Jeans

[Bill Roberts]

Ok...So I admit, I am not as hip as I was when I was like teens early twentys or so..

Who the hell started the fad of the ugly as hell faded front and back of the pants legs of the jeans..and the ones that look like ground in dirt on top of the bleach? (Bleached white shade or bleach with a yellowing (like someone Peed on them)

I think it looks nasty...but all the hip kids (girls) are wearing them..in droves.

Looks like they were laying in a tub of bleach with their azz up in the air.

Whats with it?..(I know, it is about a year or so old..thought it would be over by now...but the 40 year old ladys in the office are sporting them now..)


I is like a damned tattoo around here..

Does it mean they are an easy lay?

PS, office ladies are married..


????

[Axel Grungy]

yeah im getting sick of seeing them too. especially when guys wear them :ghey:

[AKADriver]

Eh, it's not particularly stupider than the '80s jeans that came pre-ripped.

I wouldn't wear either.

[nocomedown]

Originally posted by AKADriver
Eh, it's not particularly stupider than the '80s jeans that came pre-ripped.

i think some places are still doing that. but anyways, i agree...it's ridiculous. the sad thing is that these jeans probably cost like 2 times as much as non-pre-faded.

[Titan]

Yeah, I'm 18 and I think it's retarded myself.

It's kind of like those guys that paint their rims black. Why the hell paint your rims black? It looks stupid... it looks like your riding on steelies.

But thats my opinion.

[Bill Roberts]

My initial point is this:

J Lo or someone like Christina A comes out to a concert or a Hollywood glamour show, and and sports some nasty looking clothes and millions..I mean millions times millions joins the bandwagon making people with no real life other than imagination (actors and their roles) more millions of dollars being made.

Kinda like the frisbee? well maybe.. Frisbees were cool, still are, they do something cool...like our 240SX's do something cool. All us drivers KNOW what all they do..especially these days..

All the while, what ever happened to diversity...where and indivigual can just go and do their own damned thing and it is considered part of the reasons we live in freedom?

Monkey see Monkey do?? Is that it? Nicole is getting talked to now because she whears J-lo's jeans, maybe we need the jeans maybe somebody will talk to me?

Pleeeezzzzeeee...

Fads are cool...but whatever happened to people doing what they feel and not doing what they are told?

It is like ...you wear this, you are in, if not, you are not.

What a debilitating situation to those who have to put jeans in the bleach a certian way, and mix mud with them to feel they can now walk down the street and feel like a part of society.

I guess this is what errks me the most. It is that someone is so goddamned insecure with their life that a product like someone on TV will give them some confidence to be something they are not actually. (sigh)

Do I feel better when I go out and buy new threads?

NO!
I buy them because I need them..not because I need them to look "cool" to the posers and idiots.

End of rant..

I was curious of how all this manifests itself...and your insight as well.

Keep the thoughts comming.

Afterall, I am hear to learn. Perhaps I do not see the big picture of it if it takes that to make someone feel good about theirself..we all are in one hell of a mess.

Lookie, I got the J-lo on...woopt!!

Is that it??

Help me..


The girls in their 40's at work wearing them takes the cake actually. Cath said she paid 75 for her's...said, well hubby said yea.

Fantasy?

Sheeeze..(I am confused)

[nocomedown]

couldnt agree with you more, bill. it's completely an issue of insecurity. people's main goal (not all, but most) is to be liked. that's only natural, but it's how people go about doing this that ****es me off. they feel that they have to imitate popular (famous) people in order to be liked when they could, in reality, have just as many friends (probably more that they have stuff in common with) if they just acted like their self. i see SO much of this no individuality crap around here and it makes me sick. it's like you have to spend $40 for a t-shirt just because it says Abercrombie on it, or else youre not cool.
to date i have never so much as set foot in an abercrombie store

[KiDyNomiTe]

Imma make my own line of jeans, buy some cheap jeans, wear em, and rub my *** all over the floor. Or roll in the sand for the yellow stain look.

At least with cars money buys you quality, and to a certain extent i guess price would matter, but paying over 50 for a pair of jeans is insane.

[russian]

Originally posted by Bill Roberts
Ok...So I admit, I am not as hip as I was when I was like teens early twentys or so..

Who the hell started the fad of the ugly as hell faded front and back of the pants legs of the jeans..and the ones that look like ground in dirt on top of the bleach? (Bleached white shade or bleach with a yellowing (like someone Peed on them)

I think it looks nasty...but all the hip kids (girls) are wearing them..in droves.

Looks like they were laying in a tub of bleach with their azz up in the air.

Whats with it?..(I know, it is about a year or so old..thought it would be over by now...but the 40 year old ladys in the office are sporting them now..)


