Bell Bottom Blues

Love this song. I’ll start with that. Eric Clapton’s voice crooning the vocals tore at my heartstrings in my younger days. (I’ll confess, when I listen to the song now, it still does…)

However, this post is not about the song (as much beloved at it is), but about those denim jeans we, of a certain age, wore. With pride. Before they became a popular item of consumer fashion, bell-bottomed jeans were our “freak flag.”

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