Knee Cut Jeans & Why We're All Obsessed With Them?

My uncontrollable urge to ripping and cutting ALL my jeans in the knees, is not the only reason behind this post. What triggered this trend-idea for me, was a slightly unfortunate but nevertheless funny thing that’s happened to one of my friends just last week. The same friend who’s the photographer behind this style-post. So anyway, she was out with some friends shooting pics (doh) when she had a tiny accident. She fell. The outcome, aside from her tiny little injured knees and elbows (the camera was fine though), was the involuntary ripping of her jeans, right in the knees. Actually she wore trousers, but that’s just a detail.

For the love of me, I could not understand why she was so pissed off for ruining her pants. ‘They look so much better!’ I told her. Could it be I am the only living soul around thinking this? While walking around with exposed knees and intentionally ripped jeans?

Uhm…

And then it hit me. No I am not. Ripped jeans all over are great, but knee cut jeans are the more polished and sophisticated version of their shredded siblings. Perhaps it’s the tiny rock’n’roll vibe, the tiny skin exposure, the rebelliousness of it all.

Whatever it is, knee cut jeans are still a massive look and will never go away. I hope so. But even if they do, I am already stuck with at least 5 pairs of jeans which I bought brand new (no ripping) and as soon as I got home, took out the scissors and drilled some holes into them. Knees and all. It’s compulsive already.

The ONLY downside to this is that I’ve had my dad, of all people, who’s only thing in common with fashion is wearing clothes, tell me on various occasions that on accompanying him to different events I am OK wearing jeans, but not those ripped crap pairs I got. At which point I realised those ARE the only ones I have.

But I regret nothing. I simply like the way they look with a bit of knee-exposed-skin out there, especially when styled with something more polished: stiletto heels + blazer. LOVE.

On how to wear them, there’s nothing much to say, they’re jeans so they go with everything. The question though could be: do ripped knees look better on skinny jeans or boyfriend styles?

While I like them both and wear them both, I do prefer the skinny jeans ripped knees in black. That for me is perfection.

I refuse to go on my usual rant right now. Instead I wanna hear yours. So… on knee-cut jeans, what do you think?