heh. Piker.
My high school senior pic. 1971.
The same jacket, pic taken today. A Norfolk is a bit too casual for work, so it didn’t get worn to death.
Steve
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The problem is the youth of today [kaff, wheezz] don’t understand jeans. Although I give them some props for trying to emulate the fashion sense of their elders, even if their tiny-yet-to-be-fully-formed-brains don’t know what they are doing.
If you are of a certain age, you recall that jeans did not come off the shelf ready to wear. They were very uncomfortable until you wore them around and washed and dried them a few times. Even then, it was a bit of torture for a few weeks. Some kids believed you should wear them wet after you washed them so they would shrink to your form. I don’t know if that was true or not, but lots of kids believed it.
Why put up with all of that? Jeans were cheap and they lasted a long time. And once you finally got them broken in there was nothing better. You kept wearing them until you literally couldn’t wear them anymore.
And as the jeans aged, they would form natural wear patterns. Thigh area was one. Back pocket where you kept your wallet and so on. Those natural wear patterns looked good.
But if you worn them long enough, the knees and thighs tended to wear out:
A well worn pair of jeans was the best. You didn’t care if the knees and thighs were worn out because they fit great, looked great, and were comfortable like nothing else. It was cool to wear old jeans.
So, old jeans are cool right? They have a story. So what the hell is this??
There is no story here. Manufacturers distress jeans by using lasers and acid washing. There is no natural wear pattern. They are just slashed in areas that “ought” to be worn. They are trying to look cool. But if you are trying to look cool, you don’t look cool.
(shakes fist at cloud!)
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