1895 May 14, “In Social Life”, inThe Herald, volume LXIV, number33, Los Angeles, Calif.,page 6:
Do you want your brother, father, husband or lover to admire thetrousersed female bicycle rider?
1898,Haldane MacFall, “The Child Dyle has suddenly to Look at Life in the Large”, inThe Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer: Being the personal history of Jehu Sennacherib Dyle, commonly called Masheen Dyle; together with an account of certain things that chanced in the House of the Sorcerer, London: William Heinemann,page 7:
He was thrust aside by the patch-trousersed rogueRule Britannia.
While the English heir to his father’s lands is clad in longtrousersed sailor costumes which are most inconvenient for play, his cousin across the channel is just as uncomfortably clad in costumes too elaborate to be suitable—or so it seems from the American point of view.
1914 February 28, “A Story of Sam Shortridge”, inTimes-Gazette[1], volume LV, number43, Redwood City, Calif.:
Thirty years ago, Mr. Shortridge lived in Salem, and was the onlytrousersed citizen of that time and place who had the courage to assist Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway in her fight for woman suffrage.
1957,The Journal - Institute of Journalists, page 5:
What he would have said if we had written that a man wastrousersed in pink satin, or that a tailor specialised in trousersings for morning-suits, I don’t know.
1989 January 17, Robert Hurwitt, “Miller’s ‘Sons’ packs a wallop”, inSan Francisco Examiner, 124th year, number189,pageB-6:
Jennifer Telford’s costumes fare better, faithfully re-creating the wide-trousersed, padded-shouldered look of the post-war era.
