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The team is now generally referred to as the Knicks.Knickerbockers have been popular in other sporting endeavors, particularly golf, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, and bicycling.Indeed, in cycling they were standard attire for nearly a hundred years, with the majority of archival photos of cyclists in the era before World War I showing men wearing knickerbockers tucked into long socks.

Knickerbockers were a men's or boys' baggy knee trousers particularly popular in the early twentieth century.

The Knickerbocker name stayed with the team even after it moved its base of operations to Elysian Fields at Hoboken, N.J.in 1846.

Before World War II, skiers often wore knickerbockers too, usually ankle-length.Until after World War I, in many anglophone countries, boys customarily wore short pants in summer and knickerbockers or "knickers" (or "knee pants") in winter.

They remained fairly popular in England (where they are called "breeks" or "trews") in the years between World War I and World War II, but eventually were eclipsed in popularity by racing tights, even among the vast majority of cyclists who never raced.

Companies such as Rapha, Swrve, Bicycle Fixation, and many others have emerged to serve this market, producing a large variety of designs in materials ranging from high-tech blends to classic wool gabardine.In Japan, knickerbockers called 'tobi trousers' are often worn by construction workers, and their popular length has significantly increased over time, lowering the baggy part down the bottom of the leg like plus-fours and plus-sixes, and sometimes to the feet like trousers.Knickerbockers are often worn in baseball as pants, a custom that has been practiced even since long pants became widely used in the U.S.The traditional knickerbockers of old were more like pants that had been folded back with long socks.In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth nations, the term knickers for women's undergarments owes its origin to Dickens' illustrator, George Cruikshank, who did the illustrations for Washington Irving's droll History of New York when it was published in London.

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