  It is a theorem of Bers that any closed hyperbolic surface admits a pants
decomposition consisting of curves of bounded length where the bound only
depends on the topology of the surface. The question of the quantification of
the optimal constants has been well studied and the best upper bounds to date
are linear in genus, a theorem of Buser and Sepp\"al\"a. The goal of this note
is to give a short proof of an linear upper bound which slightly improves the
best known bounds.
