A friend of mine's Grandpa was in the old folks home and he would give the boy ( 8 yrs old ) a note and cash to go to the store to get him port wine . The store got to where they had to stop doing that. The boy came back empty handed and his Grandpa lost his mind and beat the boy with his walking srick .
They also would buy Levi’s that were way longer than they needed, because it was the same price as the one’s that fit. They would roll up the extra into a cuff and save that extra for patching material!!
We rolled up Levi jeans because you had to buy them way long ‘cause they shrunk every time you washed them. Roll up when new and adjust them after they got washed.
Love these conversations 😊.. Im a bit older than you and vividly remember all the things you described. I know it’s bad for you but I have fond memories of that type of stuff from 70’s & 80’s! That cuff on the Levi’s was a greaser style too, like Fonzie on Happy Days. My Dad always had a ash tray on the dash of his truck, he never flicked them out of the window.
When I was a kid, we did it for two reasons. 1. Because our pants were to long. 2. The stall or pasture was three inches deep in water and other things we didn’t want to carry in on Grandma’s clean floors. Lol
My dad (1937 model) used to use his cuff's for an ashtray. Also he was really short. He also used to roll the top of his rubber boots down which was also a thing back then.
I roll my jeans when I wear my moccasins because I buy jeans about 2 inches long so when I crawl aboard a horse my jeans aren't pulled up over the tops of my boots.
I am short and buy my pants about 3 or 4 sizes too long for when I ride, which is about everyday. I cuff them so they don't drag when I am not riding and they are a great place to store your nails and cut nails when you are shoeing. If I am in "style" it is the first time in my life.
As a French kid in the 80s, it was Skinheads who rolled their jeans revealing their famous Doc Martens boots. It became mainstream in the 90s and I did it (with the Doc Martens). Fashion is an eternal repeat... I'm not a Hipster I'm a GenX & proud.
Smoking is plenty bad. Both of my parents died from its effects. My granddaughter wears jeans with rips in them. It makes no sense to me, but nothing to fret about. I'd put rolled up cuffs in a similar category.
The old shoers would roll a leg up and drop cut off nails in there so they didn't have to clean up later. If I've been out in the crap and I go in somewhere, I'll throw a cuff up so I don't track anything into someone's house.
I'm 70, everyone around these parts wore Levis shrink to fit button jeans and many of us rolled the cuffs..and we smoked but didn't use them for ashtrays. Then one day seems everyone all at once switched to wranglers.. I'm still wearing them (wranglers) ....maybe ill do cuffs and start a trend.
I switched to Wranglers in the 80's because they fit me better and when I sat in a chair I was no longer sitting on my wallet, the pockets were higher so now my wallet was behind me. My chiropractor thanked me profusely!
I remember those days but I grew up in the early 90s when I used to get sent to the corner store for cigarettes for my folks 😊 with a note that had my house phone number on it so if they wanted to call ☎️ home to double check! Pack of kools and lucky strike non filters for pops
I’m just a shorty, my grandmother says (in reference to looking at old time photos) you can tell who is related to us because their pants have the tallest cuffs. 😂
Lotsa old cowpunchers down here called their cuff , a 2 horse roll or a 4 horse roll. I guess a horse was an inch, I never asked. They’d carry them roll your own bitts in em. They also would drop horseshoe nail ends theyed twist off in em. Then throw em in the trash when done. A lot of old timers didn’t want them nail ends laying around. They’dwork into a frog now and then.
I'm old, not as old as your grampa but getting there and was a smoker for most of my life. I used to smoke a lot on my various horses and used to do this, I would cross my leg in front of me to actually stub out the ciggie and then keep the butts because you cant throw them away because of the fire risk. Scottish midgies were one of my main reasons for smoking on horses. Of course, nowadays I dont smoke and neither am I fit enough to use the heels of my jodphur boots to stub them out, your flexibility wanes lol! No I actually had a horse stumble and roll across me in 1976 and it pulled all of the tendons (ligaments?) that support my spine out of my pelvis causing avulsion fractures and putting me in a brace for over a year. I still have backpain but thats my own fault for thinking the "get straight back on" school of thought was more important than my back and was practically riding every day which caused all kinds of problems that lasted years, some right to today. Thankfully the horse was fine and thats usually my main concern and not so much looking after myself as much as I should have. Its strange hearing this because I was pretty convinced I was the only person who wished the portable ashtray had been invented lol! You are right about offering the old guys cigarettes was the best way to get them talking, I used to love talking to the old men back in the 60s and 70s, I learned nearly everything from speaking to the old guys who used to work horses back in the day, North East Scotland had a really strong history of working horses and thus the old blokes who knew everything there was to know in my opinion, much better than learning from some lassie in a riding school! That and the fact I always had horses living in the country.
I have always done this. I am a 1960 model. I'm also tall, so I wore boys/men's Wranglers..which run longer than girls/Women's jeans, so I cuffed them. ..and eventually grew into them before they wore out. I Still cuff mine, most of the time. Never a smoker. 100% Cotton shrinks, too...so better to buy them long and cuff them if need be. Cuffed pants are not just for Cowboys and hipsters...old cowgirls like them too.. Why do you care?
