Nordstrom dirty jeans fad will be gold mine come tax season
Apr 27, 2017, 7:56 AM
Nordstrom sells a lot of expensive distressed jeans, but this week, it started selling jeans that were not only distressed, but distressed with simulated caked-on mud.
From coast to coast, people were either condemning Nordstrom or pounding the keyboard yelling, “For ***** sake why didn’t *I* think of that?”
In other news Nordstrom is selling jeans with “fake mud” on them for $425…if I had an extra 425 laying around, i wouldn’t be buying these. pic.twitter.com/VrxWhg2mlH
— Bean (@court_cloutier) April 25, 2017
But the ultimate condemnation came from Mike Rowe, the host of “Dirty Jobs.”
“As a country, what the hell are we doing, man?” Rowe asked. “This is a world completely defined right now by fake everything.”
But you’re all missing the point.
Just like Mike, I have real dirty jeans. Including my x-rated pair with the Gorilla tape and staples holding the crotch together, and I can tell you that each pair carries a painful memory.
Because all of my dirty jeans began as spotless brand new jeans, until the day I decided: It’s a minor repair, I can do it without changing clothes. What’s the chance I’m gonna smear roofing tar all over my spotless jeans?
Nordstrom’s pre-ruined jeans solve that problem. They eliminate the pain of ruining perfectly good jeans, and by making dirty jeans a high-fashion item, Nordstrom has allowed all of us to wear our weekend clothes to work.
The other reason I hope this catches on? If the market price for dirty jeans is now $425, my Goodwill clothing donations are a bigger write-off than Trump’s real estate deals.
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