# Can older people rock the short trousers look? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088 "2018-10-17T06:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/21 "2018-10-17T22:33:23Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I was at a wedding this summer and all the groomsman and ushers were sockless with brown dress shoes. I found the brown shoes concerning with a black tux. Go figure? _“Did you ever feel as if the whole world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?”_ –George Gobel ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/22 "2018-10-17T23:45:48Z")
There are two answers: 1. I can’t see you, so I’m disqualified from answering. 2. Wear what you want. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/23 "2018-10-18T01:24:06Z")
When I was growing up, pants were belted at the waist and covered the ankles. Actually they had cuffs that only caught dirt. So I developed a real waste and still belt there and if you don’t like it too bad. And they still cover my ankles. I feel comfortable that way and see no reason to change. The oddest look, to me eyes, is that of a big belly with the belt underneath. What keeps them up? Only the gravity of the situation is they were to fall. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/24 "2018-10-18T04:18:04Z")
Flood Pants? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/25 "2018-10-18T20:54:46Z")
Nobody can rock those trousers. Mid-calf with no socks or no-show socks is terrible. And if like me you’re fast approaching 50 or you’ve already crossed the mid-century line, it looks even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/26 "2018-10-18T21:37:38Z")
I’m not thinking he means mid-calf. I understand the look to be trousers that are hemmed shorter by a couple of inches or cuffed a bit shorter. No socks, and loafers or casual shoes, not tennis/sports shoes. I think. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/27 "2018-10-22T18:32:52Z")
Being in Arizona we get a lot of “Winter Visitors” and both sexes sport shorts in public all winter long. I think it’s so they can brag to their friends back home. Living here, I wear long trousers all year long. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/28 "2018-10-22T19:26:41Z")
In the office next to my shop is the local sports radio station. It is mostly young-ish ex-sportsy guys who have now got a bit of paunch. They all wear that style and it just looks like they are wearing their little brother’s clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/29 "2018-10-24T07:28:08Z")
Thanks guys for participating in my pretty dumb thread. I wear this kind of look now and I like it; I get hot quite easy and the short socks and trousers make a noticeable difference to my comfort. Fashion-wise…I dunno, I’m fashion-illiterate. I actually dared to wear this look to a wedding recently (but as part of a full suit obviously) and was a little self-conscious. But I was “helped” by the fact that some guys didn’t even bother to wear a shirt… ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/30 "2018-10-24T23:55:10Z")
The pants have to be slim fitted for this style to work. ---
**Author:** ![ohiomstr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/82dd89/32.png) [@ohiomstr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ohiomstr2)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/31 "2018-10-25T12:32:39Z")
If you are worried about being cool you are most definitely not cool Wear what you want and forget about what anyone else thinks. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088/32 "2018-10-25T17:07:16Z")
Boom > **[Anything but prehistoric! Fashion forward Jeff Goldblum, 60, mixes his colour...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2323619/Fashion-forward-Jeff-Goldblum-60-mixes-colour-palate-stomps-red-pants-yellow-socks-solo-errand-run.html)** > > Despite entering his sixth decade, Jeff Goldblum still knows how to cut a cool figure. The Jurassic Park actor looked anything but prehistoric as he stepped out in a pair of trendy red trousers during an errand run in Los Angeles on Sunday. Jeff... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-older-people-rock-the-short-trousers-look/823088.md?page=1)