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I hasten to add at no point were scrunchies banned!! Hence the locally-brewed "Knickerbocker Beer" brewed by , the first sponsors of the TV show ; hence the gossip columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker", the pen name of ; hence the extremely high-toned still in a neo-Georgian mansion on at 62nd Street, which was founded in 1871 when some members of the Union Club became concerned that admission policies were not strict enough ; and hence the , whose corporate name is the "New York Knickerbockers".

They remained fairly popular in Britain where they were called "breeks" or "trews" in the years between World War I and , but eventually were eclipsed in popularity by racing tights, even among the vast majority of cyclists who never raced.

In Japan [ ] In , —similar to knickerbockers—are worn by construction workers, and their popular length has significantly increased over time, lowering the baggy part down the bottom of the leg like plus-fours and plus-sixes, and sometimes to the feet like trousers.

You would find that even the girls who hated P.

My heart seemed to miss a beat.

Eventually, it became a nickname for anyone from New York and, much later, the name of a New York basketball team.

Jansen van Wijhe invented the name upon arriving in and signed a document with a variant of it in 1682.

Usually worn with a Norfolk or other type of sports jacket for golf, etc.

"Knickerbocker" became a byword for a New York patrician, comparable to a "".

We started PAYNE STEWART wearing Golf Knickers.

He had a local seamstress take them apart and create a "pattern," then make him his first pair of "plus fours.