I follow fashion takes hold of all of us at some point. We wear stuff and change our appearance according to some fad - and tattoos are a fad. Fine. But fashion is transitory - we all know and realise that - so why something that is permanent? An 80 year old gran with a 'sleeve' - wrinkled and even more illegible. Hmmmm.
Me old dad, who did National Service after the war, where he said tattoos were a right-of-passage type thing for the lower classes in the services, always rued the fact that he succumbed as the tattoos and the way he spoke defined his 'class'. But now tattoos have gone viral. Why - can someone explain the appeal?
Not Tattoos ,but Fashion. I can say from the age of about ten I was a fashion guru and trendsetter. If only I had patented it . What am I talking about?
Holes in jeans.
My jeans always had holes in them because my mum was fed-up with sowing patches over them because we did some very rough stuff as kids as I'm sure many of my generation did. Climbing trees, scrumping climbing cotils and so on..
I went shopping with my teen age daughter once and went in to Dorthey Perkins with her and embarrassed the heck out of her when I shouted across the floor. "Em, there selling jeans with bloody holes in them" One of those moments where you forget where you are. She was out the door as fast as she could caper, disowning me on her way.
I couldn't believe that anyone thought it was cool to buy brand new jeans with tears in them. Who does that? Heck I've even got a pair with holes in now which I use in the garden and for jobs when working outside. I'm now to embarrassed to wear them when away from home in case the kids think "look at that old fart trying to look cool" a bit Jeremy Clarkson so to speak.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I watched a bit of Casablanca yesterday. There was a line spoken by Ingrid Bergman that made me cringe. I can't remember the exact words, but it was something like, "Who's the boy playing the piano?" I was thinking that I didn't remember any children in the film the last time I saw it. The camera panned to Sam, a middle aged black man.
Hubby used to be addicted to Paul Smith clothes. He bought a pair of jeans which didn't just have regular holes: they were Designer holes, in Designer jeans. I hated them but he was happy to pay £120 for them
I went shopping with my teen age daughter once and went in to Dorthey Perkins with her and embarrassed the heck out of her when I shouted across the floor. "Em, there selling jeans with bloody holes in them" One of those moments where you forget where you are. She was out the door as fast as she could caper, disowning me on her way.
Made me laugh - is your daughter actually speaking to you yet ?
I remember my early teenaged son being very proud of his vintage Levi denim jacket ... it had was frayed around the collar and hem and looked just like something Steve McQueen or similar would wear ............ then one night whilst we were out and his grandmother was 'sitting' for him and his sister, she found it and repaired it ... snipping off all the frayed bits and patching the worn bits with pieces of matching denim ........ she was very proud of her handiwork ... he was heartbroken. 😭
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If holes in hand are fashion my holey jeans certainly aren't. For a start all the hands I've owned in the last 20 years got thrownv away after the first holes appeared near the centre seam in the crotch? There's only so many times you can sew that type of hole up before you run out of fabric at the seam to sew into. Then they're binfodder or perhaps compost of you're into composting anything that will go.
Having said that my work jeans started to dissolve in a few holes in the shin area. One hole, two holes, three... Is got about 6 holes now.
AIUI COVID breach seems to have the rule that if you're involved directly in the message such as Hancock and that Scottish chief medical officer you fall on your sword. If you're not in that position you can bluff it. All that Labour MP who crossed into Wales for a haircut against regulations. He barely got a rebuke.
The only tattoos that I have are two dots where I had radiotherapy many years ago. My Son has one on his upper arm which he had done when he was in the Navy, I think it it was almost obligatory in those days!
I have holes - mended - in gardening jeans. Once the hole is unmendable and lets draughts in the jeans go in the bin. I did make a handbag from one such pair but it ended up in the charity shop pile.
I remember in the mid 80s when we first went skiing in France and did a day trip to Megève to check it out. Very smart. Saw a pair of very faded, stone washed denim jeans with lacy trim and pearls on the pockets in a designer shop. £350. Took a photo and when we went home I raided my haberdashery stocks and added the same effect to my £35 jeans.
