I recently had a long conversation with a couple coworkers about what I thought were the most common thing on Earth- black pants. Half of my pants are black and I assumed that this was just normal.
Apparently not. 2 of the 4 people in the conversation claimed to not own a single part of black pants. NONE. Not a one. They claimed that “nothing goes with black”. They owned navy pants, khaki pants, even gray pants. But no black.
This is probably a good time to mention that I was the only woman in this conversation. But I’m not sure how much that matters. Thinking about the men I work with I feel like I see most of them in black pants at least some of the time, and a couple of them in black pants frequently. My dad has black pants. My husband has black pants. My pastor has black pants.
Maybe it’s an age thing? The guys I had this conversation with were all younger than me by at least 10 years and 2 of them were a couple decades younger than me. I asked ChatGPT this question and it told me that younger folks do indeed wear black pants but they tend to be more “street wear” and less “traditional office wear”.
So maybe it is age. Maybe I’m just too set in my ways. Maybe black is the only color that I can actually find pants that are long enough for my 6 foot tall awkward body. Regardless of the reason, you can have my black pants when you tear them out of my cold, dead fingers.