Serious question: Ripped jeans fashionable

[Reece]

It's been the fashion over here for years, like you I think it's stupid!!

[u crank]

Well you can by jeans that look like they are worn out and you can buy jeans that look like they've been washed in bleach. Seems like a natural progression.

Yea I don't understand it. Another one I don't get is the really skinny jeans. How do you get your foot through that opening at the ankle?

[August]

Some of those torn up jean designs are quite intricate but I think mostly it's done to project an air of toughness and experience. It says they have worn the shine off their shoes so to speak. Plus it probably pisses off mom and dad. That alone would make it popular among the rebellious youth.

[BarracudaUAK]

Originally Posted by August

Some of those torn up jean designs are quite intricate but I think mostly it's done to project an air of toughness and experience. It says they have worn the shine off their shoes so to speak.
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I'm about to sound old....


"When I was younger..." wearing jeans until they were faded and worn out was a bit of an achievement.
Normally I'd out-grown them long before that.
As I got older I would keep jeans until they were faded, and when they got the first hole, they became "work on the car/yard/house jeans".

My newer jeans either last (almost) forever and shrink, or they rip before they've even started to fade.
Sometimes I grab a pair of jeans just to notice at the store, 2 hours later, there is a hole.
In my NEW(-ish) jeans!


Maybe that's what it is, "mom and dad" had old, faded, holey jeans.
They want some but jeans don't last long enough to get that way.

So a designer somewhere decided to make a buck, or 200.
Maybe that is what it is.

OR...
Who knows, I'm sure each one has their own reasons for wearing them.

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

Barracuda

P.S. Before anyone says anything! When the 3 year old pair, and the new pair are the SAME size, and the old pair is tight, and the new pair is not...
Then yes, they are shrinking!

[Eichhörnchen]

What with that and the tattoos, I'm sure glad I don't have to search for a decent-looking woman any more... she would be very hard to find these days. Except for the Eastern European women who proliferate here at the moment... they put our locals to absolute shame. Young or old, most of them look like they stepped out of a 'Bond' movie.

[Aktungbby]

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".

[Commander Wallace]

I think we have all seen the " distressed " denims with holes in them. I think they look terrible. I did however like when my jeans had been washed so many times that they had a soft feel to them and were blue / white. I did find out not to put my levi's in the dryer though as they seemed to deteriorate. I contacted the Levi Strauss Co. to find out why my gently used jeans are coming apart when the Levi's I had as a kid were able to withstand playing sandlot Baseball, Football, frozen pond Hockey and motorcycle riding just to name a few activities.

Worn out and distressed appearances are not limited to clothes though. The famous guitar manufacturer, Fender instruments, specifically the custom shop division of Fender creates their " relic " line of guitars. The guitars look beat up and road weary however, play-ability is not an issue. The prices are astronomical as well. How much you ask ? try anywhere from $ 3760.00 to $ 4400.00 and more. You can purchase a decent Fender electric guitar for $ 800.00 that you could have the fun of " distressing " yourself.

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/fender-custom-shop-1959-heavy-relic-stratocaster--custom-built--namm-limited-edition/j56180000001000?cntry=us&source=3WWRWXGP&gclid=EAI aIQobChMIje-TkJKF2wIVHEsNCh0B_w9xEAQYAyABEgKnG_D_BwE&kwid=prod uctads-adid^221957295818-device^c-plaid^335491597433-sku^J56180000001000@ADL4MF-adType^PLA

Go figure.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

I'M A PIRATE AT HEART AND 'JEAN LAFITTE' IS MY IDOL!

Hmmm obviously there's wind but the mainsheet looks like it's hauled in pretty tight and, there appears to be some prop wash coming off that kicker and you're not wearing an eye patch. Doesn't look very piratey too me