Knickerbockers Collection

Two women in fancy dress with tankards
Two women in fancy dress costumes comprising of knickerbockers, shirts and waistcoats, raise a tankard of beer each - presumably they re meant to be some kind of 17th century roisterers? c.1928

Children in 1864
Latest Paris fashions for Victorian children, girls from two to eight years of age wearing three quarter length frocks and the older boy wearing knickerbockers. 1864

Countrywear / Men 1876
A country gentlemen wears a Norfolk shirt (the forerunner of the Norfolk jacket), knickerbockers, bowler hat, woollen socks & leather shoes & carries a knobbly cane

Model in outdoor suit - cycling
Model in matching outdoor suit of knickerbockers (bloomers / plus fours) perfectly designed for cycling. Date: circa 1946

Children of London's West End. Boys: knitted jersey suits with knickerbockers. Girls: pink polonaise & sunbonnet; lilac dress with yoke, sash, gathered bodice & gigot sleeves Date: 1884

Bloomers - latest in fashion 1909
Suzanne Bergere walking around Paris, quite radical clothing for the late Edwardian era, a pair of nickerbockers

Advert, Janet Walker, Womens Fashions
Advert for Janet Walker, Regent Street, London, Womens Fashions, Spring Costume, Walker Knickerbockers. 1897

COUNTRY CLOTHES C. 1890
Boys: deerstalker hats, knickerbockers, short square cut fly-fronted jackets. Girls: cloth Tam-OShanters, pleated skirts, gauntlets, D-B jackets, fur coat & bonnet. Date: circa 1890

FRENCH VELVET SUIT 1881
French boy wears a velvet suit comprised of knickerbockers, jacket fastened at the neck & open to reveal a waistcoat, white falling collar & large bow, socks & heeled boots. Date: 1881

AMERICAN KIDS 1927
Two smartly dressed youngsters from an American farming region - he in plus-fours, lounging jacket & tie, she in a simple dress and knee-length socks : good muscles, too. Date: 1927

Child Fashions circa 1870
Boy: D-B jacket with cape, knickerbockers, striped socks & heeled boots. Girls: striped polonaise & fringed cape; tunic dresses with dentate hems, bustles & button trim Date: circa 1870

Ladies Football, 1895: Miss Nettie Honeyball
The wonderfully named Miss Nettie J. Honeyball, captain of the British Ladies Football Club, in her football costume(blouse, blue serge knickerbockers, shin pads and football boots) in 1895. 1895

Boy does Maths Homework
Boy wears a summer sailor suit of white sailor blouse with pale blue turn-over collar & cuffs, white & blue striped knickerbockers or short trousers & ankle strap shoes. Date: circa 1890

Fauntleroy Dress 1889
Cavalier costume (a style that pre-dates the 1886 Hodgson Burnett novel): velvet tunic & knickerbockers, lace falling collar & cuffs, sash with bow on one hip & buckle shoes. Date: 1889

Advert for Hammond & Co. Ltd mens leggings 1904
Hunting breeches and trouser makers, military and sporting wear available from Hammond & Co. Ltd. 1904

Girl and boy with a dog in a garden
Girl and boy with a terrier dog in a garden. Date: circa 1910s

Victorian clown greetings card
Back design of a greetings card from the Victorian era featuring three clowns wearing colourful, striped knickerbockers, clambering over the edge of the card

Costume / Children / 1880
Boys: knickerbockers, bowler hat, tunic with cape. Girls: low waisted dress with yoke, striped stockings; coat- bodice, kilted or flounced short skirts, trimmed hats. Date: 1880

Four skating boys, by Florence Hardy. Each boy is wearing a different coloured suit, and a matching or contrasting hat: blue, yellow, green and red

A Mans A Man For A That by Lindsay Cable
Two women dressed in masculine outfits of shirts, ties, flat shoes and, in the case of one, knickerbockers or plus-fours, smoke cigarettes and comment on a passing gentleman wearing a kilt

Costume / Children 1855
Girls: broderie Anglaise jacket, plaid skirt, dress with 3 flounces, pantalettes, open body & bands over the chest. Boys: black trousers & round jacket & belted tunics

Bathing costume, 1897
Illustration of a bathing costume made of pale blue serge with white serge revers, waistband and knickerbockers, trimmed scallops of white mohair braid

WOMEN & BOW 1877
Boy: angle-fronted jacket, spatterdashes & tyrolean hat. Women: dark brown dress with beige back plastron; green & cream dress with habit bodice & striped ornament

Costume / Children 1859
Boy: tunic, gaiters, sash & knickerbockers. Girls: black pardessus, plaid tunic dress with velvet trim, chemisettes with bishop sleeves, other short dresses with sashes

Varsity Style USA 1917
American Varsity style: S-B three-piece suits (narrow fit) with patch pockets, suit with a belted coat & bellows pockets, plus four suits in window pane checks with spats

Golf Player / Sepia Photo
A gentleman in his plus-fours ready to play a game of golf

Country Clothes C. 1890
Boys: deerstalker hats, knickerbockers, covert coats. Girls: cloth Tam-O Shanters, pleated skirts, gauntlets, reefer jackets, fur coat & high crowned white bonnet

American Style 1927
19 year old American in light coloured plus-fours, woollen socks & co-respondent shoes, waistcoat, single-breasted jacket & tie probably in a British regimental stripe

Russian Children 1880S
Boys: felt hat, knickerbockers & Norfolk jackets & lace collars. Girls: white frock with shoulder ribbon bows & front buttoning velvet dress, lace collar & sailor hat

Velvet Suit C. 1880
Boy wears a velvet suit of narrow cut short trousers & blouse with buttoned cuffs & square sailor collar, ribbon bow at the neck, socks & leather lace up shoes

Velvet Suit 1870S / Boy
Boy wears a velvet suit of danish trousers & collarless jacket with a belt of the same material, the whole trimmed with braid. Worn with a white bowtie & boots

Boy / Zouave Jacket / Photo
A small boy poses next to a large chair. He wears a Zouave jacket with diamond shaped ornament on the cuffs, knickerbockers, boots & white socks

Photo / Sailor Suit / Girl
Girl: short kilted skirt & white sailor blouse with dark turnover collar & cuffs. Baby: long clothes (christening robe). Man: country clothes of knickerbockers & lounge jacket

Photo / Sailor Suit
Young boy poses in his sailor suit (no doubt in navy blue serge) with turnover white collar & tight fitting knickerbockers, dark socks & shoes with 2 buttoned bars

Swimwear / Graphic / 1883
Swimwear worn at a ladies swimming competiton include two-piece costumes with knickerbockers or trousers & a blouse with sailor collar or with gathers & a Swiss belt

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