Thanks, wildrover, for that post. That's is what I have felt for a while and what has been annoying me for a while.

Trousers is not a four letter word (although pants is a five letter word (but that refers to underwear and woman's pants)) and can look good too - as good as a kilt. (An exception would probably be jeans). Bifurcated garments won't kill you, and if you find them as uncomfortable as some people on here say they do, you need to get a different cut.

As an aside, I don't think of jeans as trousers - they're jeans. I suppose that's a bit odd, though.