Outdated Outfits Candace Cameron Bure Has Been Caught Wearing

Candace Cameron Bure rose to fame as a child thanks to her role as D.J. Tanner on the sitcom "Full House," and ever since, the actor's life has been in the spotlight. While she continued acting and even reprised her role as Tanner in the sequel "Fuller House," it's her fashion moments that catch our eyes nowadays. For example, Candace Cameron Bure wore two very different dresses to her kids' weddings in recent years, and she stunned in both of them. Of course, as with every celebrity, Bure's fashion has had both ups and downs.

While the actor is no stranger to great looks and exploring trends early on, every now and then, her outfit choices disappoint. We've already discussed Candace Cameron Bure's most inappropriate outfits, and we're not going to retread that ground. No, today, we're tackling her most outdated looks. Some of them were already outdated at the time the Hallmark Channel star wore them, while other choices made sense at the time but simply haven't aged well. So, buckle up and allow us to take you on a ride of Bure's statement belts over dresses, skinny jeans with millennial tucks, bold headpieces, and more.

In April 2024, Candace Cameron Bure walked the red carpet of a screening for the Christian drama film "Unsung Hero" in Santa Monica, California. While she has walked countless red carpets over the years, it sadly seems as if Bure still has a thing or two to learn about red-carpet fashion. For the occasion, the "Full House" star wore a nearly full-length dress with a floral pattern that should've been left in the past. The awkward length aside, what made the outfit outdated were the enhanced shoulder pads that ended up adding bulk to Bure's upper half. While oversized shoulders were a powerful silhouette trend in 2024, they predominantly came in the form of jackets, blazers, and minimalist pieces. A floral dress with shoulder pads definitely wasn't on the list. However, Bure's hair, makeup, and smile were perfect, and that quickly made us forget about her fashion faux pas. 

Besides, stylist Gina Rogers explained to The Sun in March 2023 that shoulder pads might be outdated at times, but they're the type of trend that comes back fairly often, even if in different forms. "Shoulder pads are always lingering in the background — it just takes a few fashion houses and celebrities to get the ball rolling, and 'Bang', we're back in full 80s mode," she told the outlet. Maybe this look will be fire in a few years, but for now, it just didn't make sense.

It's time to finally ditch skinny jeans, and we truly hope that Candace Cameron Bure has gotten the memo, as the actor has long seemed to be a fan of them. For instance, in January 2020, the "No One Would Tell" star was photographed walking in New York City in a pair of gray skinny jeans tucked into black boots, which she paired with a bright-purple turtleneck sweater.

While wider and more comfortable styles of jeans have been at the fashion forefront in recent years, it's unfortunately not just the skinny cut of her bottoms that made this outfit outdated. The actor's sweater tuck was also outdated, according to younger fashionistas. "When Gen Z tucks in their shirts, they use a more understated technique—rolling the bottom of the shirt and tucking it under their bra or top," Princess Polly's style director, Charlotte Bergemann, explained to Reader's Digest in December 2024. With this maneuver, the top doesn't tuck into the pants at all. Even tuck aside, though, Bure's look was outdated from the moment she slipped into her skinny denim. 

When it comes to outdated hat trends, fedoras are definitely at the top of the list. This specific style had its major fashion moment in the early aughts when it was such a staple that stars like Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie rocked it to red-carpet events. However, today, this type of hat remains a relic of an era when fashion was unhinged and wild — and we don't even mean that in a bad way. 

In August 2017, Candace Cameron Bure was spotted arriving at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, and while travel fashion is its own category — one that we tend to criticize less harshly — her addition of the fedora hat was an unforgivable fashion mistake. Not only did it make the otherwise cute and comfortable 'fit feel outdated, but it also reminded us that while Candace Cameron Bure has had a stunning style transformation, her outfits can still be questionable at times.

In May 2014, Candace Cameron Bure showed up to the annual Race to Erase MS Gala in Century City, California, in a white midi dress with a very distinct and popular silhouette of the early 2010s: the peplum. The additional ruching around the waist was incredibly popular at the time, and if you were a fashion girl, most of the dresses and tops in your closet had it.

