1. Some still wore knee breeches, but tightly-fitting pantaloons buttoned round the ankle over the white silk socks were permitted.

2. The se - mi - wide knee breeches were usually made of velvet.

3. Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air, Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches.

4. Otherwise, the team is elegance itself in its striped knee breeches and loose shirts, colored stockings and peaked caps.

5. Pantaloons was later applied to another style of trousers that came into fashion toward the end of the 18th century, tight-fitting garments that had begun to replace knee breeches .

6. Every fashionably dressed gentleman of England and America had his knee breeches made of China cotton.

7. One would think that mid-19th Century knee pants were a natural evolution from 18th Century knee breeches .