Today I do wear jeans with a hole here and there, but mostly b/c too small a hole with which to bother.

then we have hubs, the rebel, who will wear his work shorts until they literally disintegrate. These are his favorites, full of patches. When I ask him about his fashion statement. He replied: “it says wifey can sew patches”

Not my thing. Distressed is one thing. Holey and shredded is another. I don’t like it at all. But obviously the really young do. This too shall pass.

Let's hope so!

Amazes me that someone will pay big money for the things. They are way beyond the throwing away point of even jeans kept to work in the dirt, paint, etc. And.....extremely ugly on anyone. "Fashion"! amazing. :)

The statement they make to me is that you are young, have not yet developed a personal fashion style and are too easily swayed by what the fashion industry dictates. And have more money than sense :-) Why is it that the price on what are essentially rags is as much as double that of intact but still very stylish jeans??

The only thing I can think of that it might say is that the wearer isn't able to think for herself, and is following the crowd. Or, it may be that it is a way for girls to show off their legs in places where shorts would be unacceptable. But how jeans like this would be acceptable is beyond me!

Hmmmmmmm, maybe I could take some of my old worn out jeans, "distress" them a little more, and sell them for a profit. . . . . . .

Just a thought.

Rusty

Ditto gardengal! I don't like them and would probably hurt myself trying to get them on sticking my foot through the wrong hole.

I don't want them for myself, but the look has grown on me. It looks ok in the right places. The hardest part is meeting dress code for my dd.

Funny, my oldest wore those years before they became a thing. (She has since graduated from fashion school and has her own clothing lines, nothing ripped!))

I was embarrassed when she wore them. It never occurred to me to ask why she liked them. I think I will now and get back to you.

That said, it is certainly not for our age group.

ETA:?Adell, I don't mind the ones that are slightly distressed or have a small tear in the knee.

I think Rusty is on to something - those holey jeans allow young women to show off a whole lot of leg/skin. Like many fashion trends, these will go out in a few years only to be replaced by something else. The young'uns have always pushed the boundaries when it comes to their clothing choices; back when I was a teen it was mini skirts and hot pants.

Last year, it was dirty jeans - Nordstroms was selling them for $400+ per pair; not sure if they are still in or not.

ETA that I also don't mind the look if the jeans aren't too full of holes or shredded; it's kind of grown on me too even though it's not a look I would wear.

I think they look stupid. I wore jeans back in the day with small holes and patches, but at the mall, I saw the kids wearing ones that barely held together there were so many slits across them. hideous.

My 25 year old garden jeans are getting fashionable! Am afraid they would not look that up-to-date on my 86 year old body out in town.

the really sad thing is, one can see older, I mean my age and more, also wearing jeans with tears in them.

Not for me. I have a pair, that is starting a hole, I think, I will embroider a flower over it. LOL

Moni

I don't get the style because the wear is so unnatural. (cue self righteous cough) Back in my day, we liked to wear worn jeans that looked like we actually wore them out ourselves- even if we didn't. The jeans in the OP picture just look like someone didn't know how to do laundry and the jeans paid the price.

It's something that when the kids are older and look at pictures of themselves, they will laugh and say "OH MY I can't believe we wore that!!!!!". Just like how we look back at leisure suits now.

Good news! This trend is now out of style. So you will start to see less and less.

I didnt mind it so much. I thought looking at men's butt cracks was much worse!

The moths got ahold of these!

J.C. That is too funny!!!!

As Forrest Gump Would say..., Stupid is as stupid does.

More dollars than sense.

Of course, I remember my mom shaking her head when I was crazy about faded jeans, the more bleached, the betta!

Do any of you watch Younger? It is my guilty pleasure. It centers around trends and publishing. What strikes me as ridiculous ( but I bet it’s true) is how the executives monitor likes, no likes, etc with a keen eye. Numerical trending is everything. Aesthetics, comfort, logic are secondary, maybe even tertiary. Executives are not depicted as stupid but it’s all about numbers. strange.

Well it mostly matches the fat rolls they show off with the paper thin, skin tight sausage casings fashion designers call tops these days. May as well have rolls of cellulite flab on the bottom popping out enticingly to match. LOL Most are are not built like the model in the OP's post. But they dream and imagine they can look like that if they wear the "fashions" I guess.

