Said the designer Hillary Taymour, quoted in "Are My Pants Really Supposed to Drag on the Ground? Puddle pants, or trousers with floor length, pooling hems, are everywhere right now. Our critic offers tips for wearing them without tracking dirt around with you" (NYT).
Don't we all have pants like that? Too long, and we're too busy to get them re-hemmed. We can just wear them now and inform people that they are "puddle pants."
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Your shoe is too big if you can tuck extra fabric into its heel.
Clam diggers, crops, capris, culottes, and pedal pushers
Roll ‘em up
Your pant legs may pick up all the dirt in the world, but if you've got a nice, full head of Mark Bolan hair you will feel like you are walking on air and not in the mud and dust of the street.
mccullough said...
Clam diggers, crops, capris, culottes, and pedal pushers
Highwaters, floods......
I can’t speak for Madison, but there’s a local seamstress who will re-hem slacks for $10.
Wear shorts.
Don't we all have pants like that?
Not since bell bottoms were in fashion.
Or, just not wear stupid, impractical clothes in the first place. If you're touting personal self-expression for you're wardrobe choices, and then you're traipsing through mud, maybe try out court jester styles.
If my pants are touching the pavement I just head for lower ground and go about my day without problem.
Not since bell bottoms were in fashion.
They aren't in fashion?
Your pant legs may pick up all the dirt in the world
Reminds me of the Paulie rant about shoelaces dragging across the mens' room floor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64CVhTw_92Y
Pant's? People're still wearing pants?
Swiffer pants.
i don't have any pants like that. Men do not (or should not) wear such things. One buys pants that have a slight crease at the front where they drape on the shoe and in the back come to about the top of the heel.
Remember how in the movies and TV, young men from the 1950 would roll up the bottoms of the legs on their jeans to keep them from dragging on the ground? That was an iconic look.
I do a weird little thing that really works. I don't wear trousers that drag on the ground.
The solution is obvious and inescapable.
Shorts.
Symptomatic of what's wrong today with our intelligent college-educated NYT-reading progressive-liberal ladies: wear oversized pants that drag along sidewalk, through puddles and dog shit, picking up city dreck in name of being fashionable. Or being so wealthy the driver delivers her to-from doorstop to doorstop, red carpet to red carpet.
It's the style suitable for Gen z females. Thanks my coworkers are well wearing bell bottoms and corduroys. It's typical that most generations follow the fashions of their grandparents and in this case it's the boomers
“Your pant legs may pick up all the dirt in the world”
They may, but that’s not the way to bet.
Wear shorts.
Begley wins.
But seriously, for those of us who still wear long britches, this phenomenon has got to be a typical irrational woman thing, doesn't it? It would be far from the most ridiculous thing the fairer sex has ever done in the pursuit of being fashionable.
Normal men don't ever buy trousers that drag on the ground. Once in a blue moon I've found a pair that I like that's a bit too long, but I've got a Korean tailor who fixes them right up. Always a slight break in the crease in front, and just above the top of the shoe heel in back.
Seems like a good time to let everyone know that I detest capri pants on women.
As I aged and became relatively more pear shaped, and my actual waist was overtaken by a lardass and belly fat, my inseam went from a 32 inch length to a 30 inch. While this advice to tuck one's hems under one's heels seems as genius level as eating Cheetos with chopsticks to keep the orange crap off your fingers, it might be a solution to a lack of self awareness, as well as how to keep dirt off modern fashion styles. Try shorter (NOT short) pants!
No. I don't have pants like that. Why would anyone?
I was gonna make a comment about real men wearing boot cut jeans that drag the ground and looked for a picture of a manly man in boots to illustrate the point and I stumbled across this right here.
I may have to rethink my life.
@Rabel, I bet he's secretly wearing shorts.
“ I was gonna make a comment about real men wearing boot cut jeans“
Life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.
Rabel, ref the Man in Black's boots: maybe this was a still for a pirate movie or TV project that never got off the ground. I would pay good money to see a Johnny Cash pirate movie, and to hear him say "Arrrr," not in the normal aspirated Cornish accent, but as sort of a basso rumble. And of course he'd do the theme song:
I've sailed everywhere, man
I've sailed everywhere, man
Crossed the oceans bare, man
I've breathed the polar air, man
Of raidin' I've had my share, man
I've sailed everywhere
I've been to Rio, Key Largo, the Camargue-o, Sao Paulo
Ponce, Arecibo, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Habana
Tampa, Panama, Sargasso, Mallorca
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Cartagena
Tocopilla, Baranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer
JSM
Don't we all have pants like that?
No.
— Rafael Nadal, Angus Young, Mickey Mouse…
The entertaining inanities published at NYT.
Ugh, this is a bit of a mini-fad here in SF, particularly among the 20 something Asian office girls I see on my commute. I don't find it becoming, in part because most of the girls are too tiny to really pull it off.
But it does get annoying as trouser length fashions go up and down, for pairing the right shoes. Two seasons ago it was ankle-grazing, the season before, flared crops. Both take different shoe styles. And, for those more classic tailored trousers, the only option is a 2 - 3" heel. That's a lot of different shoes in the closet.
Men who wear those look effeminate and women who wear them don't.
The first solution that popped into my mind was the disturbing pair of boots that Sean Connery wore in Zardoz.
I really need to take some time off.
Plastic bread wrapper bags secured with colorful rubber bands.
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