On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Sybella <mae...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the '80s people called pants that ended just below the knee "knickers."
Assuming you mean 1980s: I recall "Capri pants" for women,not knickers. > Before that, they were "peddle pushers." And I think there's at least one > other name for them. "Knee highs," maybe? It seems every time they come > back into fashion, they are called something else. Probably, pedal-pushers as that what my mom called the things they went bicycling in in the 1950s. Also, Knickers strikes me as something an early 20th c golfer or upperclass sport hunter (male) might wear. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
