For clothing worn by men and boys, see
knickerbockers (clothing). For other uses, see
knickerbocker. In the
United Kingdom,
Ireland and some fellow
Commonwealth nations, knickers is a word for women's
undergarments: "Don't get your knickers in a twist" (i.e., "don't get all hot under the collar," or, in U.S. usage, "don't get your panties in a bunch." Australian usage is "don't get your knickers in a knot" or "twist").
George Cruikshank, whose illustrations are classic icons for
Charles Dickens' works, also did the illustrations for
Washington Irving's droll History of New York (published in 1809) when it was published in London. He showed the old-time Knickerbockers, Irving's fictitious Dutch colonial family, in their loose knee-length Dutch breeches. Consequently, by 1859 relatively short loose ladies' undergarments, a kind of abbreviated version of
pantalettes or
pantaloons, were known as "knickers" in England.
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ニッカーボッカーズ(英:Knickerbockers)は
ズボンの一種で、長さが膝下までですそが括られた短ズボン。
野球、
ゴルフなどのスポーツウェアとして広まり、現在日本では土木・建設工事の作業服として多く見られる。ニッカ(ー)ボッカー(ズ)、ニッカポッカ、ニッカズボン、ニッカー(ズ)とも呼ばれる。
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