 New Men (New boys) sported a strat with a 3-inch strat-band and if they became a Three-Year Men (3 Years at the school), they could sport a strat with a thinner 1 inch strat band.Up to the mid-1970s, Three-Year Men were allowed to wear a strat made of speckled straw.The wearing of strats ceased to be compulsory for Commoners in 1984 – Collegemen had stopped wearing them years earlier.