Depending on the cut and fabric of the trouser leg, as well as the architecture of the leg which will inhabit it. For those of us left who have our trousers built to order, it’s a rare event.

I thought that cuffs were there to catch dirt and pebbles and other crap that falls from above, and that over time, the pant cuffs will be self-weighting.

@elbanditoroso really awful.

@elbanditoroso -Lol! I knew a guy who found a piece of wedding cake in his suit jacket…one year later.

Cuff and a hem, it’s unspeakable bespoke fashion.

The technical term for the leaden weight that hold the pant is of course the trouser snake.

It’s often the reason why the pants are down in proper alignment with one’s footwear.

One does not see it as much these days as one might like of this particular chatoyancy and flamboyancy.

It’s unlikely to make a come back.

Don’t be so sure @Pinguidchance!

@Pinguidchance -Trouser snake.

piggy!

Either @Pinguidchance doesn’t know what it’s talking about, or he/she/it is being subtly puerile.

Urban dictionary offers these definitions none of which have to do with cuffs.

@elbanditoroso -I didn’t think they were elongated weights which would explain the “trouser snake” name. I thought they were small.
They used to weight the hem of women’s dresses/skirts as well as it made the garment hang nicely.

Oh dear, dear dear.

Elbandito roso’s eloquent elucidation has alerted me to my muchly mistaken mondegreenery.

I mistook trouser snakes for trousers weights.

As penance I offer Bing singing “when the red red robin goes bob bob bobbing along”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOn-uIDk-oE

@Pinguidchance -Here’s one for you

@lucy3X I remember that one! It was sweet to dance to, with sharp jazz moves.

Well I remember how women’s skirts used to fly up, up and away as if they were a flimsy felt.

Thank goodness for fabrication the weight – the band