COATS MADE OF HUMAN HAIR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 181, 4 September 1909, Page 4

COATS MADE OF HUMAN HAIR.

Some of niy customers have cxt."*ivnliuary notions regarding clothing, aa-1 io.v I'.iid again 1 Kin called upon lo make i sui'. I'r.ini material which is never found iviilii'i a tailor's shop, said i: fasliiomioie lni.ur in tlie Vest Kurt of London to: ;i writer in a Home, journal. Only 1-ist iveek an elderly gentleman rei|uired me I lo i.i.ike a -nil oh; of ft blanket which lie linil.'iliiil dyed a purple-brown. A prominent K.C. always wears a li-.-i."..! -nil. and dui'i?ig the last tlireo iears he has to my knowledge never nrdcred a suit of any other color. Ho Jons trousers and coat of n brown hue because that is the color of his wife's hair. Whenever he requires a new suit lie invariably sends me a small tuft of hair from his wife's head, with a request tor a pattern as near to the shade as possible. TROUSERS MINUS BUTTONS. A stockbroker wears great and under coats with movable sleeves. The sleeves arejastcned to the shoulder by an ingenious arrangement of his own invention, and the fit of the garments is not interfered with in anyway. This gentleman's trousers are somewhat unique, owing to the fact that no buttons appear on them. The fronts are fastened with a particular kind of clasp resembling that found on gloves, while safetypins attach the tops to the inside lining of the 'waistcoats, making suspenders unnecessary. One of our best-known actors always wears coats that are braided. Hie dinner jackets are hound with gay-colored ribbon, and' the waislcoa.ts he wears with them are hand-painted with forget-me-nots. The painting is done by a firstrate artist, who charges me seven guineas for each waistcoat I place in his hands to decorate on behalf of my customer. The waistcoats, I might say, are made of a line white leather. A judge who always comes to me when he is in need of new wearing apparel designs his own suits. This gentleman is very eccentric with regard to his pocket-flaps, and he is constantly changing their size and shape. Not long ago he commissioned me to make for him a riding suit. The seat and inner leg parts of the knickers were to be of leather, and painted imitate the cloth--a check—of which the suit was otherwise composed. When I had completed the suit, the leather portions were so well painted that the judge himself at first thought I h.;d disobeyed his order and had made the knickers entirely of cloth. A WAISTCOAT MADE OF HAIR. A well-known sportsmnn wears In the hunting-field a waistcoat manufactured from the hair of his wife and five daughters. I had to call in the services of a wig-maker in constructing this garment. This reminds me that an artist living in Paris has a coat woven of human hair. The collar and cuffs of this novel garment are of black hair, while the body and sleeves arc of brown. QUEER CUSTOMERS. The late Mr. Samuel Pocpe, K.C., a man of particularly heavy build, was always measured for his clothes sitting down. He found that when he was mea. surcd in the customary way he looked ridiculous in his clothes when seated, fhi account of his Cnonnou6 proportion!, Mr. Pope was permitted to address the Court seated, and, so that lie would look all right in his clcthcs when in that position, he was always measured for them in the way described. One of my customers wears a suit ol clothes which in color resembles the coal of his dog—a tawny poodle. Moreover his overcoat is of the same color, arif on the inside breast-pocket of this gar ment there is 'woven in silk an admirabh portrait of the dog. Tt appears thai i this animal saved its master's life Irj awakening him in the dead of nigln ; I when his house caught fire some yean • ago. In memory of the deed my ens ; tomer carries the dog's portrait "aboir with him. and 'wears clothes that matel , Hie color of the dog's coat.