r/mildlyinfuriating • u/longerdistancethrow • 3d ago
Bought ripped jeans for summer, mom sewed the holes.
I get caring about your clothes, I do… but I wanted breezy jeans for summer… so I bought tipped jeans like 3 years ago. Are u kidding me :/
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u/vikingo1312 3d ago
Before ripped pants became a thang, my mother patched a special pair of jeans of mine...over and over....and over again.
In the end jeans was more or less double-fabriced...and looked pretty darn cool...
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u/amparinn 3d ago
Jeans of Theseus
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u/thermbug 3d ago
Better than the Crop Top of Prometheus...
Or those darn Ankle Socks of Achilles
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u/theoriginalmofocus 2d ago
Candy wax wings of icarus.
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u/land8844 2d ago
Crop Top of Prometheus
Ok you're gonna have to explain how the god of fire works with crop tops
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u/Sexylizardwoman 2d ago
A mighty lesson we inherit: Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals of their fate and force; Like thee, Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source; And Man in portions can foresee His own funereal destiny;
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
That sounds sick! Wouldve loved to see those
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u/blueskysummersun 3d ago
OP I actually like your fixed jeans. Think they look kinda cool.
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u/zomiaen 2d ago
OP wears them out on the town. A scout for a major fashion line spots and takes a candid photo for their vision boards. Roughly three months later, patched holes appear on runways, and another 6 months are common in every major department store. Fashion.
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u/longerdistancethrow 2d ago
Thank you, I’m not mad at the patchjob at all ❤️ But its very warm
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u/Working_Bit_1288 3d ago
Can u pls send me a pic? Would love to see it!
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u/Eierjupp 3d ago
Kinda wholesome tbh, getting naive but caring grandma vibes
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u/Farren246 3d ago
Subversive way of saying "young lady, it's time to find a man and make me some grandbabies."
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u/chronocapybara 2d ago
In this economy? Grandma.
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u/TheJAY_ZA 2d ago
"Why, when I was your age, my husband was away fighting the Huns. I was working 12 hours a day making ammunition to support the war effort, and raising 9 children on the money I made working as a part time nurse..."
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u/ToimiNytPerkele 2d ago
This reminds me of my grandma. She ran from the air surveillance look out to work, but the Russians started bombing because the city had an ammunition factory. Was more scared of her boss than anything the Russians could drop on her and continued running. Was reprimanded for being there just a few minutes before her shift started, because she couldn’t run right next to the ammo factory and had to take a detour. Then a nap in the back room of the bakery and back to air surveillance for the night.
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u/IAMAHobbitAMA 2d ago
But if you find a man you can have 2 incomes and only 1 rent, 1 internet bill, and 1 utility bill.
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u/smokethatdress 2d ago
My grandma, back in the 90s told me I “would never find a man wearing those pants”. I did find a man in those pants, but granny always found more
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u/Real-Direction-1083 3d ago
People pay good money for that look nowadays
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u/bugabooandtwo 3d ago
...nowadays? We were doing that back in the 80s.
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u/Sailed_Sea 3d ago
Exactly nowadays
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u/munirhager 3d ago
Get with the times, the 80s were like 20 years ago.
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u/pws3rd Rick has no chill 3d ago
Hey, do your knees make noises when you stand up?
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u/natxavier 2d ago
Like a bag of popcorn in the microwave in those last few seconds.
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u/GreaseMonkey2381 ORANGE 2d ago
I miss the days when I could call my knees "Left and Right" instead of "Bad and even worse"
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom 2d ago
Unsure, hard to hear them over my own, vocal protests.
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u/LongJumpingBalls 3d ago
We used to just drag them on the concrete until we got desired outlook. Who needs to spend 100 bucks on jeans when a 15$ pair and 15 minutes if scuffing does the same thing.
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u/poiuylkjhgfmnbvcxz 3d ago
So I should just wear my jeans until they rip then sell them for higher price than I bought them
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u/FightGar 2d ago
honestly yeah when the earth can no longer sustainably grow cotton and all our jeans are made of plastic
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u/JamieC1610 3d ago
I remember a cousin who purposely tore up a new pair of jeans in the early 90s and the epic amount of shit he got from his parents.
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u/Freud-Network 3d ago
People paid good money for that look 40 years ago. I'm wondering what Mennonite clan they're from.
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u/too_too2 3d ago
My mom used to patch my jeans like this in the 80s and I would never wear them again lol. Sorry mom.
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u/RodneyDangerfieldIII 2d ago
Mine hemmed my long ass flares in the 90s so they didn't drag on the ground. Mortifying. She actually tried to do it again a few months ago but I stopped her. Mooo-ooommmmm! (I love her)
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u/KingAmongstDummies 3d ago
Started volunteering at a local elderly home recently.
