Paint-Splattered Jeans Fashion

Posted by Alex in Fashion on August 20, 2008 at 7:12 pm


For those who wanted to get that rugged house painter kind of look but don’t want to be bothered with actually painting anything, here are the perfect jeans for you: Behold the Painted Selvedge Jean by J.Crew!

Otto of Ottodestruct blog said it best:

That’s right kiddies, JCrew sells pre-paint stained jeans. For those people too lazy to paint a house, now you can look like you’ve actually been working too, but without all that pain in the ass “labor”.

I understood the patched jeans fad. The scuffed torn thing, I got. The wrong size thing was weird to me, and god help me I even understand stone-washed. But this is simply too far out there for me. Not because of the look, although they look terrible, but because of the price.

Those jeans cost $285.

That’s right. Take one $60-$80 pair of jeans, add $1 worth of white paint, and charge $285 for it.

And there was my wife, badgering me to get rid of my paint-splattered pants. Don’t you see I’m hip now, honey? Link


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15 comments to "Paint-Splattered Jeans Fashion"

  1. tigergal39
    August 20th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    You could save yourself some big bucks & go to the thrift store. Most of the jeans look like this anyway!!!!

  2. Justin
    August 20th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    You would have to be a pretty bad painter to get that much paint on your pants!

  3. Idil
    August 20th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    That's what designer brands are always like... for example, string some normal plastic beads together, engrave the designer name on it and sell for 400!

    ridiculous, eh.

  4. Sofar
    August 20th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    It's like these people don't know we make fun of them.

  5. Christophe
    August 20th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    I didn't know all my diy store customers were so rich!

  6. dimestore
    August 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    Well of course these aren't about being hip. Hip would be wearing pants with paint on them, but you don't care, cuz you're so cool. This is about showing what a pimp you are that you can buy $300 pants.

  7. Botanica
    August 20th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    not neat-o-rama worthy.

  8. Leyla
    August 21st, 2008 at 12:25 am

    First of all, I remember back in about 2001 when Express was selling paint splattered jeans for about $75, and I thought that was bad.

    Second of all, this is hip now? I've been splattering paint and God knows what all over my pants and clothes since middle school, and it never cost me more then fifteen in clothes and paint and a couple hours of my times. Fashion is strange...

  9. Meaningless
    August 21st, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Look up selvedge denim and you'll see why they're so expensive.

  10. MoonCake
    August 21st, 2008 at 4:52 am

    they must be using that diamond encrusted, dead baby panda paint.

  11. Ger
    August 21st, 2008 at 6:14 am

    great for the premature ejactulators!

  12. matt
    August 21st, 2008 at 10:49 am

    For an extra $50 they'll have a construction worker fart in them for a week.

  13. Absent
    August 21st, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    For quite a few years there's been designer jeans with oil splashes, iodine stains, permenant glue globs, all sorts. TK Maxx gets quite a few of them in as end-of-line cheapo sales.

  14. ted
    August 21st, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Great stuff, Ger. Handy for peeping toms, too.

  15. focktard jackson
    August 6th, 2009 at 4:21 am

    they should be bold and make them with red paint. now that would be funny.


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