How much would you pay for a pair of ripped jeans? and why?

Call me old fashioned, or just call me old, but I just don't get it.

Pre ripped jeans with a hefty price tag available in most stores. I'd not even buy them in a charity shop.

Why oh why?

When I was a teenage in the mid 80's I wore ripped jeans, I understand fashion. They were old jeans where they'd started to wear at the knees and I'd sit with a nail fail, much to my parents alarm, or a piece of sandpaper and make my own rip in the jeans, nicely frayed.

One rip in a knee and another rip just under the arse pocket, but buy a pair already ripped? I just don't get the point.

And as for this?

Why oh why would anyone want to wear a jacket that looks like it still has the tailors chalk on it?

Wow, you've lost soooo much weight.

Er no I haven't.

I've lost the number of times people say this to me, especially when they haven't seen me for a few weeks. Do people have a mental image of me being fat? How do they describe me? 'you know the chubby one that needs to lose weight?

A woman at school said to me today I'd lost so much weight that it really suited me. I told her straight, I haven't lost any weight, But she was adamant that I had, that I had been so much bigger last time she saw me. She was right, I was wrong....No other explanation.

I'm 5ft 7in and weigh 11 stone, yep quite heavy and you'd think I'd need to lose weight, but not really.

I do prefer to wear baggy clothes, loose fitting, especially in this heat, but that doesn't mean I'm covering up my fat.

I wear a size 10-12 on the lower half and a 14-16 on the top half.

So I decided to take some pictures of my fatness so I can take comparative shots next time I'm told I've lost weight.

Front and side images clothed, as appears naturally and as appears when I readjust the waist band on my jeans...i.e.pull them up.

I bought these jeans from Fat Face in November 2010 in a size 10.