If you haven't been walking around with your trousers rolled up past your ankles this summer, what have you been doing?Living outside of London probably, although the high-water look is slowly making inroads to the home counties.
If you're one of the younger tastemakers it's now not enough to merely turn your trousers up mid-calf. You have to engage in the cinch-roll, which does require a bit of practise and basically results in a tapered appearance to your strides.
It also leaves you looking exactly like I did back in the Eighties around about the time of The Breakfast Club when I wouldn't be seen dead in anything other than a navy blazer, roll neck and a pair of tapered jeans.
Looking back on pictures of myself shortly after that period made me realise what a fool I looked, so there's no way I will be returning to the cinch-roll anytime soon. Or the boufant flick, for that matter.
But I am a purveyor of the airy ankle, and do believe the art of a successful trouser roll lies with the distance between floor and roll-up. The ideal height should be somewhere around the lower calf, maybe one turn lower if you're wearing deck shoes.
If it looks like your trousers have just had a row with your feet, you've got them at the correct height.
And if you're wearing deck shoes ditch the socks.
For the approaching autumn breeze, perhaps some high-tops or a pair of hunting boots should be brought in to play. Because something tells me the high-roll will be around for a few months yet, and you wouldn't want your ankles getting cold.
Give it a few months and I might have perfected my own roll.
That's a pair of Yuketen Sport Hunt boots in the picture. More on them later.
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