trust not the man to whom old clothes arent held dear

It's a trend going around lately

I have never kept up with 'so called fashion' and I also refuse to leave the house wearing torn clothes...I am still wearing clothes that I have bought many years ago...I try and stick to the basics which do not date...

I can not understand why kids go for this kind of stupid fashions, my grand daughter wanted to buy a pair, but she soon realised how much money she saved when I took her to the Op shop bought a pair then took her home and showed her how to make them look the same she wanted to pay big money for and saved at least $80, could not tell the differance

I am with you sister.

I'm in my 20s and I don't understand it. It looks shaggy, messy and untidy, as if the wearer couldn't care less about their appearance. It does not look like fashion. Fashion is clean, elegant and neat, not rags. I was raised to be neat and tidy, not look like I'd been dragged through thorny bushes.

I hate the ‘pov’ look! It looks like they raided the rag bag. Those sort of clothes I wear on the garden so it doesn’t matter if they get stained. Bigger fool them for being conned out of their money by unscrupulous ‘designers’.

Fashion they want keep up it’s the trends, and some look like mutton done up as lamb

Agree

Totally agree .... was brought up to leave the house clean and tidy

I agree Maree - reminds me of being a child and needing to wear things until they did wear out from use! I would not have been allowed off the farm with any holes that were obvious.

I always want to offer to repair them....but most of them look totally beyond repair anyway.

It is a fashion trend and they will be not wearing anything else

i had a pair like that in the 70s , only they was well worn

It’s a fashion trend that I’ve never understood! WHY???

I could not pay money for jeans that look like that

Like the fashion of the trousers half way down their bum, I understand that started in Prison to say they were available, wonder if they even know. We were brought up in poverty and our clothes were hand me down and we got teased and bullied. I prefer to look clean and tidy not like I have been living rough.

not a good look when wearing ripped jeans?

I agree ,It amazes me how low standards are.They even wear jeans to funerals.

Unless you are a trendsetter,you will not understand how young people think what is hot in the market,I actually wore a pair of torn jeans to a friends place to do some work,I got the comment from his wife that I was very trendy the thought never entered my mind

Funny things once my dad said to a young guy. Do you needed money for a new jeans. I know you Don't have money for its as your jean are ripped. You man its fashion I ask dad say that i know its fashion

I agree!

Agree completely. Can't see the fashion sense of them. Untidy, unkempt and as you say they look old and raggy.

Each to their own. If you want to pay for designer jeans or clothes like those above, go for it. Its 2021. I am 73 so not suited to me these days, but if you are comfy in them and you like them, go for it I say.

I think it is a designer item and people that purchase these items of clothes feel comfortable wearing them. Some people feel that the design is an upmarket item and some just believe in wearing the old comfortable designs for this reason THEY ARE BROKEN IN AND COMFORTABLE.

i don't know why people want to wear cloths with holes in them

So ever true. Some people just don't have a brain

It is all about an absurd concept called "Fashion", and people, particularly women, fall for it hook, line and sinker!, "designer gear" at literally Hundreds of dollar per item! Stick someone's name on a label, show a few pics of them at some plastic fashion show and youv'e got a New World famous Fashion Designer - whether they actual;ly have any Talent or not is irrelelvant. The people who buy this scam don't seem to realise that most of the stuff they pay so much money for is made in countries like China, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India where wages are very low and, in the case of CHINA those clothes are made using FORCED LABOUR.

Is this what they mean when they say someone looks ripped? LOL

It’s hard to find a decent pair of not ripped jeans these days, and wearing ripped jeans makes your legs cold. But they look nice

Fashion

This type of 'fashion' is geared towards the young; not mums and dads who look utterly ridiculous wearing them (nothing worse than mutton dressed as lamb) .......... apologies if this comment offends

I wouldn't pay a lot of money for ripped jeans and I don't follow trends not even when I was younger.

A lot of people on here seem to think my comment relates to young people and youths. That's is not so, I said people, I meant any people regardless of age. And reading some of the comments here some older people think torn jean make them appear trendy or younger. We'll I would never have guessed that one. Forget the face lift guys just cut your clothes up and get a neck tattoo

I agree. They are not flattering at all.

Their dick heads

No-one who has ever been poor would wear them.

It is not something I would go out in even when I was young.

No I do not know why but if they like it it good for them

As a teenager l use to sew and was proud of my designs and finished works. lf my daughter would wear jeans like those l would be very disappointed and embarrassed. To think that they cost hundreds of dollar and people buy them, what a waste of money.

I like to wear clothes that actually fit me, not the one size fits all of the type that seem to have been llpopualrised by yank basketball and gridiron players

All in the name of fashion, but if these were mine I'd chop them off and use them as long shorts:)

Back when my kids were young if they fell and put hole in knees they went in the bin wow if it was the fashion then i could have saved alot of money with four kids .especially when they were just getting into brand names

It looks disgusting.

The ones I loved where the OS Yourists who flew into Cairns jumped on a biss for a couple of hours and went out to a property on the Atherton Tablelands and where handed a new pair of jeans and a 12 guage and shot them. They then got back on the bus after each and every one shot their jeans and went back to Cairns where the borded a plane and flew back to where they came from. Seems a very expensive pair of jeans to me particuarly when you consider they had to bring their own new jeans with them.

Like a lot of older folk we had to wear ripped jeans when we were young, because our parents couldn't afford new ones just because we had managed to rip ours. To see people spending a great deal of money to buy ripped jeans seems so wrong. We didn't know how trendy we were apparently!

