Well, anyone who has ever felt exasperated1 at the sight of jeans manufactured with holes is about to have a full-on conniption. Nordstrom has seen the mid-aughts trend and raised it some, selling a pair of jeans that come dirty. Yep, these jeans,are replete2 with a filthy3, fake-mud design.
那些曾经一看到破洞牛仔裤就感到恼火的人，现在可能要彻底怒了。诺德斯特龙公司注意到了本世纪初的这股潮流，并打算将其升级。该公司推出了一款脏范儿牛仔裤。是的，这款牛仔裤上满是脏脏的假泥巴设计。
They are made in Portugal, by a company called PRPS, which specializes in
distressed4 jeans covered in holes, rips and patches.
The jeans, called "Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans" and described on Nordstrom's website as "heavily distressed," are said to "
embody5 rugged6 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." The price of pretending you've been hard at work doing manual
labor7? A
leisurely8 $425.
Photos of the Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans went viral online recently, with people leaving all kinds of snarky reviews on the Nordstrom website.
"Gotta love being able to look like I have fed the pigs, helped deliver a
calf9, and get the tractor unstuck without ever having to leave my BMW. Love it," one person wrote.
"These are perhaps the best jeans I've ever owned.
Perfectly10 match my stick on calluses," another commented.
Nordstrom eventually removed the reviews, but the onslaught continued on Facebook, Twitter and the comment sections of major news sites. They even got a comment out of Mike Rowe, the famous host of popular Discovery Channel show "Dirty Jobs".
"The Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans aren't pants. They're not even fashion. They're a costume for wealthy people who see work as
ironic11 - not iconic," Rowe wrote on Facebook.
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