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2. Knickerbockers (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Women wearing knickerbockers, Minnesota, 1924. The name "Knickerbocker" first acquired meaning with Washington Irving's History of New York, which featured the fictional author Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old-fashioned Dutch New Yorker in Irving's satire of chatty and officious local history. [4]

3. Pedal pushers - Wikipedia

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   A woman wearing denim pedal pushers on Broadway in SoHo, New York City (Summer 2011) Pedal pushers are calf-length trousers that were popular during the 1950s and the early 1960s. [1] 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 ...

4. Bloomers - Wikipedia

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   During the late 19th century, athletic bloomers (also known as "rationals" or "knickerbockers") were skirtless baggy knee-length trousers, fastened to the leg a little below the knees; at that time, they were worn by women only in a few narrow contexts of athletic activity, such as bicycle-riding, gymnastics, and sports other than tennis (see ...

5. Knickerbocker - Wikipedia

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   Knickerbocker Club, a private male-only social club in New York City; Knickerbocker Greys, an afterschool program in New York City; Knickerbocker Ice Company, based in New York State during the 19th century; Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988; Knickerbocker Press, a division of publisher G. P ...

6. Rational Dress Society - Wikipedia

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   1897 advertisement in The Graphic for Elliman's Universal Embrocation (manufactured in Slough), showing a relatively early example of an ordinary non-sea-bathing Western woman appearing skirtless in public (wearing "rationals" or "knickerbockers" or "bloomers" for bicycle-riding). The whole outfit (top and bottom) was known as a "bicycle suit".

7. Knickerbocker Club - Wikipedia

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   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 ...