Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also kickses, kickseys, kixes) trousers; thus kicksies-builder, a tailor [for ety. see kicks n.¹ ].

1703		Hell Upon Earth 5: Kicksey, Breeches.
1708		Memoirs of John Hall (1714) 12: Kicksey, Breeches.
1753		J. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 43: Nap his Tuggs, and Kixes; take his Clothes and Breeches.
1791		‘Flash Language’ in Confessions of Thomas Mount 18: Breeches, kicksees.
1807		H. Tufts Autobiog. (1930) 291: Kickses signifies breeches.
1812		Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 248: kickseys: breeches; speaking of a purse, &c., taken from the breeches pocket, they say, it was got from the kickseys, there being no cant term for the breeches pocket. To turn out a man’s kickseys, means to pick the pockets of them, in which operation it is necessary to turn those pockets inside out, in order to get at the contents.
1827		Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 279: Mr. Hunt was suitably dressed [...] with a white upper tog and cord kickseys.
1829		Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of out-and-out Kersey Kicksies, got up slap, with pearl buttons.
1835		J.T. Haines My Poll and My Partner Joe I i: Never resist the law; if a man claims your vestcoat, let him have it, or you’ll lose your kicksies in trying the argument.
1838		R.S. Surtees Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 241: I brought down a pair of kickseys and pipe-cases.
c.1840		‘“Taking Off” of Prince Albert’s Inexpressibles’ in C. Hindley Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 36: Work and labour performed in the manufacture of a certain pair of ‘kicksies’.
1847		Bell’s Life in Sydney 23 Oct. 2/3: He thought the man wore moleskin kicksies.
1847		G.W.M. Reynolds Mysteries of London III 85/1: A Stranger—looked like a spunk fencer. [...] pair of kicksters, a fan, and a dummie .
1857		advert in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) 45: Harris’s [...] Slap Up Tog, And Out And Out Kicksies Builder.
1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 33/2: Slipping his ‘duke’ into his ‘kicksies,’ he hauled out a ‘skin’ pretty well stocked with ‘sugar’.
1877		J. Diprose London Life 32: From first floor windows, what are here called ‘kicksies,’ or trousers, are being aired.
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 5: Kickseys (or Breeks) - Breeches.
1888		‘’Arry on Marriage’ in Punch 29 Sept. 156/1: He’d a hapron on, Charlie, and kicksies as must ha’ been cut by his wife.
1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 16 Nov. 4/4: Every joker ’ad a Dead Bird in ’is kicksy, ’n a little flask of something to wet his whistle.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 41: Kicksies, trousers.
1899		A. Binstead Houndsditch Day by Day 188: Look, look! [...] seven ’undered an’ sixty pair o’ kicksies, two ’undered an’ forty-two vimins’ chemises.
1910		Marvel 5 Feb. 3: I never did see such a pair of kickseys in my life!
1917		‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 77: My kicksies are on their very last legs.
1921		Eve. Teleg. 13 Apr. 3/4: The well-dressed man-about-town sporting bell-bottomed kicksies.

2. (UK Und.) shoes.

1823		(ref. to 1795) ‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 108: Kicksees shoes, also highlows. ‘Why, you Jack Hurley, what have you got there? A. Thin kicksees to be sure, that I may bolt the better when I gets hold of any thing.’ ‘Jerry Avershaw, when he came within sight of the gallows, threw off his kicksees among the crowd.’ July 1795.
1892		H. Nisbet Bushranger’s Sweetheart 31: She’d have been out of it [i.e. a ball] with these kicksies.