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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1925, Page 4

A S A RTOUI AI. KC’CKNT'H IC'ITV. SVDXKV. August 20. Wise <ilil Bacon's conception ol' the man or the youth who travelled iihrouil was that when lie returneth home his travel should appear rather in his discourse, with profit to himsolT and to others, than in his apparel. Blit the fact, that not a lew of the Yoiuik Australia hea-ue hoys, in their lon- travel abroad, appeared to have hoen mainly impressed hv the Oxlonl “haps —the monstrous, tuntiel-lilcc trousers which have heeii affected by the young nrsity hloods ill F.iighind - su--ests that Bacon's essays must have been a closed I took to many of them. For their travel appeared hi their apparel —in short, in tic terrible-looking trousers which they wore, the Oxford "hags” which flap round tic legs like hell-hottoms. and arc a sartorial olfcncc. 'I ho trouble is that, like the measles, the lashion has spread : it has found its way into olio of the -rent Public Schools in Sydney, hut the attitude towards the 2d or AO hoys of the school who have braved the public -axe in the’ hideous trousers shows clearly that the Oxford “ hags will not lie countenanced by the authorities. The comparatively lew young “hloods ’’ who are to he seen ill Sydney iii these oxtrordiiiarilv expansive trousers, are —axed at with open-eyed wonder, and are admired for their daring. Sydney is opnosed to these sartorial eccentricities, even if they have impressed not a few of the Young Australia League hoys.