I know there’s this whole trend to bring back ironically ugly sweaters, Members Only jackets and fashion missteps of the past, except there’s almost no way to wear that crap without looking like a clueless tool. Almost no one except you and your goofy group of friends gets the joke and you end up looking like an out of date fashion victim with only your sense of smug self importance to carry it off. You can always tell yourself that you’re so much better than the rest of us who just don’t get it.

Those are the type of people who are likely to wear that crap (and to tweet jokes about surviving potentially deadly car accidents mere moments after the fact). So I guess it’s not surprising to see Peaches Geldof modeling some striped control top pantyhose and various fashion leftovers from the 80s and early 90s. Peaches got canned as the face of Ultimo lingerie after that whole nude heroin photo scandal but she can console herself with this modeling gig for a friend’s vintage store, in which she looks like even more of a tool than usual:

A month after she was dumped as the face of Miss Ultimo lingerie, socialite Peaches Geldof has scored another modelling job.

Currently trying to rebuild her career after her naked pictures scandal, the 21-year-old has posed in new shots for her friend Mark Hunter’s Los Angeles vintage store The Cobra Snake.

While the new images will give Geldof some non-scandalous publicity, the gig is unlikely to land her a payday anywhere near her reported £100,000-a-year contract for Miss Ultimo.

[From The Daily Mail]

Am I so old and stuffy that I just don’t get it, or is Peaches looking as bad as I think? There are more photos with other models on the website for this store, The Cobra Shop, and some of them are wearing cute 80s artifacts like denim dresses, California Raisins T-Shirts, Lion King Tees, and flannels. There’s mostly ugly crap in there that looks like stuff I used to wear in eighth grade from Deb’s. I guess there’s a market for ugly fashion like this or these places wouldn’t exist. Whatever happened to classy vintage clothing like 50s and 60s cocktail dresses and tailored suits? I guess when I was a kid in the late 80s we had better vintage to pick from and now 30 years later they’re stuck with our leftovers. No wonder they’re so messed up.

Here’s Peaches modeling the clothes. Most of this stuff is sold out – except for the black and white polka dot dress. That’s $52 and is a size 10 if you’re interested. Isn’t Peaches lovely? Check out her manicure. What a class act.