Nordstrom Touts Its Mud-Covered Jeans For Men

[sarisataka]

Nordstrom Touts Its Mud-Covered Jeans For Men

Perhaps to try and top last month’s debut of clear-kneed mom jeans from Top Shop, this month Nordstrom is shifting its focus to dads, with its faux mud-covered Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans from PRPS. With a price tag of $425, one might have thought the jeans would also come with a free trip to the rodeo.

Good news though, you can buy a muddy jean jacket to match the muddy jeans, also from PRPS, also for $425.

Nordstrom touts its “deep caked-on, baked-in muddy smears” as a core benefit.

According to Nordstrom, the jeans with dirt on the legs“embody rugged, Americana workwear that's seen some hard-working action with a crackled, caked-on muddy coating that shows you're not afraid to get down and dirty.” Yes, the mud is faux mud.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marciaturner/2017/04/26/nordstrom-touts-its-mud-covered-jeans-for-men/#7effc5306343

Back in my day, we bought clean clothes and got them dirty ourselves. But I guess this is a First World Problem.

If anyone doubts these exist, you can order them here: http://shop.nordstrom.com/sr?origin=keywordsearch&keyword=prps

As a special offer to the DU community, I am willing to help out with the steep price tag. If you want your own pair of pre-soiled jeans just PM me. I will give you an address to send a pair of jeans and $250. I will personally soil them with actual organic dirt for you, not imitation dirt used by Nordstrom. As a bonus I will pay the return shipping. Re-treatment of dirt will be available at reduced rate if the jeans are accidentally cleaned.

[NurseJackie]

1. They should have tried that with the Ivanka Trump collection before they dumped it...

... into their bargain basement.

[cwydro]

2. I spent part of the day digging post holes in the Carolina clay.

I can show them some mud caked jeans.

People that buy those probably never did a day of hard outside work in their life.

[ProudLib72]

3. I have some oil and grease covered Carhartts

I'm thinking of wearing them in public now. They'll give me street cred.

[ret5hd]

4. I will better sarisataka's offer by $50...and I will make an additional guarantee:

I will promise to fart/not-fart in them (your preference).

[sarisataka]

8. Damn!!!

I knew I should have filed an intellectual property patent. Well I know better than to tell you about my crime-scene jeans before I reveal details... ooops

[Docreed2003]

5. Reminds me of the rock with "hand tooled leather pouch" they sold at Xmas

...for an outrageous price tag.

It's amazing to me what people will spend obscene amounts of money on, and yes, 500$ for a pair of jeans is freaking obscene.

[Warpy]

6. Wow, for only $425, you can go around looking like

you actually work for a living, while people who actually do work for a living spend their money trying to clean up at the end of the week.

Shit, what a country.

[left-of-center2012]

7. Don't like muddy jeans - try these

Nordstrom's has been mocked on social media for selling a pair of $425 jeans complete
with fake "crackled, caked-on muddy coating".

Last month Nordstrom advertised another unusual pair of trousers in the form of jeans with "knee windows" on its website -
but for a far cheaper $95, made for Nordstrom by New York-based luxury denim brand PRPS.

[Doreen]

9. Are rich people who put down people who actually work

trying to prove that they work also? Odd to have a clean pair of muddy pants...how fucking stupid.