I tease my daughter about going to the Goodwill to get her jeans with holes for a lot cheaper than the premium paid to pay someone to make them look like that. Doesn't really bother me and I find it being worn by younger woman in casual settings. It seems to me, in the big scheme of things this and brown hair color are not that big of a deal. Now blue or purple hair might be a different deal. We all have different tolerances for this type of stuff. Other examples, include tattoos and piercings. I've heard people say when I married you, you were skinny, now your fat. The question becomes should one partner live to satisfy the other or should one partner accept their other partners choices because a person is so much more than what you see.
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I am fine with all kinds of jeans. That comes and goes.
But a Pinay should have black hair. Don't like if they are going to color it brown or even blond.- Agree x 4
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The right to be curmudgeonly and cantankerous advances with age, particularly when fashion is an issue. So Grandplank, I am with you entirely here. This seems a rather pointless and silly fashion - jeans with ready made holes in them or taking a pair of scissors to them - very silly indeed.
I dare say I looked a right twit when younger, but that’s the point, the young exist to look like twits so us curmudgeons can gripe about them over our brandy and cigars. The precise point at passing over from being a twit to curmudgeon has yet to be identified by scientists. The evidence tends to support the bigger the twit sartorially in youth, the later curmudgeondom will appear. There is, from my readings of the National Geographic no hibernation or chrysalis period where a twit emerges blinking in the sunlight into being a curmudgeon.
Anyway twits can be of both genders - the one that makes me snigger - are the ones that refuse to acknowledge the passing of age and time. Arrested curmudgeondom so to speak - cue aged men still wearing hair like Elvis, women with skirts like pelmets in their 60s, chaps walking about still believing they do adequate impersonations of Tom Sellick, Errol Flynn, or what not.
In the meantime, in the land of silly haircuts, silliness reigns supreme. Something to harrumph and guffaw about on the quarter deck after mess, cigar my friend?- Like x 3
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I have always picked my fights....clothing choices are not permanent, and hair color is not permanent, so I just bit my tongue (still do) when my kids do weird things with these. But, tattoos and piercings I am much more vocal about since they are permanent (esp. tattoos). My kids are adults now and I know my opinions don't matter much anymore, but one can always hope they listen anyway.
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Torn/faded/factory distressed/stone washed jeans have been popular on and off since at least the 1970s or even earlier. It isn't a "new" fashion, just a recycled one from your (or your children's) generation. It isn't hurting anyone, let them be young and feel like they are doing someone "unique and original".
Also, I buy pre-faded/stone washed jeans (preferably made out of this new elastic/stretchy denim) myself because I hate how the stiffness of new denim feels. No holes in them though, I put those in it myself. I have to admit, I did buy genes with holes in the knees back in the 90s and early 2000s when I was in high school. My dad absolutely hated them...which made me like them that much more, along with my spiked hair.
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