A 1970s white top and denim bell bottoms from the same era. ..
Added 2024-04-11 05:01:46 +0000 UTCA 1970s white top and denim bell bottoms from the same era. I felt like the episode from The Office where Michael gets a new pair of jeans. I didn’t want to take them off 😎
One of the driving reasons behind the association of bell bottoms as a style icon in the 1970s is somewhat attributed to people thrifting the bell bottoms. Bell bottoms were originally worn in the 1940s (and a little post WW2) by the Navy. The following generations began to thrift them and style them as an anti-war/non-conformism and it became the “it” denim of that era.
If you go a generation or few farther back in time: bell bottoms were originally worn by Navy men (apparently sea men is a forbidden word?) because you could easily remove them without having to remove your shoes if you fell off a ship, thereby increasing the likelihood you could tread water until help came!
