ANACHRONISM:

She also wears jeans in this movie, an anachronism that was common in Westerns of the era (including a masterpiece such as John Ford's The Searchers).

Generally speaking, I think you're right, but a few women of the Old West did wear trousers

I think what joekiddlouischama is getting at, is that jeans were not yet invented at that time.

Here's looking at you kid

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Though not typical for me, the inaccuracies don't bother me. This is a very entertaining movie. I adore the Monroe and Mitchum pairing.





"Dash it all!"

Denim cloth has been around in N. America since the late 18th Century. Levi Strauss invented his riveted denim jeans in 1873. Those shoes were not stilettos, but regular, thin high heels, which have been around since the late 19th Century.

I don't know anything about women's shoes of either era or what kind denim jeans they would be wearing then, but more obvious anachronisms that nobody ever complains about are when Robert Mitchum wakes in the morning cleanly shaven with a fresh hair cut and Marilyn Monroe wakes up in full makeup and always seems to have freshly shaven legs. There was very little attempt at historical accuracy in costuming, hair or makeup in these old westerns, or in most period movies before the 1970s (and even still today) so I've learned to just laugh at it and pay attention to the actors, the story and the scenery instead. If you want a more accurate interpretation of what it must have been like to live on the frontier without any modern conveniences (I hate to think what it must have smelled like) you need to watch the later revisionist westerns with their unshaven, long-haired, dirty-clothed cowboys. Check out Meek's Cutoff for a western that feels very right for the time and place in terms of the lack of lighting, the difficulty in hearing what is going on, the slow speed of travel, the inability to communicate with a native American, and the bonnets and clothing that seem to imprison the women. Unfortunately, these are also things that turn off most movie audiences who don't want accuracy and prefer fake glamour and artificial action. (Cue the mountain lion attack….)