While Bure's outfit was considered stylish at the time, the look hasn't aged well. The peplum trend has had brief comebacks here and there since the early 2010s; however, if we were to see the trend styled today, the peplum would be positioned closer to the hips, and it would be part of an oversized silhouette rather than a skin-tight one à la Bure's. Ultimately, peplum designs from the 2010s are very distinguishable from peplum designs of the 2020s, not to mention that the trend hasn't had a major moment in recent years.

Before you come at us, let us clarify: Headbands will always be trendy, but specific styles can make them look modern or outdated. In December 2019, Candace Cameron Bure was spotted in New York City wearing a dramatic and chunky headband with pearl embellishments, which the actor paired with a white turtleneck, sparkly black pants, and bedazzled silver heels. We're not even sure the headband would have passed as stylish at the time, let alone today.

Chunky headbands like the one Bure wore were popularized in the late 2000s and early 2010s by Blair Waldorf, Leighton Meester's character on the popular teen drama "Gossip Girl." And while Blair made preppy fashion seem fun, Bure's headband was a few years too late. Now, if you haven't found a headband that suits you and you think you look weird in headbands, you can try a TikTok-viral hack to find the best option. Just maybe avoid ones that are this chunky until they circle back into style.

We love a good co-ord just as much as everyone else does, and the trend as a whole isn't outdated. But the style that was popular in the early to mid-2010s definitely is. Floral prints and matching sets consisting of skirts and tops were huge at the time, but today, stylish co-ords tend to consist of monochromatic pants and blouses or quirky patterned skirts and tank tops. "The versions I'm loving are more tailored; a waistcoat with trousers, in pinstripes and suiting fabrics," stylist Priyanka Kapadia explained to The Nod in September 2024. "Women love them and they're easy outfits to put together, because let's be honest, we're all busy, so sometimes thinking about our clothes is not really an option." Florals for matching sets? Not that common in today's fashion landscape.

In December 2015, at the peak of the floral version of this trend, Candace Cameron Bure was spotted out and about in New York City rocking a midi skirt and matching long sleeve top in — you guessed it — a floral pattern. We saw so many similar looks to this one at the time that it's unsurprising the world of fashion quickly got sick of the trend.

Skinny leather pants or leggings were one of the outdated leather looks we left in the past in 2024, and that certainly rings true today, too. As such, we truly hope that Candace Cameron Bure is keeping her pair far in the back of her closet. In August 2015, the actor showed up to the red carpet for the premiere of the musical comedy "Ricki and the Flash" in New York City in a pair of bold leather pants that are an eyesore today.

Now, were the pants a bit looser, the outfit maybe wouldn't have ended up on our list, but it's the fact that her leather pants were so tight that they almost passed for leggings that makes this entire look feel so mid-2010s. If you're a rockstar, sure, skinny leather pants are the way to go, but otherwise, let's just keep this trend hidden until its unavoidable comeback. After all, trends return in a circular fashion, so it's only a matter of time before we'll all be squeezing ourselves into tight leather leggings again.

Edgy leather miniskirts were the epitome of Tumblr-girl fashion in the early 2010s, but today, the trend has been overtaken by different ones. Other celebs have gotten it wrong, too. In September 2025, "The Life of a Showgirl" singer Taylor Swift wore a leather miniskirt with fall vibes, but you shouldn't copy the look, as suede skirts were way trendier.

For the Kids' Choice Awards in March 2018, Candace Cameron Bure rocked a ruffled and layered leather miniskirt with a tie-up belt and a cropped white tee. Paired with lace-up heels and a hot-pink purse, the look definitely had an edgy aesthetic. However, the combo of a cropped top and miniskirt was kind of outdated even back then, as the trend rose to popularity in the first half of the 2010s. Cropped tops may have stuck around for a tad longer, but by the early 2020s, Gen Z had declared most styles of them unfashionable. 

