Knee Cut Jeans

[feebletoe1492]

why and how did this ridiculous style trend of cutting or slicing denims for girls come from?

[Patsy33]

I think it looks awful!

[Mamyalynne]

When I wore them years ago, it was because I spent hours a day on my knees playing with the children.

[feebletoe1492]

yes! I bet their parents love it..ive seen school uniform like it..hope they get sent home.

[feebletoe1492]

I know in the past youngsters had threadbare jeans...sometimes cos they were old ,but deliberately taking a pair of sissors ...and its always just the knees...looks truly terrible

[tonyav]

Fashions come and fashions go, there'll soon be a new fashion to take over from the sliced ( worn ) knee look.

[Mamyalynne]

The young have been distressing jeans for decades - ps. we aren't supposed to like what those younger than us wear.

[Quizproquo]

It's just fashion. I remember my mum loved her punk ripped jeans in the 70s and 80s, the 90s had it, I'm sure the 2000s did and here we are again. It's alright, you don't have to wear them if you don't want to.

[tonyav]

ps. we aren't supposed to like what those younger than us wear.


To right, Mamya. If my parents had said 'ohh I like what your wearing'
I'd have stopped wearing it.

[jourdain2]

Does anyone else remember sitting for hours in the bath, in rapidly cooling water, in order to shrink their jeans to skin-tight? I always got blue legs from the dye as well. :(

[pastafreak]

^^^^ Reverse psychology...every parents secret weapon.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes.

[tonyav]

Sure do, jourdain. Shrink to fit Levis for me, took ages for the Blue to wear of my skin. The Levi's were as stiff as cardboard before the bath treatment to.

[pastafreak]

I remember having to lay on the bed to get the zipper up...and they were stiff as boards when dry. I think my first pair were Lee jeans. They lasted til they fell apart...with a few holes in them.
;-)

[jourdain2]

Sorry DB, never tried them with suspenders (horrible things, going 'ouch!' as I remember them) but to you others -happy days....:)

[goodgoalie]

Tony, do you know if Levi's still do shrink-to-fit 501s? I'd love a pair!

[tonyav]

I don't think they do, goodgoalie. I think plain old 501's are as close as your gonna get these days.

[goodgoalie]

Shame. I used to love breaking in a new pair - I think the last pair I bought were £8!

[Cloverjo]

It's just a trend. The fashion magazines are full of "this is what you'll be wearing this month". It's all ridiculous.

I remember when skin-tight jeans were in when I was a teenager. I used to stitch my jeans even tighter after I'd put them on, and had to undo my seams to get them off.

Drawing pics on jeans was also a big thing back then.

[weecalf]

There's no kneed for it