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Furthermore, the ad promoted daring costume styles when it offered a women's bike with a high bar that was "especially designed for the many ladies who prefer to wear knicker-bockers rather than cumbersome skirts."

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

In fact, if you looked carefully at the well-shaped limbs in the trim blue stockings and neat knicker - bockers, you could easily see that the legs curved slightly outwards.

Master Sunshine C. F. Fraser

If one’s knees and legs are unfortunately tender, knicker-bockers with long stockings and leggins should be worn; ordinary trousers tend to bind the knee.

Appendix B. The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness 1914

There 's nothing so becoming to a man as knicker-bockers

Jerry Junior 1907

Inside was a sort of mild morass, overspread with Englishmen -- professional-looking men with months-old beards, pink-cheeked young fellows as fresh as if they had just stepped off Piccadilly, men in faded knicker-bockers and puttees, men in sailor blue and brass buttons, men with flat caps and cockney accent, one with a Thermos bottle, and crisp "Right you are!"

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

Tall and handsome looking in his tourist knicker-bockers and close fitting steamer cap, Kenneth held both Helen's hands in his.

The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure Arthur Hornblow 1903

But even as I stood up, and brushed the gravel from the palms of my hands and the knees of my knicker-bockers, I had no notion what to do next.

Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 1901

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Luce’s dress pinched her under the arms, and one leg of his knicker-bockers hung down longer than the other.

The End of a Childhood 2003