's wallets. Sorry you kids were late to the party.
    • robbyking, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0...or bikers in the 50's. I have the wallet chain my father wore in the 60's when he rode choppers.
  • Cadenzah, on 07/03/2008, -6/+83Whoa... an article from Cracked on one page?
  • Masternajee, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Now there is a trip down nightmare lane.
  • mentallyinhell, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3It's too late, some of these fads have already been burned into the American culture.
  • Tokyosexwhale, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Thanks for helping us forget these fads by bringing them up again. Now I must fight the uncontrollable urges to conform to celebrity standards. Douchedom here I come!
  • ChronicColonic, on 07/03/2008, -1/+6Acid wash jeans were not as bad as parachute pants...and unlike my friends, I never owned parachute pants. I cannot say the same thing for acid wash jeans. I am not ashamed to say I had a couple pair.

    http://www.liketotally80s.com/parachute-pants.html
    • Mononuclear, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4I totally had some MC hammer pants when I was a kid
    • terajoule, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3STOP. Hammer time!
    • IphtashuFitz, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3I'm surprised they didn't expand on the acid washed jeans with some of the variants that others have attempted to cash in on. I remember seeing something on the news about a guy who would take acid washed jeans then shoot them with a few shotgun blasts to give them a unique look.
    • SpectralSounds, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Acid was jeans werent as bad as "Skidz" either. Those were quite popular back in the 80's too.
  • Finsternis, on 07/03/2008, -8/+3I'm sure I'd agree the fads suck, so I'll continue to forget them by not even reading this article. Why would I read and Digg an article that's about things I don't want to be reminded of?

    Tired of celebrities acting like idiots? They thrive on attention. If you're sick of them, try NOT FEEDING THEM.
  • Snoosy, on 07/03/2008, -2/+9Ugh, wallet chains. I love waiting in line at a concert next to someone with a wallet chain for 4 hours, only to be let in while they are denied access because it can be "used as a weapon". That's the price you pay for looking like a knob.
    • saranagati, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2wtf, you wait in line for 4 hours for a concert? who's the knob now?
  • ridah, on 07/03/2008, -1/+50Add: Trucker Hats thanks to Ashton Kutcher.
    • NCg8r, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1Yeah, but those were IRONIC, see? See???
    • ngmcs8203, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Ashton Kutcher made trucker hats popular? How about we go back to pre-Kutcher times and look at the skate/surf culture in the mid-90s for that style. You can probably thank him for the line of Gucci and Versachi trucker style hats.
  • TheBigL481, on 07/03/2008, -1/+19what's wrong with plaid shirts and wallet chains? :(
    • NCg8r, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0Faster to ask what's OK about them (unless you're a lumberjack, sleeping all night and working all day)
  • ytsohptwhere, on 07/03/2008, -1/+8Holy *****! All 11 sections on one page from cracked?!
  • dha07030, on 07/03/2008, -1/+47Stupid little dogs - Paris Hilton
    • CraigKostelecky, on 07/03/2008, -1/+4I think Reese Witherspoon is more to blame for that. Didn't Legally Blonde come out before Paris ever became "famous"?
      • dha07030, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11Good point but it is more fun to blame Paris for stuff.
    • mllawso, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4It's not nice to call someone a "stupid little dog".
  • ajv570, on 07/03/2008, -4/+11***** Flava-Flave
    • matthewf01, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5"That dude can eat a dick"
    • ChrisshEnzo, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Nelly, Bubba Sparxxx, and The Three 6 Mafia are to blame for grills
  • WiretapStudios, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6Everything on this list was famous long before these celebrities co-opted the trends for their gain, and then MTV and whoever else used them to sell things.
  • dlm85, on 07/03/2008, -0/+29I really didn't need the shot of Axl's package.
    • Phil13, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1The shot of Axl's package is what disturbs you? What about the image that preceded it?
      • brawltimore, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0fat people like that are common these days axl's junk shots are not
  • Revolutionista, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4I forgot about this crap until this story made it to Digg's front page. Thanks.
  • MoralThreat, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9Dear God I didn't need to see Axl's batch.
  • jankind, on 07/03/2008, -1/+10The chain wallet started (or came back?) back in the EARLY 90s. Matt Hensley was a pro skater and he rocked one. He also happened to be one of the best and most admired pro skaters of the time so every kid who skated in the early 90s had one.
    ALSO thanks to Ed Templeton and NOT Ashton Kutcher... trucker hats were actually cool at that time. SO pretty much anything that skaters do, expect some tool on a TV show or a ***** band to catch on to it ten years later and make it ridiculous.
    • HarrietTubman, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Actually you are wrong. Chain wallets started in the late 80's when we used to wear them to punk shows to keep our wallets from falling out when slam dancing.
      • mynameisjonas, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3i love that harriet tubman is talking to us about slam dancing in the 80s... just something odd about that, lol.
    • mynameisjonas, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1yup, skater culture has been a big source for what a few years later becomes mainstream or cool. I remember a saying that one decade's underground becomes the next decade's pop culture. Very, very true.
  • ansatsu29, on 07/03/2008, -3/+1LOL LOL LOL
  • OzzieAlThor, on 07/03/2008, -2/+16Aviator glasses. No really you 5'4" 75 pound freak, you look retarted when your sunglasses reach below your nose and tickle your lip.
  • danielrh9, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3I may very well be alone in this, but I for one would be totally for seeing "The Rachael" come back. Back in the mid to late 90's, that look was quite "the bomb".
    • absurdist, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1"the bomb?"

