text:  At one time it was all _a la Cosaque_ and you might have made a greatcoat out of a pair; at another it was half up the leg and more than two feet in circumference; by degrees it got strapped down and cut away into a sensible kind of shape; and now it has attained the _juste milieu_ making a happy compromise between the tight symmetry of the pantaloon and the flaunting of the sailor's ducks