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Someone explain the appeal of buying jeans with rips and holes in them especially at a higher price then regular jeans. I just don’t get it. In fact my sister and one of her friends did an experiment. They bought ten pairs of cheap Walmart jeans and modified them to look like those higher end pants with holes and tried to sell them. They even ripped out the tags and installed made up ones. At a city wide clothing sale they laid them out to advertise their fake brand and they successfully sold all of them almost three times the cost they bought them for.
I can understand the appeal of faded/worn jeans, frayed ends, and even a few small holes or tears here and there, but I never could understand the appeal of the ones that have the knees completely ripped open or half the front completely missing. Whatever floats their boat I suppose.
Fashion choices are unique to the individual but once you hit a certain age (I'd say around 30) you should know when a fad is attractive and becoming to the wearer or if it's a fad just for fad's sake. The ripped jeans are the latter (IMHO.) I know the term "sheeple" is usually used in the political sense, but when I see these ripped jeans being worn by any adult I can't help but think of the word "sheeple."
Younger people get a pass on bad fashion choices. They're still finding their way and peer pressure is much more important to them than showing individuality in their fashion choices.
Someone explain the appeal of buying jeans with rips and holes in them especially at a higher price then regular jeans. I just don’t get it. In fact my sister and one of her friends did an experiment. They bought ten pairs of cheap Walmart jeans and modified them to look like those higher end pants with holes and tried to sell them. They even ripped out the tags and installed made up ones. At a city wide clothing sale they laid them out to advertise their fake brand and they successfully sold all of them almost three times the cost they bought them for.
That actually sounds pretty cool. I'm a creative and I can sew, I might try to hustle some folks later..lol Thanks for the inspiration
Read up on Nostalgie de la boue, which is a fancy name for what the upper middle classes do to emulate (and simultaneously mock) the middle-class and poor and show their superiority and elevated status. The phrase literally means 'nostalgia for the mud."
"Nostalgie de la boue tends to be a favorite motif whenever a great many new faces and a lot of new money enter Society. New arrivals have always had two ways of certifying their superiority over the hated ‘middle class.’ They can take on the trappings of aristocracy, such as grand architecture, servants, parterre boxes, and high protocol; and they can indulge in the gauche thrill of taking on certain styles of the lower orders. The two are by no means mutually exclusive; in fact they are always used in combination" https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/...ie-de-la-boue/
These jeans came into fashion in 80s during the Reagen-era economic boom, which made lots of people lot of money. Chances are, at least back then, that anyone wearing them was as likely to be a trust-fund socialite as poor white trash. (And yes, grunge rock helped their popularity too.) But it's the same mentality that now gives us Gucci sneakers and Tom Ford sweatpants. (Hey, let's dress like them poor black kids in the ghetto! Just more expensive, so everybody knows we're better than them!)
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Fashion choices are unique to the individual but once you hit a certain age (I'd say around 30) you should know when a fad is attractive and becoming to the wearer or if it's a fad just for fad's sake. The ripped jeans are the latter (IMHO.)
Perhaps, except for the fact that ripped jeans certainly aren't a "fad." They've been steadily popular literally for decades.
I don't get the appeal of torn up jeans, either. I grew up in a poor area and it was common to see holey/worn out jeans simply because there wasn't the money for ones that looked newer.
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