Then there is the other great idea some designer came up with. Let's just randomly cut the legs off at various and let them fray. We'll save labor costs on hemming along with inches of yardage and we will market them as ankle jeans and charge 30% - 40% more for them.

Can you imagine getting into a hot car? You’d burn your tooshie!!! And stick to the seat.

Further to watchme's comment are those with unattractive but changeable appearances, sometimes a matter of lifestyle or other poor choices, who think a fancy manicure suddenly masks the obvious problems (often weight) and makes them look nice.

Torn jeans were somewhat in style when my kids were in high school. Not to the extreme you see now. They also wanted extra length to drag on the ground and fray off. We absolutely forbid it. None of our kids went to school in ripped or frayed clothing. Now that they are grown, I have never seen torn jeans on any of them. ( Or maybe it's a not in front of Mom thing? LOL )

I am so thankful my GD never wears jeans with holes ...neither does she wear low neck clothes ... glad for her good morals. I wanted to buy her some Miss Me jeans and she preferred the "no name" ones. Must not hurt her popularity..,.she is a candidate for upcoming homecoming queen!

I seldom see the ripped jean look anymore.

I don't care for the look of it but it is the trend these days and I know in the 1970's my parents didn't like me wearing hot pants, hip huggers or wide legged jeans in the 1970's. I am surprised though that teens are allowed to wear them to school haha only because in 1972 I got sent home from highshool because I had a rip across the knee of my jeans that I thought was cool but obviously my teacher didn't like it and I got sent to the principal's office and then sent home to change.

I cannot stand jeans with rips & holes, it looks so cheap to me .......especially on MOVIE STARS! I just don't get it. It's ok for yard work but that all!

Worse is the skin tight leggings that everyone wears with short tops. Looks good on no one.

I went out with (33 yo) DD the other day and she was wearing the jeans with the frayed slits in them. It’s winter here and with the wind blowing, it was freezing. So, DD has a puffer jacket on her top half, holey jeans on the bottom half, and is complaining of the cold. I said jeans without holes might help. She just rolled her eyes. Form over function seems to be what the younger folks prefer.

It's gotta be an "age" thing. I purchased a pair of Ralph Lauren cargo pants in putty, got paint all over them and wore them to Taco Bell.....and got rude comments on how dirty I was.....wore them to a contractors supply and got a contractors price on a bath tub. :0) Just depends.....lol

Putting one's feet down through a leg bespotted with a few holes ...

... is something of a pain in the butt ...

... well, really, more like an expansion of one of the holes, whether or not accompanied by pain (in the wherever).

But ... if I'd pain (that was supposed to be "paid") part of a king's ransom for them, rather than them being part of a gardener's somewhat dilapidated toolkit, it would be a substantial pain in the wallet.

ole joyful

I don't get this fashion statement, but in the overall scheme of things, it really isn't relevant to me. People seem to try to be different and in doing so are the same. Trends come and go.

Bossyvossy, your bleached jeans made me laugh. About 10 years ago DH was working in a field where he wore nice jeans to work everyday, so he would buy the dark indigo ones and as they faded, they still looked good enough for work. One of DH's older uncles (in his 80s at the time) was visiting the same day DH had just bought a couple pairs of nice, dark blue jeans. The uncle saw the jeans and started to give DH a full rundown on how you fill a garbage can with water, a little soap, and a lot of bleach and then you put those in there and keep checking them until they look just right to wear--- and he was quite serious too! For a while I teased DH about his uncle who was much cooler than DH :^)

In the late 70's I wore Levi jeans. I remember liking that they would fade to the lighter color. Now, you have to buy them this way. Although mine gets a bit lighter, they don't fade out like they used to.

I also vaguely remember friends who would put on their tight jeans and soak in a bathtub filled with water and maybe something else? Supposedly it shaped the jeans.

Maybe someone here remembers what it was exactly.

I miss the heavyweight denims of yesteryear. The ones that you had to wear down to the perfect softness. Now days most pants sold as denim or jeans are thinner than ladies slacks made of polished cotton back in the 50s used to be. I had cotton print bell bottoms in the sixties that were far heavier than jeans today. I don't see how they get to call them jeans. They may be the color of jeans but the fabric sure isn't. Don't get me started on what they call pockets these days either.

Fashion sense is an oxymoron.