I'm getting ready to head off to church, wearing a brand new pair of pants/trousers. (Does anyone call pants "trousers" anymore?) I don't know abut the UK, but cuffs disappeared from pants over here some time in the 60's. Now, they're the latest thing, apparently. My new pants have cuffs on them... the first I've worn in close to fifty years (with cuffs, I mean... not pants.) I smile, remembering when they were the only way pants came (other than jeans> Back then, if you were a man, you smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. The cuffs were portable ash trays. I never smoked cigarettes, but I'd see the men my father's age tipping their cigarette ashes into the cuffs of their trousers. Occasionally there'd be plumes of smoke coming out of their cuffs if they got a spark down in there with the ashes.

Those were the days?

Jerry