Tight rolled pants

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Tight rolled jeans.

Tight rolled pants was a fad of the 1980s and early 1990s in which girls and boys would tight-roll the bottoms of their jeans or any pants that they wore. On full length pants tight rolling is performed by taking up the slack around the ankles at the hem of the pants, folding the extra material over and then rolling upwards 2 or 3 times over. A proper tight-roll should have the extra material folded inward across the lower shin. The use of safety pins was key to a good roll, but to the experienced tight roller they can be achieved without them.

Proper tight rolled pants will have an extreme taper to the ankle with a skin tight hem.

Tight-rolled pants are occasionally seen today among scene or youth culture people and are sometimes referred to as French rolled pants.^{[citation needed]} It can also be referred to as "pegged" or "pegging" your pants.

This fad is thought to be originated by the fashion icon, Cameron Cole, who was best known for his work with the New Kids on the Block.^{[citation needed]}. Troy Clark, Indiana State University Freshman 1986, is often given credit for the "fashion phenomena" as well having originated this trend in the spring of 1986. His influences were the pegged jean style of the 1950's and the need to make his straight legged jeans even straighter. Contrary to popular belief the picture to the upper right is not the handy work of one Troy Clark because that picture just looks dumb and completely ridiculous.

On July 17th 2008 and again on July 31st, 2008, Katie Holmes was seen wearing a tight rolled pair of jeans in what may be the first evidence of a mainstream revival of this trend.[1][2]