spongebag pants

alternative sponge-bag pants

1. USpluralplural onlySynonym of spongebags.

   John the Baptist would have been horrified at the beautifully cut dark, double-breasted jacket and the natty gray sponge bag pants.

   1967, Lewis W. Gillenson, Billy Graham and Seven Who Were Saved, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, →ISBN, page 11

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   The town’s best dressed doorman is outside the Silver Dollar in East Fifty-fourth street, wearing gray top hat and racing coat and spongebag pants.

   1934 July 1, Lucius Beebe, “This New York”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 86, number 299, St. Louis, Mo., page 3B

   […]the formidable old Charles Soames—who scared even me, when I met him later on, with his wall eye, monocle and spongebag pants.

   1966, Marguerite Steen, Looking Glass: An Autobiography, Longmans, page 8

   ‘Bishops, flood-lit Highlanders dancing reels under the palm-trees, Matrons, Maids, Saris, Sarongs, Black faces, White uniforms, and the hero of the party, Prince Mohammed Aly, in spongebag pants, red Tarboosh and carnation, and an emerald in his tie the size of a golf ball,’ observed Coats.

   2006, Victoria Schofield, Wavell: Soldier and Statesman, Pen & Sword Military, published 2010, →ISBN

   The ceremony was a formal affair and the men were expected to wear morning suits. So I dutifully pulled out my black tailcoat from Hackett, my black-and-white dogtooth-check “spongebag” pants, a Cornish cream hopsack waistcoat, a nice cornflower blue shirt with a stiff white collar, my silver tie from Ralph Lauren and a pair of highly polished, black Oxford shoes by New & Lingwood of Jermyn Street.

   2008 April 9, Simon Mills, “Traditional elegance under fire”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,540, page 29

   Synonyms: spongebags