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Pre-Distressed Jeans are a Lie



This is from a friend of mine’s website about his jeans. I thought it was hilariously awesome:

Pre-distressed jeans are a lie. Some of them might look nice, but they’re just a reproduction of jeans that somebody wore everyday and actually lived life. They’re for people who are lazy, or scared, or would rather pretend to be alive than to actually engage the world. They create the illusion that you actually put the months or years of hard work into breaking in your own jeans.

From what I gather, his site is a photo diary of the wearing-in process of a new pair of jeans. I think he’s up to about day 6 or so.

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6 Reader Responses

  1. Ant Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 3:21 pm

    I think it’s more of a matter of “people who don’t think distressing your own jeans has any bearing on whether or not you’re living life.” Plus, somebody might break a nail.

  2. Zeno Izen Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 5:15 pm

    Corduroy is the new denim.

  3. prawnsql Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 5:35 pm

    You’re crazy. Coruroy tears like a bitch along the grain, while denim is all sturdy n stuff.

  4. Zeno Izen Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 6:19 pm

    If you want sturdy, wear Dickey’s. Blue jeans are so out of style it’s an epic farce to rival history itself.

    When I see someone in blue jeans, I think “Now there’s someone who doesn’t give thought 1A to how they appear to the rest of the world.” Or else, they do think, but their thoughts are horribly malformed.

    Down with dungarees!

  5. Benway Says:
    March 11th, 2006 at 1:39 am

    It’s criminal that these people won’t buy my old jeans.

  6. Error 404 Says:
    March 13th, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    Um, Zeno, that was the fashion statement of jeans back in the ’60s.
    My arch-conservative grandfather once said, seeing me in jeans and a t-shirt “I see you are wearing your non-conformist’s uniform”.

    The message was that the wearer is too cool to care what you think about what he or she is wearing, and the jeans were distressed to make sure you get it, because the wearer very much cared that you thought he or she didn’t care. They got very fashionable.

    So then the whole designer jeans thing happened, and they they went out of style, so now you can actualy make the original statement by wearing them.

    I was at a costumer’s convention over the weekend, and now have access to good kilts - I’m trying to decide whether I’m going to wear them myself.



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