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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1925, Page 3

DKKSS LAW’S FOR SCHOOLS. I.OXDOX, September 7. The sumptuary dross-laws ot the .M iddlo Ages an' being revived again, appropriately enough by our Rritish , schools, which are so intimately in | tom-li with the past. School lioliHnys mv comin*'ln an end, ami liats. ukases. proiiiiminmeiitos and oilier kindred declarations of scholastic authorities h.ave keen widely issued forbidding the youth of I'highmd to return to the school precincts in what are called Oxford trousers. Some of these advices have keen byword Of mouth; at .Mill Mil) I toys seen wearing the lamiliar pink and plethoric garments hist term were told not to return in them. •• Qif.i trousers presumahly, since the return ~l a pair eif ex-trousers with slight alterations in the role of pyjamas would raise a nice point of sartorial ethics. Parents of hoys at the Leys School in ■Cninhridge have been advised that ■‘wide" trousers are not to he worn. Reference to the Oxford educational establishment would at Cambridge, have !leeii patriotically difficult, of course, lint the use of the adjective ■■wide uncus a vista of keen disputes on the lacrosse field of the Leys, adopted "ad Ime.” between a censor armed with tape and sf|Uads of juvenile legs re<;*rvcil for :i(!iiu!ic;ition. In the natural order. Oxford trousers were ronidlv becoming iust Oxford Kxtensiou trouser-. Xow there may well lie a ferment in schoolboy circles and the forbidden suit '.or section of it) should win a I'rosh a-tractiveness. And what is to he done with a paint " them " already ordered, rut and delivered hv the tailor? Can they he donated to 'the local vicar as colleen ■»- I ags ? “ MONSTROSITIFS.” Speaking yesTerday at the annual conference at Leicester of the National Federation of Merchant Tailors. Mr C. H. Robertson, of Hull. the president. said that the tailor must march with the times, even to providing such monstrosities as " Oxford hags. J The public, he continued, was to-day I spending much more money than evei before on pleasure, and less on clothes. There was not much prospect of cheaper clothes, although if tailors bought j with caution, they might hone for some 1 reduction next spring.