Everybody knows that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, especially when it comes to fashion. We all have our preferences on what we think is pretty and looks good on us.
However, when it comes to fashion, there are things out there that can be called objectively ugly. They can also be cute, weird, bold, or interesting, but they aren’t really aesthetically pleasing, so to speak. Sometimes, that’s on purpose and sometimes it’s by accident, but either way, the result is the same.
The list below is full of such ugly accidents. Collected from the [Awful] Design and There Was an Attempt subreddits, they really strike the perfect balance between ugly and hilarious. Scroll down to see the best of the worst.
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There Was An Attept To Make A Dog Being Petted On A T Shirt. Unfortunately
Me too :-) I had to read the shirt and stare at it :-D
Load More Replies...I saw the white nose and thought it was breasts, then saw the comments lol.
It's not breasts I thought of, but definitely an anatomical part.
Load More Replies...There was a time when wearing ugly T-shirts like the ones on this list was a fashion faux pas. However, these days ugly fashion is a thing and it’s only growing in popularity. Celebrities love using their platforms to promote their odd choices that, over time, become fashion staples.
Take, for example, a total must-have in every fashionista’s wardrobe that years ago would have led to mockery—Birkenstocks. For years, they were touted as the hippie or the tourist shoe, or maybe something your grandma wore while gardening. It was the orthopedic shoe that kids that had feet problem wore, something you might have donned in secret, not as a fashionable summer sandal. Yet, here we are.
To Buy A Good Shirt
Well he's certainly got a brimful of something on his 45, though I'm not sure it's Asha.
This Shirt
You and me, both. And she'd have a mustache and beard made of cat hair.
Load More Replies...Birkenstock as a company has been around for decades (centuries, actually), and through it all, they always showed an undying commitment to their values. Those are quality, functionality, and comfort, the last one being the reason why they were so loved by those who couldn’t care less about style.
Fortunately for all of us, in recent years, comfort also became stylish. Quality, functionality, and using natural materials also followed and, suddenly, Birkenstock-style shoes were on the runway. Celine put them on there in 2013, and we never looked back.
There Was An Attempt To Create A T-Shirt Showing The Well Known Continent Of Asia!
This is for when the English rock supergroup, Asia, goes on tour in Africa.
I had a very good English teacher back in school whom I respected on both a professional and a personal level. When I graduated I gifted him a "Worlds goodest teacher" shirt. He loves it and, as of 3 years ago, apparently still wears it to school lol
Load More Replies...It's one thing to confuse Africa and South America cause those at least have a vaguely similar shape, but Africa and Asia? No.
well…. it’s just part of one big euro-afro-asiatic continent, right? so i mean… i guess…
also as a geography nerd i need this shirt so bad it ain’t even funny
Load More Replies...There is a C in Africa, but that's most definitely a picture of Asia. No C.
Load More Replies...This T-Shirt
There was a character on House that would have met the criteria.
Load More Replies...There Was An Attept To Make A Stylish T-Shirt
Harry seems a bit jaundiced. Perhaps he should go to St. Mungo's.
The Irish version of Harry Potter - Harry O'Potter. :)
Load More Replies...I don't know what this is. Is this Harry Potter, Dragon Ball or Pokemon? I am SO confused.
Another ugly shoe that went through a worldwide hating phase and now is loved by pretty much everybody is Crocs. According to Time magazine, this shoe that was originally created for boating is one of the worst inventions ever, alongside asbestos and leaded gasoline. At least it was back in 2010, when hating it was fashionable. Now, it’s a whole other story.
Not Sure The Target Audience Of This Shirt
"My body is a temple; except on the good days, then it's an amusement park"
Load More Replies...This Boston, Msaeachubaets Shirt
To Add A Little Flair To A T-Shirt Logo
Yes, but then what would they use for the 'i' ? ;-)
Load More Replies...Similar to Birkenstocks, Crocs owe their popularity to the fact that people suddenly prioritized comfort over style. Sweatpants, yoga pants, and hoodies became an appropriate thing to wear when you’re out and about, so it’s no surprise that comfortable footwear followed.
Exactly What I Want On My Shirt: Someone Else Wearing A Similar Shirt
Great Shirt
There Was An Attempt To Make A T-Shirt
He CHATGPT, make me a picture of Spiderman twirking in the faces of Neytiri and Batman and Neytiri is making an embarrassed half smile cringe face and Batman is pretending not to notice while he tries to remember if he left the iron on at home. /S
So, just a few years after models strutted down the runway wearing the now-beloved German orthopedic shoe, in 2016, Christopher Kane introduced Crocs to high fashion. Then, in 2017, Balenciaga shocked everyone at Paris Fashion Week by presenting their platform Crocs that really divided the crowd but also sold out instantaneously.
