I don't know a lot about the latest fashions and such. I try to answer questions on here, because most of the questions on here about fashion are opinionated and I'm always glad to help.
Could someone please tell me why ripped up jeans are popular? I'm a teenager and I don't find anything good about them, but it seems that almost everyone I know wears them.
The other day I was shopping and I noticed a stand of ripped up jeans and they were about fourty to fifty dollars a pair! I just want to know how this fad came to be and what the appeal to this is. Did a celeberty start it?
I think its kind of annoying to see people wear these things. I see it being almost as bad as wearing a shirt covered in spaghetti stains. Maybe I don't have any style. I just want to know. Thanks.
2006-07-18 20:12:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Fashion & Accessories
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2016-05-05 09:13:21 · update #1
its been around since the 60s and hippies. dont be annoyed, theres no point in it, i think the baggy pants thing that emulates rappers is horrid but its gone on for 20 yrs or so too, you dont have to wear it, just be true to yourself.
2006-07-18 20:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree with you wholeheartedly, I think they are totally tacky and if I am going to spend $50 for something new, it had better look new.
Skanky clothes have been popular off an on since the 60's "Hippie free love" movement and when I was a kid they had the whole patchwork hillbilly sort of look going along with fringed leather jackets. Another was the "Bleach accident" looking clothes, which became popular again a few years ago and happy to say, I have not seen that one for awhile.
The ripped-up skanky jeans thing started back in the 80's when grunge rock bands, like Nirvana, became popular and "trashy chic" gets revisited and revamped in one form or another every year now since then. The grunge rockers didn't dress up when they went on stage because to them it was about the music, which itself is admirable and probably why it became so popular. However, many of the bands were also into drugs and were not all that well groomed to say the least...those trashy looking clothes were not just looking that way...they WERE trashy clothes.
I guess people wear them now because they see it as "keepin' it real" when it is an idea whos time has passed and needs to be thrown out with all those grungy looking clothes.
As fashion is fickle, in a few years the tide should shift again to a more clean cut look, which all people really do look better in.
2006-07-18 20:33:32 · answer #2 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ripped is in again? The first time the only way to get them was to have well loved/worn denims. The legs naturally wore out but I added embroidery to mine. Not that tacky machine made stuff unique one of a kind designs, I added suede too.I had a great sleeveless denim dress same there. I would never buy them why pay for something that will fall apart with out getting your full value.
Back to real jeans that cover your butt, and rips only the natural ones thank you.
~A~
2006-07-18 20:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by momsapplepeye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honey, you do have style. I don't understand the ripped jean look either, but hey, what can you do? I think it is a shame that you can sell ripped up jeans for so much. I mean, you can rip up a pair that you already have for free! I think a celebrity did start it, maybe Britney Spears. That seems like something she would wear. I think it also is supposed to be like a grunge type of look, like you just don't care or something.
2006-07-18 20:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
u know i never got it either, i go to the flee market & buy my jeans cause they have those nice dark blue color & no rips!
its like the rips cost u $20 extra dollars, well heres a peice of advice to get them cheap.
get a sarraded edged knife & littly run it over the jeans were u wanna make the rip, don't press hard just glide it over the fabric, do this for about 20min!
then take a fine to moderate rough piece of sand paper to that spot & those same tear marks will apear in ur jeans!
wow $5 & 1hour of ur time to save $40-$60 dollars, wow simply amazing isn't it!
2006-07-18 20:49:04 · answer #5 · answered by spartan_rain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd rather see ripped jeans than the one that look like they are 2 sizes too big and hang down so low that their boxers hang out.....never understood that fashion statement.
2006-07-18 20:24:45 · answer #6 · answered by jayster32 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love ripped jeans but rip them myself i dont buy them
and sometimes i hand sew like scrap tee shirts on the holes
it looks cool
im a BIG diy freak
2006-07-18 20:48:31 · answer #7 · answered by hollywoodxrejectx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know why either. i agree why pay alot of money for ripped jeans when you can get whole ones that will last longer.
2006-07-19 04:42:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea why they are..i like them...my parents hate them..they always say why do i pay hundreds of dollars for ripped clothes?...i have no idea why there popular..but they are so everyone wears them
2006-07-18 20:17:13 · answer #9 · answered by M E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have your own style so don't wear what everybody else wears and be yourself.
2006-07-18 20:18:04 · answer #10 · answered by gentsocar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