Is this a joke?

Um, now that I'm old, I can buy whatever I want, drive a couple of Porsches if I so choose, and buy whatever guitar I want. When I was young, we wore torn jeans that had been torn by use, and laughed at those who tried to imitate our "coolness" by wearing "pre-torn" jeans. Who, in their 20s, could buy this crap except for spoiled brats?

@JudyEv Back in the '70s and '80s, the truly cool (or so we thought) at elite US colleges wore worn jeans and t-shirts. I think the idea was to "identify" with the poor and the hard-working blue-collar Union folk. At some point, the "main stream" fashion-conscious tried to "imitate" this look, but it came off as silly. I should list some of my old properly torn jeans on eBay (30/32--about the right size for a slender and slightly tallish gal) for $250 and see what happens.

I see a lot of that stuff around near the U of O campus here.

Hey, maybe I could get them into vintage loudspeakers and get disgustingly rich. Then I'd die with lots of money.

@TheHorse - i can actually see that happening.

@TheHorse There is no point in dying with lots of money. You need to spend most of it BEFORE you die. That's what we're working on doing.

@TheHorse yeah. I would say Filipinos in general are fashion conscious, not just the teens. Filipinos usually posts their OOTDs in social media.

@allen0187 What is an OOTD?

Interesting. Are Filipino teens very "fashion conscious"?

@TheHorse EBAY, might be able to. Throw in you are a teacher and a musician. might sell like hotcakes. Goodwill works for me.

@crossbones27 Heh. I gotta get a wider fan base on YouTube. And market my music as very "hip" and "alternative" somehow. Hell, I have some old underpants I'd like to get rid of too.

I have old jeans that are torn like this. They're somewhere deep in my closet. Should I sell them for $100/pair? They're mostly Levi's 501s. Is that "cool" for rich brats?

@thehousewife And it look like @TheHorse has come up with a possible marketing strategy. This is it folks. This time next year we'll be millionaires (10 WorDazza bonus points for any non-UK member who gets that reference!!)

We should go ask Alex if we should market MyLot head underwear. I have a friend who could design the logo.

Cows don't care about fashion.

@nanette64 That's what goats are for! Cows tend to run, or whatever it is they do, if I get too close.

@TheHorse LOL, no they don't; although I've had a few grab my shirt and pull.

@TheHorse Just look at young people now. Tattoos, piercings and pre ripped clothes. When I was young there was the mini skirt and flowers everywhere and lots of color. And the boys rebeled by not cutting their hair. Now they would look odd with the hair cuts of the "nice boys" (according to moms) of the 50s.

@marguicha Tattoos strike me as weird. Many Bay Boomers look like normal adults now, even if they get stoned instead of drunk after a hard day of work or retirement. But tattoos are permanent!

Why would people pay more to look like an idiot?

@TheHorse

I'm ready. I can see my title on MyLot: Vanny and Horse selling vintage loudspeakers with bullet holes in them and..."

@TheHorse Not I, said the Little Red Hen...

@BarBaraPrz I hope the people who buy that stuff can afford it.

Who would buy that crap?

@TheHorse I fully agree, this is what I say all the time to my niece. I hope she will grow up one day, but she has too much money to waste to be wise.

I;e always thought "high fashion" to be a bit weird.

lt's start business. With Vanny, of course.

People searching for an identity are vulnerable to this kind of thing.

@TheHorse It's baffling why someone would spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, on those kinda jeans. Might as well buy cheap ones and stain and rip them yourself.

@lovebuglena But then they wouldn't have the "brand name" on them. People can be such lemmings.

Egads. What makes it "trendy"?

@TheHorse - No idea, but apparently it is.

What Country is that? Can you tell me what it means? I read a lot of Mark Twain and enjoy both The Onion and the Iowa Hawk. When I can't tell satire from reality, I feel like I'm getting "out of touch."

@aureliah Ah, thanks.

@TheHorse This is Kenya. Its when the deal is noy yet finished. Like you do something that I'm not contented with and I tell you ' We will revisit that'.

I wonder who buys this stuff. It looks like they're trolling for a younger demographic.

Now they're discounting everything. Maybe it didn't work. Or maybe that was their strategy from the beginning.

You too can look like a spoiled brat! I really should look for my old torn jeans and see if I can fit into some of them.

I'm wondering who the intended "target audience" is for this crap.