The Shirt Of Our School Swim Team, The Message Makes Sense But It Sounds Like You Want Us To Off Ourselves
It only says breakfast because you die before lunch and dinner.
I agree 💯. I may be a little weird for this but I like the smell of Chlorine and vinegar
Load More Replies...Kids Today 🤷️ (T-Shirt Age 18-24 Months)
Shirt Makes Me Uncomfortable
That I was playing with my parts by “petting the dog” because I’m a Jazz master???
Then, the pandemic came. With everyone spending all their time at home, it wasn’t a surprise that many opted to get a few more pairs of comfy shoes. Crocs were a go-to choice for a lot of people. And just like that, Crocs sales skyrocketed.
This Shirt For A Local Restaurant, Cali N Titos
It is a local restaurant, in my experience they are very raunchy shirt wise
Load More Replies...Very similar to the Northern Territory Australia tourism ads- C U (in the) NT!
The thread is implying inserting a ‘u’ after the letter ‘c’.
Load More Replies...My Mom Just Bought This T-Shirt For Me... Still Can't Figure Out What It's Trying To Say
Now that's a good idea. A T-shirt with "Profound" on it.
Load More Replies...I feel like this is what Chinese people see when white people wear shirts with Chinese characters on them.
This is what your cat hears when you start meowing at her.
This T-Shirt Designer Was Obviously Not A History Major
President Lincoln could party like it's 1776 by remembering what happened before he was born.
To be fair, I don't know most of the prime ministers, even those who share a continent with me. I do know a handful of British ones, but no Australian ones. Other than Putin, I don't know the leaders of any (traditionally) non-English speaking country. Then again, if I wanted to make a similar shirt, it would be pretty easy for me to find out.
Actually, Abe had planned on using his Tardis to go back to then and try to convince the founders to end or phase out slavery. The Civil War that just tore the country apart would never have happened. Unfortunately, he postponed it to the following day because they had theater tickets for that evening.
You surely mean "four score and seven", which is 87.
Load More Replies...Whoever made this is missing a piece of their brain (no offense, Mr. Lincoln).
Maybe the surge would have been temporary, just like it was for many other brands, if not for celebrities. See, they also bought Crocs during the pandemic and then started posing for pictures wearing their, often bedazzled, foam footwear. Suddenly, they were super trendy, which is obvious when you look at their sales that are still through the roof—double of what they were in 2019.
Yup I Am Going To Put Beer And Cigarettes On Toddlers Tshirt Because That's Totally Okay
Very common in countries where english isn't the native language. They put all manner of things on shirts, simply because it 'looks cool'.
its fairly common practice in southern states such as Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky...
It actually shows that sugar and soda are just as bad long term, it's a nice statement. I wouldn't choose for my toddler, but if I were a toddler again I'd definitely wear!
Floral Design On This T-Shirt Looks Just Like Mold
I had a house fire over the summer. When we could finally get back in, I found several pieces of clothing that looked like this. Now I'm imagining that this also smells like mold and smoke.
Bad Tshirt Design
I couldn't work out what it was supposed to mean at first. "Artse"? Is that like an aesthetic version of "G****e"?
So, if there’s anything you can learn from these two examples, it's that whatever is considered ugly now might be the next sought-after item. So, hold onto those harem pants, trucker hats, and, of course, ugly T-shirts as they might be hot next year.
There Was An Attept To Make A Motivational Shirt
If they flipped the second and third lines and added an E, it would say, "Never Quite Do Your Best".
That Cr*ppy Design On My Son's T-Shirt
I don't know, I kind of like this one. Its like Hell No and also Hello Snow, plus the yellow could be a nod to saying "hell now to yellow snow"
These Sample Text Shirts Are So Beautiful
As A Baby Onesie It's Cute, But As A Kid's T-Shirt It's Troubling
Christian Shirt Where The Words Form An Upside-Down Cross
From Bill Hicks: "I think I know why Jesus hasn't come back yet. Do you think he'd ever want to see another f-ing cross?"
If He had come in this day and time, Christians would be wearing syringes on chains instead.
