# Did men/cowboys used to 'blouse' their jeans into their boots? Why did they stop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586 "2011-05-20T16:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586/21 "2011-05-20T21:16:11Z")
> [@ticker](#): > > If you are using a chainsaw in jeans [you are a moron](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pilcLXpdJK0). Mmmmm … ham. ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586/22 "2011-05-21T07:34:43Z")
I bloused my pants into my boots when working. If I ws in the field to look at something and was headed to somewhere nice after I would blouse my pants. With my pants over my boot tops they would keep chaft, dirt or slag and other stuff ut of my boots. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586/23 "2011-05-21T13:53:10Z")
They tuck their jeans in their boots so that the sheep’s hind legs can fit in there too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586/24 "2011-05-21T14:48:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > When I was associated with the US Army in the '80s, everybody bloused their BDU pants. Paratroop-ness had nothing to do with it. > > It was about preventing creepy-crawlies from going up inside your pants leg. The Army blouses their boots to this day. The thing with the paratroopers is that they wear jump boots and blouse them in their Class A uniform as well, not just fatigues. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/US-PARATROOPER-BLUES.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/US-PARATROOPER-BLUES.png) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586/25 "2011-05-21T15:42:04Z")
Cool. We had a bunch of jump qualified folks from both USAF & USA, but I never saw any Army folks in Class A’s. We were generally out in the field. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586/26 "2011-05-21T15:47:48Z")
I imagine the guys in the Motley Crue tribute band I’m seeing next Sunday will tuck their jeans into their cowboy boots, mainly because they’ll be too tight to go over them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-men-cowboys-used-to-blouse-their-jeans-into-their-boots-why-did-they-stop/582586.md?page=1)