bushel-breeches

Updated: May 18, 2025

None of those bell-girdles, bushel-breeches, counted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History of Dress offers so many, escape him: more especially the mischances, or striking adventures, incident to the wearers of such, are noticed with due fidelity.

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh