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>They got on well, and when they were talking one day, she learned Dugan had been sewing a triangle of paisley cloth into her boyfriend’s Levi’s, allowing him to more comfortably pull them over his boots.

Why was this person putting on their jeans after putting on their shoes?

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It's the other way round.

Boot-cut jeans (still being sold, these days) have a slight flare, because the top of the boot is kind of wide, and hard to get under the jeans.

I don't know if the US Navy still has bell-bottomed jeans, but a part of their work uniform used to be these highwater bellbottoms.

My immediate thought when I read the title of this thread was, "What? The US Navy invented bell-bottomed jeans." But I see it is just the headline here on HN that gets it wrong. The actual article pointed to credits her with the origin of the 1960-70's popular craze, not the invention.

Did the US Navy invent bell-bottom JEANS or bell-bottom pants? Were the version from the US Navy made of denim?

I believe so.

Probably pics out there. They had them as jeans in the late 1960s, when I was visiting a warship.

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Looks like they used to be jeans: https://nara.getarchive.net/media/right-enlisted-dungaree-un...

Now they wear Navy camo as work uniforms: https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/References/US-Navy-Uniforms/Un...

Maybe they mean pull the jeans down over the boots. Like put the jeans on first, then your boots but in the process you push up your jeans, then you want to pull your jeans back over the tops of your boots.

Oh, that makes more sense. I’ve never worn shoes like that so I couldn’t make any sense of that situation.

As a home-grown Texan--Exactly this.

Boot-cut and baby boot-cut jeans are required for proper boot wearing.

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