“If only my South Pole jeans were there to save them in time.”

Des Moines, Iowa - Get out those wideleg jeans you’ve been keeping in the back of your closet, because they aren’t coming back into style and apparently someone found a better use for them than your hopes for a fashion faux pa repeat. Iowa State University students are collecting old jeans to help turn them into insulation for homes being rebuilt for victims of hurricane Katrina and Rita. The old jeans you turn in becomes recycles into bales of insulation called Ultra Touch. Promote your deal Andrea Samber of Cotton Inc:

(Whether it’s) taking a pair of their old blue jeans or perhaps their mom’s old blue jeans or from their church or school, wherever it’s from, but that it’s able to be recycled. It resists mold and mildew. It resists noise. It has some really wonderful properties that are environmentally friendly.

If anything the victims of the hurricane don’t feel like making nice and being “environmentally friendly.” This is the same environment that took everything away from them. They probably want revenge, as best spoken by displaced victim, Kenneth “Duece Duece” Jones:

Dis hurricane messed mah shit up. And these cats wanna line mah new crib wit jeans? Hugo boss ain’t gonna protect me!! I say we lines deez houses with pandas and koalas. Teach mother nature a mothafuckin lesson.

Sounds… agreeable?

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