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  2. Oxford bags - Wikipedia

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    Oxford bags were a loose-fitting baggy form of trousers favoured by members of the University of Oxford, especially undergraduates, in England from the mid-1920s to around the 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The style had a more general influence outside the university, including in America, but has been somewhat out of fashion since then.

  3. History of suits - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s men began wearing wide, straight-legged trousers with their suits. These trousers normally measured 23 inches around the cuff. Younger men often wore even wider-legged trousers which were known as "Oxford bags." Trousers also began to be worn cuffed shortly after World War I and this style persisted until World War II due to rationing.

  4. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Trousers were relatively narrow and straight and they were worn rather short so that a man's socks often showed. Trousers also began to be worn cuffed at the bottom at this time. By 1925, wider trousers commonly known as Oxford bags came into fashion, while suit jackets returned to a normal waist and lapels became wider and were often worn ...

  5. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Barker Bros. – Los Angeles-based furniture store chain which was at one time the largest furniture store chain on the west coast for nearly a century before it filed for bankruptcy in 1992; Bombay Company – U.S. stores; Castro Convertibles – primarily Northeast and Southeast U.S. Fradkin Brothers Furniture – Baltimore County, Maryland

  6. Suit - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wearing business wear suits as per their gender, 2016. The word suit derives from the French suite, [3] meaning "following," from some Late Latin derivative form of the Latin verb sequor = "I follow," because the component garments (jacket and trousers and waistcoat) follow each other and have the same cloth and ...

  7. US travelers lose millions of suitcases every year. Their ...

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    Airlines sell bags to the store after they’ve exhausted efforts to match them with their owners. In 2023, airlines lost an average of 6.9 bags per 1,000 passengers. More than 99.5% of suitcases ...

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