Exempel på breeches

• 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.

• A lodger who worked for a sugar refiner had stolen from his room a cloth coat, a satin waistcoat, worsted stockings and leather breeches.

• Though the viewer sees the surface of the skirt, she knows that the tightly-fitting, masculine breeches are lurking beneath this proper façade.

• Perhaps we (who work on gender and colonialism) are getting too big for our breeches and our punishment has been to be cast out of the well-established guilds of historians.

• Usta et al119 compared the outcome of 297 deliveries of known breech pregnancies with 356 previously undiagnosed breeches, and found no significant difference in perinatal outcome.

• The requirement to rescue stranded mariners by breeches buoy has been replaced by the greater availability of all-weather helicopters and fast lifeboats.

• During the five-year period, 1983–1987 inclusive, throughout the coastguard service, rescue was effected by breeches buoy equipment on two occasions.

• If the helicopter had been unable to lift off the three men, a breeches buoy was the only very risky possible alternative.