Rag trade

I DIDN’T think the fashion for ripped and slashed jeans would last until the end of the summer, but now a designer has dressed a model in just the stitched seams of what could have, at one time, been jeans (Mail).

The trend is now shredded T-shirts, blouses and sweaters that look like little more than various strips glued to the body.

I find it perplexing that ‘pre-worn’ clothes can be sold as new with a hefty surcharge.

These overpriced rags are championed by well-paid celebrities and copied by young women. Are we supposed to feel sorry for the wearers, or is it an attempt to show empathy with the poor and homeless?

FRED NICHOLSON, Westcliff, Essex.