As the year draws to a close it’s always fun to look back at dubious fashion trends, hoping that we have seen the last of them in 2022.

In next week’s column we’ll discuss some trends on the horizon for 2023 which are worth celebrating, but this week I’m going to go full Grinch.

Here are a few I’d be happy to say goodbye to right now.

Rectangle sunglasses

The ones that resemble the glasses you’d wear in a 3D cinema.

They’re hideous, they suit no one and the lolly-coloured plastic frames look cheap and nasty.

I don’t know where the sunglasses trends start now, probably TikTok, and I guess they look OK on over-moisturised young women, but they look silly on adult men.

Case in point, my son was on holidays recently in Fiji with his girlfriend and was updating me with photos.

She looked like a goddess, wearing matching bandeau tops and long skirts with beautiful cat’s eye sunglasses while he looked like he should be at the kid’s pool.

Crochet

Fashion tries to bring back crochet every few seasons, trying to give it an artisanal quirky feeling, but once you see it hanging on the rack in Zara it has about as much appeal as a second-hand throw rug at a fete.

A tip for Gen Z: If you can pull off either a crochet tank top or a granny cardigan, you can’t even imagine how fantastic…