Just how distressed do you want your jeans to be?
A zoo in Japan has started producing jeans that not merely
distressed but screaming for help!
What they do is wrap pieces of denim around tyres and other
toys in the enclosures belonging to animals such as tigers and bears. The
pieces are then ripped by the teeth and claws of the animals and removed from
the enclosure before being reduced entirely to shreds.
When the pieces are sewn together they comprise jeans that
have been individually “styled” by a fierce animal, and this look has proved to
be surprisingly sought-after.
It was reported that the zoo had sold a pair of
“tiger-destroyed jeans” for $US 1,200 in an Internet auction and were hoping to
get similar amounts for the “bear-destroyed” garments that were being assembled
at the time.
Would you spend that sort of money on a pair of jeans that
gave the impression that you had survived an encounter with a tiger in the
jungle? Presumably you would need to make up a good story to tell your friends!
© John Welford
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