Comments on: How to Wear Long Pants that are Cuffed or Rolled

By: krishnidoux

krishnidoux — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:24:40 +0000

Great post! Full of useful information and tips. BF jeans can be so tricky.

By: KateR

KateR — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:08:08 +0000

I’m doing this a lot. This works really well for me because the narrow leg widths make my long legs look a bit freakish at times. Rolling breaks up that line in a good way for me! It also feels comfortable.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:09:23 +0000

I am 5ft 9 inches and my legs are longer than my 6ft1inch brother. It has taken 40 yrs to see this as a good thing! I wear a slim boot jean very long with a small heel, but i love to roll it up 2 smallfolds and wear with ballet flats. Ballet flats lengthen the overall leg line by making the top of your foot look like part of your leg. If i were 5 feet tall i would do exactly the same thing , but i would wear heels more.

By: Kira

Kira — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:11:43 +0000

I’m only 5’4″ but I have long legs. My most comfortable and flattering pair of jeans are about 4-5 inches too long for me to walk with out stepping on the hems all the time unless I wear platformed shoes. For practicalities sake I flip the bottoms up when I’m wearing shoes with no added height. The look reminds me of boats, since I’ve seen related advertisements where people are wearing pants that way.

I do wear them properly when I wear the right shoes, and my legs appear very long and I love how it looks, but I can’t go charging around on stilts all the time. When I’ve tried wearing the looks above, I just don’t like the end result on me. I think it looks cute on others though.

By: Clara

Clara — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:54:48 +0000

As always, thanks for these enlightening posts, Angie. I’m a bit confused, ‘though. It seems like the examples posted do, in fact, roll the cuff to the widest part of the calf (you suggest angle length or above the widest part of the calf. Am I missing something?

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:08:10 +0000

Hmmm…very interesting. I shall play around with this, my dear!

By: Antje

Antje — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:57:22 +0000

I like the idea of this look – it’s fun, casual, summery. In practice, though, I’ve learned from Angie/YLF that longer or shorter lengths are much more flattering on me at this point, and so I leave this for extremely casual occasions. Still quite nice on tall skinny women, though!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:07:29 +0000

I do like this look but agree that it looks better when the roll is just above the ankle. For me it makes skinny jeans that I have hemmed for heels wearable with flats. I’ve even rolled fairly wide legged khakis close to my ankle to give a more current look and it worked pretty well, (I think).

By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:06:28 +0000

Oh, good–I knew I had seen women pull off this look in a flattering way before, but wasn’t quite sure how they had done so. Now I have more guidelines to put in my binder and study when I have some free time. Maybe I will be brave enough to experiment with this look at some point…

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:05:53 +0000

Thank you for this very useful article Angie! I own the last, olive silk BR pair, and wear them cuffed higher than the model -to clam digger length, with 4# nude strappy wedge sandals. I don;t think I could pull it off any other way with my long tors0/short legs body types. I wanted to a purchase of a pair of cuffed denim shorts, but had to pass since the high contrast cuff made my legs look really short and stumpy.