Okay. I’m having trouble trying to find a name for those puffy shorts that were worn so many hundreds of years ago. I am at a complete loss. I can’t do a search on “puffy shorts” because that brings up way too many sites. I’m sifting through costuming sites and am having a terrible time finding anything.
So, to the Wealth of Knowledge held by the Dopers, I go.
Royalty would wear those puffy shorts with tights. What were the shorts called?
HELP!
They are called knickers.
MR
Breeches, dear, breeches.
Also seen them referred to as "Dutch slops’ in reference to Cavalier-era clothing.
I can’t find the page on codpieces, however. I’m sure it’s out there somewhere.
The Auld Garb Monger’s Costumes for Manly Men
You ought to be able to find more info on these pages.
Yeah, I didn’t think they were “knickers” - I was under the impression that’s what the English call all pants. 
Thanks Owl for those Links. Especially “The Costume Page” - that’s one to be bookmarked.
I appreciate it!
Until this post, I’d always thought they were pantaloons (get it? pants + balloons= “pantaloons”), but after looking it up
(http://heyerlist.org/ghcost2.htm#Pantaloons), I find they were generally ankle length and skintight knitted garments.
Once again, I learn something new and useful from TSD.
They were called “pumpkin breeches,” for obvious reasons, and were one of the most unfortunate items of clothing ever to be worn.
—Eve (who used to work in a costume history museum)
Not only were they known as Breeches, but also as trunkhose and venetians, depending on the cut. Here is a website where you can order patterns:
Try “Elizabetian (or Jacobean) Breeches”, You might also find something if you search for “Doublet and hose”.
Good Luck
Walrus
Try “paned slops” or “paned trunk hose”.
In all the romance novels I’ve read, they are referred to as “slops”.
How did they attach the hose that went with the breeches & doublet? I don’t see anything that resembles a garter belt.
Garters.
Gut garters?
<ducking thrown rotten fruit>