Sometimes less can certainly be more, but rarely when one is forking out their hard-earned bucks for it. And yet, somehow holes became trendy and less fabric for more money must have sounded like a fantasy that no fashion executive could have imagined in their wildest dreams. But in those wacky 80s, that’s exactly what the consumer wanted – holes and plenty of them.

It started innocuously enough with sports jerseys, lined with tiny perforations that allowed them to breathe more easily. But forget breathing – the clothing that following allowed for gasping. Ripped jeans with gaping holes, fingerless gloves, shirts made out of netting – it’s funny because its true.

Originally introduced and handmade by the punk movement, clothes with holes were a statement of destruction and angst and meant to shock the masses. But the public didn’t get offended, they embraced these revealing fashions in every manner imaginable. Even the adornments of safety pins, fishnet stockings and haphazard zippers that led nowhere were seen as perfectly normal and better yet, desirable.

But the punkers had another weapon up their sleeve, one that was certain to shock like no rip or hole ever could – the introduction of fluorescent colors to the fashion spectrum. And what did the public do? They said “Oh yeah! Give us more of that” At some point the punk rockers must have wondered if it was even possible to shock the public anymore. Meanwhile, mesh clothing eventually went out of style – in every place except church. There, it is considered holey.