On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 07:34:27 -0700, RobertMacy
wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:52:06 -0700, micky wrote:

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Did anyone do that? I thought the west after the Civil War was full
of men from both north and south, and it would be looking for a fight
to dress obviously as from one side or the other. At least on TV,
they're always fighting anyhow, so why make it worse?

Interesting. A lot of people had no other clothes to wear. A prime example
is after the end of the Crimean war and the returning soldiers couldn't
get work, they sat in hotels 'begging' people to carry their luggage for
them.

Wow. They were poor and they expected strangers to carry their
luggage for them. They had a lot of nerve.

Thus, the origin of the Bell-Hop uniform. It was the Crimean War
uniform.

Very interesting.