Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 19, 2023

We do it now Because the manufacturer’s don’t make them in our size

The shortest inseem for adult male pants is 30, my inseem is 28.

A plugger recalls using his pant cuffs for an ash tray.

Still cuff my jeans so the legs don’t get as wet when walking in bad weather ;-)

“… I grow old … I grow old …

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled …”

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From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

T. S. Eliot

Cuffing can help pants stay nicer and last longer because then the ends don’t wear out quite as fast/easily from scraping on the ground.

A plugger cuffs his cargo pants because he hopes to catch some of the coins that fall out the holes in those big pockets.

“As children…”

I never liked cuffed jeans or pants, still don’t. I will buy my jeans either at the right inseam length, or hem them up myself. Hemming my own pants legs is one of the few things I can do on the sewing machine without stitching my fingers together.

Jeez I remember that. And then the pants moved down to the next child when you outgrew them completely.

Can’t find pants big enough around that are short enough.

Cuffs on Jeans are okay but cuffs and pleats on tailored trousers are cool.

More like shrink out of them. I used to be 6’-0" but now am 5’-11’. Maybe even a bit shorter. Unfortunately, still long in the upper body as regular length t-shirts always pull out from being tucked in.

I buy 29 “ inseams with my Levi’s all the time.

Legs aren’t getting shorter, just the waistline sinking.

Rain clouds, Plugger should plan accordingly.

Now days only the designers like Prada, Enzo, Valentino, etc…. sell ‘cuffed’ jeans. Grandpa is back in ’high fashion"… ;-)

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

I’m not usually one to praise the art in Pluggers, but I think this panel is pretty evocative of an aging beast-man who, in a moment of solemn reflection, realizes he is slouching in only one direction now, and that direction will see him grow smaller and smaller until he ceases to be altogether.

I went to elastic cuffs ages ago. :)

I’ve been hemming a lot of plugger pants these last few years. My business name is SewNew

My problem is shrinkage, but from around the waist, not the inseam. I don’t want to give up my jeans, so I have to cuff them and cinch them. LOL