Jeans {in every place in the USA I've lived]

For a minute there, Michael Jackson was responsible for a style where you could wear your jeans or other pants slightly too short so yur socks could show [or no socks as the case might be]. But for some time now-among fashion conscious children, youth, young adults {and others?] wearing jeans or other pants that are too short is a real no no. Among African Americans anyway when the jeans and other pants are slightly too short they are called "high waters". This is a term of derision.

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Who remembers 'peddle pushers'? [pants about 3/4 length]
Now if you asked a sales clerk for "peddle pushers", she'd look at you like you spoke a foreign language. Those pants are now called "capris" {or at least they were called that last season in the USA}.