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.

05-13-18, 06:37 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 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.