 During the 1960s the trouser press was an aspirational product for the British middle classes, and this led to a thread of satire and cultural references.The Bonzo Dog Band recorded the song, "Trouser Press", for their 1968 album "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse", satirising 1960s consumerism, and making numerous references to the trouser press as emblematic of middle class life.Author and journalist Ira Robbins founded an influential alternative music magazine titled Trouser Press after the Bonzo song, and his book "The Trouser Press Record Guide