A QUEER OCCUPATION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 13

A QUEER OCCUPATION

A queer occupation'is tliat of Mrs. Phyllis Nelson, yrardrobe:iwoman for the 1600 performers in, the famous Ringling, Barnum, and Bailey circus, says a London writer. . Her job makes her official dressmaker arid costume designer for all the animals, which she fits ©lit for both their performances and their special parades. Her "clients" include 86 horses, 75 elephants, andJ 75 camels, besides smaller animals—donkeys, zebras, monkeys, clogs, cats, birds, etc. For sixteen years Mrs. Nelson has been doing this work, which, she says/can hardly be compared with ordinary dressmaking. "I cannot go into a shop and purchase patterns for a camel's dress or panties for one of our clown elephants," she points out. :Mrs. Nelson declares that the animals are proud of their gay cbs-tumes-^especially the monkeys, who like to be fitted and dressed before a mirror., "."■-'* ;