Ripped jeans and hip beards

billyhead · 15-09-2018 5:08pm #1

Why are teenagers and women putting holes in perfectly good jeans? Also having a beard century's ago was acceptable due to the lack of access to shaving gear the full beard and mustache look has become so common nowadays. Is it just o look masculine and try to impress the opposite sex. Its an untidy look imo and there is no excuse to be clean shaven.

Samuel T. Cogley · 15-09-2018 5:10pm

I'm with you on the ripped jeans front, especially on men but a well groomed beard is just as good as clean shaven.

whiskeyman · 15-09-2018 5:11pm

Temptamperu · 15-09-2018 5:28pm

Is it me that is out of touch? No, no its the children.

Victor · 15-09-2018 5:33pm

billyhead wrote: »

hip beards

I've never seen a beard on a hip? Was it visible through the rips?

freshpopcorn · 15-09-2018 5:34pm

This has being happening for well over a decade now. I wouldn't exactly consider it a new thing.

Heckler · 15-09-2018 5:39pm

Saw a woman whom I know to be well in her 40's today with jeans ripped apart from mid shin to mid thigh. Shes a looker with good pins but it looked absolutely stupid.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 15-09-2018 5:47pm

Clean shaven here, no ripped jeans.. But I actually felled a tree today, however I did look like a mong wearing a motorcycle helmet for protection lol

(pix to prove it too)

Edgware · 15-09-2018 5:48pm

Heckler wrote: »

Saw a woman whom I know to be well in her 40's today with jeans ripped apart from mid shin to mid thigh. Shes a looker with good pins but it looked absolutely stupid.

Had she a well trimmed beard or a bushy one?

OldMrBrennan83 · 15-09-2018 5:50pm

What you'll normally find is that they're probably a twat whether they've a beard, ripped jeans, or neither.

Westernyelp · 15-09-2018 5:50pm

billyhead wrote:

Why are teenagers and women putting holes in perfectly good jeans? Also having a beard century's ago was acceptable due to the lack of access to shaving gear the full beard and mustache look has become so common nowadays. Is it just o look masculine and try to impress the opposite sex. Its an untidy look imo and there is no excuse to be clean shaven.

Perhaps we should bring in state sanctioned hair styles too? North Korea could send us their brochure

Harry Palmr · 15-09-2018 5:53pm

I assumed the jeans were sold like that

Saw a woman old enough to know better wearing some strategically placed threads before the weather turned.

Roger Hassenforder · 15-09-2018 5:57pm

It's like we learned nothing from the 80s.

endacl · 15-09-2018 6:02pm

billyhead wrote: »

Its an untidy look imo and there is no excuse to be clean shaven.

Make your mind up.

Church on Tuesday · 15-09-2018 6:08pm

There's nothing wrong with a well maintained beard. IMO lads that have a hang up about beards can't grow one :P

The ripped jeans look is awful though. I see a lot of male teenagers wearing them and it's just very feminine to me. Current fashions trend I guess.

OldMrBrennan83 · 15-09-2018 6:10pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with a well maintained beard. IMO lads that have a hang up about beards can't grow one :P

The ripped jeans look is awful though. I see a lot of male teenagers wearing them and it's just very feminine to me. Current fashions trend I guess.

They're probably a step up from the normal teenager look of a septic grey tracksuit with ankle cuffs and the shiniest black trainers that you would have got beaten up in school for wearing in the good old days.

Fanny Wank · 15-09-2018 6:11pm

I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was, and now what I’m with isn’t it. And what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me.

Church on Tuesday · 15-09-2018 6:17pm

Patww79 wrote: »

They're probably a step up from the normal teenager look of a septic grey tracksuit with ankle cuffs and the shiniest black trainers that you would have got beaten up in school for wearing in the good old days.

Yeah, I'd have to agree with you there.

per aspera ad astra · 15-09-2018 6:17pm

A beard isn't an accessory – it isn't a f***ing hat. It like everything else on our bodies – serves an important evolutionary function.

"Oh look at the Orangutan, wouldn't you think he would cut off his big flanges! What is he like!?! He should cut them off!

Look at the shape of that lion – what is he llke with his mane!?! Does he think the lionesses find him attractive?? He should cut off his mane and look like the lioness!

Hey Mr. Peacock – your big colourful tail looks ridiculous! – why don't you cut them feathers off like everybody else! Then you will be like the Peahen!

Mr. Deer – what are you like!?! You're antlers are ridiculous, why don't you get them cut off? Then you will be like the Doe!"

I could go on and on – but I think I've made my point.

Sam Quentin · 15-09-2018 6:23pm

Imagine,,, On a student night out some guy decides to break a window.. surely the CCTV of the offender would be useless!?

Mailcoachinn · 15-09-2018 6:25pm

And traveler haircuts

whisky_galore · 15-09-2018 6:27pm

Some of the ripped jeans going around are fit only for the bin.

Big Nasty · 15-09-2018 6:27pm

Heckler wrote: »

Saw a woman whom I know to be well in her 40's today with jeans ripped apart from mid shin to mid thigh. Shes a looker with good pins but it looked absolutely stupid.

POGTFO

freshpopcorn · 15-09-2018 6:42pm

Patww79 wrote: »

They're probably a step up from the normal teenager look of a septic grey tracksuit with ankle cuffs and the shiniest black trainers that you would have got beaten up in school for wearing in the good old days.

In my area they only seem to wear skinny black tracksuit pants with black runners. They are the sort of runners you might get away with wearing to school.
Then there's the no socks thing or leaving your bare ankles hang out. When I was in school one kid used do this because he either had no money to afford socks or wasn't the best at dressing himself.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-09-2018 7:08pm

Nitric Acid is great for putting holes in jeans.

the beer revolu · 15-09-2018 7:22pm

I remember wearing ripped jeans in the late eighties/early nineties. Jeans that had ripped themselves, though. Sometime the jeans were patched (surprised that hasn't come back).
I remember being horrified at a friend who discovered that a bread knife created credible rips. That seemed wrong to me.

As for beards.
I think that with today's shaving technology there's no excuse for not having a clean shaven head. It's so much neater and hygienic.

Also, growing a beard is a passive thing.
Shaving the hair off your face is a very deliberate act that is done purely for fashion purposes.
Clean shaven fashion victims!

CrankyHaus · 15-09-2018 7:33pm

Who cares?
Ripped jeans come around every 10 to 15 years. They had a mini moment around 2005 (more a kind of frayed patch effect than the older ripped style). Beards come in and out on a slightly longer cycle. They last seem to have been in in the 70s.

Neither are that bad. The real horrors of contemporary fashion are Man-buns and those shorts teenage girls are wearing that show half of their arse.

BeerWolf · 15-09-2018 9:24pm

Victor wrote: »

I've never seen a beard on a hip? Was it visible through the rips?

A woman with a cheeky peeking of the ol' natural?

irishguitarlad · 15-09-2018 9:27pm

Ripped jeans are ok and so are beards although It does depend on the type. I have one but I don't have a hipster one and I keep It nice and neat so It doesn't develop into a neckbeard.

harry Bailey esq · 15-09-2018 10:31pm

billyhead wrote: »

Why are teenagers and women putting holes in perfectly good jeans? Also having a beard century's ago was acceptable due to the lack of access to shaving gear the full beard and mustache look has become so common nowadays. Is it just o look masculine and try to impress the opposite sex. Its an untidy look imo and there is no excuse to be clean shaven.

It's scruffy. That Europe lie. I've had an aqquaitance with a very slightly hirsute one, a Swiss lady. The other ones were perfectly groomed.

Ripped jeans and hip beards

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