Posted by Terence McManus on 10/13/99 from 203.85.141.209:
In Reply to: Re: Girls'clothes in AR posted by Robert Dilley on October 12, 1999 at 19:47:11:
I think the use of the word knickerbockers for shorts was fairly common in the first third of the century. I remember my grandmother (she would have been few years younger than AR) telling me that shorts were called knickerbockers "in her day".
I have the impression long socks may still be called stockings in Scotland. Would any Gaels care to comment?