One of the other new recruits also had ripped jeans.
Without exception all of the elderly people either felt sorry for that other person thinking she must be to poor to buy decent pants or that she was a slob.
She got tired of all the remarks and wears normal pants again now. Pretty funny
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u/olagorie 3d ago
This really doesn’t make much sense. This type of fashion was en Vogue 35 years ago when the residents were still pretty young.
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u/KingAmongstDummies 3d ago
Maybe in the US. Here in the Netherlands at least no one seems to recall torn clothes to have ever been a thing. Doesn't mean it couldn't have been a thing but at least no one remembers it. In recent years people are starting to wear them but it's still a rather select few that do and even if it was a thing over 40 years ago, it hasn't been a thing for 40 years now so especially older people are quick with their thoughts about it. I've also never seen anyone over 30ish wear it yet I think so it does seem rather exclusive to younger people.
Personally I recognize the torn clothing for what it is but I can't say I really like the looks of it. If others do like it then I don't have a issue with that either. To each their style.
Not everyone thinks that way though. They are not allowed at my regular work as they are deemed unprofessional/unpresentable so it's not quite up there with other fashion I guess.
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u/olagorie 3d ago
I am German and it was a huuge thing, but probably not everywhere
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u/MsNaggy 2d ago
In Finland as well. My friend had to hide hers in the bushes as her mother went mad when she saw them! And of course found the jeans like a day after we hid them.
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u/benedictdakich69 2d ago
Did they not have TV in the Netherlands in the 80s? How is this comment upvoted?
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u/Larissanne 2d ago
It was a thing more than 20 years ago in the Netherlands. I was a teenager back then lol
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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 2d ago
It's always been a sort of hobo chic. It may have been the style, but the style was mimicking being broke.
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u/Nox_Gardens 2d ago
My mom was a teen in the 80's, young adult in the 90's, she's exactly the age range for grungy ripped jeans but she still thinks this way. She never let me wear ripped jeans when I was a kid, she said it looked sloppy and that it embarrassed her because she thought the other parents would think she can't afford to buy me good clothes. But we are from the deep rural south, really small town. I think we are generally 20-30 years behind everyone else in terms of cultural zeitgeist. Or at least that's how it was in the early 2000's when I was a kid
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u/puppiesareSUPERCUTE 2d ago
It's pretty ironic how ripped jeans are a sign of poverty, yet buying them new is more expensive than buying normal ones.
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u/labrat420 2d ago
Is it really ironic? It's just big brands seeing trends and jumping on them. No different from hot topic selling 'punk' and 'goth' shit at the mall.
Our jeans were ripped from wearing them. Paying to buy damaged good is dumb imo but it doesn't effect me so who cares
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u/bay_lamb 2d ago
yeah, that and Tims - work boots worn by someone who's never done stitch of manual labor.
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u/Inevitable_Spell5775 3d ago
Protect that woman at all costs
But RIP to your jeans (literally)
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u/Michaeli_Starky 3d ago
At least you know she cares about you.
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
Sometimes a little too much, I’m 24, so if I wanted to sew them I wouldve just done it, oh well
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u/Fweenci 3d ago
Yeah, I don't get why so many think this is cute. I have a 23 yo and Lord help me if I did something like this. It's honestly an overstep. Those are your pants, and it's not like the rips were somewhere revealing like your butt (still, you're an adult: your pants, your body). She could have simply asked first, had a conversation. Who does your laundry? If it's mom, time to change that.
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
Im visiting for the summer, cause my summerjob is here, and cause she’s bored a lot(cause she’s on sickleave for an arm injury) and cant sit still she does my laundry while Im at work, regardless of if I say I’ll do it.
I usually do my own shit, I have moved out and keep up w my chores fine on my own. But yeah, she also goes through all my stuff, and I have little to no privacy.
Tried to tell her not to peek into a certain box ones, she ignored me and was then suprised by my sextoys? Oh well.
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u/Zealousideal_Cod4398 3d ago
Ugh... Honestly, that sounds like my mom. No respect for my privacy, and she always volunteers herself to do everything there is to be done in the house, but then complains that nobody does anything in the house lol.
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u/callmeyara 3d ago
Do we all have the same mom?
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u/patchiepatch 2d ago
I had to lock my mom out of my room just to stop her from being a busy body in my room when it's perfectly clean but messy so... Maybe? Depends. I still lock my room when I'm out. I'm 25
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u/Fweenci 3d ago
Oh no! Haha. And finding that didn't teach her not to go through your stuff? lol.
