nineveh_uk

Those photos of proper Oxford bags are hilarious. Although not as hilarious as the description on this presumably US webpage: Around 1924, at Oxford University, a small group of male students began wearing loosely fitted and extremely wide legs trousers in reaction to a ban on knickers in University classrooms. At their knees and cuffs they measured between twenty-two and forty inches wide, slipped over their knickers.

Banning students wearing knickers in the classroom sounds an entirely reasonable thing to me (though the author means, I assume plus fours, as opposed to women/girls' underwear).