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This was VERY BIG in the 80's I remember the frosted jeans with the rips in all the right places. ;o) The more frayed, the better they were.

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Do You Remember Ripped jeans?

  • levilandlord
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    I grew up in the first wave of ripped jeans in late 80,s.I was about 18 when they were the rage.It was the only thing to be seen in 90% of young people would be walking about in patched up jeans mostly Levis which were shrink to fit at the time. Wearing jeans until they almost were ragged. patching was a big thing, even when patches wore trough you just added another over the top of it. Most off the jeans were boot cut, A second wave hit and there was a thing about wearing Flared or bell bottom jeans. Again not giving up there bootcut jeans they would transform the jeans in bell bottoms by adding side panels in them, Some were even made from knee length Levis or shorter then matching pieces of salvaged denim from old cast off jeans would be made into a patchwork of different shades of denim,and made back into flared jeans or bell bottoms that would flap around at your feet. At this time you could buy nearly anything made from old denim.coats,hats,bags,of all descriptions, I think this was the hottest fashion ever. But all this new ripped new denim does not appeal to me in any way. DENIM HAS TO BE WORN trough natural fading and ripping from hard wear TO GET A GREAT LOOK.
  • Anonymous user
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    These look really awful in my opinion. I throw my jeans away when rips occur. I would never wear these or let my daughters wear them
  • AnythingButOrdinary7
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    I love ripped jeans! :) I ripped mine (they already got ripped accidently) and they look quite cool!
  • Yellow Watson
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    I wasn't allowed to do this. Not happy. But now I'm very happy I didn't succumb to ripped denim. ;)
  • Anonymous user
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    Anyone else try to make 'rips' by lifting up the material and cutting a huge chunk out instead of just slitting it? I ended up with a gaping hole the size of a frying pan and got into loads of trouble for ruining my good jeans. Also remember all the other types of wash you could get in jeans back then. Stone wash, sand wash etc. Most were hideous!
  • Anonymous user
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    These were so very Wham! I remember all of us girls swooning one non-uniform day at school when the class hunk came in wearing a pair of extremely distressed jeans! Right up to his bottom in fact! Shame he got sent home - bah, teachers!!!
  • Anonymous user
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    Bleaching jeans was cool too. I had some that started as jeans and then went shorter and shorter as time progressed. OK I still have them - I can't bear to throw them away. Good news is they still fit!

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