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The fit and finish of the TL just doesn't live up to the big boy breeches of its high-end ilk.
ENGADGET: Sony Xperia TL for AT&T hands-on (video) Mobile
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However, it is only by way of dressing him in them sometimes, as the King is fond of seeing him in breeches .
NPR: Excerpt: Princesses
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Sir Michael and his staff of officials have a uniform of knee breeches and swords, which appear to many as quaint throwbacks to a previous age.
BBC: Protesters were within inches of frontbench
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Of course, it was more complicated than that: to represent the waistcoat, and the wig, and the breeches, was to represent an opinion indeed, a whole corpus of them.
NEWYORKER: The Limner
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It includes other items of his clothing, including a printed banyan, an early form of dressing gown, and huge breeches worn towards the end of his life as he grew fatter.
BBC: George IV
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The waistcoat and breeches showed the body beneath, as the wig and hat showed the brain beneath though, in some cases, it was a pictorial exaggeration to suggest that any brains lay beneath.
NEWYORKER: The Limner
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At the shop belonging to Austria's Grand Dame of Tracht, Gexi Tostman, there are albums full of personal photos of grooms in brilliant waistcoats and knee breeches and brides in silken dirndls.
BBC: Lederhosen and dirndl dresses make a comeback
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During the French Revolution, Parisian women had requested the right to wear trousers and working-class revolutionaries became known as "sans-culottes" for wearing trousers instead of the silk-knee breeches preferred by the bourgeoisie.
BBC: Paris women finally allowed to wear trousers
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The breeches, or trousers, held up by braces would have made it very difficult to slouch, giving Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley the upright stance we associate with men in the Regency period.
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Americans routinely make monumental decisions such as whether people can carry guns or whether women can have abortions with reference to the designs of a group of 18th-century gentlemen who wore knee-breeches and powdered wigs.
ECONOMIST: Who has been lying about whose age?
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It probably was a good idea to pressure the too-big-for-its-breeches social-media giant to make its paid space more effective, and it was a move that drew muttered agreement from many CMOs in other industries.
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