PEANUT SUIT
LATEST CLOTHING NOVELTY. Suits made from peanuts, commonly called monkey nuts, are being produced in Yorkshire factories. Made from 50 pel - cent wool and 50 per cent peanut fibre, they are expected to be cheaper than 100 per cent woollens. At the moment peanut suits and costumes are being worn by men and women research workers to test the fibre’s reaction to wear and weather. Their first reports have been “satisfactory.” They have worn the cloth on long “hikes.” They have stood in showers of rain and made a habit of sitting down without hitching up the knees of their trousers, to test “crease reaction.” “The cloth 'is in its experimental state at present,” the head of a Yorkshire research centre producing it said this week. “But we are very satisfied with results so far. It blends with either wool or cotton and takes 100 per cent of dye. We anticipate that it will be a big success for women’s wear.”
The completed cloth looks like worsted, feels like it. and research workers who have worn it say that, it wears like it too.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 3
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