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Show fC0K0CKCKXCK c ' How It Started By Jean Newton 0KK0X0 THE SAILOR'S TROUSERS IF YOURS is a curious mind you have no doubt been intrigued, as have many others, on observing a lad in sailor's uniform, by the unusual shape of his trouser legs which, as they near the bottom, grow gradually wider, taking somewhat the shape of a bell. Whether it is the blue serge of the sailor's winter uniform or the crisp white for summer seas the trousers trous-ers are invariably cut after this peculiar pe-culiar pattern. It will be noticed, however, that the officers on board ship wear trousers that are straight cut and do not flap at the bottom. It is in this distinction that we have our story. The strange shape of the sailor-man's sailor-man's trousers had its origin in the fact that the common seaman is required re-quired among other things to scrub the decks. Ask any man to do work requiring similar bending and kneeling kneel-ing and he will don knickers or his very oldest trousers. Sailors, too, found their freedom for the work handicapped and the casualties in trousers were not inconsequential. Hence the introduction of trousers which become wider at the bottom, so that when in the way they can be rolled above the knees, where they will remain without rolling down something that the straight narrow trouser leg would never do. (CopyrlKht.) |