The 2000s had plenty of hat trends, and it certainly seems as if Candace Cameron Bure was a fan of most of them. In fact, fedoras aren't the only outdated hat trend that Bure rocked past its prime. In February 2011, the "Full House" star showed up at Kari Feinstein's Academy Awards Style Lounge in a casual look featuring another popular 2000s celebrity accessory: the newsboy cap.

While the choice of hat was the most questionable and outdated item of the look (both then and now), we can't deny that the entire outfit is boring and kind of outdated, too. Individually, the flare low-rise jeans, semi-sheer blouse, and leather jackets are all great items with lots of potential, but today, they would be styled entirely differently. We can't imagine a celebrity rocking her long necklaces or newsboy cap to an industry event nowadays, but who knows? Maybe, just maybe, the newsboy cap will reenter the scene in a few years.

The 1980s were a very colorful and bold fashion era, and while bits and pieces of its fashion have had comebacks over the years, the entirety of 1980s fashion remains outdated. So, unless you're headed to a costume party, pairing a vibrant purple silk dress with an asymmetrical high-low hemline and wide sleeves with classic '80s disco curls isn't a great idea. However, that's exactly what Candace Cameron Bure did for the Movieguide Awards Gala in February 2019.

If we didn't know better, we would assume that the Hallmark Channel diva was headed to a themed party. So, how would we change the look to make it more modern? Well, the dress was definitely a statement piece, so allowing it to have its own moment would have been the better route. A simple, sleek updo and nude sandals would have been better choices, preventing the overall look from having too many competing components. As a side note, disco curls are great as a chic holiday hairstyle that'll make you stand out, but combined with a retro-looking dress, they tend to lean into a costume hairstyle, especially outside of the holidays.

Anyone who lived through the late 2000s and early 2010s remembers the trend of wearing a statement belt around your waist. Worn even over blazers, a statement belt served to cinch the waist. In fact, even if items like dresses already had a cinched waist, a belt was often added for extra accessorizing.

In August 2009, Candace Cameron Bure attended the Disney-ABC Television Group's summer press tour, and when she arrived to the red carpet, she was wearing a silk minidress with a statement belt around her waist. Of course, at the time, this was very trendy, but more than a decade and a half later, the entire look is incredibly outdated. Even though oversized belts can bring a laid-back Y2K style to any outfit, most fashionistas today tend to style them with oversized blazers or low-rise jeans. In addition to the belt, the dress' silhouette and collar detailing made this look feel so late-2000s.

Dresses and tops with sheer fabric cutouts or bare cutouts were very popular around the mid-2010s, and the edgy trend was everywhere. In fact, one celebrity who was at the forefront of the trend was Taylor Swift, who seemed to love fun cutouts on her cocktail dresses and gowns. From athleisure to red-carpet fashion, cutouts became the trendiest way to enhance one's figure and add an unexpected element to the look — until they were everywhere, that is. At one point, the fashion world seemingly got tired of the trend, and by the end of the 2010s, it had fizzled out nearly entirely.

For an event during the Disney/ABC Winter TCA Tour in January 2016, Candace Cameron Bure decided to show up in a white midi dress with sheer panels at the waist and along the arms. While the sleeves could have been tailored better around her armpit area, the dress was definitely trendy at the time. Today, however, we wouldn't see too much of this style of sheer fabric cutouts at Hollywood events.

In the early 2010s, many fashionable folks following a specific style formula: skinny jeans, a simple top, and a leather jacket. The look one might associate with Elena Gilbert, Nina Dobrev's character on the fantasy drama "The Vampire Diaries," quickly became a fashionista's go-to everyday combination.

In May 2013, Candace Cameron Bure showed up to the SiriusXM Studios in exactly that formula. At the time, this look would have been considered great, especially with the addition of her statement necklace and sparkly heels. Today, the outfit is a time capsule of the early 2010s. Skinny jeans and tight leather jackets have since been replaced with looser models, and even the way Bure's hair and makeup were done were a dead giveaway of the era. Soft eyebrows and ombré hair were huge at the time, and the "Full House" star clearly knew what the fashion and beauty trends were all about.

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