Let me just say to everyone and i'm not intending on offending anyone here so please don't take this the wrong way...just because your a certain age does not mean you have to dress like a fuddy duddy because if you want to wear it and think it looks good on you,own it!

I actually love my ripped jeans and i'm not young lol

Well Maree these ones are over the top. However I have seen plenty wearing these sort of jeans. Not my cup of tea by any means but it is up to the individual whether they wear them or not. Going back over the years there has been and will continue to be fashion that a lot of people would never wear. When I look back at some outfits I wore, thinking I looked pretty good, what a laugh! To each their own I say.Edited 13-Mar-21 11:40am

Weren't you young once ?? I remember some of our fashions. They are not hurting you, it's their own money. Leave them alone. If wearing torn clothes is all they get up to, then that's OK by me.There's far more other nasty habits they could take up. Edited 13-Mar-21 11:13am

It is indeed very silly to buy torn jeans just to keep up with a crazy trend, it's more expensive than the decent ones, or go to the Op shop ,it helps the really needy.

If you want jeans with holes in them just buy cheap jeans and put the holes in them yourself.

I totally agree. Fashion is a very strange thing, and what one generation finds fashionable, another thinks is awful.

This so called "Fashion" is just so stupid. There is a tv show here in Australia where the contestants are constantly in "ripped" jeans etc and they don't impress me at all. I don't know if it is their own clothes or not - I suspect it is the producers of the show that dress them that way. Same with the horrible unshaved look - it just looks so scruffy.

I’m always in fashion these days...

Man we had winkle pickers and stove pipes. It’s their time to be young and stupid, we’ve had ours and it was great. I love seeing the differences. Now it’s time to be old and silly and it’s a rip snorter of a time......you can get away with soooo much...lol. I have jeans like that but mine are home made....lol ....no riches paid, just sweat

The jeans in this pic are overkill. That being said I am ever so slowly becoming a bit partial to only a slight bit of distressed denim.

I just bought a pair of jeans for $3 at the local op shop. They're not ripped or torn though, as I'm not a big fan of that.

What I'm about to say includes 2 women I dated in the 80's & 7 members of my own extended family. If people are so image conscious that they need to be seen being seen in the right clothes or hair, with the right people, in the right places - what they really need is a personality. If they're that concerned about what people think of them - what they need is a life. In the 80's my girlfriend at the time, wanted to be seen buying $140 designer label jeans, then wanted to be seen queueing up to pay $80 to get them fashionably slashed. That night she bragged about it to her friends. I was embarrassed by her superficiality & inability to be herself. 1 more thing - since 8 of the 9 I mentioned are women, maybe this says as much about plastic society as it does about plastic people and image - but that's just my opinion.

I would never wear rags

I often try to get into women's pants. I do not care if they are torn or not.

It’s not a good look in my books.

This "fashion" is not new and I never liked it myself and have never bought this style in 50 years and never will.

If they would have to wear their clothes out and continue to have to wear them that way -- no doubt they would really be upset -- but since they spend hard earned money -- they think it is fashionable.

Unfortunately this is fashion

Too much money for crap

I don't buy or wear rags as clothes.

My niece showed up wearing those, I said I'll sew those up for you....she said "No Aunty, they're the fashion, cost me $80", if I was on a rocker I would have fallen off! I replied "I could have taken you down to the op shop to get a pair for $5 and cut them up for free!"

Not something I would wear but each to there own. If they feel great in them why not. They are far more appropriate then people wearing inappropriate clothing that leaves nothing to the imagination out in public.

Certainly not cool. I think they are mocking the poor people who can't afford to eat let alone buy decent clothes.

I’ve never be a fashion follower ever, I just buy things I like and that’s me lol I suppose I have my own style... But I certainly don’t understand this fashion trend and think it looks ridiculous. Especially when they pay big money for these jeans with half of them missing haha If I was into it I would just make my own from a cheap pair Edited 13-Mar-21 05:54am

I've done the opposite and gone from rags to riches. Ummmmm

Fashion has been distorted into a greedy and stupid beast...dedicated followers of fashion will wear just about anything they are told to...it doesn't matter how ridiculous or uncomfortable (or expensive) people waste thousands of tons of clothes and buy thousands of tons more based on some ridiculous marketing model...fashion designers...the first up against the wall when the revolution comes..vacuous parasites....

How can this trend ever be attractive? People crave beautifully designed clothing and are willing to pay a fortune for it. There is nothing appealing about this ragged Doll look. If you wear these items, you are saying to the world you do not care about how you look. You will follow any outlandish clothing fad or craze in vogue and are saying you are content to wear perfectly good clothing torn to shreds- It is a protest and an attention seeker mechanism only=you want to be the centre of attention and don't give a damn about the finer styles of dressing superbly and fashionably. This is an insult to our creative and innovative designers who have wonderful new and original designs to offer and we should be supporting them.Edited 13-Mar-21 08:11am

I don't follow fashion trends - even when I was young (a long time ago) - I have always been the rebellious type. I have aways resist what is suppose to be convention (example: fashion trends)!! Convention (or if you prefer tradition) is used to suppress minorities!!!Edited 13-Mar-21 10:42am

Yes I personally don't like the look either, but fashion is what it is. It's the same as the messy hair look or beach hair look, people spend money on products to recreate a look they can achieve naturally because they want to appear effortless because it's seen as desirable, when actually they are the exact opposite. I guess I just don't care enough about fashion.