May 02
Tzar Alexander I of Russia believed that trousers were subversive. He was so worried about the spate of trouser wearing in Russia that he ordered trouser searches across Russia. His troops were ordered to search all the carriages in the country and, if anyone was found to be wearing trousers, they were to be cut off at the knees. (That’s their trousers,not their knees). Well, if I were Tzar of all the Russia’s I would have ordered the banning of clothes by women under twenty-five.