Figure 1.-- The legs of these lederhosen are turned down. The boy has worn these lederhosen and has turned them down to make them longer as he got taller.
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Figure 1.-- The legs of these lederhosen are turned down. The boy has worn these lederhosen and has turned them down to make them longer as he got taller. |
We are not precisely sure what the purpose of the cuffs are. As the lederhosen are virtually indistructable. The cuffs allow for the boy to grow in that they can be turned down as a boy grows taller. This allows a boy to wear lederhosen far longer than most other garments because they virtually never wear out. Thus boys wear lederhosen with both the cuffs turned up or turned down. Normally younger boys wear the cuffs up and older boys who have grown taller are more likrly to wear the cuffs worn down. While this is often primarily a matter of age, some boys may turn them up for styistic reasons.
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