I’ve just seen this on The Washington Post website – jeans covered in fake mud for $425:00. Apparently the fake mud can’t be washed out.
It reminds me of the Ray Lowry cartoon. Interior of a clothes shop. Two racks of t-shirts with price signs above. One reads T-shirts – £10 the other Ripped T-shirts – £15
Well you say you couldn’t make it up but here’s a bit from Richie and Ruben by the mighty Fountains of Wayne in 2011
“Eleven hundred bucks for a ripped up shirt
That came pre-stained with bleach and black dirt
Seemed just a little bit too steep to me”
Prescient. Spookily prescient.
Gob-smacking!From fake news to fake hues!
This is so unreal it belongs in a museum of post- modern art.
Ooo…
You’ve turned your thread to italics.
I don’t know what I’ve done there.
Will the The Afterword be forever italicised?
I’ve come to spoil your fun by typing pointy bracket /I pointy bracket.
Did it work?
Apparently not.
Why’s everyone whispering?
As you were .. italics problem should be OK now…
Hurrah.
My neck hurts.
I’ve long argued that jeans are the only other product that mirrors the guitar world’s desperate scramble for authenticity through artificial distressing, or ‘relic-ing’ as it’s known in guitar circles. In both cases a product acquiring the wear naturally is worth far less than the artificial version.
Note in the comments for that article that there is an immediate assumption that it’s lefty urban types trying to mimic their hard-working rural cousins. My rural in-laws here in Australia tut whenever they see a 4WD covered in mud in the city, and repeat the common rural folklore that city-dwellers spray their vehicles in mud, because they want to look like their country cousins etc, etc.
Can someone please explain where ripped jeans came from and what on earth is the point ? I saw someone yesterday wearing a pair of jeans with more rips than thread. Her upper legs were blue from the cold.
It was an 80’s thing wasn’t it? One of those Levis ads with a cool song? All my jeans were ripped when I was 10 as I used to enter every room with a knee slide on the parquet flooring. I don’t think mum thought I was being trendy though…….
I was certainly ripped for most of the eighties
Very conflicted here. It’s obviously stupid, but does lead to the exposure of naked female flesh.
Sometimes I think I should keep these things to myself.
Nahhh.
What are these “jeans” of which you speak? I only wear trousers.