I live wear it rains a lot, Late Fall-Spring, mud, that's why I roll mine up while I am catching my horse. But I roll then back down, unless I forget...
Buy them long so they don't ride up at a lope. Tuck them inside with regular shoes. Not into the 50s look. Is this a TX thing? Don't see it in Colorado.
First time I saw it was Waddie Mitchell in a Western Horseman Article on the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering. I thought it was a Nevada Buckaroo thing. I've been fortunate enough to be built tall and ruggedly muscular for my age :-) and always need a longer inseam than waist (until i hit 50 ). I seldom found many pairs of jeans that were too long. I guess some of these runty types were never that fortunate. Buckaroos are the Hipsters of the cowboy world and about 50 years ahead of their time. Look at any Kurt Markus photos from the 80's and 90's and you will see what modern hipsters are trying to look like...Fedoras? Scarves? Peacoats? Wire rimmed glasses? Waxed Moustaches? I rest my case...
A friend of mine's Grandpa was in the old folks home and he would give the boy ( 8 yrs old ) a note and cash to go to the store to get him port wine . The store got to where they had to stop doing that. The boy came back empty handed and his Grandpa lost his mind and beat the boy with his walking srick .
sounds like my grandpa
They also would buy Levi’s that were way longer than they needed, because it was the same price as the one’s that fit. They would roll up the extra into a cuff and save that extra for patching material!!
perhaps.
I put my half doobie there.
OLAY
touche!
We rolled up Levi jeans because you had to buy them way long ‘cause they shrunk every time you washed them. Roll up when new and adjust them after they got washed.
yeah they still shrink.
Love these conversations 😊.. Im a bit older than you and vividly remember all the things you described. I know it’s bad for you but I have fond memories of that type of stuff from 70’s & 80’s! That cuff on the Levi’s was a greaser style too, like Fonzie on Happy Days.
My Dad always had a ash tray on the dash of his truck, he never flicked them out of the window.
I was raised in the 80's and 90's we all smoked all the time but we didn't shoot each other very often.
When I was a kid, we did it for two reasons. 1. Because our pants were to long. 2. The stall or pasture was three inches deep in water and other things we didn’t want to carry in on Grandma’s clean floors. Lol
My dad (1937 model) used to use his cuff's for an ashtray. Also he was really short. He also used to roll the top of his rubber boots down which was also a thing back then.
yeah my grandpa rolled his rubber boots down, I never figured out why. He is also the one that showed me to ash a cigarette in my cuffs.
My pet peeve is spurs out on the town and dancin boots.
with extra big rowels
I roll my jeans when I wear my moccasins because I buy jeans about 2 inches long so when I crawl aboard a horse my jeans aren't pulled up over the tops of my boots.
I wear whatever hand me down I get lol
I grew up buy jeans when school would start as you grew round then dnown also 2 sizes to big then grow into them
fair enough, mine never lasted that long.
I am short and buy my pants about 3 or 4 sizes too long for when I ride, which is about everyday. I cuff them so they don't drag when I am not riding and they are a great place to store your nails and cut nails when you are shoeing. If I am in "style" it is the first time in my life.
being hip is a job lol
As a French kid in the 80s, it was Skinheads who rolled their jeans revealing their famous Doc Martens boots. It became mainstream in the 90s and I did it (with the Doc Martens). Fashion is an eternal repeat...
I'm not a Hipster I'm a GenX & proud.
Gen X myself, I remember the doc martins, even made it to Phoenix OR.
Smoking is plenty bad. Both of my parents died from its effects. My granddaughter wears jeans with rips in them. It makes no sense to me, but nothing to fret about. I'd put rolled up cuffs in a similar category.
Ahh the late 70s ALL the 80s and the first 2 or 3 years of the 90s were a excellent times. Excellent video 👍 Thanks
The good old days of 7 year old kids smoking camel studs lol
The old shoers would roll a leg up and drop cut off nails in there so they didn't have to clean up later. If I've been out in the crap and I go in somewhere, I'll throw a cuff up so I don't track anything into someone's house.
Iv seen showers do that. my wife keeps the mud out that way.
Now you're talking what I saw along with the ashtray thing as my uncle did. The 501's were also another one that I grew up around.
I'm 70, everyone around these parts wore Levis shrink to fit button jeans and many of us rolled the cuffs..and we smoked but didn't use them for ashtrays. Then one day seems everyone all at once switched to wranglers..
I'm still wearing them (wranglers) ....maybe ill do cuffs and start a trend.
we used to hunt and Hund trying to find 30x 40 shrink to fits, finally I gave up and started wearing 517's made to fit. Fashion is weird.
I switched to Wranglers in the 80's because they fit me better and when I sat in a chair I was no longer sitting on my wallet, the pockets were higher so now my wallet was behind me. My chiropractor thanked me profusely!
@@barrynelson634 I wore 501's till I was in my late 20's and somebody introduced me to the 517's that fit the same but have a zipper.
