If you tell them that covering your arms, legs, neck, and hands with tattoos, is really cool; they'll do it.
If you tell people that when they leave their house/flat they must have a rucksack, mobile phone, water bottle, cardboard cup of coffee, and earphones, they will do exactly as you say.
If your young son is told by his school mates that he has to wear £250 'trainers' or they'll never speak to him again, you buy them at once.
If you are told that puce is the new black, you wear puce.
Now this one will really make you laugh. Someone in Taiwan had this great idea. They will slash brand new jeans with a Stanley Knife, rough them up a bit in a concrete mixer filled with pebbles, and then charge you an extra £500 for the pleasure (as they now look like a tramp has been wearing them for a few years), someone, somewhere, will buy them and actually wear them outdoors in the open. Yes, there's one born every minute.
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Welcome to the world of peer pressure and fear of missing out - fuelled by social media!
The eye has already gotten used to seeing all those ripped jeans. I wonder what our grandmothers would say about that.
That's exactly what it is. They are told what to do, and they do it.
They would be horrified.
All my children wear ripped jeans. I always tell them I'll buy them a decent pair and they laugh long. Honestly I thought the trend would have died out by now. It's a strange one.
It will pass...its just fashion and having to look like every other young person. The thing that upsets me is what young women are having done to their faces. Once ruined, thats it.
Ask them if they'd like them 'darned'.
I agree, that's very sad. I see 'selfies' every day of girls with fat lips and too much make-up, and they all look the same.
I absolutely refuse to follow "fashion" and certainly won't pay big $$$ for something already ripped to pieces.
That might look good with the "visible" Japanese mending in different colours.
In gold?
I cannot believe that people think ripped-up jeans look nice; I'm sure they're just sheep following other sheep.
The song, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, has just come into my head. I was a dedicated teenager, had to look just like Mary Quant, Cilla, Lulu, and Sandie Shaw. At least we didn't have to destroy our clothes to fit in with the sheep. I made a lot of mine at home.
All those you mention were real fashion icons, and were worthy of being followed. I knew Twiggy in the mid 60's, but she was simply TOLD what to wear.
Another one that used to get my goat was wearing their trews so low that we could all see what brands of underpants they were wearing. This was impossible for me as I always "go commando".
Do they realise how silly they look in those ripped jeans? They must be very drafty in cold weather!
Like Mean Queen, I too was a dedicated follower of fashion, making many of my own clothes. I could run-up a shift dress in one evening using my mother's sewing machine. I doubt many girls make their own clothes these days, everything is instant "must have".
I'm getting old, all these trends pass me by.
Ah yes, shift dresses were very easy to make, using a Simplicity or Butterwick paper pattern. Mini skirts were dead easy. I could make one with a yard of fabric from the market. Barely covered my knickers.
You don't see that so much today, although it's still fashionable with builders.
It shows their individuality.
All of the above have passed me by too; thank goodness.
And don't they show it. They seem cloned!
Once I was a 'dedicated follower of fashion' but now at 91 my mantra ha become 'will it keep me wwarm?' I was just about to remove the first w in warm then realised I am chilly sitting here by the window so have left it there for effect.
It is quite pleasant here this morning; I didn't even wear my hat for early dog-walking!
It takes me a lot of years to get my £25 jeans to look even 10% as damaged as that. I'll stick to my method of buying them 'proper' and wearing them until they fall apart of their own accord. My hubby always says 'aww, look at that poor person' when we see a dedicated follower of ripped jeans fashion.
Some of the ones I've seen recently have hardly been worth wearing, they were just 'rags'.
One of the kids has put on a couple of very rustic patches. It's worse when they cut them down into shorts leaving long hanging threads with no hem.
The code of conformity, of the young non-conformists.
I don't do fashion, I don't really care what I look like as long as I'm warm enough...what's with all these people who go around in shorts and t-shirt no matter what the weather? My daughter refuses to carry an umbrella in wet weather because it's not fashionable to do so!
I think ripped jeans is one of the strangest fashion trends ever. I cannot see a single thing of beauty about them. I remember working with someone with a teenage daughter in the early 1990s before social media and phones and they had problems with peer pressure at school on what to wear and particularly designer trainers even then.
Some people will do anything to fit in with their peers. It is their choice.
It does seem stronger at the moment than I've ever known it.
Shorts (here in Brighton) are very popular all year round. I'm a shorts wearer myself but not in the cold or rain. I blame the Postmen, who started the craze.
And some of the prices they charge for the 'destroyed' jeans are astronomical!
And good luck to them.
lucky if you can find a market that sells fabric. I've just bought some Liberty fabric for a top, £16. From the Cloth House down Sadler Gate, Ilona.
Today I have on leggings and a flannel shirt tennis shoes. Comfortable and that is me. Have never worn makeup.
Guess I was born 'old' as peer pressure and fashion was never an issue with me. I've always liked jeans, but didn't wear them ripped. I'm sure the kids think they're sexy that way. Doesn't bother me... odd, but what the heck? I'd just hope they wear them because they actually like the look, not because of peer pressure.
The gold is for ceramics repairs.
I wouldn't know how to describe what I wear, but none of it is expensively ripped.
I couldn't care less either of what people wear, it's the pressurisation that worries me.
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