A c.1900 knitting pattern for "Lady's Cycling Knickerbockers" (an early form of sportswear trousers that came to just below the knees).
Taken from The Second Book of "How's", edited by Miss Loch. It can be read for free in entirety here, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
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Today's music video
"Lies" - The Knickerbockers " Live sync 1966
All lot of people were convinced this was The Beatles.
John Lennon: "The Knickerbockers sound more like us than we do."
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PANTS
PANTS THROUGH THE AGES: YA HISTORICAL ROMANCEY
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VOICEOVER BY NARRATOR
This should be someone everyone loves and trusts. Bob Hope, Carl Sagan, or Ed MacMahon would be good. Don’t even think about Rone.
[Hold on TITLE for a few seconds. Fade into NARRATOR seated at a desk]
NARRATOR: Yes, pants. Everybody knows about them…
[Sudden crashing music. Zoom into a tight shot of NARRATOR’S eyes narrowing]
Or do they?
[Music stops abruptly. Zoom back to previous shot of NARRATOR]
Today on our historical docudrama, we take a look at pants. Pants throughout history. Their role in weaving the fabric of modern life. Pants in philosophy. Pants in war. And…
[Music starts to fade in: something orchestral by some baroque guy]
Pants in love.
[Music continues up. Picture fades away from NARRATOR, fades into a close-up of JULIET looking intensely at the camera]
JULIET: Romeo, oh Romeo. Where art thy pants?
[Pull back slowly. JULIET is on a balcony. Beneath her is ROMEO. He is not wearing any pants]
[Back to NARRATOR at desk]
NARRATOR: But let’s start at the very beginning. Let’s look at the Dawn of Pants.
[Shimmery bit of camera work; scene changes to a shot of jungle, loud bird noises, monkeys hooting in the background, that sort of thing. Hold long enough to establish shot, then GROG runs past as fast as he can. Immediately behind him is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. GROG is not wearing any pants. The Tyrannosaurus Rex is wearing pants]
NARRATOR (VOICEOVER): Is this where it all started?
[Scene changes to a PANEL OF EXPERTS sitting at a long table. Camera starts at far left, pans right. As it picks up each new person’s head, that expert speaks. Very serious]
MATT: Yes.
GROG: No.
CARL SAGAN: Billions… er, yes.
TIGER WOODS: My putting was good, but my drives were short.
TYRANNOSAURUS REX: Yes.
[Cut to graphic. Three pairs of pants are stacked to show “Yes,” one pair of pants is stacked to show “No,” two pairs are stacked to show “Putting.” A pair of cut-off shorts shows “Drives.” Hold on graphic for three seconds]
[Scene changes back to NARRATOR at his desk]
NARRATOR: But pants didn’t really enter history until the Trojan War, when the cunning Odysseus suggested the Trojan Pants.
[Scene changes to outside ancient Troy. A huge pair of wooden pants stands on the plain outside. After a minute, the gates of Troy open and the Trojans come out and pull the pants inside the walls with a giant pair of suspenders]
NARRATOR (VOICEOVER): And not until Roman times did pants really become part of the mainstream of history.
[Camera moves smoothly along a Roman road. It passes a series of stone pants on the side of the road. Chiseled on the pants are the following inscriptions:
WHEN THE ROMAN LEGIONS
CONQVERED FRANCE
THEIR WHISKERS CAME OFF
SO DID THEIR PANTS
BVRMA SHAVE ]
[Scenes change to various examples of Roman architecture. An aqueduct is supported on arches; camera zooms in on an arch, we see it is a pair of pants made of stone blocks. Close-up of a stone gate: zoom back so we can see it is the fly of a pair of mostly buried pants. The Colosseum: the arches are carved in pants. A series of temples; pillars are in the shapes of pants…]
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