Knickers

As an abbreviation for knickerbockers, knickers is a term for men's or boys' baggy knee trousers, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century. Golfers' plus twos and plus fours, now also generally a thing of the past, are trousers of this type. Before World War II, skiiers often wore knickerbockers too. Baseball players wear a stylized form of knickers, although the pants have become thinner in recent decades and some modern ballpl ...

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Trousers (or "pants" in North American English, sometimes "slacks" in more formal or older-fashioned usage) are an item of clothing worn on the lower part of the body and covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth stretching across both as in skirts and dresses). Historically, as for the West, trousers were the standard lower-body clothing item for males since the 16th century; by the late 20th century they had become extremely prevalent for females as well. Trousers are worn at the hips or waist, and may be held up by thei ...

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Trousers were introduced into Western European culture at several points in history, but gained their current predominance only in the 16th century. Nomadic Eurasian horsemen/women such as the Scythians, along with Seleucid Persians were the first to wear trousers, later introduced to modern Europe via either the Hungarians or Ottoman Turks. However, the Celts also seem to have worn them in Ancient Europe. < ...

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In North American English, pants is the general category term, and trousers refers, often more formally, specifically to tailored garments with a waistband and (typically) belt-loops and a fly-front. For instance, informal elastic-waist knitted garments would never be called trousers in America. In British English, trousers is the general category term, and pants refers to underwear (in America, called underwear, underpants or panties to distinguish them ...

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It is customary in the Western world for men to wear trousers and not skirts or dresses. However, there are exceptions, such as the Scottish kilt and the Greek tsolias, worn on ceremonial occasions, as well as robes or robe-like clothing such as the cassocks, etc. of clergy and academic robes (both rarely worn in daily use today). Based on Deuteronomy 22:5 in the Bible, some Christian adherents believe that women should not wear trousers, but only skirts and dresses. Among certain groups, saggy, baggy trousers exposing underwear are in fashion, e.g. among skaters, for whom it als ...

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Breeches are an item of clothing covering the body from the waist down, with separate coverings for each leg. The spelling britches reflects a common pronunciation, and is generally used in casual speech to mean "pants". Breeks is a Scots or northern English spelling and pronunciation. See more at Trousers, Knickers. Breeches - Etymology. Breeches is a double plural known since c.1205, from Old English (and before Old French) brec or breoc, which was already ...

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In May 2004 in Louisiana, Congressman Dick Shepard proposed a bill that would make it a crime to appear in public wearing trousers below the waist and thereby exposing one's skin or "intimate clothing". ([1], PDF). The Louisiana bill was retracted after negative public reaction. In February 2005, Virginia legislators tried to pass a similar law that would have made punishable by a $50 fine: "any person who, while in a public place, intentionally wears and displays his below-waist undergarments, intended to cover a person's intimate parts ...

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Breeches is a double plural known since c.1205, from Old English (and before Old French) brec or breoc, which was already pl. of broc "garment for the legs and trunk," from the Proto-Germanic root brokiz. Like other words for similar garments (pants, knickers, shorts; using an obvious plural, as if to reflect it has two legs, as for most synonyms in English, in no longer common in other languages, e.g. the parallel modern Dutch broek), the word breeches has been applied ...

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The Knicks are one of only two teams of the original National Basketball Association still located in its original city (the other being the Boston Celtics). The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merged in 1949 to form the NBA. New York Knicks - The Early Years. The Knicks' first game was against the Toronto Huskies at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, where the Knicks won by the score of 68-66. The Knicks were consistent playoff contenders in their early years, thanks to pla ...

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The singular meanwhile survived in the metaphorical sense of the part of the body covered by breeches, i.e. posterior, buttocks; paradoxically, the alliterating expression 'bare breech' thus means without any inner or outer breeches! This also led to the following: a (gun) breech is the part of a firearm behind the bore (known since 1575 in gunnery). breech birth i ...

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In Britain, knickers is a term for panties or similar women's undergarments: "Don't get your knickers in a twist" (i.e. "Don't panic," or, in US usage "don't get your panties in a wad."). George Cruikshank, whose illustrations are classic icons for Charles Dickens' works, also did the illustrations for Irving's droll History of New York when it was published in London. He showed the old-time Knickerbockers in their loose Dutch breeches, and by 1859, short loose ladies undergarments, a kind of abbreviated version of pantalettes ...

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