Don't get me wrong, I know that the survival rate of black pants staying black eventually drops to zero. If I'm lucky, they turn dark blue or grayish and are still wearable. If I'm not, they're greenish or brownish which only remotely match one of my shirts, which not coincidentally is my most warn. It's a supply and demand thing. Three pants can only be worn with one particular shirt, therefore the supply of the shirt drops and the demand raises. The pants, meanwhile, are overstocked and therefore their position ("demand") in the What I Will Wear Queue falls to the point of only being worn on those weeks where I haven't done wash in a long time and there is no salvaging my appearence. As it's a basic supply-demand economics thing, I suggest you consult Jane Galt for more details.

In any case, I can't even find the Formerly Black Now Blue pants. I did wash Sunday and I know at least one day I wore Formerly Nave Blue Turn Light Blue pants one day and jeans another. I have six Black Now Blue pants at least. Unfortunately, it seems that three of them have either faded further into being Blue Turn Light Blue or gone the way of all my socks' missing partners. Even worse than the Socks Void, they may he in my room under something. In which case, there is surely no hope...