Prepping for a Friday work meeting, I was asked why I was not dressed in “Casual Day” attire.  I was puzzled.  I was wearing jeans.  I had purchased them in the jeans section.  They were Levi’s.  Sure they were brown, but they were jeans.  Brown jeans.  I know!  Mind blown.

My co-workers persisted.  Jeans are made of denim, they argued.  Those were not jeans.  Certainly, they were nice pants, but not jeans.  Perhaps, chinos, but not jeans.

What?  Chinos?  First, what are Chinos?  Second, why were they being sold on the jeans shelves?  Third (and most upsetting), had I wasted a perfectly good “Casual Friday?”

Upset and crestfallen, I only knew two things for certain.  Life is not easy and pants are complicated.