One would think that mid-19th Century knee pants were a natural evolution from 18th Century knee breeches.

有人认为19世纪中期的短裤式样是承自18世纪的自然演变。

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Otherwise, the team is elegance itself in its striped knee breeches and loose shirts, colored stockings and peaked caps.

与其相反，棒球队的穿着是极其雅致的，齐膝长的斜纹裤和宽松的运动衫，各色长袜和棒球帽。

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The Manhattan docks were a place of "stiff top hats, swallowtail coats and trousers that had replaced the eighteenth century's powdered hair and knee breeches."

曼哈顿港区是一个用“硬挺的圆顶高礼帽，燕尾服和长裤取代十八世纪那种施粉的发式和及膝短裤”的地方。

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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.

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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.

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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