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ON THE TRUE NATURE OF 'DISTRESSED DENIM';

Manufacturers use various tools, from heavy-duty sandpaper to pumice stones, and until recently a process known as ‘sandblasting’, which involves fine sand being channelled into an air gun and then sprayed at high pressure on to the denim.
It’s effective but highly dangerous, causing a condition known as silicosis, when small particles of dust from the sand embed themselves in workers’ lungs.
Factory employees found themselves short of breath, suffering painful coughs and feeling dizzy and weak. Silicosis is incurable and, in its acute form, fatal.
Levi’s and H&M announced a ban on sandblasting their denim in 2010, and, following lobbying from campaign groups, other companies followed suit.
But investigations subsequently found that demand for ripped denim was fuelling a black market. In Turkey, one of the world’s biggest jeans exporters, 1,200 people have silicosis and 46 have died as a result.( AS A RESULT LASERS R INCREASINGLY THE WAY TO GO ) They may look random, but those rips in your jeans are anything but.
Firstly, there are different types of rip: a hole (which cuts right through the fabric), a shred (where threads remain, covering up the hole), and a scrape (a small abrasion on the surface). While the latter two tend to be small, holes can be much larger.
But fashion experts say that holes should always be horizontal (vertical ones go against the grain of the denim and can mean the jeans fall apart), never wider than the leg of the jeans (for the same reason) and never more than an inch high when you’re standing up (as they’ll expose even more flesh when you sit).
Mithun Ramanandi, formerly a denim buyer at Selfridges, says rips should be ‘on the thigh, the knee and the back pocket’ and not ‘too sporadic’.
‘Rips on the calf don’t look natural,’ he adds.
According to fashion bible GQ, there’s even an optimum number of rips: two and a half.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4726702/Why-wearing-ripped-jeans.htmlBOTTOM LINE: LOOKING DISTRESSED IN YOUR DENIMS IS FASHIONABLE...LADIES' SENSE OF FASHION IS UNFATHOMABLE AS ALWAYS. AS FOR ME: NOT ONE HOLE IN MY BAGGY

Originally Posted by U Crank

Another one I don't get is the really skinny jeans.

FIVE-YEAR-OLD+ SAILING JEANS....AS YET; BUT THAT'S BECAUSE I'M A PIRATE AT HEART AND 'JEAN LAFITTE' IS MY IDOL!

Originally Posted by barracudaUAK

Personally I treat jeans like armor. It's only good if it is between me and the "dangerous stuff".