Hemming and Ha-ha-haing

I often peruse on-line stores to see what I can't buy, and this past week I was looking at some jeans on some retailer's site, and I found myself zooming in, in horror.

Perfectly good jeans – pinch-rolled!

Why, God? Why?

There are looks from many decades past that make one think, sure, we can do that again...can't hurt. But this one? Really? That look is as appealing to me as owning "hammer" pants in a variety of designs and colors. As appealing to me as 1980's mesh half shirts. The fact is this. It's ugly.

I think about how this look became part of popular culture. A flood threatened a mid-west community in the late 1980's and, forced to sand-bag his property, Jeff ran out of the house without anytime to change into his Bermudas and thought..."Well, the only way I'm gonna get these here pants to stay on up and not get wet is if I roll them up in this fashion." Happy with his pants invention he hit the local pub that evening fashioning his dry trousers. It was all the rage and before you knew it, idiot high schoolers, (like myself) thought, "Oh, well everyone else is doing this...."

Audrey Hepburn's black sheath? Good. The modified flare from the 70's? Good for a bit. The 1950's full skirt party dress. Me likes.

But pinch-rolling your jeans? Excuse me while I go and apologize to my jeans for the inhumanity. I didn't care for 1989 the first time...so stop it already.

Leave your hems where they belong. By your heels where they can get nice and wet.