pedal pushers

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Ashwood, who wears "natty birch-bark pantaloons, hemp-rope belt, peekaboo see-through top and train engineer's tall hat" and a taxi driver wearing "fuchsia pedal pushers, pink yak fur slippers, a snakeskin sleeveless blouse, and a ribbon in his waist-length dyed white hair."

From Salon

A sophomore at Commerce High School, Diaz is president of 413 BikeLife, a loose collective of like-minded pedal pushers.

From Washington Times

She was excited and bought new pedal pushers and tennis shoes.

From Los Angeles Times

“This is already amazing,” a woman wearing pedal pushers said.

From The New Yorker

Probably not the tattoo parlor, nor the obese male manikin wearing brown pedal pushers, nor the woman with long stringy hair haphazardly dyed turquoise.

From New York Times