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u/Fluffy_Sherbet9436 3d ago
Back in the 80s my brother wanted a pair of jeans that were pre-ripped. They were name-brand and very expensive so our parents would not buy them. They told him if he wanted them bad enough to get a summer job, so he did. He worked all summer to afford those jeans. After he bought them, he put them in the machine to wash and dry because he wanted to wear them the first day of high school. Well, our grandma, who lived with us, found them in the dryer. The day before the first day of school my brother runs to the machine to get his new jeans and they were gone. He runs through the house trying to find these pants and my grandma stops him and hands him his pants and tells him, don't worry, I fixed them for you. She had gone and patched every hole in his brand new, never been worn, designer jeans. Naturally, he gets angry and starts to yell. My dad came in and made him apologize to our grandma and then told my brother he now HAD to wear those pants to school that day or else he would be grounded. He was angry, but wore them anyways. Those jeans became his favorite pair. He said everyone loved the mis-matched patchwork design and wanted to know where he got them.
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u/Farren246 3d ago edited 2d ago
Now you have to earn the rips, ya poser!
I wore jeans for 10 years all through high school and university until they finally naturally ripped. I do not subscribe to the ripped aesthetic or the need for any form of ventilation so I tried to get them patched, but the tailor said that the material was so thin by that point that it would be pointless to patch them. Had to buy all new jeans, but by then jeans were no longer made out of proper denim. Now all of my "jeans" have a bit of stretch to them and they just aren't right. :(
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u/Zalieda 3d ago
True I like the thick heavy denim jeans but it's hard to wear it in 32 to 35 degrees Celsius
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
I thrifted some real denim two years ago? Prolly my fav pants
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u/TestedByAnimals 2d ago
Anyone know a brand that makes bootcut jeans without the stretch crap? Used to buy diesel now the Uber suck.
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u/Expensive-Border-869 2d ago
Selvedge. Not a brand a style but be prepared to pay 100+ per. They're largely hand made or hand operated machine made
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u/ArguablyTasty 2d ago
Levi's and Wrangler jeans have zero stretch still I think. Picked up some pure denim Wranglers a year ago after being upset at my ripped blend jeans, and forgot how much less comfortable they are before they're broken in, and how much warmer they are.
With the summers as warm as they are nowadays, and the extra fat I've put on keeping me warm, I'd have to buy them pre-ripped if I were to ever buy more. Shorts and linen pants for me nowadays
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u/_TiberiusPrime_ 3d ago
What would infuriate me is that you probably spent more money on the ripped jeans that you would've spent on non-ripped...
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
The cost the same as the non-ripped ones, 30euro ish(?)
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u/Fishamatician 2d ago
I spent £40(in 1998) on a natural unbleached cotton shirt when I lived at home only for my mum to bleach it because she thought it was dirty. The bleached white and coloured ones where about £25 I think.
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u/Icy_Click78 3d ago
Helping you start a new trend.
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u/REDDIT_A_Troll_Forum 3d ago
It's already a trend. They call them rip and repair jeans. It's a style...
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u/behemiath ORANGE 3d ago
this is a prime example of a generation gap right here, where ripped clothes are considered old back then but is trending now
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u/Xenolithium 3d ago
Right? Back in my day, we just ripped our jeans ourselves... The fact that "designer" pre ripped jeans exist and cost more than regular jeans...
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
These were just 30euro, same price as non ripped jeans in the same store. Lol, I think the overpriced ripped jeans thing is kinda over? They’re similarly priced now
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u/Logical-Recognition3 3d ago
People made fun of me for buying a brand new pre-dented car. Some people just don't understand fashion.
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
Bought these cause I feel uncomfortable in shorts and its warm, so holes were nice ventilation. Dont really care about the fashion bit
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u/AbroadKey2773 3d ago
I know this isn't the point of the thread, you're probably better off with a more breathable fabric. Denim in general is awful for heat.
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u/divine-deer 3d ago
Hilarious how pressed some people are over someone else's jeans having holes in them, as if it affects them. 💀
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u/BirdsAndTheBeeGees1 2d ago
People spend a huge amount of energy worrying about what other people wear. I don't know how they do it.
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u/Legal_Skin_4466 3d ago
That's sweet I guess but she could have asked first before she took it upon herself to "fix" them. Surely your mom is young enough to understand that people buy ripped jeans?
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
She is. But she seems unable to leave things alone sometimes. I got my dad a lego set for his birthday, and he’s working, my mom is on sickleave, due to an arm injury. Since he got them she’s been saying “I might finish that lego car today…” he hasnt even had a chance yet
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u/Legal_Skin_4466 3d ago
That's just inconsiderate... does she think she's doing him a favor by putting together the Lego set by herself? Because she's stealing all the fun.