Load More Replies...Indeed, but the upside-down cross has pretty much been claimed by those of us who are against Christianity, it's often used as a symbol amongst Satanists, devil worshippers, and other folk like that. Plus, uneducated Christians seem to think the upside-down cross is offensive, soo..
Load More Replies...The upside down cross is not a Satanic symbol or a sacrilegious symbol. It's only when it's an upside down CRUCIFIX that it becomes a problem.
Yeah. A plain upside down cross can just be a pogo stick.
Load More Replies...I'm Not Even Sure What This Tshirt Is Trying To Say
Seems like right words, wrong order. Rearrange to "I'm not here to be average. I'm here to be awesome". Still a dumb shirt but somewhat less dumb.
Except for the missing "to" in the last line I love the message. There are far too many over confident people out there already - someone has to just stand back and admire them. Way back, in my case.
Load More Replies..."I'm here to be average. I'm not here. Be awesome." They forgot the third "to."
Fair enough, just in case anyone thinks I'm trying to be an overachiever...
Okay let's just be awesome to one another even if we're not really here.
This Shirt
Yes, I mean, if I could happily worry it would be a win in my book
Load More Replies...This London T-Shirt Design
Someone please explain to me the whole London museum thing
Load More Replies...Well, I'm going to guess it wasn't made in France.
Load More Replies...Thank you!! I was wondering what that word was supposed to be!
Load More Replies...Some T-Shirt I Saw In My Instagram Recommendations Today
Want to look like you have a severe illness and threw up blood and stomach acid on your shirt? We have just the thing!
Doc, you said you needed a urine sample, a stool sample, and a blood sample? Here you go.
Tbh all my tops look like this after I’ve been wrestling to get the last bit of cat food out of the sachets as there’s always bits stuck in the corners. It’s worse if it goes in your mouth and I can’t understand why the cats like it or is it the reason why they lick their bums!
This Shirt My Trainer Wore At My New Job Today
My guess, based on the style of the letters, is quiet. It definitely does not say quiet...
Load More Replies...it is american slang for a -- and pardon me for this -- "pussy fart"...and these apparantly happen a lot in yoga classes
Load More Replies...I Just Realized That My "Los Angeles" T-Shirt Has New York Skyline In The Back
I Dont Know If This Counts As Cr*ppy Design But Its A Pretty Cr*ppy T-Shirt
I don’t understand the Minions obsession. Boomers in particular seem to adore Minion memes, and I can’t comprehend why they do. The movies weren’t good, and the memes aren’t funny.
This T-Shirt Design
Maybe they also meant to say "Massachusetts"? XD
Load More Replies...I Saw This Logo On My Friend's T-Shirt And Thought It Was A Joke
Ernest Borgnine says it's the secret to longevity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VuC3t-d0Zao
Load More Replies...My Nephews New T-Shirt With A Newly Designed Solar System
There is someone named Copernicus at the door. He wants to speak to you.
A Friend Of Mine Got This Shirt In Berlin
I like how they have the correctly ordered alphabet lower right. *Yes we know the alphabet; it just wasn't in the order we needed it to be.
Without being too pedantic, it's missing the four extra German letters
Normally, as a german, I would be pissed at how messy and halfassed this looks, but considering how long it took them to build their airport and their central station before that (not to mention tearing down that stupid wall), I'm not even surprised. Just disappointed.
Besides the overall alphabetic atrocity, what the h**l is the ampersand doing in there?
This "Clever" Math T-Shirt
This T-Shirt Found In Spain
Finally Found One Of The Infamous "Refuse To Sink Shirts" Irl
I have seen so many tattoos of this. I always think, "Well, someone doesn't understand logic."
Physics. They don't understand physics, not "logic".
Load More Replies...The Udder Placement On This Hand-Me-Down Shirt From A Friend
But if a cow STOOD UP it would look exactly like THIS :-)
Load More Replies...How? How could they not know? They knew. They definitely knew and did nothing.
LaLaLoopsy is a real toy, so I see what they were trying with LaLaMoopsy, but the illustration is just... wow!
This T-Shirt
I'd pat you comfortingly, but I like my hand the way it is.
Load More Replies...This Shirt I Just Saw. Plage Desing Here
This Safe Youth Campaign T-Shirt Looks Like Children Being Abducted By Aliens
There Was An Attept To Make A Shirt
If only the English language had an ordered pattern of reading and writing. For example, let's just say left to right and top to bottom. It would avoid so much confusion. We should make that happen.
