Meanings of knee pants in English

They are Italians here, and are at work on knee pants.

Instead they wore loose fitting jackets of some silky material, and loose knee pants.

The woman makes knee pants of grammar-schoolboy size; she receives sixteen cents a dozen pairs.

Over the headstone presently came the knee pants, the faded calico waist with bone buttons.

He'll look like a toy balloon in knee pants.

A boy in knee pants transacting business like a grown man, appeared quite amusing to her.

I was handlin' Fidy's fits before that there young dispensary doctor was out of knee pants.

With tolerant amusement he saw himself as of old, barefoot, bare-legged, the knee pants buttoned to the calico blouse.

It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails.

I was in a little tenement-house Jew shop where a man and four boys were making knee pants in a bedroom.

His trunk had arrived and he had dug out his old basket-ball costume, a red sleeveless shirt, white knee pants, and canvas shoes.

He wore blue silk stockings, blue knee pants with gold buckles, a blue ruffled waist and a jacket of bright blue braided with gold.

Our young men went off to open a second front, humming a chant about a financial disaster that occurred when they were in knee pants.

The woman makes knee pants, working from seven in the morning till ten o'clock at night, and nets from twenty-seven to forty-four cents a day.

"You must have started when you were in knee pants," said Helfer, but he did so in a pleasant, jokey way.