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Currently the article states that: The group’s name was derived from the original uniform’s knee-length pants that were known as "knickerbockers”...
This is supported by the group's webpage, but I have to question it. It is more likely that the group's name derives from the primary usage noted at our Knickerbocker dab page... which states that: knickerbocker was also a term for Manhattan's aristocracy "in the early days", and became a general term, now obsolete, for a New Yorker.
When the group was founded, the Greys drew its cadets from the children of New York's social elite... the children of the "Knickerbockers". Blueboar (talk) 11:11, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]