Pedal pushers (as in pedaling a bicycle)
I bow to your knowledge of women’s clothing.
Also, how about pantaloons?
Peddle pushers - that would be what Tom Waits is talking about.
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.
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.)
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.
Now, everybody sing!
This’n.
Beat me to it. No fancy clothes indeed.
If it’s hot out roll em up, it will cool you off.
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.
in your fifties you invisible anyway except to other fifty year olds and they gonna think hit your head.
What did he say?
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.”
what the Prof said 
All the Prufrock references remind me why I like it here, and hate it because dammit that’s what I came to say!
Don’t worry, there’s Time for you and time for me.
On the boards, the Dopers come and go,
Talking of things they do not know.
And sometimes, of F. P. Santangelo.
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?