Meanings of black gaiters in English

Almost always he wore a black coat, knickerbockers and black gaiters.

It was market day; the men wore brown serge coats, close white breeches and black gaiters, with straw hats bound with black.

Short black trousers clung like attached old servants round his wizen legs; and rusty black gaiters hid all they could of his knobbed, ungainly feet.