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Chaplin's Tramp costume was assembled in minutes
He chose oversized clothes so the character would look absurd in motion Charlie Chaplin put together the Tramp outfit in a rush at Keystone in 1914, borrowing baggy trousers, tight jacket, bowler hat, cane and a small moustache. He said the oversized clothes made the character seem to move in a comic way. He kept essentially the same costume for more than two decades. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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