When do ripped jeans stop being fashionable?

  • Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org
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    4 hours ago

    They never were. Fashion in general is just dumb.

    I never understood why deliberately weathering hats and clothes as well as making them faded or rip was ‘fashionable’. I think it is just a mockery on those that can’t afford overpriced clothing, so it’s like “here! we’re pandering to your demographic! it is cheap now!”. Then again even when “new” ripped jeans are being sold, it’s marked up too.

    • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      They can be fashionable and fashion can be dumb but ripped jeans are currently considered fashionable

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        3 minutes ago

        So you defend what is otherwise marketable trash? Wow, so cool…

        How about you go and make rips and tears in every single pair of pants you have and see how you feel afterwards.

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    2 days ago

    When who ever is wearing them doesn’t look cool. And a lot of looking cool is giving zero fucks about other people’s opinion of ripped jeans.

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        1 day ago

        Its a weird oroboros.

        Poor people wear ripped jeans because fashion has made jeans expensive.

        Rich people like the urban look of ripped jeans because their jeans aren’t ripped and they want to look relatable.

        Fashion companies make ripped jeans for rich people to mimic poor people wearing ripped jeans because they have to.

        Everybody has ripped jeans unless you are lame and can afford to not have ripped jeans.

        So there is like an income bell curve of ripped jeans.

  • NABDad@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Personally, I’m of the opinion that they aren’t fashionable if they are ripped to be fashionable.

    Ripped jeans are supposed to be the pants that you wore until they started to come apart, and you’re supposed to be wearing them because they are comfortable, not for looks.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      1 hour ago

      I used to skateboard every day every free time i had. I hardly had any pants that weren’t ripped. It was kind of weird when it suddenly became vool and people bought pre-ripped pants. On the plos sude i never felt so fashionable

  • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 day ago

    I am not sure about fashion, but I have found that repairing clothing is pretty cheap. Even if you pay a tailor to do so. Maybe patches can be fashionable but I just don’t want my toe to catch that little knee hole and create a problem.

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      1 day ago

      The 90s is back and has brought them back, but like extra. I saw someone walking around where literally their entire leg from thigh to calf was exposed. Looked really uncomfortable tbh.

    • altphoto@lemmy.todayOP
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      2 days ago

      Lots of people still like old pants from goodwill. I saw a girl wearing pants that just had like two threads holding them together.