You know those jeans that...

[rich p]

...a lot of people wear these days, with split knees?
Dear Sir/Madam,

Do they rip perfectly good, new jeans as a fashion statement, or do they buy them pre-torn?

yours sincerely, old fuddy duddy of Tunbridge Wells.

 

[screenman]

Both.

 

[Welsh wheels]

They sell them pre-torn, but it wouldn't be for me, as cool as I am. I don't think people would want to see my knobbly knees. Plus think of the tan lines you'd get.

 

[rich p]

Both.

They rip them and send them to the fairies?

 

[rich p]

They sell them pre-torn, but it wouldn't be for me, as cool as I am. I don't think people would want to see my knobbly knees. Plus think of the tan lines you'd get.

I thought that might be the case but I'm shocked at the decadence of the youth of today...
...truly shocked.
If any child of mine ever.....

 

[Welsh wheels]

I thought that might be the case but I'm shocked at the decadence of the youth of today...
...truly shocked.
If any child of mine ever.....

Technically, it's not decadence as they're wearing less.

 

[Bollo]

I thought that might be the case but I'm shocked at the decadence of the youth of today...
...truly shocked.
If any grandchild of mine ever.....

FTFY

 

[rich p]

FTFY

True, Bollo, my children are almost as old as me...

 

[Moodyman]

Reminds me of the trend in the mid noughties for jeans to be too long i.e to fall beyond the heel and to scrape against the floor. This led to ripped strands flipping about as the wearer walked. And in wet weather, they would be wet up to the wearer's knee.

Fashion ehh!

 

[I like Skol]

I have ripped jeans, I must be cooler than you lot. They are also covered in paint, oil and silicon which I am sure makes them super cool?

 

[ColinJ]

I'm not so bothered about knees hanging out, but what's with wearing jeans at half-mast with bottoms hanging out!

 

[dan_bo]

I'm not so bothered about knees hanging out, but what's with wearing jeans at half-mast with bottoms hanging out!

Have lowriders only just made it to Hebden Bridge?

 

[jefmcg]

Sorry, torn jeans are so 2012.

This years horror trend, selling from a Fenwick-esque store in the US (Nordstroms) for $US425 (about £330), jeans with fake mud.

 

[swee'pea99]

Sorry, torn jeans are so 2012.

This years horror trend, selling from a Fenwick-esque store in the US (Nordstroms) for $US425 (about £330), jeans with fake mud.

That for some reason has a particularly 'last days of Rome' feel about it.

 

[lutonloony]

There seems to be disparagy in chez loony. I get moaned at for wearing jeans with worn out knees, yet Mrs Loon pays good money for new ones with no knees?