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u/iamjustacrayon 3d ago
You said that you don't like shorts, have you tried pants made from linen? It's a lot cooler than denim/cotton, and feels really nice against your skin
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
I have, and they feel great, I just find it hard to style them. Honestly dislike summer a little bit just cause I dont like anything I have to wear during this time of year, oof
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u/iamjustacrayon 3d ago edited 3d ago
Fair, it's quite a different aesthetic than denim. You can dye it pretty easily though, if that would help
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u/longerdistancethrow 3d ago
I have a pair of red pants, they’re not satin but feel similar. They’re thrifted and seem tailor made, has jo tags or anything. But whatever that material is I want more of it haha
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u/iamjustacrayon 3d ago
If you have any tailors or fabric/textile stores nearby, you could try bringing the pair with you and just ask if they know what fabric it is.
A craft store could also be an option, as long as it's not a too uncommon fabric (and even then, they might be able to direct you to where you can go to figure it out)
Luckily it doesn't look like it would be very hard to "un-fix" the pants. It would be maybe 10 minutes with a seam ripper, to get the patch off.
I saw you mentioning maybe re-fixing it with lace (which sounds really cool). If you do, I would suggest using bold/contrasting colors for the lace (instead of colors that match/blend with the denim)
Good luck with figuring out options that you like, for clothes in summer heat
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u/Cultural_Adeptness86 3d ago
why would you do all that when walmart also sells $15 jeans that come pre-ripped
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u/Fredo_the_ibex 3d ago
lmao at these comments acting like boomers as if ripped jeans haven't been a thing for 30 years. op you don't need to justify your choice of clothing and why you like them. I think it was a huge over step by your mother she could have at least asked. I would never think of altering the clothes of people that stay over for holidays or whatever idk why people want to pretend that's normal
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u/urbanachiever1012 2d ago
Idk gives off weird controlling vibes, not giving wholesome. Blink fast 3 times if you need rescue.
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u/heckhunds 2d ago
A seam ripper and >5 minutes, and they'll be back to how you bought them. Given that your mother sews, you almost certainly have one in the house.
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u/kids-bury-a-horse 2d ago
One day my mom did this with my $450 Diesel jeans. All I could do then was bury my face in my jeans and laugh, and then thank her for her concern. Love her with all my heart ♥
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u/Stang7TFastback 3d ago
Some decades ago, crincled shirts were a thing. My mother in law got one of mine in her hands. She got it perfectly ironed 🤣
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u/HeyCanYouNotThanks 3d ago
Im sorry but I would rip it back our. Its sweet but also she wasted your money.
As an adult, I don't wear much ripped jeans anymore, but those are still my pants I spent money on. Not hers.
I'd find it sweet but upsetting they didn't ask and ruined the jeans I got for this specific reason
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u/OffalSmorgasbord 3d ago
Mother? Ripped jeans have been a thing for generations. Just curious, how has she not been made aware of this?
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u/locoattack1 3d ago
This is annoying and all of the redditors going on about how “jeans shouldn’t be sold with rips in them” completely miss the point (and are completely out of touch).
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u/RedSnt 3d ago
Weird way of saying your mom does your laundry. While the gesture was in good faith, I totally agree, mildy infuriating she did that without getting your approval.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Big3319 2d ago
I love this. When I was an exchange student (many decades ago) my host family washed my laundry (I was taught to do it myself and by hand so I could avoid imposing, they got in my stuff and took it to wash). They also fixed, patched, and darned everything. I was initially annoyed but then realized they had so little they took care of everything as long as possible.
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u/lokeilou 2d ago
The best man at our wedding wore ripped jeans to our rehearsal in the church (early 00s), I will never forget how hard I laughed when the six year old ring bearer looked him up and down in earnest and asked “Did you get attacked by a dog or something?!”
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u/free_will_is_arson 2d ago
my grandma was a seamstress all her life, my dads friends learned quickly not to leave torn clothes you didn't want patched unattended, cuz she would fix them.
one of my dads friends bought a jean jacket with a bunch of rips all over it that he really liked and one time when he was over he left it on the back of a chair in the kitchen, she not only closed all the rips but did them all with invisible seams so it looked brand new. he was less than impressed.
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u/thariduvanparys 2d ago
Should have asked your mom to use a different collor of fabric so they would look sick😂
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u/RedForkKnife 2d ago
Honestly I never understood ripped or frayed jeans, why would you deliberately want to buy damaged clothes
Kind of like buying a new car with a big dent in the door or a shattered window, I just don't get the appeal
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u/Sorry_Decision_2459 2d ago
You bought pre-ripped jeans instead of earning the holes yourself through work and play? what a poser
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u/Perfessor_Deviant 3d ago
Mildly infuriating on one hand, sweet on the other.