QUICK-CHANGE GARMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 May 1907, Page 4

QUICK-CHANGE GARMENTS.

•11CSTING" SUITS tfOR MEX IX A

HURRY.

A suit of clothes Wan can be donned tir doffed in less than three minutes has been invented by Mr Edgar .lephson, of Wembley. He lias worn it at fashionable Leamington and in the Strand.

The only obvious difference between the "hustling" suit and conventional attire was noticeable from the back, and was, of course, the subject of outspoken criticism. The "hustling" suit consists of combined trousers and jacket—something after the style worn viy small boys in the early thirties. The lower garment is fastened by concealed buttons up to the waist behind.

The idea came upon Jfr Jephson as an inspiration. "I was annoyed because my coat used lo catch in my bicycle," lie said to an Express representative "and it struck me that a much better pattern of clothe, might be invented. Besides the new cut is stylish, much more sivlish than one's everyday clotues.

'•.My tailor at rst objected to the Innovation, declared it could not be done, and all that Sort of thing, lie did it, though, and is quite ready for another order in the some style. ' "As a working or walking suit it iincomparable, an,l some day, when time permits. 1 may cxteiui (he idea to evening dress.

''Will it ever become popular? Who can say? Probably it won't, because ii is useful."