A more countrified attire for men, consisting…

A more countrified attire for men, consisting of Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, becomes popular in the 1890s. (The name knickerbocker is taken from the nom de plume—Diedrich Knickerbocker—adopted by Washington Irving for the comic history of New York that he wrote in 1809. The Knickerbockers, a family of Dutch settlers in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam, were depicted in George Cruikshank's book illustrations wearing the full breeches of this time.)