I is like a damned tattoo around here..

Does it mean they are an easy lay?

PS, office ladies are married..


????

we all have different tastes. for example, you will never wear (from what i uderstand) what you dont like and consider it tasteless. So will the "kids" think of you and your preferences. its new generation. maybe you geting old (er)?

[russian]

ah i forgot, fashion changes, actually it goes in a cycle, returns to the previous styles, like now its 70 ****. all the beads and crap. it will die out eventually and formate to newer stye

[doh boy]

*rant*

you know what else really gets to me... sorry to offend anybody, i do listen to rap (old school rap [ie] richie rich, mack 10, warren g, eays e, bone thugs) but the "look" never interested me..

i hate seeing the new rap/hip hop style.. i mean really these guys look ridiculous, their SHORT sleeve shirts go half way down their forearms.. and the shirt ends halfway down their thighs almost to their knees...and the pants

the other day i saw a kid wearing baggy pants, like ridiculously baggy pants.. with the left leg tucked INTO his SOCKS!! and the right side rolled up.. and hes walking around thinking like hes the sh*t... his shirt was atleast three or four sizes big, the sleeves are comming down his forearms and the shirt when almost to his knees.. and he was wearing a jacket with only one sleeve on.. the other side hanging off.. i just don't get how this looks good.. and the colors.. bright orange shoes? come on.. really? it seems the stlye gets more and more ridiculous...

i just don't get it... does dressing in sean john and ecko make you a gangster or something? its hilarious when i go to the mall and i see a kid with EVERYTHING sean john the full blown "gangster look" and hes on his cell phone calling his mom for a ride home..

and the other day i was in a store buying myself some new shoes, and i see this kid in there.. wearing shorts.. sagged past his a** with maybe an inch of his ankle showing... a shirt that was WAY to big.. the same old half way down his forearm deal, and he was wearing a baseball style cap crooked and i think he was wearing the nike air force one's.. im not sure what they look like (air force one) but im assuming that it was that.. i just remember thinking how hideous the shoes were.. and he's walking around the store like he's the sh*t.. but he's there with his mom.. and she's buying him new shoes.. and i just think to myself yea dood.. you're real "gangsta"

and i hate hearing the whole fo shizzle my nizzle sh*t.. thats just annoying..


everytime i see kids that fit into this "look and attitude" i just think to myself how much of a poser they are, cause half of them are in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL!!!! and probably never thrown a punch before in their life.

*rant off*

[Emperiorjack]

Don't bash On the air force 1's now. Best shoes ever made

[elevator]

...and what is up with guys not knowing how to pick out clothes that fit?? Pants that fall to your knees are just too fricking BIG!

[doh boy]

Originally posted by Emperiorjack
Don't bash On the air force 1's now. Best shoes ever made

im sorry dood, just a personal opinion, i think they are hideous..

[russian]

actually the thing i dont like as well is pants that 3 times more than their size to the point where it looks like they **** in their pants since its sittting so low and underware coming out of the jeans like vomit.

[jaaaaaaaaap]

i blame the carnies....

[s14falcon]

Hey Doh Boy, i'm 16, but i'm the same as you, listening to most new rap makes me want to puke. Old school baby, Big Daddy Kane!!!! I hate how all other people judge all rap by the joke that it has become. Hip Hop today is like a saturday night live skit of the real stuff even seven or eight years ago. The worst is at my school though, where every one is a rich white kid, and they act like they are from the hood. To change the way you talk to sound cool is the stupidest thing ever. So once they are done talking tyo you, they'll jump into their hummer and drive away to their million dollar house. Also, if you want to listen to some pretty good stuff, there are some LA rappers that are good, Jurassic 5, Deltron 3030, ugly duckling, and an absolute must have is O.S.T, by the people under the stairs. Perfect summer album, nice beats, nice lyrics, don't have to skip a track. And it was made like a year ago.

[Bill Roberts]

I use to produce and engineer some serious gansta rap in 94-98 and most of it is very good compared to the new school.
Groups you never heard of...but some are on Kazaa..

Mo Tension
Ruthless Juveniles
G money
Cheeky Blakk
The Hard White
Roy Jones Jr and the PG's
The Souljahs
Met Too Short in the studio, some others..we were all down with it and I appreciated the hard work and the talent.

Some of the beats today are so lame that my dog could walk over an MPC3000 and make better beats than half da $hit out there now.

Yep, Rap has gone downhill in terms of "tightness" and "Drama"

I met some serious rappers that wanted me to do albums for free for a cut..but even though I did do some demos..I feel that if they want to do something meaningful...they should pay something..even if it is just a c note for a day. Last rap project demo I did for free was met with a few 2 thousand dollar microphones "accidently walking out of here"...but I did get them back. Was not easy..I had to get kinda rough about it.

