Clothing fashions

[SeaCat]

Has anyone else noticed how stores are selling torn and tattered jeans for over a hundred dollars? WTF is with that?

A couple of days ago I had to run down to the local Wally World to get a few things. It was coolish out and so I wore a pair of jeans and my jacket. WHile we were doing our shopping this kid comes up and asks were I got my jeans and jacket, he wanted some just like that. Huh? I looked at what I was wearing and asked him what he meant. He told me and I started smiling. I told him how to get jeans and a jacket like mine.

Get a pair of good quality jeans. (MIne are 501's with the button fly. Do they still make them?) Get yourself a good heavy Jean Jacket, Levi's Jackets are good. Bring them home and toss them in the washing machine to get the sizing out.

Pull them on and start wearing them. Wear them while doing such things as cutting wood and working on your car. Run through the woods and get torn up by Cat Briars. Roll around in the dirt and oil on your driveway. Sweat through them in the sunlight and get them soaked in the rain. Splatter them with hot tar and oil. Splash some gasoline on them. Cut yourself and smear the blood on them. Get them liberaly splattered with Deer Offal and Fish Guts. Get sprayed by a skunk just to add a bit of personality to them. Go out partying and get drunk in them. Have a friend heave chunks on them. Piss on them a time or two. Make sure to wash them as needed. After a while they'll get comfortable. Keep on going, play in the snow in them. Climb trees and hills in them. Draw on them, write on them, keep washing them. After a few years of heavy use they'll look like the ones I wear and am looking to replace.

He left shaking his head in disgust.

Maybe I should have told him how to break in a good pair of boots instead?

Cat

 

[Katyusha]

Has anyone else noticed how stores are selling torn and tattered jeans for over a hundred dollars? WTF is with that?

A couple of days ago I had to run down to the local Wally World to get a few things. It was coolish out and so I wore a pair of jeans and my jacket. WHile we were doing our shopping this kid comes up and asks were I got my jeans and jacket, he wanted some just like that. Huh? I looked at what I was wearing and asked him what he meant. He told me and I started smiling. I told him how to get jeans and a jacket like mine.

Get a pair of good quality jeans. (MIne are 501's with the button fly. Do they still make them?) Get yourself a good heavy Jean Jacket, Levi's Jackets are good. Bring them home and toss them in the washing machine to get the sizing out.

Pull them on and start wearing them. Wear them while doing such things as cutting wood and working on your car. Run through the woods and get torn up by Cat Briars. Roll around in the dirt and oil on your driveway. Sweat through them in the sunlight and get them soaked in the rain. Splatter them with hot tar and oil. Splash some gasoline on them. Cut yourself and smear the blood on them. Get them liberaly splattered with Deer Offal and Fish Guts. Get sprayed by a skunk just to add a bit of personality to them. Go out partying and get drunk in them. Have a friend heave chunks on them. Piss on them a time or two. Make sure to wash them as needed. After a while they'll get comfortable. Keep on going, play in the snow in them. Climb trees and hills in them. Draw on them, write on them, keep washing them. After a few years of heavy use they'll look like the ones I wear and am looking to replace.

He left shaking his head in disgust.

Maybe I should have told him how to break in a good pair of boots instead?

Cat

Or...they could buy the good jeans and jacket and use scissors on them...then wash them a few times. But much of your way sounds a lot more fun.

 

[xssve]

Fashion in the age of diminished expectations. Recycling is in.

Technically however, the thing with the Denims has been going since the Eighties, even here there were stores that would buy your old Levis, the more worn out the better, and ship them to Japan or Europe where they fetched $100 a pop.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

I have two pairs of jeans that I have been wearing now for the past 5 years. Both of these are Abercrombie & Fitch button-fly boot-cuts with slim hips. I have had to patch the holes in the butt and crotch a few times already and a small hole is popping open at the knee now. They are perfect jeans, but at the rate the holes are coming in at, I'll need a new pair exactly the same as these within six months.

How did they get so faded and perfect? Ah well, I basically wore them every week to do everything from cleaning off the roof to mowing the lawn and cooking gumbo in. They fit me like a glove.

 

[lance gt]

I would have picked out my new ones and changed in the dressing room and sold him my old ones to pay for the new ones. At that rate, you could just wear them out and trade them for new ones every year, maybe one or two washings just to save money.

 

[bronzeage]

The value of torn jeans has greatly increased my net worth.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Back in my younger days when I was still dating men, I often got my boyfriend's oldest and most faded jeans and wore them most of the time. (He was mad at me, but they looked great!)

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Levi Button Fly 501 Blue. Always wear them until they are tatters then cry when I have to throw them away because my ass is hanging out the back end.

But the fuckers are Twenty-Eight Bucks now. That makes me cry even more.

 

[oggbashan]

My first proper jeans were skin tight and black and cost more than I should have spent.

When I took them off they stood up by themselves.

After about ten years of rock and cliff climbing, horse riding, motorcycle cross country racing and other hard-on-jeans activities they became too worn and holey to protect anything.

Now I have plenty of pairs of jeans, but they don't feel the same, and I don't do skin tight anymore.

Og

 

[xssve]

I do hate buying them that way, i.e., paying good money for something that's already worn out.

Designer labels are also a big peeve, they should be paying me to wear their names plastered all across my body.

There's nothing like the smell of new Levis, and breaking them in is part of the experience.

My problem has usually been that my right knee wears out before anything else - nowadays, I'd probably wear the ass out first.

I still own two pair of Carhart carpenter pants, one is in tatters, a story behind every tear, every spatter of paint, adhesive or concrete, and soft as a cats fur - the other is spotless and still like cast iron.

I prefer the old ones, of course.