# Should I wear my trousers rolled? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767 "2013-04-26T15:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/41 "2013-04-28T05:12:40Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Unless **Leo Bloom** is a little Jersey girl, I say avoid peddle pushers.😉 Pedal pushers (as in _pedaling_ a bicycle) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/42 "2013-04-28T11:22:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Pedal pushers (as in _pedaling_ a bicycle) I bow to your knowledge of women’s clothing.😉 Also, how about pantaloons? ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/43 "2013-04-28T17:31:36Z")
Peddle pushers - that would be what Tom Waits is talking about. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/44 "2013-04-28T17:35:37Z")
I thought is was petal pushers, those guys selling flowers on street corners. Or maybe paddle pushers, like riverboats. Or maybe puddle pushers which would explain why they’re so short. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/45 "2013-04-29T10:26:41Z")
Crops. As in cropped pants. I’m not a little Jersey Girl. Nor am I just a Yorkshire girl. (Reference me that!, my Trinity scholar.) ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/46 "2013-04-29T10:35:36Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I thought is was petal pushers, those guys selling flowers on street corners. Or maybe paddle pushers, like riverboats. Or maybe puddle pushers which would explain why they’re so short. They’re pitty pants **Tripolar** : pitty they they’re not trousers; pitty they’re not shorts; pitty someone let you leave the house like that. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/47 "2013-04-29T18:18:21Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Crops. As in cropped pants. I’m not a little Jersey Girl. Nor am I just a Yorkshire girl. (Reference me that!, my Trinity scholar.) Now, everybody sing! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/X6iLGTF9fjI/hqdefault.jpg "Songs of Joyce - My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6iLGTF9fjI) ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/48 "2013-04-29T19:53:18Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Thare yur britches. This’n. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/49 "2013-04-29T19:53:34Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Now, everybody sing! > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6iLGTF9fjI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6iLGTF9fjI) Beat me to it. No fancy clothes indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/50 "2013-04-30T01:31:19Z")
If it’s hot out roll em up, it will cool you off. ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/51 "2013-04-30T03:31:52Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > See subject. Male, 50s. What do you mean ? If you mean roll up your pants ? That looks silly . If you mean wear cropped pants that looks gay . Yes girls can wear jeans just past the knee but not guys . And they are called capri jeans. [![](http://moda.culturamix.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/capri-jeans_1/capri-jeans-1.jpg) ](http://moda.culturamix.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/capri-jeans_1/capri-jeans-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![stoplight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stoplight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoplight)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/52 "2013-04-30T04:02:21Z")
in your fifties you invisible anyway except to other fifty year olds and they gonna think hit your head. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/53 "2013-05-03T05:22:30Z")
What did he say? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/54 "2013-05-03T12:39:08Z")
If I translate correctly, he said: “In your fifties you are invisible anyway, except to other fifty year olds, and, if you wear your trousers rolled, they’re going to think you hit your head.” ---
**Author:** ![stoplight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stoplight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoplight)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/55 "2013-05-03T15:08:50Z")
what the Prof said 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/56 "2013-05-03T16:36:28Z")
All the Prufrock references remind me why I like it here, and hate it because dammit that’s what I came to say! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/57 "2013-05-03T16:48:19Z")
Don’t worry, there’s Time for you and time for me. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/58 "2013-05-03T18:15:34Z")
On the boards, the Dopers come and go, Talking of things they do not know. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/59 "2013-05-04T12:46:56Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > On the boards, the Dopers come and go, > Talking of things they do not know. And sometimes, of F. P. Santangelo. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767/60 "2013-05-11T03:44:16Z")
> [@stoplight](#): > > what the Prof said 😃 Are you sure it’s what the Prof said? Because I now must add to my OP the question, shall I at least set my lands in order? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-wear-my-trousers-rolled/656767.md?page=4)