PANTS WHEN HOT

What’s so funny about this? The joke has puns all over the place. Let’s start by once again clarifying that “pants” doesn’t mean the same thing in British and American English. In the US, the word is synonymous with “trousers” in England. In the latter “pants” refers to what’re called “underpants” where I live. So this tailor is clearly American. Note that he states that he doesn’t “do” trousers. He’s also speaking non-standard English since he says “do” instead of “make” and he’s using a double negative. His English is neither bad nor incorrect. It’s just not a standard dialect. Moving on, we learn that it appears as though he enjoys crafting pants. Did you catch the homophonic phrase, “sew its seams”? This phrase refers to what a tailor does, i.e. sew, with a needle and thread, the seams of a pair of pants. The “seam” is where the two ends of cloth are joined to make a tube into which you place a leg. However, the phrase is identical to this phrase, “so it seems”, spelled s-o i-t,