There Was An Attept To Make A Targeted Shirt For Bull Rider Spouses
“Gangrenous” T-Shirt
It's not, but it is a damn fine punk band from the early '80s,
Load More Replies...This Shirt That Looks Like It’s Covered In Coffee Stains
Markiplier's Charity Shirt For The Standing Up To Cancer Fund Has The Words 'Standing Up' In Dark Grey So The Shirt Just Looks Like "To Cancer"
Would you be okay, if you were bought on wish ?
Load More Replies...My Dad Sent Me This Picture Of Probably The Greatest Shirt Of All Time
Well it does say travel to your fantasy California. Maybe Miami is in your fantasy version of California? My fantasy California would have my hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland in it! Pick up my entire city and dropping it into that climate would just make me so incredibly happy. Like seriously, it has not stopped raining in days here.
A Porsche T-Shirt With A Picture Of A Bmw And A Ferrari Logo
This Shirt I Saw In The Store Today
Thanks For The Advice
Hah! Imagine needing a shirt to tell you that! I do it anyway!
Personally, I prefer this message over the "Don't worry, be happy" message. This one speaks to me.
Load More Replies...We Have To Decode What The Shirt Says
It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. It’s not the will to win that matters, everyone has that.
It's the will it's not the will to win to prepare to win that matters everyone has that that matters...
🎶Send away for a priceless gift. One not subtle. One not on the list🎶
Load More Replies...My Co-Workers T-Shirt
Definitely sounds like some weekend activity related speaking issues.
This T-Shirt Is Supposed To Represent Love In Asl But Gets Nowhere Close. @ Ross
Agree. LFVS. Also, even if they didn't screw up the letters, most deaf people would just hold up the I Love You hand rather than spell out the word love.
Load More Replies...This Mans T-Shirt. It Says Aape Now... But Still. Wow
This Band T-Shirt
As an ex-flautist, I understand. We'd get all the trills, and our fingers had to go at light speed.
Found This Brilliant T-Shirt At The Local Goodwill
T-Shirt I've Found In A Vietnamese Department Store
This T-Shirt
Local Goodwill Selling Kkk T-Shirt
That's Not Indiana
I live on the border between Michigan and Indiana, they call it Michiana
Unless it's a advert that mispronounces it. Also, Cassopolis. Drives me nuts.
Load More Replies...Could have been worse. It could say Gary, Indiana
Load More Replies...This Souvenir Shirt With A Picture Of Mackinac Island Looks Like It Has A Stain On It
This Butchered Frank Lloyd Wright Quote On A Tshirt From Thailand
Difficult not to liep to conclusions but what thing makes it happen alive?
Someone put an awful lot of graphics work into such a clusterf*** of a message
My Brother's T-Shirt
Are Cheap T-Shirts Still Fair Game Here?
This T-Shirt I Found At A Kids Store
looks like it's a small or med juniors, probably from a head shop or festival
T-Shirt With Similarly Crappy Design To The One On The Front Page
Who Doesn’t Like To Rock Headless Cheerleader?
This T-Shirt
These In No Way Creepy T-Shirt
My Friend’s Shirt Looks Like He’s Sweating Heavily
Woo Kond Offo Ndor?
Thought I was clever for figuring it out. Then saw you had posted. And yes, those are tabs of E as best I can tell based on some pictures I've seen.
Load More Replies...Disney Passholder Exclusive T-Shirt
The one thing that's cool on this shirt is that they made the letter "L" for Tom Sawyer's Island look like it's dripping paint. For anyone not familiar with the book, Tom fools his friends into doing his chore of whitewashing the fence by pretending it's a fun thing to do. Psychology at work!
I'm almost tempted to go out and breed just so I can buy this shirt for my kid.
My Friend Got Me This Nonsense Shirt And It’s One Of The Greatest Gifts I’ve Ever Received
Found This T-Shirt At A Grocery Store
I love chocolate and chocolate my son. Therefore my son is chocolate.
I love chocolate and chocolate my son chocolate. I think you're right.
Load More Replies...This Was The Shirt They Gave Us When They Told Us About Meth And What It Can Do To Us “Don’t Meth With Us”
Sorry you can't meth with us. Go meth with those losers over there.