BTW, we had a Tornado today. Pray for all the brothers and sisters that got their houses torn down and are in the dark..facing curfew.


It amazes me with all the multimillion dollar houses around here that the tornado chose to hit the hood and the trailer parks.

My house is 10 miles away...I got lucky..thousands of folks did not get so lucky.

[russian]

how about Onyx?

House Of Pain.... Onyx&biohazard)

[hookedup240]

I'm with you guys on most of this clothing trend stuff. I listen to rap mostly and know a lot about it, but i totaly hate the clothes they wear. When ever i go to public places or big events all the people look the same. They all try to look like what's popular(50 cent).

The most rediculous thing though is the huge white undershirts, i always see them wearing them. Sizes like 5x.

S14Falcon- Yea J5 is really good i have their first album, that came out like 2-3 years ago, its really good.

[Sway500]

You guys like watered down "hip-hop". I can't believe you guys actually consider Jurassic 5 to be a good hip-hop group.

[nocomedown]

Originally posted by Sway500
You guys like watered down "hip-hop". I can't believe you guys actually consider Jurassic 5 to be a good hip-hop group.

i dont. i like bands you guys probably either havent heard of or havent listened to

[AKADriver]

Originally posted by nocomedown
i dont. i like bands you guys probably either havent heard of or havent listened to

Ooooooh you bad

Just kidding, it just comes off kinda pompous when someone says that.

Shifting gears, what's with this "emo" fad? The music isn't half bad... I've got nothing against that kind of indie sound, in fact I love it... but tell me I'm not the only person that chuckles when I see some kid sporting a plastic mesh trucker cap and a sh!t-brown sweater that's 2 sizes too small. Hell, it was one thing 10 years ago when I was raiding the attic for old worn out flannel shirts - at least we didn't look ridiculous, just lazy.

[nocomedown]

Originally posted by AKADriver
Ooooooh you bad

Just kidding, it just comes off kinda pompous when someone says that.

eh, well. im not trying to be superior or anything. its just true. most people in america dont like british music. and the majority of people on this board prefer electronic/rap/hip-hop -- at least that's how it seems

[ca18guy]

The above jeans retail about $96

I can become rich off my dads old work jeans

[s13silady]

all i listen to is rock, alternative, punk, blah blah, etc... but the rap i listen to is all hip-hop...

J-Live (not J five)
gangstar, styles of beyond, souls of mischief, heiro, j5's older ish..pharcyde, sage francis, blah blah, etc...
hehe and the occasional brotha lynch..

i only like the jeans that have the faded look...(i work at banana republic) so most of the jeans we get have it... i dont like the pants that have the zebra looking fandes on the thigh part of your legs... those are funny..

[nocomedown]

Originally posted by ca18guy


The above jeans retail about $96

I can become rich off my dads old work jeans

maybe i should stop giving my old torn up jeans to goodwill. i had no idea there was such a fortune to be made with them

[Flybert]

Taking it back to the jeans. I ****ing hate those things. I especially hate that zebra stripe **** on the top of the leg and the white *** bleaching. The "dirt jeans" as I like to call them, suck pure balls. Luckily my GF only has some slightly faded jeans and those are cool but those really faded and dirty pieces of **** are nasty. My girl bought some jeans with a fake hole on her *** and I never fail to tell her that she has a whole in her jeans. She always tells me that she bought them that way and now it's kind of a joke but what the **** is up with this fad. The sad thing is that it's a fake hole because it's covered underneath. I can't believe the way certain styles are nowadays. Oh yeah, I don't buy clothes because I'm too cheap and all I spend my money on is my car and a little on the GF, but I try to keep it to a minimum, the GF that is. Anyone else out there lacking in wardrobe (spelling?) variety?

[Steeles]

Originally posted by Sway500
You guys like watered down "hip-hop". I can't believe you guys actually consider Jurassic 5 to be a good hip-hop group.

hahah i like how 16 year olds are talking about old school. I was at Public Enemy concerts before they could read! hahahaha... thats hilarious. Bill Im sure remembers 80s hip hop fashion.. the track suits too tight jeans those freakin feathers on a string with the aligator clips. the original polo shirts addidas shell toes with the FAT laces or no laces kangols BKs Kswiss and big gold madallions cross color clothes and JAMZ!!! hahah man I'm old.

oh and its Eazy E the mans dead at least spell his name right

[Dousan_PG]

Originally posted by Steeles
hahah i like how 16 year olds are talking about old school. I was at Public Enemy concerts before they could read!

YEAH BOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!