rock n roll jeans...
again, a late entry.

Back in the giddy eighties, when I was all of about 10 years old, acid wash jeans were cool. And acid wash jeans with holes in them were super duper uber cool.

Having just returned from K-Mart with my mother, who had lovingly procured me a spanky new pair of acid wash lovelies, I thought they needed some oh so cool knee holes.

Now I was, and sometimes still am, a bright lad. So I didn't go for the scissors, that would just make slashes in them. You needed the torn and frayed white cotton things showing and a nice sort of gradation from slightly worn areas right through to gaping knee flesh revealing holes. Sandpaper was my weapon of choice for this little fashion modification.

That's not dumb! I hear you shriek internettently! You're right. It's not.

What was dumb was making this little amendment whilst wearing said jeans.

The initial scruffiness went swimmingly, with the white cotton strands becoming visible and suitably realistic (in the sense that it looked like it had come about through natural wear and tear).

Heartened greatly by this, I set about creating the knee flesh revealing holes by scrubbing furiously with the sandpaper.

This had the wonderful effect of removing not only the terribly unfashionable denim from the jeans knee areas, but also significant amounts of skin from my left knee, which began to bleed profusely. It also created a rather long lasting and interesting scab that negated any desire or fashion kudos that I could possibly have garnered from wearing these jeans, as it would reveal a scab exactly the size and shape of the cool worn out knee hole, which was stained nicely with my own blood in a neat little circle.

Rock.
(lessmiserable, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 6:11, 1 reply)

for any youths considering this in the current 80s revival
use a steak knife for that authentic frayed look... at least the scars will look badass.
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 10:27, closed)