A good sign

When you're a child, you fall down frequently and scrape your knee. Sometimes you also rip your pants, cover them in dirt. You wear out your clothes.

For some strange reason, teens and adults like to buy clothes that look like a child ruined them. Distressed pants with scraping, different washes and holes.

I'm sorry, when I pay $100 or more for a pair of jeans, I want them to be intact--and I don't want them to accentuate by butt or my thighs (yes, that's what distressing does).

The good news: I'm seeing less people actually wearing distressed jeans. The stores are trying to sell them still, but it seems people are coming to their senses and wearing jeans that are still intact.

The downside is that more people are squeezing themselves into unflattering skinny jeans.

The good news? Maybe retailers will get the hint and stop stocking distressed jeans.

It's a step in the right direction.