We had to go to the “big city” today for a medical appointment. While there we also went shopping at several large shopping centers. When we stopped for lunch, I noticed a young woman (well, young to me, she was probably in her mid 30s) wearing a very nice black dress. So what, you say? Well, I realized that out of several hundred people I had seen, she was the only person I saw up to that point that was wearing an unbifurcated garment (UG). Since this caught my attention, I made it a point to notice how others were dressed. For the entire day, and out of several hundred more people I observed (the majority of whom were women) I only saw three people of any gender or age dressed unbifurcatedly: the young woman already mentioned, an elderly lady (my age) and a young expectant mother. Everyone else dressed in “pants;" far far less than 1% were unbifurcated. It did seem to me that the three women I observed who wore dresses were quite confidently self-possessed, not unlike the description often made of men who wear kilts. Are un-bifurcated garments of any kind going extinct? If so, why? [ I have some hypotheses, but will leave those out for now.] If unbifurcated garments are not going extinct, they at least seem to be an endangered species here. Is this a trend where you are or is my experience here atypical?