Lots of reasons for pants. Anyone who's ever lived/worked in a rural area knows what happens 15 seconds after you leave "the path" and that branch, bush, weed,

Lots of reasons for pants. Anyone who's ever lived/worked in a rural area knows what happens 15 seconds after you leave "the path" and that branch, bush, weed, rock, bee, deerfly, barbed vine, rattlesnake, etc. grants you pain. Thus pants - and boots. Funny some of us are that removed from the human realities that existed for a million years.