Claudia Sylvester reveals her fashion disaster pics!

Hiya, Claudia here!

Did you guess who the young presenter was? Lots of you got it right...it was me!

Since you saw me in my leg-warmers, I thought I'd have a chat with you about my fashion disasters. I've made a few in my time, and I've got the pictures to prove it…

Fashion frights
My biggest fashion faux pas was when I was 15 or 16. I used to have a crazy sense of style back then! I'd cut up different pairs of brightly-coloured tights and sew them together! So I'd have one blue leg and one pink leg! And then I’d wear a bandana around one knee.

I’d also wear a skirt with braces and a short boxy jacket that used to belong to my brother!! Now that's what I call weird.

I was known for having a having a wacky style and I even appeared on Noel Edmond's Late Late Breakfast Show looking very strange! But then a friend started to copy my style and I stopped. I would look at her and think she looked really silly so it gave me a wake up call!

Hair horrors
I had really curly hair and sometimes I’d twist it into corkscrews and leave it. Nothing wrong with that you might say, but it just looked ridiculous on me! Just look at the picture below!

I also used to backcomb my hair when that was the ‘thing’ to do. Looking back I looked like I’d put my finger in the plug socket! Again, just check out the pic on the left.

I’ve experimented with so many hair colours. I think one of the worst things I did was dyeing my hair dark blonde last summer. Why don’t people tell you it looks ridiculous when you have it done, instead of saying afterwards ‘Oh your hair looks so much better now it’s dark?’ Ahhrgh!!!

You would have thought I’d have learnt by now. Actually the worst mistake I've ever made was cutting my hair short after Blake was born. I miss my long hair. Its growing now though, and I’ll get it to shoulder length and keep it there I think.

Have you ever made any big fashion mistakes? Let me know by leaving a comment!

Claudia x

Comments

[Vivienne Miller]

Claudia I like the curly hair that you had. My hair grew very slowly when I was younger but I think I would have liked to try that style if things were otherwise.

[Nicola Rippon]

Oh Claudia, I'm a similar age to you and I've had quite a few fashion disasters when I was younger. When I was 16 I invested in a yellow and black check shirt. I've a horrible (now well hidden) photo of myself at a Sixth Form Christmas party wearing the shirt, some black trousers, my hair half up and curled and backcombed and with my lips painted a bright orange-red! Just hideous - my friends did try to tell me, but would I listen?
We all used to go to school with long socks pushed down like legwarmers (which were banned at our school!) over the top of blue or black tights; we all backcombed of course and wore yards of black lace in our hair, and about 20 silver bangles on our arms. It made such a racket when 20 girls began writing all at once! Our school uniform was grey and white so we couldn't be too outrageous but, although makeup was forbidden, there were few girls who didn't arrive at school with electric blue eyeliner and mascara in place!
I actually don't think we should feel too embarassed - it wasn't our fault we had to do our teenage fashion experimentation in a horrible fashion era!