These Jeans Were Distressed by Wild Animals. No, Seriously?
Why spend time distressing, ripping, tearing and abrading jeans when you can get wild animals to do it for you. That is not a rhetorical question and this is not a joke if you can believe it.
Japanese brand, Zoo Jeans, lives up to its name and burgeoning reputation by making their jeans from denim that has been attacked by lions, tigers and bears. Not sure if those three animals were chosen for their ferocity and ability to tear fabric, but Wizard of Oz puns never die.
The zookeepers at the Kamine Zoo in Hitachi City take the animals' favorite toys like tires and balls, wrap them in denim fabric and toss them back into their pens. The animals go to town on the objects -gnawing and tearing at the covering obstructing their playthings. What's left is recovered and used to make the jeans. I can't believe this is a real thing.
In all seriousness, the jeans are an effort by the Mineko Club to raise money for the animals and were auctioned off on Yahoo Japan. All proceeds, if any, go back to the zoo and the World Wildlife Fund.
Would you wear jea...you know what? Forget I almost asked that.
Scroll down to see video of the animals "making" the jeans.
