So I had a birthday Sunday. My 11 year old son, Christopher, decided I needed some “cool” clothes-- as opposed to the clothes I normally wear.
So he bought me some of those jeans that look like they have been used to scrub the garage floor.
I’m sure this must be some monumental moment in my life, but I can’t figure out why.
Do you mean faded ones? I hate those.
Don’t listen to your son and just wear whatever you like to. That’s the cool way, not buying mass production crap.
I’ve just bought some cool clothes for work. Obviously not as cool as yours though.
My daughters however dispair of me because I wear my very waterproof walking jacket with them. I’m sorry but I’m not getting wet in the interests of fashion.
I’m guessing he’ll also get you a polo shirt from american eagle.
Remember to pop the collar!!!
I am wearing my cool pants today. The rest of my office is looking at me funny. I am sure they are convinced that I am having a mid-life crisis.
I am going to return my son’s favor by buying him some Khaki pants and a nice v-neck sweater for Christmas.
Te last pair of jeans I bought has something like 10 or 15 holes in them. Yes I paid extra for the holes. But they don’t call me LL Cool Cat for nothing.
Why not just by a pair of jeans and uni in them for a week or two?
Or just go to Value Village for authentic hobo attire?
I bought a pair of normal jeans about a year ago. A year of wiping my oily/muddy/greasy/grass-stained/sticky etc, hands on them, they have developed the “cool” worn look on the thighs. The knees have also torn, so much so now that they are pretty soon gonna come right in two and will be shorts!
All for the price of a normal pair of jeans! I pity the fool that pays the full price for these so called “fashionable” jeans when you can make your own!
Rock on!
Edd
I think you should feel blessed to have an 11 year old who thinks of anybody but himself.
+1
I just buy good jeans and wear them and wear them and wear them. Good jeans stay cool no matter how old they are. Plus, they get some real character, not the artificial holes and bleached sides.
I can’t bring myself to buy new jeans that look old.
I can’t even find the Levis that are really NEW. The ones that make an audible crunch when bent at the knees for the first time like corrugated carboard. If I could find them, I’d get them. Nowadays everything is “prewashed” which must take about 3 months of wear out of a pair of pants at the minimum.
I hate going into a department store to begin wth, but to go in one and have it look like every item on the racks needs a good washing boggles me.
I actually buy most of my jeans at the thrift store. Here in America, people often get too fat for their jeans before they wear out, so I can get the used look for only $3.00/pair. I don’t do it for fashion, though!!
Thats exactly what I do.
Then, during the summer. all my pants get cut into shorts.
I find it funny when people, buy jeans, then make them look torn and like you just wrecked your uni going 30mph. They even spend hours trying to find out the right way to make the jeans look torn. The secret is using a cheese grader.
My jeans get their torn looks when I crash horribly trying to do a gap. 
I agree with you on everything you typed.
Even shopping at a thrift store. You can get a lot of really good stuff their for really cheap. =p
Fashion is pish.
T.
I do not do fashion I wear what I what to.
Good for you. 
Good for you. 
Ah, there is the missing (and monumental) piece. What an interesting way to look at it.
May you be blessed with a whole herd of unselfish 11 year olds.
That’s so cute. He’s 11 and therefore mature enough to help poor old dad.
i read a magazine article on Levi jeans once and how there was a batch of like 200 distributed between in-mates at a prison. they where to wear them for three or four weeks then give them back to gain the old, dirty, used look. then they went and sold them for heaps of money as a special limited edition line. although i cannot now ind anything about it.
just buy your clothes from op-shops. you cant go wrong. sometimes even the ladies clothes work out well. or hippy shops at certain circus/music festivals. mmm fisherman pants.
