A firestorm has sparked surrounding a pair of jeans that Nordstrom sells online.
Not for its appearance that is being marketed as “heavily distressed” muddy jean, but because of its $425 (Dh1561.11) price tag.
They’re called the “Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans” and come with some sort of fake mud substance caked all over them.
Nordstrom says the jeans “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.”
And as CNN discovered, “the dirt does not wash out, because it’s actually not real dirt”.
The jeans were designed by PRSP and are sold on Nordstrom’s website, which describes them this way:
A few people with jobs that involve getting “down and dirty” are pretty miffed.
Among them is Mike Rowe, the former host of TV’s “Dirty Jobs,” who channeled his befuddled anger in a Facebook post that’s been shared more than 13,500 times and liked more than 31,000 times as of Wednesday morning.
“This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country’s war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society,” he wrote of the jeans. “Finally — a pair of jeans that look like they have been worn by someone with a dirty job … made for people who don’t.”
