Men's fashion has been on a rollercoaster through the last 50 years. From the swinging 60's to the mods and rockers, whilst some trends have changed men's fashion for ever; some will be condemned and never forgotten as they dropped peoples jaws for all the wrong reasons. The worst part is that at the time some of these trends weren't ridiculed but embraced by men.

One trend which has never been a good look is the Hawaiian shirt. You should never wear or be seen in a Hawaiian shirt unless you're a surf instructor from Honolulu. Combining the most oversized, worst fitting shirt possible with the most garish colours was never going to attract the right sort of attention. Now only work as fancy dress or for a practical joke, this highlights how bad Hawaiian shirts were and still are.

A number of football fans and Jimmy Saville wore it proudly. Probably going down as the worst trend for men in history is the shell suit. Designers of shell suits were not content with using the most impractical and uncomfortable materials possible so they combined them with the most audacious, clashing colours imaginable to make them stand out. Topping things off, shell suits came with a warning; for the wearer to avoid bursting into flames themselves, they shouldn't stand anywhere even remotely close to a burning flame.

Finally the denim jacket; whilst in its hay day it was admired and worn by many, it should never have been worn by anyone. Not only was it an overload of denim when worn with jeans as it so often was, a denim jacket was never the colour it was supposed to be. From the day it was bought it was faded beyond redemption.

So there are three of men's fashion history's worst trends. They were never going to become a timeless fashion garment worn for decades to come when they were a mixture of the most hideous and the most uncomfortable and impractical materials imaginable.