Oxford bags
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Moments later, he was on stage, sporting a three-quarter-length Alexander McQueen frock coat, wonderfully wide Oxford bags and long hair swept to the side a la Veronica Lake.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2018
Gone were the fey garments of The Man Who Sold the World and Hunky Dory eras: no more Mr Fish man-dresses, Dietrich-style locks, Oxford bags, floppy hats or flowing chemises.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015
I'd get my mother to make me pink satin Oxford bags, which I'd wear with platform shoes on the bus going into town.
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2013
If there were to be postwar equivalents of the flapper and the lounge lizard, the short skirts and Oxford bags of the 1920's, they had not evolved yet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anne’s sheik was wearing a black-and-orange-striped blazer, gray Oxford bags, a bow tie on an elastic band, and a brown triangular porkpie hat, pinched into a bowsprit at the front.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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