Nothing has scarred me like Toughskins jeans. If you were a boy and your parents took you to Sears, you knew you were getting Toughskins. What child hating, super villain thought these "jeans" were a good idea? A cotton, polyester and nylon combo does NOT make jeans!

And then they were the freakin' reinforced knees. Some genius felt the need to sew in knees patches. I'm not sure what that material was. Some type of Kevlar & steel plated armor hybrid. I guess I was protected from being shot in the knees.

If you were a husky kid, which I was, they allowed you too advertise that by placing the word HUSKY right on the tag. Just in case the other kids couldn't tell, you were there to point that out. Thanks Sears & Toughskins.

I don't hate Toughskins...I fear them. It's Sears that I hate. People feared the Frankenstein monster, but they hated it's creator, Dr. Frankenstein.

They started making these horrible things again in the 90s. When I heard the news I ended up in a corner, in the fetal position. Parents, never, ever, eeeevvvveeeerrr buy your kids Toughskins.

Well, that was cathartic and cheaper than therapy.