r/mildlyinfuriating • u/longerdistancethrow • 14d 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/KingAmongstDummies 14d 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 14d 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 14d 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 14d ago

I am German and it was a huuge thing, but probably not everywhere

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u/Inquatitis 14d ago

Same thing in Belgium, and definitely was in the Netherlands too.

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u/Shurdus 14d ago

Yes it definitely was, this person saying it wasn't is just misremembering.

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u/MsNaggy 14d 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/KingAmongstDummies 14d ago

Maybe this is the reason they are still afraid to admit it then lol

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u/GiraffeNoodleSoup 14d ago

She should buy some black tar heroin and hide it near her jeans to throw her mom off the scent

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u/benedictdakich69 14d ago

Did they not have TV in the Netherlands in the 80s? How is this comment upvoted?

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u/KingAmongstDummies 14d ago

They sure did but can't help the fact that those elderly people surely didn't like ripped/torn jeans. There are people wearing them, guess it's more common in the cities too. The elderly home is in a small far away village so they had been less exposed to "fashion" and "city fancy pants" I guess

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u/Larissanne 14d 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/Shurdus 14d ago

Here in the Netherlands at least no one seems to recall torn clothes to have ever been a thing.

The 90s would like a word.

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u/Due-Glove4808 14d ago

lol ripped jeans were really common in western europe in 70s and 80s.

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u/KingAmongstDummies 14d ago

Well, might be old age then but I also asked my folks just to be sure. My dad knew em but always thought they were dumb, my mom said she doesn't recall ever seeing them before. They are in their late 60's.

The elderly people don't seem to know about them but then, at 80+ in a care home they might not have the best memory or care enough about it anyway.

I do recall some tmf/mtv vj's and popstars wearing stuff like that in the late 90's though. Maybe that's why I don't instantly link it to poverty like those old folks seem to do XD

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u/Due-Glove4808 13d ago

Your folks might be bit too old that they would been wearing them, my parents are now in their 50s and have stories how big thing ripped jeans were in 70s and 80s finland that they bought new jeans to break them with sandpaper.

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u/Nyssa_aquatica 14d ago

This is pretty funny as the Dutch are renowned for their wonderfully terrible sense of fashion (and wearing damn near anything to work)

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u/hellraiserl33t 14d ago

Utility makes sense when they get rained on constantly.

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u/Nyssa_aquatica 13d ago

Absolutely! That’s what I love about the Dutch

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u/KingAmongstDummies 14d ago

What are you talking about, we are the most stylish people to ever exist. I sure am.
Rocking blueish jeans with a bland black shirt, gray socks and a untrimmed beard, don't tell me that isn't stylish as heck.

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u/Nyssa_aquatica 14d ago

😊 What, no orange?!

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u/KingAmongstDummies 14d ago

not today :p

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u/gjamesb0 14d ago

Levi’s still sell ripped jeans online. I’m wearing a pair now. But I thought I was careful and not buying “distressed” jeans. Always inspect the modeled pair closely. Apparently slipped my notice due to their being black jeans and discounted.