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Originally Posted by CCIP
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HISTORICAL INACCURACY! Those bell bottoms are about 30 years too early.
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Ummm not quite, been around a long time..........
Snipped from Wikipedia:
"Bell-bottoms' precise origins are uncertain. In the early nineteenth century, very wide pants ending in a bell began to be worn in the
U.S. Navy.
[1][2] (It is to be noted, however, that the
captain of each ship decided what clothing to buy for his men in the early days of the U.S. Navy, so clothing varied between ships.
[3]) In one of the first recorded descriptions of
sailors' uniforms,
Commodore Stephen Decatur wrote in 1813 that the men on the frigates United States and Macedonia were wearing "glazed
canvas hats with stiff brims, decked with streamers of
ribbon, blue jackets buttoned loosely over
waistcoats and blue trousers with bell bottoms."