Hilariously Awkward Clothing Fails So Bad They’ll Leave You In Stitches

Did the women in Team Hungary walk through a butchers’ store to get to the Parade of Nations in 2008? What a bizarre get-up. Especially when compared to their male counterparts’ plain white blazers. Thankfully, Zsuzsanna Jakabos’ beauty managed to steal some of the attention away from this horror show in China. Just about.

Um, did America end? Well, yes, according to this rather odd red sweatshirt. It suggests the United States kicked the bucket on some unspecified date in 1991. Somehow we managed to completely miss this seismic event. Perhaps the breakup of the Soviet Union took all the headlines?

We can’t quite make out what brand these snazzy silver, white and blue sneakers are. But we’re a bit perplexed that the design team arrived at that logo. Brings a whole new meaning to the slogan “Just Do It”!

Winning an Olympic medal should be the highlight of an athlete’s life. But poor Kjetil Jansrud had his moment ruined – by the very bad outfit he was made to wear. After the Norwegian skier took gold for his country at Sochi 2014, he had to stand on the podium in what appeared from a distance to be a painted-on pair of Daisy Dukes. Criminal!

Well, what do we have here? It’s American actress and pro kiteboarder Maika Monroe posing on the red carpet. And although she looks beautiful, what on earth is going on with the bottom half of her dress? Looks like she should be riding a horse on the prairies or something.

That’s a striking woolly mitten. The red really stands out, as does the black watch pattern that has been knitted into it. The only problem? That fake timepiece is nowhere near the person’s wrist! Oops.

We bet the person who designed this T-shirt was really proud of themselves, as it has everything a summer tee should have. A cool image of a surfer? Check. A vaguely philosophical word to make the wearer seem clever? Check. But what’s that in the top left corner? Well, it’s the file name for the image. Fail!

This rather fetching pink T-shirt proudly proclaims below its silhouetted cats, “Can you tall me what is worry or yes pig’s pepar hoser coloer feng anther jeams tong cong sonl voer wengthr ro.” We have absolutely no clue what it means, and neither will you. Unless, of course, you speak perfect gibberish.

This is one of those designs that may have seemed cutting edge at the time. What hiker or long-distance runner doesn’t need access to drinking water? Well, er, this particular setup makes it look as though the wearer has a pair of water bottles growing where they really shouldn’t be growing. Back to the drawing board!

Aww! These kitten socks should be the perfect gift for cat lovers. And they are undeniably cute – until, that is, you actually put them on. The previously adorable kitty transforms into a rather freakish, stretched-out little monster that definitely wouldn’t win any prizes at a pet show.

This one took us a while to spot. At first, it just looks like a standard floral dress. Nothing too fancy, but nice enough. But if you look just below the green flower at the top, what do you see? There’s a kneeling woman – who could be unclothed – hidden within the pattern. Yikes!

You’d have thought that someone would have checked over this T-shirt design before giving it the green light. Or the person making it would have at least gone on the internet to see which continent is which. Well, looks like everyone involved may need to hit the geography textbooks. That’s the outline of Africa, not Asia!

It looks like the players in this Spanish soccer team have had a collective accident! And honestly, what are the odds that they all spilled their prematch dinner over their pristine white jerseys? Maybe the management team should have provided them with some bibs.

This baseball tee is actually quite nice. A pleasingly simple and classic style that you can wear to family gatherings or even to a game. But then the printer has gone and ruined it with a terrible error. We think they need to go and take some more math classes...

There’s no denying the fact that a cool outfit gets the fans talking during the Parade of Nations. Then again, bad costumes are just as capable of creating a buzz. That was certainly the case with Team Germany at the 2014 Winter Olympics. This nightmarish rainbow design will leave your eyes begging for mercy.

Ah, what kid – or youthful adult – doesn’t love a superhero T-shirt? And this one proudly displays the Avengers logo. But below the gold typeface, Spiderman, Batman and Avatar’s Neytiri are pictured. None of them are members of the Avengers franchise, and only Spidey is even part of the Marvel Universe. Oops.

While it mightn’t be the most glamorous of sports, curling is a really entertaining event at the Winter Olympics. Mind you, the Norwegian team threatened to overshadow the entire competition with their eye-popping trousers in 2018. It’s like looking at wallpaper from a house in the 1970s. And no, that’s not a compliment.

This T-shirt makes a reasonable joke about folk who always wear black. Like the late Johnny Cash, for instance. But the tee’s message and the gag is completely undermined by, erm, the color. Which is white. We don’t think they thought this one through...

A no-iron shirt sounds like a dream! Not having to spend any time getting the creases out, just throwing it on and going about your day. But this one surely comes under the banner of false advertising. In fact, we’ve never seen a shirt that is in as desperate need of an iron as this one.

The maker of this T-shirt had one job: to put the noise a dog makes above the picture of the pup. But somehow they got it spectacularly wrong. Maybe the person who designed it had a dog that thought it was a cat or something?

The guy who bought these gray socks is very likely a big fan of the Star Wars franchise. But whether he bought these feet-warmers for himself or received them as a gift, he probably wasn’t banking on being terrified. That stormtrooper’s menacing face is the stuff of nightmares!

