DISCARDED FASHIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)

DISCARDED FASHIONS

THE “OXFORD” CBAZE. “Oxford” trousers are going, and soon will have gone into the limbo of discarded fashions, to be resurrected who can say when? It is not often that man breaks out with anything new in style, but when he docs he is likely as not to run to extremes. The only rnd les whoso fancy they have captured are “young bloods,” who desire to win attention for eccentricity. Tailors have not been enamoured of “Oxfords” —they regard them as ugly, and they 'object to them because they use so 'much cloth; and when tailors cannot, or do not, feel disposed to recommend a particular style to their customers we may bo assured that the life of the style will be fleeting. lu the meantime, what of the ‘ ‘ turndowns” at the trouser bottoms'? Are they to remain or are they to go? One of the arguments against the prevailing fashion of “turn-downs” is that grit and dirt are apt to accumulate in the folds and to wear out the trousers quickly at the crease. The question of “for or (against” has yet' to bo determined. If trousers are to bo “turned down” it is understood, of course, that boots, not shoes, are the footwear to wear with them.