As late as the 1930s, civil servants at court occasions wore 18th-century styles _ knee breeches, silk stockings and tailcoats whose lavish embroidery and colored collar spoke volumes about their place in the pecking order.
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Full dress for the Lord Chancellor and judges comprises black cloth or velvet court coat, waistcoat, black cloth knee breeches, black silk stockings, shoes and steel buckles, plain bands, white gloves, and a beaver hat.
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This character was portrayed as wearing trousers rather than knee breeches, and so became the origin of the name of a type of trouser called " pantaloons, " which was later shortened to " pants ."
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The modern lounge suit appeared in the late 19th century, but traces its origins to the simplified, sartorial standard of dress established by the English king wig, and knee breeches ( trousers ), and a hat.
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The modern lounge suit's derivation is visible in the outline of the brightly coloured, elaborately crafted royal court dress of the 17th century ( suit, wig, knee breeches ), which was shed because of the French Revolution.
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It was instructive to watch the cook in knee breeches maneuver the heavy iron skillets and pots over the open fire, which is where all meals at the inn are cooked from largely native ingredients and early American recipes.
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From the pantaloons ( named after Pantalone from the Harlequinade ) were originally work clothing, and were worn by urban French Sans-Culottes seeking to distinguish themselves from the overdressed aristocratic fops of the Ancien R�gime who wore tight knee breeches.
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A College tradition holds ( with reported sightings ) that Ford's ghost wanderings the Rubrics, that his ghost, dressed in wig, gown and knee breeches, is said to walk by the side of the Rubrics at dusk .
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He wore darker colours than had been previously fashionable as they helped to disguise his size, favoured pantaloons and trousers over knee breeches because they were looser, and popularised a high collar with neck cloth because it hid his double chin.
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The little peasants _ men in knee breeches and wide-brimmed hats, women in long skirts, aprons and head scarves _ are depicted in a variety of activities : They walk to market, pick flowers, tend flocks, play horns and bagpipes, dance.