This photograph got us wondering. How many people went up to this guy and said, “Excuse me, sir, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but you appear to have a wedgie?” A few, we’d wager. But it’s not the dude who should be embarrassed! It’s his T-shirt creating that optical illusion, you see.

We’re guessing this was originally intended to say “Don’t worry, be happy.” Thanks to the design fail, though, it reads more obviously as “Don’t be happy, worry.” Maybe one for all the pessimists out there?

Those two crossing handguns make it look like the wearer is threatening to do something, that well, would be frowned upon in public. And if you’ve ever worn this tank, you may have wondered why people were giving you a wide berth. Well, wonder no more!

At first, you’re probably wondering what’s wrong with this outfit. It looks perfectly fine and demure – even for TV. But once you see the problem with it – and believe us, you will – you really can’t unsee it. In fact, it may give you second-hand embarrassment. Let’s just call it a controversial cut and move on, shall we?

No, that’s not a fan who’s made his way on to the slopes. It’s snowboarder Shaun White, sporting one of the strangest outfits to grace the Winter Olympics in 2010. The jeans are actually specialized trousers designed to look that way, capped off by a questionable coat. It was described as an “anti-uniform” at the time. We can think of a few other names.

Whoever designed this T-shirt clearly needs to go and learn about world cuisines. Perhaps their pals had played a trick on them and told them that pizzas were tacos and vice versa. Whatever the story, anyone wearing this T-shirt is gonna get a few stares – and probably hear a lot of laughter.

Wow. This wedding dress sure is unique. But unfortunately for the hapless bride, we don’t mean it as a compliment. And it’s all because of the brown ribbon tied down the back. That just makes it look as if she was really nervous on her big day. Like, really nervous.

Love the comfort of sweatpants but want to dress them up a bit? Then this version crossed with jeans are the pants for you! They’ll also make you look a bit thinner, so there’s really no downside to them. Oh, aside from the fact that they look utterly ridiculous.

Now, there’s probably an innocent explanation here. That’s a safety pin, right? It has to be, on a child’s sweater... Well, in any case, just don’t buy it for your kid. Imagine the teasing they’ll get at school.

This one is hilarious, to be fair. Because, as you surely know, nothing says heavy metal or dangerous rock and roll quite like Celine Dion and her ubiquitous, schmaltzy ballad “My Heart Will Go On.” Throwing devil horns on this T-shirt just ain’t going to make up for it.

This shirt is adorable, and any toddler or young boy would surely love it. The Happy Hippo logo is colorful, and the smiling animal is a cute touch. There’s just one small problem with it, though. Actually, quite a big one. That’s a rhinoceros, not a hippo.

Who doesn’t own at least a few basics from Gap? But this particular tee shouldn’t have made it past the factory stage. Can you spot why? We’ll give you a clue: the person who designed this garment needs collaring.

This is what the kids often call an epic fail. You’d have thought that the iconic red telephone box – as quintessentially English as James Bond and fish and chips – would have given it away. But no, this dimwitted designer thought that London was New York – and went ahead anyway.

Ouch! That’s the first thing we thought when we laid eyes on these garish, multicolored leggings. That’s because they feature – among several other characters – Lady Rainicorn. And the popular pal of Princess Bubblegum is pointing her sharp horn in a rather unfortunate place. Good job it’s only a print!

Oh, dear. This poor woman appears to have had a nasty and embarrassing accident. Look closer, though, and you’ll notice that’s not the case. Those brown patches are merely the floral design of her dress. “I wondered why people were avoiding me,” she probably thought.

To be fair to this woman, it was probably hard to spot the issue with this shirt when she looked at it in the store. We bet this garment was on its way to Goodwill, though, after she noticed people in fits of giggles pointing at her back.

This lady likely picked up these leggings thinking that they would do nicely for the gym or around the house on a lazy day. But it appears she bought them without actually trying them! You’ll never look at the Leaning Tower of Pisa the same way ever again – and neither will she.

This shirt seems to have made the bargain rack in TJ Maxx – and with good reason. Not only are there flies on the thing, but you’ll see that some of them are, ahem, being naughty. But we have no idea why you’d want flies on your shirt in the first place – whatever they’re doing.

These Betty Boop pajamas have been made unintentionally hilarious by some dodgy stitching. Yes, due to a design flaw, poor Betty looks as though she’s trying to squeeze out her own body. Ouch!

This poor woman was probably going for a boho-chic vibe with her outfit choice here. But it’s less summer of love and more bummer of love… why must the flower oddly emerge from there? And the questionable getup elicited many amusing comments online, with one Imgur user remarking, “So many deflowered jokes.” Quite.

It’s very hard not to look at this image and laugh. What were the designers thinking when they made this garment? Even more incredible, though, is the fact that the lady pictured above put on this jacket, presumably looked in the mirror and then went on Greek television to read out the news.

Once you see what’s wrong with this one, you really can’t unsee it. Maybe this lady picked the dress – with its nude shade surrounded by black – for its promise of a flattering two-tone look. But in reality, the print in the middle teamed up with the unfortunate fold at the chest resulted in a less-than-flattering ensemble.