Distressed jeans "style"

[Silver R/T]

I don't get this "style" can someone explain to me what's it about, where I've been hiding? Are public morals so low now that they have to wear bum looking jeans for that authentic crackhead look?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/American-Eagle-Light-Wash-Ripped-Jeans-/141049551730?pt=US_CSA_MC_Jeans&hash=item20d7355b72

[charge69]

One of many "fashion statements" I don't understand.  It just looks stupid to me but, I am an old man and don't understand a lot of things these days!

[tan top]

 this has been going on for years , 
never under stood  why you would want to buy worn out jeans or cloths either  still a fool & their  money are soon parted 

[burnout.dawg]

Up here the crack heads are wearing skinny jeans with the waistband riding at their crotch.
I must be stylin' cause all my jeans look like that...difference though is that I distressed them myself and probably paid half as much for them.

[ws23rt]

Come on you guys. Surely you remember something that you needed to have to fit "in" back in the day?

I recall white jeans     It was "in" where I lived at the time but on a trip east with the family I found it was NOT.  
Old family video (film) brings a lot of fun for the the grand kids.

[burnout.dawg]

Indeed I do! For me it was red, white and blue denim with the stripes running vertically! I was so cool!!! 

[kab69440]

When I was in high school, THE look was jeans blasted by several rounds of bird shot (presumably while NOT being worn...) and laundered twenty cycles or so to get the proper fringe on the holes. Some folks, I just dunno. I was very proud of the one pair I did own that didn't have any grease stains or holes worn through.

[Tilar]

They sell things like this? I must have a small fortune hanging in my closet. 

[ws23rt]

I gave a ton of this stuff to goodwill. And it was tax deductable 

[Mopar Nut]

I remember 20 yrs ago, I sold my used and abused Levi 501's for four times what I paid for them.

[Fred]

One of many "fashion statements" I don't understand.  It just looks stupid to me but, I am an old man and don't understand a lot of things these days!

What I don't understand is that anyone would pay for them when you can get them looking like that yourself if you put your mind to it.

[Fred]

Come on you guys. Surely you remember something that you needed to have to fit "in" back in the day?

Platform shoes..................but I wasn't that eager to fit in.

[Mike DC]

   
Why do people buy SUVs and never take them off road?  Why do they put pushbars on the front?

In a suburban plastic world there is a certain badass chic to looking like you're a little more rough & tumble & working class than most.  But they still want the sort of clean beautiful face/body that suits an Abercrombie & Fitch model.

   

[Old Moparz]

Every generation wears something that the older generations despise, especially the ones that refuse to mind their own business & not pre-judge people. People wear them to piss people off.   

[Silver R/T]

I think I have a couple pairs of jeans that qualify to be "distressed" I might throw them on Ebay, should bring in some Charger parts money.

[chargerboy69]

this has been going on for years , 

Yes it has.  Back in the 90's, when I was in high school, I clearly remember cutting holes in my jeans because they did not make them like that.

Heck I still have a couple pairs with holes I wear.

[JB400]

Why buy jeans with holes in them?    A week of pouring concrete, crawling under houses, or snagging your jeans on nails while walking through studded walls will give you the same effect.  I guess you have to buy jeans to look like you actually work for a living.

[twodko]

Well fellas here's my take.......I have a sad looking pair of stained, torn, ass partially ripped out jeans in the garage I wear wrenching/yardworking. They are damned comfortable and tell the tale of many skinned knuckles, some very fine cuss words, the sweet smell of freshly cut grass and moist newly tilled soil. I'll wear these britches until they rot off my grumpy old carcass.

My own special fashion statement.

The difference here compared to today is I probably paid less than $20 for them new in flawless manufactured condition.

[Cooter]

Don't wear jeans so It don't make no nevermind to me.

[bull]

I hated it when I was a kid and my mom brought hom those super stiff jeans that were folded up like a piece of blue plywood. Seemed like they were going to break when you opened them up to put them on. Now I'm thankful for the relaxed fit jeans that have been washed a few times in acid (or whatever they use) to losen them up. I hate being uncomfortable for three months while the denim finally breaks in and it seems like about the time they are usable you only get about one winter to enjoy them before they're shot and the process starts all over again.

But there's no way I'd buy something so distressed they've got holes in them already.

[Old Moparz]

I hated it when I was a kid and my mom brought hom those super stiff jeans that were folded up like a piece of blue plywood. Seemed like they were going to break when you opened them up to put them on. Now I'm thankful for the relaxed fit jeans that have been washed a few times in acid (or whatever they use) to losen them up. I hate being uncomfortable for three months while the denim finally breaks in and it seems like about the time they are usable you only get about one winter to enjoy them before they're shot and the process starts all over again.

But there's no way I'd buy something so distressed they've got holes in them already.

Great description.   

[F8-4life]

   
Why do people buy SUVs and never take them off road?  Why do they put pushbars on the front?

In a suburban plastic world there is a certain badass chic to looking like you're a little more rough & tumble & working class than most.  But they still want the sort of clean beautiful face/body that suits an Abercrombie & Fitch model.

   

Yep, I think the posers will always try to look like the genuine actual "doers". It's the easiest way for them, because actually trying to accomplish it the real way is too hard for them.
Remember they are posers for a reason...
I never got it either but then again I got ripped up jeans the hard way, buying them in new shape.

[BrianShaughnessy]

Wore levi's big bells back in the late 70s...   don't make them anymore.    Have to settle for 517 boot cuts 

Every few years styles change and none of it makes sense to the older generations...   just as long as it's not stupid like pants down below yer azz 

[ws23rt]

The pants that hang below the butt?---What is used to keep them from falling the rest f the way off .
There must be a device.  Safety pins?--- If one were to go shopping for the new style is there a new name for that item? What we used to call belts.

[Musicman]

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