Distressed jeans have been around for a long time, but fashion companies have been pushing the envelope in this area for a while now. Back in 2017, fashion retailer Nordstrom made news headlines for selling jeans caked in fake mud for a whopping $425 and the Onomichi Denim Project boutique has long been selling premium jeans that have been pre-worn by someone for at least a year. Now, Italian fashion house Gucci has released a pair of jeans and a pair of jeans overalls “specifically treated for a stained-like, distressed effect” They cost $765 and $1,400 respectively…
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Sometimes stained garments draw big offers. Monica Lewinsky was offered $1MILLION by Las Vegas sex museum for DNA-stained blue dress she wore during Clinton affair.
ReplyDeleteA friend made and sold clothes to Western and Trapper re-enactors. He also did leatherwork making chaps and boots. The local ranch hands bought both for real ranch work. He'd offer them $75 trade-in for their old, worn out chaps. The hands would gladly trade them in. He'd then take the old chaps, (covered in mud, blood (both human and animal), and other secretions and excretions), to re-enactors in "citified" areas and sell them for $400 and up.
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ReplyDeleteI'm gonna be rich!!
ReplyDeleteWonder what a pair of bib overalls with cowshit on them would be worth?
ReplyDeleteWonder what a pair of bib overalls with cowshit on them would be worth?
ReplyDeleteIn the early 90's, I'd sell my wore out Levi's 501's for $30 a pair, which was more than I was paying for new ones. They were then shipped overseas to places like Paris where they were sold for over $100.
ReplyDeleteThen I quit wearing 501's and went to Wranglers and there is no used market for Wranglers, so I just wear them until they fall apart.
The Emperor's new clothes. Whoever the salesman was, who first pitched old, worn out shit being worth more than brand new, was one slick sumbitch, indeed!
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