Old Trousers

I think I may have discovered a new natural law. Not a fundamental law such as the second law of thermodynamics, but still an natural law. It concerns old trousers.

As we know, when trousers become too dilapidated to wear while out shopping, in mixed company or even in the pub, they tend to be downgraded to gardening or DIY trousers. However, gardening and DIY trousers are hardly ever unfit for gardening or DIY, so they tend to accumulate in the bottom of the wardrobe.

Admittedly charity collections may have made some difference to the rate at which old trousers accumulate, but this is a rate change rather than a phenomenon which invalidates the basic law. Of course, strictly speaking this isn't a new discovery of an important natural law because an enormous number of people have observed it over many years.

It possibly goes back to Neolithic times when hunting trousers were made from animal hides. When these trousers were worn out or irretrievably gashed by mammoth tusks, they may have been downgraded to spear-wipers. In which case, Neolithic spear-wipers will have accumulated via what is essentially the same natural law.

QED