Trousers are a thing of yesterday with us, but our top-hat carries us back to the Wars of the Roses and beyond.

His tunic or under-garment is purple and white, his trousers are bright crimson, his shoes are yellow, and have long pointed toes.

A priest's trousers on a clothes-line might well be the beginning of atheism.

The trousers, which this simple brace supported, were patched overalls, frayed to loose threads halfway down the calf where they were met by the tops of immense cowhide boots.

For a long time after trousers had become the ordinary wear they were proscribed at Almack's, and gentlemen were required to adhere to the more ancient and showy attire of knee-breeches; and it was said that in consequence of one having attempted unsuccessfully to obtain admission in trousers the tickets for the next ball were headed with a notice that "gentlemen would not be admitted without breeches and stockings.

The trousers of the Christians all very tight, the trousers of the Mahometans baggy, rainbow-colouredit is a jealous point of difference in these parts that the Turk keeps four or five yards of spare material in the seat of his trousers.

The Frenchman agreed that red trousers were a mistake, but pointed to the blue covering which he had for his capwhich made it all right.

The bagging trousers and the blunt-toed shoes of his companion were to Robert Macklin a distinct shock.