Someone please explain the physics of this

I just took a bad fall outside on the pavement. I was wearing jeans. Both my knees are bleeding but my jeans didn't tear

How do the jeans stay intact while my knees are scraped enough to be bleeding underneath?

[I'm mostly fine, maybe a sprained left wrist where all my weight landed. But this is a genuine question about my knees]

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