Unfashionable Pants

Today it was brought to my attention that my pants (my FAVORITE pants) have fallen out of fashion. I can't say that there has ever been a time in my life when my clothing choices have been ruled by fashion, but I also can't say that I've actually ever been wearing clothes as the particular style that they are is being ridiculed.

Twice in the recent past I've had co-workers inform me that pants (that fit the colors we are required to wear at work) are on sale in certain stores. I had assumed they were thinking of my starting-to-fray hems and that maybe they'd noted the falling cuff I thought I had descretely safety pinned. Perhaps, however, they were trying to rescue me from this fashion faux paus.

But here's the deal: I KNOW my pants are unfashionable -- you can't buy ANYTHING like them in the store, after all. But I also know that my crack doesn't show when I bend over and I can eat a full meal (plus dessert) without busting out of them. You know what? I'm happy in my behind-the-times pants. And I'll keep wearing them, thank you very much. And eventually... if they hold up... MY pants will once again BE the fashion and I can say, of course, I've been wearing them all along.

So there.