1992, Darryl Pinckney , High Cotton: A Novel , Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water†trousers.
2006 , Rigoberto González , Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa , I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing.
2013 , James S. Lowry , The Long Road Home and Other Short Stories from the Silences in the Gospel of Mark, The day Pappy brought Billy Neely to live with us he didn't own anything but one pair of high-water pants: No shoes, no shirt, no toothbrush, no nothing except for one pair of high-water pants.
