Absurd things in fashion: ripped jeans

Hello everyone!!

In this October post I want to talk about how absurd fashion sometimes seems to me. And first of all I want to say that it seems perfect to me that one wants to be fashionable, dress well, combine clothes, etc. I like that too. But in fashion, as in everything, better with measure.

For a couple of seasons, it turns out that pants above the navel (I call them maternity pants) and ripped jeans are in fashion. I can accept the maternity ones (although they do not favor me at all and by the first wash they are already loose). Many say that they hold rolls better, that they lengthen the legs …they see all advantages. I do not see those advantages, but I did not like the skinny pants when they started, they seemed totally unsightly, and then, I have worn them. So even though I don’t like them, I accept maternity pants.

What I can’t stand is the ripped pants trend. Beyond the taste of each one, which obviously must be respected, it seems to me a total SCAM and a joke that people (or better said: fashion-victims, who are a good part of the female population) have accepted this scam with pleasure. Or by imposition, because last season it was really difficult for me to find low-cost jeans that were not ripped jeans. Why does it look like a scam to me?

1. You are paying a defective product.
2. You are paying a broken product.
3. No matter how well you combine them, you’re wearing hobo pants.

Even worse, now they are selling patches for you to stick on your ripped jeans. Come on, they sell broken pants and they also sell you the patches so that you can put them on. I could better make my clothes myself and give the money directly to the cashier, without taking anything in return.

Literally, that saying that if it becomes fashionable to wear a vase on your head people would wear it has become a reality. Inditex and other textile companies, do it please, I would laugh! Well, I’m sure that Amancio Ortega and other businessmen in the sector are laughing at the money generated by selling clothes made of rags at the same price as normal clothes. Those who would need to laugh a little are the poor Third World exploited people who weave all those clothes (although I suspect ripped jeans are just reused jeans) for the fashion-victims and compulsive consumers of “fast-fashion”, who “swallow” with everything they heard is a trend. Here is the link to a documentary that I recommend watching: The True Cost.

Until next time!!