Do you have any old blue jeans you love?

[Bretrick]

Blue Jeans - (Lord) David Dundas

 

[JBR]

Yes. But my DW objects to them when they get too worn, fearing I might look a bit ragamuffin or too bohemian. My image to the world.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Yes, mine seem to just disappear at some point. Very old. The ones I am wearing now, I have had for 3 years. I was 169 first then got up to 205 in about six months now I am 160. They have adjusted. When doin farm work they would only last about 3 years.

 

[Alizerine]

A year or two ago my blue jean jacket was looking a bit frazzled. I tried to get a new one online. The offerings had designer slashes and tears so I kept the old one and ordered a couple in different colors which seemed to be in tact.

 

[hollydolly]

I have loads of old blue jeans.. they're all in perfect condition..they're just old styles... I have a box ful in the loft of various sizes.. if I could get them down I would donate them.. but I can't get them down by myself..

 

[JBR]

A year or two ago my blue jean jacket was looking a bit frazzled. I tried to get a new one online. The offerings had designer slashes and tears so I kept the old one and ordered a couple in different colors which seemed to be in tact.

Brand new like that! T'aint natterel. Isn't that the most peculiar style?

 

[hollydolly]

 

[hollydolly]

 

[ohioboy]

 

[Michael Z]

My worn jeans become “work jeans”. They are then worn until the paper thin fabric will no longer accommodate patches. Then they become shop rags.

 

[jujube]

Remember the days when wearing "new" jeans was a fashion no-go, at least among the teens. A new pair of jeans had to be broken in before they were fashionable.

In India, we visited what was supposed to be the largest outdoor laundry facility in the world, Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai. I can't say if that was true, but it WAS huge. The section we visited was devoted to jeans and hundreds of workers were working on making new jeans look old. Scrubbing them with bricks, slapping them on rocks, soaking in some sort of solution to fade them.

I remember reading about a woman early in the "holey" craze taking cheap new jeans out into her back yard and shooting them with buckshot, hitting them with a rake and other atrocities. Then she'd sell them to a fawncy boo-teek who'd sell them for hundreds of dollars apiece. Dang, I really missed an opportunity there..... Instead of filthy lucre, I could have been rolling in holey lucre.