[Desdemona]

"When activities are proposed to you requiring trousers, if it is something your great-grandmother did, then find a way of doing it, like her, in a skirt. And if your great-grandmother did not do it, then forget it!"

My great-grandmother was a farmer's wife who worked in the fields. She wore pants.

[Maximilian]

My great-grandmother was a farmer's wife who worked in the fields. She wore pants.

I find this very implausible. My great-grandmother was still alive when I was young, and I assume I am roughly the same age as you. She was a farmer's wife and still lived on a farm where she had a coal stove, a small orchard and was raising several grandchildren into her nineties. She never wore pants until the day she died.