Twitter war over bad band fashion Triggered By A Sportswriter’s Post Of Eagles In 1994!

This photo is a perfect example of mall fashion in 1994. It reeks of “Melrose Place,” The Gap, and Anchor Bay. It looks like the 40-somethings are trying to appear hip and flannel-wearing, grunge band of the era, without the edge.

The thing about flannel in 1994 is that you had to buy it used at the Goodwill to show your solidarity with working-class people of the Pacific Northwest. This look doesn’t give Glenn Frey (and his friends) any credibility.

Frey was seen wearing a leather jacket with an open-faced shirt and a denim shirt. Don Henley even wearing a Henley!

This tweet set off a photo challenge in which people uploaded photos of other bands over the past six decades to face the Eagles’ lackluster fashion.

Rush was the largest competitor to the Eagles’ crown. They had an unsuitable Kimono phase in their ’70s.

Rush has since disowned the clothes they wore on 2112’s back cover. Bravo to them. I wish they would be humble enough to condemn the fashion crime against humanity committed by the Eagles.

Eagles weren’t the only band with a bad look in the ’90s. Color Me Badd, the folks behind the boot-knocking jam of the decade “I Wanna Sex You Up,” had some real fashion challenges, too. The band looked just like other musicians. One man looks like a fake Kenny G. The other guy looks like an impersonator of George Michael. Mili or Vanilla is there somewhere. The overall-wearing man looks like he could be from New Kids.

All-4-One also had fashion difficulties, but they were their own men. The combination jacket of flannel and hoodie is what makes 1993 stand out.

The look didn’t age well after another boy band embraced the long jacket trend a few years later.

The “Gish”-era Smashing Pumpkins should have been called Rayon Catastrophe.

When Pigpen died in 1973, the Grateful Dead lost their style. Bobby Weir took the Grateful Dead to new heights in the 1980s when he began rocking the Daisy Dukes on stage.

There were a lot of bad looks from the hair metal scene of the 1980s. Stryper, with their bumblebee-colored spandex, is so horrible it’s physically disorienting.

In the 1980s, Chicago offered many fashion choices for divorced fathers.

The Kansas boys went dark in the early 2000s. They appear less like a country group and more like a hangman or his newly-assembled posse.

The most recent incarnation of the Brian Wilson-less Beach Boys looks like a group of aging “hip” pastors at a megachurch in Orange County, California.

East 17, a boy group from the UK in the ’90s, has never been mentioned to me. But they look like that cast of a 1997 Baz Luhrmann soft reboot of “A Clockwork Orange.”

Bad looks didn’t just happen in the past. Imagine Dragons is here to prove that bad band fashion doesn’t have to be a result of the past.

Perhaps the Eagles’ fashion sense was a reflection of their middle-class musical taste.