The proprietor, in white wig, frilled shirt, satin coat and knee britches, directed everything.

And the fans watched, many with disdain, the Notre Dame leprechaun, a student in bright green knee britches, prancing on the sideline.

Elizabeth Kurtzman dressed the women in see-through Spanish costumes over bras and panties and the men in knee britches.

Colston modelled his school on Christ's Hospital and the 18th century uniform reflected this - a long blue coat, knee britches and yellow stockings.

The knee britches came to his ankles, and the hat was so large it came down over his ears.

You can pack away all his lacy duds, his velvet shirts and ruffled collars and knee britches.

In other times, we wore powdered wigs and knee britches.

Although none of it fit exactly, his newly acquired apparel was decent, from the wide-brimmed floppy hat to the knee britches and paste-buckle shoes.

Some styles and behaviors that are today considered feminine were, in the past, part of the man's domain (e.g., knee britches, makeup, jewelry).

Get him out of the knee britches, and the lace, and the hats.