A combined exercise in reinterpreting early 20th Century Oxford Bags- extremely wide trousers first made popular in 1920s at Oxford University, but later adopted by Ivy League students in the US- and this season’s construction based around pleating and cutting across the grain of the fabric. The legs are cut in one huge piece of fabric, with no side seams and no pockets, but the side is pulled into a large backwards-facing pleat, and stitched into place to form a side pocket. Below the pocket stitch the pleat is left to hang down to an extra wide hem.

Pleat Pocket Bags are made up with patch hip pockets, back darts, and a button fly. They are sewn with all-cotton thread and finished with dyed cotton-covered metal buttons, and a Made in USA blue label.