knickerbockers

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• A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
• Across from Miss Hazel sat her brother in knickerbockers, his Alpine stock at his elbow and also his fan. Jerry Junior
• Theo's wearing loose knickerbockers, as loose and unrestricting as Wendy's dress. SPLITTING
• Even when I was six years old, I was a page boy at a wedding, and the outfit I wanted to wear was knickerbockers, knee-length socks, frilly shirt, and ballet shoes.
• I was in knickerbockers and khaki shirt; Mifflin in greasy gray flannels and subfusc Norfolk. Shandygaff
• Co-owner Chris Puttnam said the fabric makes for dapper clothes that aren't as precious as the knickerbockers that have had a resurgence lately among English cyclists. Easy Riders
• He really _was_ a good-looking young man, and in his knickerbockers and golf stockings Janice thought he seemed very "citified" indeed. Janice Day at Poketown
• They continued popularity through the 1920s and 30s when they became known as knickerbockers after a common last of the New York Dutch who wore traditional knee pants.
• The little boy in knickerbockers playing with a diabolo on page 103 is a perfect period piece. Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali
• He was dressed in a fancy pale blue over jacket with matching knickerbockers, and white hose.