PEA-NUT SUIT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 3

PEA-NUT SUIT

CLOTH MADE FROM FIBRE (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 23 Smart women may soon be wearing clothes made from—monkey ] nuts. Yorkshire experts have discovered after long research what they believe will be the ideal alternative fibre to mix with wool and cotton. Men and women research workers are now wearing costumes and suits jfpf materials largely composed of monkey nut fibres. They are testing the fibre’s reaction to wear and weather. Moreover, 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 I the knees of their trousers, to test | “crease reaction.” “The cloth is in its experimental j state at present,” the head of a . Yorkshire research centre producing , it said to a Daily Mail reporter. I “But we are very satisfied with resuits so far. “It blends with either wool or > cotton and takes 100 per cent of dye. We anticipate that it will be a ibig success for women’s wear.” Cost .of the new cloth is expected to compare favourably with present woollen material prices.