We had just been ushered into the drawing room when a young man in a powdered wig and fancy knee breeches appeared and welcomed us to his home.
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"Stage Beauty " takes place in London during the reign of Charles II, an era of curly wigs and knee breeches much beloved by connoisseurs of high-end costume drama.
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To hold each bottle aloft, as Broadbent extolled its virtues, he hired Roy Sheppard, an actor, and dressed him in powdered wig, monocle, satin knee breeches and buckled shoes.
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He also became the first president to adopt a short haircut instead of long hair tied in a queue and to regularly wear long trousers instead of knee breeches.
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They do not paint themselves, as do the natives of some other islands, but on the lower part of the body they wear artfully woven silk tights or knee breeches.
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Betty Boothroyd first decided not to wear the wig and Michael Martin chose not to wear knee breeches, silk stockings or the traditional buckled shoes, preferring flannel trousers and Oxford shoes.
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The first produced the court suit, a coat with tails, waistcoat and knee breeches, worn with silk stockings, and a formal court sword with a cut-steel hilt and embellishments, and bicorne hat.
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One is an English man's suit ( circa 1750 ) of purple wool whose long jacket, worn over a long vest and knee breeches, is decked out with lots of gold braid.
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Dress codes vary among different courts and types of cases _ in the most formal situations, judges can be required to wear knee breeches, buckled shoes, scarlet or purple robes and fur mantles.
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Then there were the costumes : the knee breeches, the cavalier capes, the lace cuffs and the much commented-upon legwear . ( " Strange that a pair of silk stockings should so upset a nation,"
