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Student attire bringing French fashion into English clubs? (4,4)

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I believe the answer is:

eton suit

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'student attire bringing french' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'fashion into english clubs?' is the wordplay.
'fashion' becomes 'ton' (I've seen this before**).
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'clubs?' becomes 'suit' (clubs is an example of a card suit).
'e'+'suit'='esuit'
'ton' put within 'esuit' is 'ETON SUIT'.

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(Another definition for eton suit that I've seen is " School uniform".)

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