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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.
1920s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; Photographs from the 1920s taken by photographer, Henry Walker at the University of Houston Digital Library Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine "1920s - 20th Century Fashion Drawing and Illustration". Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories.
First seen as knickerbockers or "knickers", they were baggy trousers that extended to or just below the knee and were most commonly fastened with either a button or a buckle. Knickerbockers were initially worn by men in the late 19th century and over time became part of women's fashion.
1910s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; Ladies' and Men's Evening Dress for the Ragtime Era 1910–1920 (vintage images) "1910s – 20th Century Fashion Drawing and Illustration". Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories. Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011
The lighthearted, forward-looking attitude and fashions of the late 1920s lingered through most of 1930, [3] but by the end of that year the effects of the Great Depression began to affect the public, and a more conservative approach to fashion displaced that of the 1920s. For women, skirts became longer and the waist-line was returned up to ...
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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
Ohrbach's was a moderate-priced department store with a merchandising focus primarily on clothing and accessories. From its modest start in 1923 until the chain's demise in 1987, Ohrbach's expanded dramatically after World War II, and opened numerous branch locations in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas.