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Knickerbockers have been popular in other sporting endeavors, particularly golf, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, fencing and bicycling. In cycling, they were standard attire for nearly 100 years, with the majority of archival photos of cyclists in the era before World War I showing men wearing knickerbockers tucked into long socks.
Knickerbockers (clothing), baggy knee trousers; USS Knickerbocker (SP-479), a US Navy tug, minesweeper, and dispatch ship in commission from 1917 to 1919; Knickerbocker glory, a layered ice cream sundae from the United States and United Kingdom; Knickerbocker (Zamboanga), an ice cream dessert with various fresh fruits from the Philippines
In 2008, plus fours were featured in André Benjamin's Benjamin Bixby clothing line, which was based on clothing worn by Ivy League athletes in the 1930s. [3] Less known are plus twos, plus sixes, and plus eights, of similar definitions, but accordingly varying lengths. [4]
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup reminded employees that they can take paid time off to vote in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, while underscoring the need to work across ...
The fictional "Diedrich Knickerbocker" from the frontispiece of A History of New-York, a wash drawing by Felix O. C. Darley. Diedrich Knickerbocker is an American literary character who originated from Washington Irving's first novel, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809).
Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch apologized Wednesday for flipping off the Lambeau Field crowd following his ejection during Sunday's 24-14 win over the Green Bay Packers.
The Knickerbocker Club was founded in 1871 by members of the Union Club of the City of New York who were concerned that the club's admission standards had fallen. [6] By the 1950s, urban social club membership was dwindling, in large part because of the movement of wealthy families to the suburbs. In 1959, the Knickerbocker Club considered ...
For women ages 40–44, the birth rate increased 4 percent between 2021 and 2022 (and has been continually inching up since 1985), while the birth rate for women ages 45 and over increased 12 percent.