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The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century development?

by | Mar 12, 2012 | Inside History

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The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century development? Ron Heisner Cave Creek, Arizona To say belt loops didn’t exist before the 20th century would be incorrect; they just weren’t common. Bob Charnes, owner of the Arizona Gunfighters re-enactment group, says some baseball uniforms had belt loops by the late 1850s. They didn’t catch on with the general public at that time. Most 1


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