Knickerbockers (clothing)
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Knickerbockers, or knickers in the United States, are a form of baggy-kneed breeches, particularly popular in the early 20th-century United States. Golfers' plus twos and plus fours are similar. Until
Example of American knickers
The Akron Pros won the first American professional football championship in 1920.
Women wearing knickerbockers, Minnesota, 1924
Alice Manfield wearing a style of knickbockers in the early 20th century for her work as a mountain guide in Australia
Diedrich Knickerbocker
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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
The fictional "Diedrich Knickerbocker" from the frontispiece of A History of New-York, a wash drawing by Felix O. C. Darley
Father Knickerbocker punches out the Tammany Tiger, Puck 1901.