      Oh, you zany kids and your kooky teen lingo!
    • JustinCase18, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I think the "Dorothy Hamill" was more of a nuisance and a bigger craze than the "Rachel"
  • roguepirate, on 07/03/2008, -1/+17Wearing a band-aid on your face is one fad i'd love to wipe from memory.

    Thanks Nelly for that one.
    • chuckDontSurf, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Yeah, but does anybody but him do that?
    • MelroseMan, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2I have never seen anyone do that in person.
    • shango5, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Actually TLC started that way back in 93. Look at some of their old videos and left eye was famous for it.
    • saranagati, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1i did that once, however i had just gotten in a fight, was bleeding profusely from my head and wanted to go get food. Also it was a purple band aid in case anyone was wondering.
      • brawltimore, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0i knew a guy who did it for halloween HE'S CRAAAAZY
    • bubba9999, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Les Nessman
  • drjekelmrhyde, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Khaki suits
  • randylm, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1I don't think celebrities started any of these fads. You just found some pictures of celebrities wearing certain clothes to support your fad story.
  • bf01, on 07/03/2008, -2/+3Dugg for having the guts to call it a "Ghetto Blaster".
  • roguepirate, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4Would speakin fo shizzle my izzo nizzo be considered a fad? what happened to the Snoop that was from LBC?
    • shango5, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1E 40 started that not snoop but I guess snoop did make it popular. So if your going to give props/blame anybody then it would be E 40 for giving him the idea.
  • liquidfirex, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8So where did popped collars come from anyway? That ***** needs to die.

    "Dude I think your mom used too much starch when she did your laundry"
  • flashingcurser, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Sadly, I grew up in a small logging town in Washington. For a hundred years you would be hard pressed to find a person without a few flannel/hickory shirts in their wardrobe. When I went back to washinton this year it hard to find someone wearing one.
  • TomT223, on 07/03/2008, -2/+4Fat people: PLEASE don't wear spandex.
  • nobleexperiment, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Rachel Ray and Kanye West introduces the Keffiyeh.
    No more neo-consumer-hipsterism-for-the-wrong-reasons before we realize dignity can be restored sooner than later.
  • leopardflames, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2another good example of the plaid flannel shirts- my so-called life. almost every outfit worn in there has plaid flannel in it somewhere!
  • rodon, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1What about the bandana around the leg in the '80s that Scott Baio started wearing in the short-lived "Joanie Loves Chachi" sitcom. I think that fad lasted about a day.
  • ZutroyZuuts, on 07/03/2008, -2/+3Does Cracked.com think that an article can't be both funny & accurate? Please, Cracked, for once can you do some research and get the real facts and then make them funny. Don't keep thinking it's okay to start with the funnies and then make up the facts.
  • Dszerox, on 07/03/2008, -3/+2Cracked.com sucks, I don't know what else to say.
  • knowseek, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1ok some are complaining about the wallets with chains starting at X time -
    These started to kick off in the mid 70's to low 80's with pop-country and rednecks sporting them...
    The wallets had chains and cool stitch on them such as "Jack Daniels", a Rebel flag and various other types redneck type paraphernalia band names and/or symbols. Can still find such things in leather shops...

    FTW
  • petebot, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Hey, remember the 80's? baaaaaaa!
  • Sunshine75, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I think Good Charlotte took the idea from the skaters of the early 90s who wore them first. And Swingers just used it in the movie imitating the douchy guys that carried them at the time.
    • TheKingInYellow, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1and the skaters of the early 90s took the idea from truckers and bikers of the 60s, 70s and 80s. yeh, it's a fad but before it was a fad it had a purpose...preventing pickpockets.
  • bcrich999, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0So what rhymes with Syphilis?
  • greenbird12, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1"originated among prison inmates (due to prisoners being issued oversized clothes and not permitted to wear belts)"

    I thought it meant a male prisoner was ready and looking for sex; that would mean butt sex. so if your wearing sagging pants, you're really saying "I love anal rapes". people can say it's hip-hop fashion. i still think it means hip-hop's slowly dying.
  • bowlesman11, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Flannel shirts look nice though when worn the right way.
  • TheBlueDuchess, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1shoulder pads were the worst thing ever!
  • retawd, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Even if her one haircut was a fad 10 years ago, Jennifer Anniston is a fine looking wench and the world is that much better for women wanting to look like her.
  • TinternAbbot, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5Leg warmers on girls are hot...
    • dpcamp, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1yeah i for one do not want to forget that fad.
  • isaactwito, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2Wow, ***** inaccurate as hell. This article doesn't know what the ***** it's saying.
  • GoatMonkey2112, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I always liked the Rachel haircut on some chicks. I agree that it sucks for every girl to have the same haircut though.
  • TheKingInYellow, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1holy crap...a cracked article on one page...what is the world coming to?
  • retral, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3How did all this stuff make it.. but not huge fugly sunglasses that seem to be so popular these days?
  • neodorian, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1They talk ***** about the ghetto blaster but the funniest thing is seeing thug-life lookin dudes in the city strut down the street now blasting bass heavy tunes....from the 1/4" speaker on their cell phones! Bring back the blaster! At least they sounded good. Using your phone without headphones just makes you look (and sound) like a tool.
  • triferlinks, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1how about all the youtube videos filled with other version of "Crank Dat Soulja Boy"?

    like crank dat batman, spiderman, etc.
  • candicemarie, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0Agreed, except #5.......
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