Load More Replies...I'm in South Dakota. Apparently we're "on it". So yours is an improvement 😁
I highly recommend Nick Reding's book 'Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town' In it he posits that while all other street drugs are "recreational" Meth is "occupational" as it makes it possible for workers in the depressed areas of the central US to work two or more jobs after wages have collapsed and made working at more than one job necessary. From Wikipedia.org: "He analyzes the causes of the rural economic decline: in the context of deregulation and globalization agricultural conglomerates have taken over local businesses. As a result, jobs have disappeared, towns became depopulated, and tax revenue shrunk. Use of meth proliferated in response in the depressed areas."
Flawless T-Shirt Design
Disney Bff Group Chat T-Shirt Defies The Laws Of Group Chats
Love the username... HIMYM is one of my faves
Load More Replies...These Shirts Always Make Me Laugh. Stop & Shop Doesn’t Understand Acronyms
This is terrible, but my grammar police personality can't help but call out the last word. It should read "every day". "Everday" is an adjective.
Coty ? Toinic ? I Can't See Any Real Words On This Shirt
This Deus T-Shirt Looks Like It Says 'jews'
Motorcycle Jews in the machine? I would love to see this as a patch on the back of a leather vest.
This Shirt I Bought In China
I googled to see if there was a town named Fedora, New York. (There isn't.)
Board Room Of Out-Of-Touch Adults Make Trendy Kids T-Shirt
One Of The Worst Shirts I've Ever Seen; Meant To Read "Home Is Not A Place, Home Is My People"
A Wise Shirt Once Said
Apparently in Vietnamese, "U Trai" = "Left Tumor". So there. That's something you know now.
Donated Blood Today And This Was The Shirt I Got
Blimey, all I got was a sticker saying "amazing mum" (I'm no one's mum but they didn't have any aunt stickers and they felt sorry for me)
We I live, you just get a coffee and a lie-down.
Load More Replies...Can you imagine giving blood and they give you this shirt while you're still dizzy? I'd think I was having a stroke.
Third World T-Shirt Designs
Probably what our clothing looks like to Chinese or Japanese people when we put their letters on our clothing that we choose randomly.
This T-Shirt From H&m
Okay so apparently Williamsburg is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. Not sure what the significance of the "85" is.
Chinese tshirt makers have a design algorithm that spits out a combination of a city, state/country and a random number, which then gets sent to the printers. Sometimes that algorithm also includes a random world landmark, city skyline or "iconic" plant.
Load More Replies...This Miami South Beach T-Shirt
"We're thinking of naming our child Beauthch, pronounced B***h"
What Message Is This T-Shirt Supposed To Be Sending
This Guys Shirt
I suspect the person specifying what was to go on the shirt scribbled it down on paper, spelled "finessed" wrong, corrected it by crossing out the extra 'e' and writing the 's' above it. And that was all faithfully transcribed onto the shirt
A T-Shirt Design For A School Club
This T-Shirt I Found At Zara
Uhmmm, Can't if you are, Please stay true to yourself, 'Em good things, All will happen? or CAN'T PLEASE 'EM ALL, if you are stay true to yourself good things will happen. My brain hurts now.
All We Have Is Now Justice? This Is A Toddlers Shirt By The Way
Kid's T-Shirts
Are these designed, chequed, made, packed and displayed by one single person? How can more than two pair of eyes not see how wrong they are?
Whoever is designing or manufacturing these shirts isn't even trying anymore
I visited a Wego store while in Japan, and they’ve got many shirts that say nonsensical things in English, notably a dainty white crop top with “biofuel” embroidered in pretty serif font across the chest, which I, of course, purchased. The website is also rather entertaining. Anglophones get incorrect Chinese/Japanese/Sanskrit/Hebrew tattoos, and Japanese clothing stores provide incorrect English shirts (also Wego has cute clothing; I got one of my favorite pairs of jeans there).
I would wear a these shirts just to confuse the heck out of my friends
Are these designed, chequed, made, packed and displayed by one single person? How can more than two pair of eyes not see how wrong they are?
Whoever is designing or manufacturing these shirts isn't even trying anymore
I visited a Wego store while in Japan, and they’ve got many shirts that say nonsensical things in English, notably a dainty white crop top with “biofuel” embroidered in pretty serif font across the chest, which I, of course, purchased. The website is also rather entertaining. Anglophones get incorrect Chinese/Japanese/Sanskrit/Hebrew tattoos, and Japanese clothing stores provide incorrect English shirts (also Wego has cute clothing; I got one of my favorite pairs of jeans there).
I would wear a these shirts just to confuse the heck out of my friends
