Did they pay extra for those jeans that look like rags? When my daughter wanted to buy jeans like that, I rubbed some sand paper on them to make some well-placed holes and called it a day. In my day, we would put patches on them or you was considered “po.”
Shredded jeans fads started in the early 1990s. Back then, some enterprising soul achieved a bit of notoriety by purchasing brand-new off-brand denim trousers, shooting them with a shotgun, and selling them as “custom made designer bluejeans”.