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- Cris Popenoe
- October 4, 2010
- 8:00 am
- 59 comments
Many of us are interested in being less wasteful, and recycling where we can. What better to recycle than old blue jeans? The video we posted on The Clothes Diet (wearing only six items of clothing) garnered a lot of comments. Let us know what you think of this one.
It seems the idea is catching. The fashion world has decided that old jeans are in, the more battered the better. And they go to great lengths to refashion old jeans by cutting and pasting, tearing, bleaching, and whatever else they can think of to make them look distressed. The worse they are, the more they charge, and that’s plenty.
Who would have thought that recycling would lead to this?
Photo credit: Malingering
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+ add your ownInteresting. Thanks for the post.
I don't think that having holes in jeans has ever totally gone away. When I was a teen in the 80's the trend was in.
As for reusing or recycling denim there must be an infinate number of things you can do with it. You can make patchwork denim curtains from old jeans, blankets, placemats, rugs, computer cases, purses, pet beds and so forth.
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OK, so ''we go around again''... great!! But no one has to go out and buy the look. Make the look yourself. Take your jeans and a razor blade, then slightly cut some of the fibres on the denim. You can cut across or up and down, sideways... it doesn't matter.
The main thing is don't be taken in by thinking you have to go out and spend your money on more expensive cut up jeans.
Try a second hand place or thrift store... I bought a ton of jeans and make bags, skirts, xmas stockings, anything I can think of and sell them. People love it.
thanks
Gosh, I've been trying to get my husband to toss some of his old, worn, torn, stained work jeans. Better rethink my priorities.. Or not!
How silly!!!
I can appreciate the actual re-cycling aspect of the material; however to pay $800.00 to get the hobo look to prove that one is anti-establishment is exactly “very establishment”! And anti-establishment is an individual choice as some of us know, not herd mentality.
ok if it works for u
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