What? After I've gone to all that trouble preserving them with silica gel
? (Only kidding).
The fact is that I don't seem to wear trousers out quickly these days - and men's fashions don't change much really, once you get past 40 or so.
The pair of 30 waist 32 leg Levi 501s I've got now I must have had for over a decade. I know because when I started to put on a few pounds I bought a 32/32 pair -and my wife scolded me for looking like an old man in them, because they were a bit baggy in the thigh and round the arse. And she's been dead for nearly 6 yrs now. But anyway the 30/32s are comfortable again now, so I proudly wear them to things like choir rehearsals, in the hope that some of the women there will think I'm younger than I am.
Don't know why I bother, really, but I suppose it's residual instinct to look one's best for the opposite sex. Some of the guys there are shambling wrecks - and I
really don't want to look like that.