Having been a child of the late 1980s I narrowly missed the grunge period of the 1990s since I was too busy with my overalls and my wildly printed leggings. I never thought those trends would be revived, but as any fashionista knows, almost all trends are resurrected at some point or another. When I first saw a pair of destroyed jeans, on a runway model in some magazine, I cringed.

In case you couldn’t tell, I am opposed to this trend; what a horrible way to kick off the New Year. I propose everyone at Cornell take a stand against ripped jeans. No one looks good in them; I recently saw a photo of Gisele Bundchen in a pair of overly holed jeans (it was basically a jean thong) and not even the perfect Gisele could pull off this look.