Trousersed

Do you want your brother, father, husband or lover to admire the trousersed female bicycle rider?

He was thrust aside by the patch-trousersed rogue Rule Britannia.

While the English heir to his father’s lands is clad in long trousersed sailor costumes which are most inconvenient for play, his cousin across the channel is just as uncomfortably clad in costumes too elaborate to be suitable—or so it seems from the American point of view.

Thirty years ago, Mr. Shortridge lived in Salem, and was the only trousersed citizen of that time and place who had the courage to assist Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway in her fight for woman suffrage.

What he would have said if we had written that a man was trousersed in pink satin, or that a tailor specialised in trousersings for morning-suits, I don’t know.

Jennifer Telford’s costumes fare better, faithfully re-creating the wide-trousersed, padded-shouldered look of the post-war era.