In wearing ripped jeans, there’s a fine line between looking relaxed casual and looking like you just got mauled by a bear. These 16 overly holey jeans just crossed that line.
Scroll through for celebrities wearing jeans where the destroying, ripping, and shredding went overboard.
1. Good American jeans with holes so big, they might as well have been shorts
The Kardashian sisters are no strangers to ripped jeans, and Kourtney showed that she’s the most comfortable in them with these should’ve-been-shorts holey jeans.
She styled her Good American ‘Good Cuts’ jeans with Vans “Old Skool” sneakers in black and white.
Kourtney Kardashian in distressed jeans and a black turtleneck paired with Vans ‘Old Skool’ sneakers while out for lunch on December 13, 2016 in Hollywood.
2. Completely destroyed jeans
Not to be outdone, Khloé Kardashian showed up at LAX wearing completely destroyed jeans with suede pointy-toe ‘Paris’ pumps from Saint Laurent.
Khloe Kardashian rocks extremely destroyed jeans with big holes at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on May 14, 2014
3. Ripped jeans with gaping thigh holes
As we said, these sisters are extremely comfortable in all manners of ripped jeans.
Kendall Jenner rocks Topshop Moto vintage boyfriend jeans with big thigh holes at the grand opening of the Last Kings Flagship Store in Los Angeles on February 20, 2014
4. Sequined denim-on-denim mess
It’s ripped and sequined double denim. See Miley Cyrus’ entire hot mess of a stage outfit here.
A look from the Ashish spring 2014 runway worn by Miley Cyrus for her “MTV Unplugged” concert with Madonna filmed at Sunset Gower Studios in Los Angeles, California, and aired on January 29, 2014
5. Ashish’s extra-breezy ripped jeans with sequins
The Ashish Spring 2014 collection was the primordial fashion soup of the sequined ripped denim outfits favored by the likes of Miley Cyrus.
Looks with ripped jeans in the Ashish Spring 2014 fashion presentation held during London Fashion Week in London, England, on September 14, 2013
6. Extremely ripped white jeans
There wasn’t much left of her extremely ripped white jeans when Bella Thorne visited Sugar Factory Ocean Drive in Miami.
Bella Thorne wears white distressed jeans with big holes at Sugar Factory as she launches Thorne by Bella at Sugar Factory Ocean Drive on March 13, 2019, in Miami Beach, Florida
7. Chomped-on holey jeans
It’s actually very appropriate that Cassie wore these ripped jeans that look like they were chomped on to an event where she was set to hand out ice cream sandwiches.
Cassie Ventura getting ready to hand out ice cream sandwiches from Coolhaus ice cream cart in Manhattan, New York, on April 23, 2012
8. Non-restricting concert performance jeans
If Jessie J wanted a stage outfit that she could freely move around in, she got it in these extremely ripped jeans.
@cjlockers’ and @ellisfoley’s Instagram pics of Jessie J performing at the 2012 Isle of Wight Festival at Seaclose Park in Newport, Isle of Wight, on June 23, 2012 — posted June 25-26, 2012
9. Rita Ora’s destroyed-to-death jeans that she can’t say R.I.P. to
Was Rita Ora feeling hot or cold in her furry sweater and ripped jeans outfit? We may never know!
Rita Ora rocks extremely destroyed jeans with big holes when arriving at Global Radio in London, England, on March 28, 2014
10. Eliza Doolittle’s a-little-bit-too-loved jeans
To be fair to Eliza Doolittle, she has had these jeans for quite some time now and the holes just got bigger and bigger.
Eliza Doolittle wears holey jeans while heading to the BBC Radio One studios in London, England, on September 16, 2013
11. Square-cut jeans
It’s Eliza Doolittle again and this time, she didn’t even bother making the rips in the square cutouts at the knees of her jeans look natural.
Eliza Doolittle rocks jeans with square cutouts at the launch of the new digital Argos store on Tottenham Court Road in London on July 27, 2014
12. Black jeans that are the bee’s knees
It’s like Tamera Foster’s left knee busted out of her tight, black skinny jeans with big holes.
Tamera Foster wearing jeans with big holes at the Now & Solait VIP Beach Party at Kanaloa in London, England, on June 17, 2014
13. Jeans that look like they’ve been put through a shredder
Taylor Momsen‘s not goth-punk yet here, but you could already see the beginnings of it in her heavy eyeliner and shredded jeans.
Taylor Momsen wears shredded jeans at Z-100’s Zootopia 2009 concert at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on May 16, 2009
14. Slashed gray jeans
These jeans may or may not have been slashed by Wolverine.
Erin Wasson at the Christopher Bailey and Mario Testino Burberry Beverly Hills Store Re-Opening in Beverly Hills, California, on October 20, 2008
15. Distressed jeans with large patches missing
At least Hilary had the sense to pair it with an equally holey sweater.
Hilary Duff with son Luca at a park in Los Angeles on November 23, 2014
16. Hobo-meets-high-end look with overly ripped jeans
Gigi Hadid takes mixing-and-matching to whole new levels in pairing super-ripped One Teaspoon jeans with a prim blouse, a tailored coat, and stiletto heels.
Gigi Hadid at the Chanel haute couture spring/summer 2016 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on January 26, 2016
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