[Ads-l] Bermuda shorts; Jamaica shorts (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

Bermuda Shorts:  OED has 1953

Dubuque IA _Telegraph-Herald_ 14 Apr 1939 p 3 col 2 [newspaperarchives.com]
[display advertisement] "Bermuda Mercerized Shorts"

Dubuque IA _Telegraph-Herald_ 2 May 1939 p 3 col 3 [newspaperarchives.com]
[display advertisement] "Children's Bermuda Shorts"

_Humboldt [IA] Republican 14 Jul 1939 p 5 col 8 [newspapers.com]
[display advertisement] "Children's Slacks Farmerettes and Bermuda Shorts"
[OED does not have an entry for this sense of "farmerette"]

Jamaica shorts: OED has 1969


Kingston Jamaica _Daily Gleaner Magazine Section_  28 Apr 1934, p 25 col 6 [newspaperarchives.com]
"Mr. Herbert McDonald goes to England and is showing Wimbledon what Jamaica shorts look like!"

_Abilene [TX] Reporter-News_ 24 Apr 1953 p B1 col 1 [newspapers.com]
[display advertisement] "New length Jamaica shorts with rattan belt"
CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

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