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Singular and plural of pants, shorts, jeans, etc. up vote 1 down vote favorite. In English, words like pants, shorts, and jeans appear to be in the plural but really refer to one item of clothing (I don't know what the technical term for it is). To be more specific, you can say one pair of pants/shorts/jeans..
Steve McQueen's Jeans (Part One) People, especially advocates of cockney rhyming slang, think of Steve McQueen as synonymous with jeans (those cheeky chaps say Steve's, which is short for Steve McQueen's, which is rhyming slang for jeans). He wears them in only a few of his movies, though.