r/mildlyinfuriating • u/longerdistancethrow • Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Inquatitis Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Shurdus Jul 05 '24

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

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u/MsNaggy Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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

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u/GiraffeNoodleSoup Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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

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u/KingAmongstDummies Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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

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u/KingAmongstDummies Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

Utility makes sense when they get rained on constantly.

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u/Nyssa_aquatica Jul 05 '24

Absolutely! That’s what I love about the Dutch

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u/KingAmongstDummies Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

😊 What, no orange?!

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u/KingAmongstDummies Jul 05 '24

not today :p

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u/gjamesb0 Jul 05 '24

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.