Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. gaiters.

1826		Literary Lounger Jan. 281: The Newmarket jacket, with shorts and continuations of the horse-and-dog man.
1838		R.S. Surtees Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 49: Drab shorts and continuations.
1843		R.S. Surtees Handley Cross (1854) 452: Tattered purple coat-laps, drab breeches and continuations.

2. trousers.

1841		Punch I 4/1: [...] the Albert continuations at one pound one, they appear to be made to measure for the same [F&H].
1849		Sam Sly 31 Mar. 1/1: Broughton is adorned with a pair of bright blue oh-no- we-never-whisper-’ems, and Slack is in a pair of scarlet con- tinuations.
1853		G.J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand (1890) 291: To whose wonderfully-fitting continuations, ‘pants’ he calls them, the ‘Ananyridians’ themselves are but as a Dutchman’s drawers.
1873		Sl. Dict. 127: Continuations coverings for the legs, whether trousers or breeches. A word belonging to the same squeamish, affected family as unmentionables, inexpressibles, &c.
1879		Aberdeen Jrnl 17 Oct. 7/1: Mr Gladstone will certify [...] success to black coats and waistcoats with checvk ‘continuations’.
1880		Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Apr. 5/4: One imaginative person calls his modest contribution to the religious literature of the day ‘Hooks and eyes for unbelievers well, continuations’ —only he did not say ‘continuations’.
1889		‘EHA’ Behind the Bungalow (1890) 6: He comes in a black coat, with continuations of checked jail cloth.
1890		Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 6/1: The fashionable trouser is an uncanny thing [...], and any clever young man who owns a thimble and a packing needle could make himself a pair of fashionable continuations in two twinkles.
1899		‘Pot’ & ‘Swears’ Scarlet City 109: The tarts melted, and presently red stains appeared on his spotlesd continuations.

3. tights.

1859		G.A. Sala Twice Round the Clock 238: The abridged muslin skirts and flesh-coloured continuations of ballet-girlhood.
1889		Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 22 June 7/1: He’s going to [...] come in every night to gaze on those purple continuations .
1894		G.A. Sala Things I Have Seen II 23: A [...] little lady in short skirt, scarlet continuations, and white canvas gaiters.

4. (Aus.) legs.

1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 26 Oct. 4/4: Above and below appear the faces and continuations of the Dead Bird darlings. Anatomically correct.
1890		Dead Bird (Sydney) 23 Aug. 4/3: He had more brains in his continuations / Than the other fellow carried in his head.