leather pants: scruffed up or impeccable?

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("trousers" if you're british)

a few weeks ago i went to a sample sale for the first time. i went a little nuts. i bought some dark eggplant-color - almost black - leather pants. they fit me like a frickin glove, they are amazing. and not only that, they are a one-off pair by some designer. they look beatiful. the leather is thick but butter-soft, they ride low on my hips and have a button fly.

now the question is - do i scruff the hell out of these things? usually leather goods don't really feel like they belong to me until i've got them nice and messed up. or do i try to keep them pristine?

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

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― Zora, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

there was an article in yesterdays daily mail about this

― 696, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

somehow i feel like you're missing an option here

― ^@^, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

what is the other option??

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

the first proper week's wage i ever had in my life was 90 quid, when i was temping at the DSS in blackpool.

i spent 80 of it on a pair of leather trousers in london that weekend. i was 16, and peter hook was my god.

i had to get rid of them when i couldn't fit into them any more. wish i hadn't, because i'm probably not much bigger now than i was back then. fuck.

i loved those things with a passion. i allowed them to become gently scuffed and slightly ripped.

i remember lending them to my (female) flatmate one night. they were never quite the same after that. nor was i :)

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

i mean there is the chuck taylor school of thought, which is that you wouldn't want to be caught dead in new-looking chucks; but then these cost a bit more than chuck taylors

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

The question is: how do they look on you now? Too shiny? Too...slippery, or something? Do you feel like everyone's gonna know you just got them?

― G00blar, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah that's it, sort of a new haircut feeling. but also a little like i don't deserve to wear them.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to guy buy cigarettes in them

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

You need to ask yourself WWJJD?

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― Je4nne Fuhfuh, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

she's wouldn't give a crap either way!

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

gah

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/leather.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

ysi?

― G00blar, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if tracer hand is going to drink a beer in those pants tonite

― 696, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

They look awesome, it must be said. Alas, my days of wearing things that fit me like a glove are over, as I've (finally) come to realize that I just don't like my body very much.

― G00blar, Saturday, 12 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

my friend was gifted with a pair of prescuffed leather pants. after several run-throughs, we decided that the only way they looked right was if the wearer was shirtless and barefoot.

― lauren, Saturday, 12 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i'm starting to think the same thing. here, for instance, is a photo of what i think are the same pants (although these look black). (i guess the ones i have could be that actual pair?)

http://www.martinandersson.co.uk/imgs/aw0607/ma18.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was a bit skeptical, but damn, those pants are GREBT! tracer, i like'em scruffed up. Don't go for the shiny impeccable unless you want to come off as a bit of a twat. VERY essential: the RIGHT pair of shoes!

― stevienixed, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

you should get some denim shoes

― RJG, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I like sneakers with leather pants. And a tattered t-shirt.

― stevienixed, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

They look like awesome pants now, and I worry about some kind of "accident" happening with intentional scruffing. Be careful!

― Maria, Saturday, 12 May 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Leather pants are great, but I could wear them maybe 5 days a week here.

― Abbott, Saturday, 12 May 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, I mean 5 days a year.

― Abbott, Saturday, 12 May 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I say it's not so fun at first, but wearing them in naturally will look the best by far.

― Abbott, Saturday, 12 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

TRACER HAND IS WEARING LEATHER PANTS

APOCALYPSE IMMINENT

― nabisco, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, those are awesome.

The trick to breaking in leather clothes is to sleep in them a couple of times. Preferably on the floor of an apartment you've never been in before.

Oh man, I miss my leather trousers but wearing them was many stones ago.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

i did drink beer, while wearing them! baby steps

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

i have decided to just like, let it happen, man

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Good, this is the best attitude. They will soon enough go all saggy in the arse and knees without your mucking about with the leather.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

OTM

― Wrinklepaws, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

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