Knickerbockers or knickers is a very popular male or boy trouser form in the early 20th century of the United States. Golfers' plus paired and plus crawl are breech breeds of this type. Before World War II, skiers also often wore trousers, usually long legs.
Until after World War I, in many English-speaking countries, boys usually wear summer shorts and trousers ("pants" or "knee-length pants") in the winter. (In British English pants means clothes worn by women.) At the beginning of puberty, they move on to trousers. In that era, the transition to "trousers" was a major ritual. See, for example, the classic song "Blues in the Night" by Johnny Mercer: "My mammy done told me, while I was on my knees, my mother finished telling me, son...".
Baseball players wear pants-style trousers, though the pants have become less loose in recent decades and some modern soccer players choose to pull the pants close to the ankle. White trousers worn by American football officials are tights, and while they have become less loose, they are still worn ends under the knees. In recent years, the NFL has equipped its officials with trousers instead of underwear in cold weather.
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History
The name "Knickerbocker" first gained significance with Washington Irving's History of New York, featuring fictitious writer Diedrich Knickerbocker, an ancient New York Dutch resident in Irving's poem about fussy and interfering local history. In fact, Washington Irving has a true friend named Herman Knickerbocker (1779-1855), whose name he borrows. Herman Knickerbocker, in turn, is from the northern Knickerbocker clan, derived from a single immigrant ancestor, Harmen Jansen van Wijhe Knickerbocker. Jansen van Wijhe discovered the name after arriving in New Amsterdam and signed the document with a variant in 1682.
After Irving's History, in 1831 "Knickerbocker" had become a local welcome word for an old-fashioned New York aristocrat who the Dutch imagined, their ancient way, their long-stemmed pipes, and knees-pants after fashion had changed into pants. (That cultural heritage is almost entirely derived from Irving's imagination and a well-known example of the created tradition.) "Knickerbocker" became a byword for a New York noble, comparable to "Boston Brahmin".
Thus, the "New York Knickerbockers" was an amateur social and athletic club organized by Alexander Cartwright in Manhattan (Lower) East Side in 1842, mostly to play the "basic ball" according to written rules, the team that was first organized in baseball history ; on June 19, 1846, the New York Knickerbockers played the first game of "base ball" organized under the rule, in Hoboken, New Jersey, and destroyed 23 - 1. The name Knickerbocker remained with the team even after moving its base of operations to Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ in 1846. The baseball link may have pushed Casey Stengel to exclaim, "Glad to be back as a Knickerbockers manager!" when he was named a pilot of the New York Mets who was born in 1961.
Hence also the locally made "Knickerbocker Beer" brewed by Jacob Ruppert, the first sponsor of the TV show Tonight! ; then the gossip columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker", pen name Igor Cassini; therefore there is a very tall Knickerbocker Club (still in a neo-Georgian house on Fifth Avenue on 62nd Street, founded in 1871 when some Union Club members became concerned that acceptance policies were not strict enough); and hence the New York Knicks, whose company name is "New York Knickerbockers".
The Knickerbocker name was an integral part of the New York scene when the American Basketball Association gave the charter franchise to the city in the summer of 1946. As can be determined, the final decision to summon a team of "Knickerbockers" was made by the founder of the club, Ned Irish. The team is now commonly referred to as the Knicks.
Use in sports
Celet players have been popular in other sports activities, especially golf, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, fencing and cycling.
Indeed, in cycling they were standard clothing for nearly a hundred years, with the majority of cycling photos of pre-World War I cyclists showing men wearing long pants tucked into long socks. They remained quite popular in England (where they were called "breeks" or "trews") in the years between World War I and World War II, but eventually lost popularity with the race, even among the majority of cyclists who never ran. Always referred to as "pants" in the United States, where the English definition of the term is unknown, they live as a knee-only racing variant only for the past that is destined for cold weather riding.
Trousers are still worn as part of a conventional uniform in the fence.
Tights are often worn in baseball as pants, a habit that has been practiced even since trousers are becoming widely used in the US. Older traditional trousers are more like trousers that have been folded back with long socks.
Style
During the early 1980s, media interest in Lady Diana Spencer brought a brief commercial awakening from the look in female and unisex fashion both in Europe and North America, especially between "city and country", "New Romantic", and "preppie" sets. However, in 1984 the style has diminished because more top-weight styles with comfortable pants make the style obsolete.
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In Japan
In Japan, tobi pants, similar to trousers, worn by construction workers, and their popular length has increased significantly over time, lowering the loose parts at the bottom of the foot like a plus-four and plus-six, and sometimes onto legs like trousers.
Knickers: Britain
In the UK, Ireland, and some Commonwealth countries, the term
pants is used for women's underwear. The use of the term owes its origins to illustrator George Cruikshank, who did illustrations for Washington Irving's droll History of New York when it was published in London. He showed old trousers in their loose Dutch trousers, and in 1859, short loose ladies shorts, a sort of pantalette or shortened pantaloons, were shorts in England.
See also
- Pof (clothing)
- Breech
- Knickerbocracy
- Plus crawl
References
External links
- pattern
- On-line Etymology Dictionary
- "Knickerbocker: The origin of the name": some of New York's colonial genealogy
- Tim Wiles, "Letter in the Dirt:" no. 14
- "Japanese Construction Worker Mode"
- Shorts From the Historic Children's Clothing website
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