I don't know how Ann Savage managed to keep a straight face when Tom Neal appeared ready for bed, dressed in pyjamas with the trousers tied outside the jacket under his armpits. He looked as if he was wearing sanitary pants and some kind of prosthetic frame under his bedwear.
In a later scene, Neal had his trousers hiked up just short of his nipples, in the way Bing and others wore them at the time. Ann still kept a straight face.
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I love the high-waisted stovepipe pants of the 40s. With the addition of an appropriately cut blazer, it's a very handsome look for a man.
your wife makes a damn good breakfast
Very high waist was the style so Vera wouldn't have thought it was unusual or commical in the least. Men's jeans, pants, underpants, pajamas, robe ties sat well above the natural waist... even men's neckties were really short since the pants waist came up so high that they didn't need as much length as they do now. Part of this was due to the fact that most suits were 3 piece suits or made to be worn with an accessory vest or sweater. A shirt blousing out below the vest looks sloppy; the pants waist was set high so as not to reveal the shirt below the vest.
What's funny about the pajamas is that despite getting himself into jam after jam, Al observes absolute propriety by wearing pajamas at the motel after he's had his worst day ever. Nobody today would worry about wearing pajamas after such a sh!tty day.
If you want to see a related funny style of the period, check out the pants lengths of men wearing overalls and dungarees on work sites back in that era. Work pants and overalls didn't come with inseam lengths, rather you had them cut and hemmed after you bought them. Most didn't though, so they'd just roll them up. Rolled up work pants tend to unroll easily, so they'd roll them WAY up, like halfway up the shin. I've seen pictures of WWII army camps being built in which all the carpenters have their pants rolled up at least 6" above the tops of their shoes to reveal white socks and stork legs. Funny to see.
Rolling up pants legs was still common well into the 1960s. When I was a kid my mom would always buy my blue jeans too long because I'd outgrow them faster than they wore out. I'd roll the cuffs up three or four inches. All the kids wore them that way, and so did a lot of men, probably out of habit rather than necessity (they weren't still growing). When I'd come back in the house after being outside playing (kids used to do that) my mom would always ask "did you empty the dirt out of your cuffs?"
shareYou are talking about two different things. Your mom bought jeans too long for you and you rolled them up (I hope) to normal level. Others are saying that they were rolled up past their socks to show their bird legs. I hope you never left the house like that in the 60s, or you'd have been the laughingstock of the school and beat up on the regular.
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