Serious question: Ripped jeans fashionable

Platapus · 05-13-18, 06:37 PM

I am not trying to be snarky or anything, but can anyone explain to me the fashion sense behind women wearing ripped jeans?

I would have thought that a woman would not want to walk around in ripped clothing, and certainly not walk around in jeans where the knees have been worn out!

I grew up poor and wearing torn clothing was something to be ashamed about. Are well to do people deliberately wearing torn clothing the fashion version of slumming?

I am usually pretty clueless about most fashion trends, but this one really has me scratching my head.

Just tonight, we were at a nice restaurant in a pretty nice area of town and there were multiple women, all wearing otherwise nice and expensive clothing, but with their knees ripped out of their pants.

These are women who obviously were "dressed up" for an evening, wearing torn clothing.

I just don't get it, but am honestly curious about this.

Reece · 05-13-18, 06:56 PM

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

u crank · 05-13-18, 07:05 PM

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 · 05-13-18, 10:00 PM

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 · 05-13-18, 10:32 PM

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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 · 05-14-18, 12:05 AM

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.

05-13-18, 06:37 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,362 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Serious question: Ripped jeans fashionable I am not trying to be snarky or anything, but can anyone explain to me the fashion sense behind women wearing ripped jeans? I would have thought that a woman would not want to walk around in ripped clothing, and certainly not walk around in jeans where the knees have been worn out! I grew up poor and wearing torn clothing was something to be ashamed about. Are well to do people deliberately wearing torn clothing the fashion version of slumming? I am usually pretty clueless about most fashion trends, but this one really has me scratching my head. Just tonight, we were at a nice restaurant in a pretty nice area of town and there were multiple women, all wearing otherwise nice and expensive clothing, but with their knees ripped out of their pants. These are women who obviously were "dressed up" for an evening, wearing torn clothing. I just don't get it, but am honestly curious about this. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

05-13-18, 06:56 PM	#2
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,706 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	It's been the fashion over here for years, like you I think it's stupid!! __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

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u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,744 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	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? __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

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August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

05-14-18, 12:05 AM	#6
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,384 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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. __________________