Hey!
Welcome to Make Thrift Buy, the show where, BLAH BLAH BLAH, GUYS: The Clear Knee Mom Jeans
are Out. Of. Style.
What’s that?
You were still wearing them?!
Oh my god.
How embarrassing for you.
But don’t worry, I’m here to show you how you can quickly and easily convert your
so 3-weeks-ago clear knee mom jeans into the latest style hitting the racks: DIRT JEANS.
That’s right.
You heard me.
DIRT JEANS.
Now Nordstrom are selling these babies for $425, but I think that we can probably DIY
this for ourselves.
So, let's pull out our DIY caps and let’s begin.
So, I started with my pair of now horribly out-of-style clear knee mom jeans from episode
#52.
[Laughs.]
What was I thinking?
Now, you might be thinking, do I need to buy expensive materials for this DIY?
Well, you actually don’t!
There’s this thing, called dirt, that you can find all over the place, for free!
You can probably even find it in your own backyard!
So all you need to do is to find a patch of dirt, and then take any pair of jeans, and
place them in the dirt.
Now, a storm had just gone overhead, which was IDEAL for this DIY – the recent rain
turned the dirt into this thing called MUD, which has really good adhesive properties
and will make the jeans look even more authentic.
You can even add some water to the dirt yourself, to make your own DIY MUD!
Now this is DIY, so I wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty.
Plus, it makes the jeans all that more authentic: now that you know what it’s like to be dirty,
you’ve seen some hard-working action, you can wear these jeans with pride.
Here’s a pro-tip, I used a sponge to rub the mud into the jeans to really get it in
there.
And then after leaving them out in the dirt overnight, I let them bake in the sun for
the whole next morning to really set the dirt in there, and now I'm done!
And it’s time to see – how did I go?
[Really over-the-top "cool" electro/drum and bass music plays]
Guys, these came out SO WELL.
I think this is one of my favourite DIYs to date!
This is definitely a:
[scissor snipping, zipper sound effect]
[Total Silence]
[Deep breath out]
What is the deal with high fashion at the moment?
Not only have we got the dirt jeans, but Nordstrom are also selling: the artist jeans!
The house-painter jeans!
That you can just throw on to put on your "poor people" costume – all the look without
the effort!
Other big retailers like Topshop and Asos have also recently released clothing lines
that look like they’re meant to be DIY?
Like, it’s really in fashion right now to look like you’re too poor to buy new clothes
so you make your own out of secondhand stuff, Pretty in Pink style.
Except... you, you buy this look.
Brand new.
At a store.
You see the confusion here?
There's also plenty of brand new clothes that are styled to look like moth-eaten hand-me-downs.
And don’t even get me started on Vetements...
Vet-mon?
However you pronounce that - and stuff like their DHL t-shirt.
I think the total lack of awareness goes even deeper when you start thinking about who’s
manufacturing these jeans.
Hey Nordstrom, do you even know who the workers are who you're paying probably not much to
splatter fake mud on these $425 jeans?
What do they think of these jeans?
Do they think that the affluent part of the world has gone completely bonkers?
Hey, high fashion.
Stop trying to be common people.
You’ll never do what the common people do.
I’m quoting the band Pulp there.
But it’s a very appropriate song for this particular situation.
To be honest if you spend $425 on these - you are just living in different world than the
one I'm living in.
[Sighs]
Oh and just in case anyone was wondering, I’m going to wash turn these jeans into
shorts, after washing them thoroughly, and also use some clothing dye to dye them black.
There's no way I was just going to be throwing these jeans out, don't worry.
Thanks for watching.
You should check out my other videos here, they're a lot better than this one, and I’ll
see you all next time.
Bye!
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