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DRESS FOR BLACK-OATS LUMINOUS MATERIALS LONDON, September 19. In the matter of outdoor clothes, most designers are concentrating on ideas that will prove practical and make for safety in the long months of black-out that are ahead. Men's clothes will probably become lighter in colour. The Men’s Wear Council is urging men to wear white jackets in the streets after dusk. One type of jacket is of white oilskin reaching to the waist; another, of white linen, is longer. The first is expected to be of use to A.R.P. wardens. It is reported that in a street test, a man wearing one of these jackets was visible at twenty-five feet from the dim lights of a motor-car, while a companion in ordinary clothes was invisible. Another useful device is buttons treated with luminous paint. These, if exposed during the day, will emit a greenish glow for hours in the darkness. A further suggestion is the treatment of armlets and hatbands with a secret French invention called Luminophore, which gives out remarkable phosphorescence. This substance is said to have been used for signposting the Maginot Line.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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188VISIBLE IN DARK Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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