Shorts made by cutting off the legs of jeans or pants, or a point at which something is stopped or discontinued.
From 'cut' and 'off,' describing something that has been cut away. In clothing, the practice of shortening pants emerged in the 1960s as a casual, DIY fashion statement.
Cutoff jeans became a symbol of counterculture and rebellion in the 1960s—wearing intentionally 'ruined' pants that your parents would have thrown away was a way to reject conformity and express individuality!
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