Yeah after 1/2 a rack of Coors it was embarrassing when you get your buttons crossed 😅
@@barrynelson634 lol
dangit, I just quit smoking 7 months ago after doing it for 47 years. 🙂
now you are out of style
I remember those days but I grew up in the early 90s when I used to get sent to the corner store for cigarettes for my folks 😊 with a note that had my house phone number on it so if they wanted to call ☎️ home to double check! Pack of kools and lucky strike non filters for pops
parents would go to jail for that now
I’m just a shorty, my grandmother says (in reference to looking at old time photos) you can tell who is related to us because their pants have the tallest cuffs. 😂
lol
Lotsa old cowpunchers down here called their cuff , a 2 horse roll or a 4 horse roll. I guess a horse was an inch, I never asked. They’d carry them roll your own bitts in em. They also would drop horseshoe nail ends theyed twist off in em. Then throw em in the trash when done. A lot of old timers didn’t want them nail ends laying around. They’dwork into a frog now and then.
cool
I'm old, not as old as your grampa but getting there and was a smoker for most of my life. I used to smoke a lot on my various horses and used to do this, I would cross my leg in front of me to actually stub out the ciggie and then keep the butts because you cant throw them away because of the fire risk. Scottish midgies were one of my main reasons for smoking on horses. Of course, nowadays I dont smoke and neither am I fit enough to use the heels of my jodphur boots to stub them out, your flexibility wanes lol! No I actually had a horse stumble and roll across me in 1976 and it pulled all of the tendons (ligaments?) that support my spine out of my pelvis causing avulsion fractures and putting me in a brace for over a year. I still have backpain but thats my own fault for thinking the "get straight back on" school of thought was more important than my back and was practically riding every day which caused all kinds of problems that lasted years, some right to today. Thankfully the horse was fine and thats usually my main concern and not so much looking after myself as much as I should have. Its strange hearing this because I was pretty convinced I was the only person who wished the portable ashtray had been invented lol! You are right about offering the old guys cigarettes was the best way to get them talking, I used to love talking to the old men back in the 60s and 70s, I learned nearly everything from speaking to the old guys who used to work horses back in the day, North East Scotland had a really strong history of working horses and thus the old blokes who knew everything there was to know in my opinion, much better than learning from some lassie in a riding school! That and the fact I always had horses living in the country.
Wish we still had some of those old guys
Excellent information! Would you share your thoughts on 'trendy' hat creases next?
well ill have to think about that.
Back in the day my dad wore bib overalls & it seemed pretty odd when denim became the fashion!
I have always done this. I am a 1960 model. I'm also tall, so I wore boys/men's Wranglers..which run longer than girls/Women's jeans, so I cuffed them. ..and eventually grew into them before they wore out. I Still cuff mine, most of the time. Never a smoker. 100% Cotton shrinks, too...so better to buy them long and cuff them if need be. Cuffed pants are not just for Cowboys and hipsters...old cowgirls like them too.. Why do you care?
I was just being silly
@@HorsemanshipAsAnArt Are you sure?..... ;-)
@@loryspencer8215 yeah im sure about this one. LOL. How are you doing?
@@HorsemanshipAsAnArt Still a raging heathen...you?
@@loryspencer8215 Still keeping the faith. Glad to hear from you.
You would have loved the '70s when some rodeo contestants were wearing beads and bell bottoms, and smoking a lot more than cigarettes.
cowboys and indians were smokin' rope before hippies ever heard of it
Cuff the pants to keep them off your spurs.
dang hipsters lol
I like to roll my pant legs up when I feed for the neighbors so I can bring a little “free” hay back home with me 😂
lol
John Wayne rolled his pants up because he walked funny. And you I never seen so many professionals in my life
I live wear it rains a lot, Late Fall-Spring, mud, that's why I roll mine up while I am catching my horse. But I roll then back down, unless I forget...
Bret. Bahaha .... producer. Aka your wife? I loath hipster crap as well.
yep
I did it just to be obnoxious & dare someone to say something. Aside from 1 tough old timer, no one ever said $#!+ 😅
Buy them long so they don't ride up at a lope. Tuck them inside with regular shoes. Not into the 50s look. Is this a TX thing? Don't see it in Colorado.
First time I saw it was Waddie Mitchell in a Western Horseman Article on the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering. I thought it was a Nevada Buckaroo thing. I've been fortunate enough to be built tall and ruggedly muscular for my age :-) and always need a longer inseam than waist (until i hit 50 ). I seldom found many pairs of jeans that were too long. I guess some of these runty types were never that fortunate. Buckaroos are the Hipsters of the cowboy world and about 50 years ahead of their time. Look at any Kurt Markus photos from the 80's and 90's and you will see what modern hipsters are trying to look like...Fedoras? Scarves? Peacoats? Wire rimmed glasses? Waxed Moustaches? I rest my case...
My grandmother taught me to brush off my pant legs , and roll up the bottoms, so I don't bring corral dust in the house . 😂