So today while sorting through the keys and USB sticks in my pockets I wondered why I don't own any cargo pants. I had a pair in high school. I brought it in Beijing, I think. It was awesome. After some thought, I realized the handful of times (pretty sure I can count the times on one hand) I've gone to hunt for pants I never actually saw anything resembling what I think cargo pants should look like. Just to make sure I had the right terms, I looked up types of pants on Google, and Google, in its infinite wisdom, gave me this article, which kind of explains it.

Cargo pants are, in conclusion, for boys.

Well this is discouraging, I thought, and briefly googled "cargo pants for women" because these must exist, right? And lo and behold -- I have hits. In terms of images they look about right and I thought, okay, so maybe I'm just terrible at cloth shopping and just now, after I arrived home, I did the same search and looked at the sites from Macy's, GAP, and Old Navy since these stores, especially GAP are the places where my clothing comes from if they didn't come from Beijing or Costco. I got this, this, and this. They look nothing like the stuff from Google Image Search.

Now this may be just because I'm being picky, but for me the point of cargo pants is to have loose fitting pants with a ton of pockets so I can sort and carry various things with me since women's clothing have too few pockets as it is in jackets and thing and jean pockets are just uncomfortable if I had to carry two sets of keys, a security access card, as well as a pen and a USB stick (my hands are busy carrying other stuff -- I may or may not have lab gloves on as well). I don't consider anything that has fewer than six pockets to be cargo pants. So.

Gah.

Maybe Sears has them or something, because none of the image search results are from physical stores near me.