US clothes firm Nordstrom mocked for selling 'heavily distressed' muddy jeans for £350

The jeans as advertised on Nordstrom's website
Nordstrom
Jonathan Mitchell26 April 2017

A US clothing line has been mocked on social media for selling a pair of “heavily distressed” muddy jeans for £350.

Luxury department store Nordstrom is advertising the jeans on its website, saying that the bizarre styling “shows you're not afraid to get down and dirty".

But many people have taken to social media to mock the company’s new design.

Eric Lee Huffman‏ posted: “Nordstrom has jeans with fake mud for $425. What's next? An entire wardrobe that looks like we survived a tiger attack?”

Ben Mode tweeted: “I will call it the ‘I-ran-out-of-toilet-paper’ look.”

The jeans were made by fashion company PRPS, which also offers a "mud denim jacket".

They are on sale in America for a sizable $425, £351.70 in the UK, and while the the social media storm has only just erupted the jeans appear to have been on sale for some time.

Some Twitter and Facebook users have began jokingly asking the US company if it will buy their own muddy clothes for extortionate funds.

But some people however have jumped to the defence of the retailer.

Catherine posted: “So what? There's much bigger issues to focus on than Nordstrom's idea of fashion.”

Last month Nordstrom advertised jeans with "knee windows" on its website for £74.

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