petticoat breeches

By the early 1660s, rhinegraves became very popular and soon replaced petticoat breeches.

They were so loose and wide that they became known as petticoat breeches.

By the early 1660s, their popularity surpassed petticoat breeches.

For boat work they sometimes wore a canvas 'petticoat' or divided 'petticoat breeches'.

He was dressed in sailor fashion, with petticoat breeches of duck, a heavy pea-jacket, and thick boots, reaching to the knees.

By the mid-1650s, in Western Europe, much looser, uncollected breeches, called petticoat breeches became the most popular.

Alongside the petticoat breeches, a collected but still loose fitted breeches called rhinegraves, were also worn.

At last he gave himself a shake, stooped and wiped his knife and hand and arm upon the loose petticoat breeches of the dead man.

He freed the laces with a quick jerk, and the petticoat breeches ballooned to the floor with a whiff of wind.

Voices and footsteps could be heard and, laughing and cursing, Kit tied up his black velvet petticoat breeches.

Petticoat breeches were voluminously wide, pleated pants, reminiscent of a skirt, worn by men in Western Europe during the 1650s and early 1660s.

The short coat is worn over a voluminous shirt with wide ruffles at the cuffs and flat, curve-cornered collar, petticoat breeches.

Petticoat breeches, very full, ungathered breeches popular from the 1650s until the early 1660s, giving the impression of a woman's petticoat.

He was wearing a light jacket over a silk shirt and petticoat breeches and was carrying buttoned foils under his arm.

The stiff petticoat breeches and tunics were their "rich" clothes, the ones they wore to cavort with polite society and look as if they fit in.

The pants are petticoat breeches or gregüescos normally short and wide, fitted at middle thigh, and tight Spanish breeches fitted under the knee.

He was wearing a royal-blue coat with a silver sash and trimmings; his petticoat breeches were of a deeper blue and a scarlet garter bound each stocking.

He was wearing a crimson velvet coat, laced with gold, and a vast lace cravat; his petticoat breeches--wide culottes falling to his knees--were black, his shirt loose over the top of them.

One of them was a negro, naked to the waist, and the other was a white man in his shirt sleeves, wearing petticoat breeches, a Monterey cap upon his head, a red bandanna handkerchief around his neck, and gold earrings in his ears.