Could a gentleman be in fashion without wearing breeches?
They also bit me freely through white canvas leggings and khaki breeches.
Breeches divided the leg into two segments, which militated against the smooth, long line to which nineteenth-century viewers were accustomed.
He has donned his sky-blue coat, made for the occasion; white silk waistcoat broidered with silver, black silk breeches, white stockings, shoe-buckles of gold.
One might also mention the more mysterious bear's breeches in this respect.
The breeches were too tight to be worn constantly with any real comfort, he explained.
By 1900, sidesaddle was still more popular than cross-saddle riding, and breeches did not become more popular than skirts until about 1910.
However practical they might be, a woman had to conceal her breeches until the second decade of the twentieth century.
