OXFORD "BAGS."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18480, 7 September 1925, Page 4

OXFORD "BAGS."

A DYING CULT. "Oxford bags" are finished! Newspapers received from London report that the wen of the West End are deserting the ugly fashion just as suddenly as they adopted it. A famous tailor announced: f£ One hundred and thirty-two pairs of trousers were returned to our place last week to be narrowed. 'Hiey came mostly from men who had given their order a month to six weeks ago, and havo been too busy at Ascot and other functions to visit their tailor. Now they havo awakened to the fact Fast End, the suburbs aud ohartcs burv avenue have made the extremes in wide trouserings ridiculous. So out will go the fashion. The narrowing is from two to three inches. Fashion is not a complete autocrat. The public will accent dictation up to a poini;; but when Fashion demands something ridiculous or there-is usually a reaction lashion, nearly two years ago, tried determinedly to taboo bobbing, and re-estabish Inns: hair. But women had found a mode that was comfortable, healthy, and smart. So, instead of letting their hair grow, they went to the other extreme—at -first, actually in defianoo of Tachion Hence the shingle. Dame kv.hiou* capitulated and accepted the shingle. Never in the history of civilisation was there such a sudden worldwide revolution in women s styles. \bout the same time, laslnon got another slap in tho face. Tho London women back from the short skirt to the women that was such an abomination in pre-war years. The women obeyed, hesitated decided the} didn't like tho new styles a bit and f in complete revolt, thev returned ii masse to short skirts. The .street gown that sweeps the pravcJ path may now be regarded as sufficient!} dead to r? rated with the cp'inohne. llie fjt.ure fashion will vary between short skirts and shorter shirts.