I have one hole in each ear lobe cos I like ear rings but hate clip ons. I do not have any tattoos of the deliberate or accidental kind. I can change my clothes, hair style, ear-rings according to mood and activity but a tattoo is permanent and I've yet to see one I like, big or small. Horrid things and they certainly do not age well as skin and muscle tone collapse and go wrinkly and flabby.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I was in a business trip to Goteborg and had one day to kill before the meeting. Boss was a shopaholic who needed jeans. He didn't but we went walking round the city checking every clothes shop. In the end we went back to a designer jeans shop. Only jeans. They sold the jeans and had four modification stations and one industrial sewing machine. You could help yourself to various studs, sequins, shaped patches and glitter. Plus various methods of jeans torture from cheese grater sections attached to the table, sandpaper, blades, etc. Totally amazing what people did to jeans. One guy was very busy with the sewing machine with a mouthful of needles, thread and good knows what as his hands worked deftly with everything.
My boss meanwhile was in an hour long jeans discussion with the guy working there. I didn't follow it but it sounded like he was referring to different makes and their model numbers with the relative differences in fit and style. Seriously my boss was knowledgeable enough to be chief jeans buyer in any jeans shop. I was feeling brain dead after hours of shopping with him. Even his wife won't go shopping with him. Nobody who knows him has the stamina for it!!
Still, I learnt there was another world of jeans to the cheapo ones I buy.
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Not Tattoos ,but Fashion. I can say from the age of about ten I was a fashion guru and trendsetter. If only I had patented it . What am I talking about?
Holes in jeans.
My jeans always had holes in them because my mum was fed-up with sowing patches over them because we did some very rough stuff as kids as I'm sure many of my generation did. Climbing trees, scrumping climbing cotils and so on..
I went shopping with my teen age daughter once and went in to Dorthey Perkins with her and embarrassed the heck out of her when I shouted across the floor. "Em, there selling jeans with bloody holes in them" One of those moments where you forget where you are. She was out the door as fast as she could caper, disowning me on her way.
I couldn't believe that anyone thought it was cool to buy brand new jeans with tears in them. Who does that?
Heck I've even got a pair with holes in now which I use in the garden and for jobs when working outside. I'm now to embarrassed to wear them when away from home in case the kids think "look at that old fart trying to look cool" a bit Jeremy Clarkson so to speak.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
I was thinking that I didn't remember any children in the film the last time I saw it. The camera panned to Sam, a middle aged black man.
He bought a pair of jeans which didn't just have regular holes: they were Designer holes, in Designer jeans.
I hated them but he was happy to pay £120 for them
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Having said that my work jeans started to dissolve in a few holes in the shin area. One hole, two holes, three... Is got about 6 holes now.
AIUI COVID breach seems to have the rule that if you're involved directly in the message such as Hancock and that Scottish chief medical officer you fall on your sword. If you're not in that position you can bluff it. All that Labour MP who crossed into Wales for a haircut against regulations. He barely got a rebuke.
I remember in the mid 80s when we first went skiing in France and did a day trip to Megève to check it out. Very smart. Saw a pair of very faded, stone washed denim jeans with lacy trim and pearls on the pockets in a designer shop. £350. Took a photo and when we went home I raided my haberdashery stocks and added the same effect to my £35 jeans.
I have one hole in each ear lobe cos I like ear rings but hate clip ons. I do not have any tattoos of the deliberate or accidental kind. I can change my clothes, hair style, ear-rings according to mood and activity but a tattoo is permanent and I've yet to see one I like, big or small. Horrid things and they certainly do not age well as skin and muscle tone collapse and go wrinkly and flabby.
My boss meanwhile was in an hour long jeans discussion with the guy working there. I didn't follow it but it sounded like he was referring to different makes and their model numbers with the relative differences in fit and style. Seriously my boss was knowledgeable enough to be chief jeans buyer in any jeans shop. I was feeling brain dead after hours of shopping with him. Even his wife won't go shopping with him. Nobody who knows him has the stamina for it!!
Still, I learnt there was another world of jeans to the cheapo ones I buy.