I rode in an elevator yesterday with a man who had little dogs all over his pants. I wanted to ask about them, but he got off four flours before I had a chance. I'm not quite sure what I would have asked anyway since all I could think at the time was, "Really?" 

I've seen these type of pants before in magazines and at J. Crew and have always wondered who would wear them.   Now I know.  Aapparantly, perfectly normal looking, 40ish men who stay at Marriotts in Washington D.C. and carry copies of the Washington Post under their arms. 

Who would have figured?  Certainly not me.  If I had been forced to make a guess, it would have been maybe a man on a golf course, or perhaps on a beach vacation, or possibly on a cruise.  But those would have been guesses.  My real answer would have been, "No man's going to be caught dead with little dogs all over his pants." 

It doesn't make any difference to me that they looked like they could be hunting dogs.  The bottom line was still a grown man walking around with dogs on his pants.  I'm from the midwest.  We have a lot of hunting dogs there--pretty much every other back yard in the rural areas.  What we don't have is men walking around with little pictures of their dogs all over their pants.   

I bought my grandson a little onesie at Gap with dogs on it.  Perfectly appropriate.  But an adult man?  Am I that out of touch? And if so, what's that say for watching every single season of Project Runway? You'd think that someone might have thought to mention that Garanimals had branched out to include a mens line and that it was catching on.  I just don't get it.

I've seen a lot of men wearing belts with sailboats and golf clubs and maybe even dogs on them, and I'm perfectly okay with that.  It's an accessory, like a tie, so why not have a little fun with it.  But little dogs all over your pants?  That's a statement I don't understand.

If there's anyone out there reading this with dogs on their pants, I'm really sorry and I'm not questioning your taste.  Because taste is personal.   Clearly.  I would, however, like an explanation.  Were you at a store and saw the dogs and just said, "Oh, aren't these little dogs cute?  I don't have a single pair of chinos with dogs on them.  I have to have them."  And if so, did you find other little animals that you liked too?  Or did it stop with the dogs? I'd really like to know.

I'd also like to know where you got them, because I googled "pants with dogs" and, although I got a lot of hits, none of them seemed to have anything to do with chinos. 

I did, however, come across a nice pair of trousers with little sailboats on them at Bergdorf Goodman for $1,460.00.  They confirmed that I'm definitely out of touch. 

I would have guessed $24.99 at WalMart.