Why did everyone roll up the bottoms of their jeans in the 50's?

I grew up on a farm in the 70’s in rural Oklahoma. We would tuck our pants into our boots so we wouldn’t get shit on our pants. Literally! Actually we would tuck the part of the pant leg that was on the inner part of your leg (this is more difficult to describe than I thought!), into our boot, and leave the part on the outer part of your legs hanging out. That way you didn’t look goofy (or so we thought), but you didn’t get cow shit on your pants either. Not a bad style considering we were going to beat a kid up in my school for wearing “disco pants”! Jeans and T shirts were the style of the day.

Ahh it feels good to post again. It’s been a while, with the board being so slow and all!

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