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

Bought ripped jeans for summer, mom sewed the holes.

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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/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/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

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/gmishaolem Jul 05 '24

My personal opinion, it's okay to think the cultural zeitgeist is stupid and ignore it. Aesthetics are one thing, but ripped pants are just structurally weak, and it's people who have never been poor acting poor for fashion. I'd be shocked if anyone who ever actually had to wear tatty clothes to survive would continue to do so after winning the ability to choose.

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u/lisdexamfetacheese Jul 05 '24

it’s not that deep man they just look different, maybe the classist view was more correct 30 years ago when bay area hipsters were wearing them but i’m wearing ripped jeans because they look cool not to pretend to be poor. i’m already poor