BOOTS FROM HUMAN HAIR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 13 (Supplement)

BOOTS FROM HUMAN HAIR

RUSSIA'S CALL TO BARBERS Hair swept up in Russia's barber shops is to be used for making felt boots. Orders recently went forth from the Commissariat of- Light Industry to tho trust called " Union-Rubbish " that it must: " develop tho storing of human hair in the big cities—Moscow, Leningrad, Kazan, Odessa and KharkofT." The trust was instructed that it must get together tho first 3000 tons by January 1 as the Commissariat was sending a "brigade, of scientific workers and specialists " with a consignment of hair to Factory No. 6 of tho Fqjt Boot Trust in Nijni Novgorod. Bv this new Bolshevik scheme, every adulfc Muscovite ought to get a new pair of felt boots every year from his own hair-cuts. If the 450 barbers' shops in Moscow " store " the hair swept up from their floors, it will provide up to 1500 tons annually, which can bo made up into 1,500,000 pairs of boots. Experimental collections have been made from ton Moscow hair-dressers, who are said to be taking kindly to the Idea, as " Union-Rubbish ' promises places in rest-homes as premiums for those getting the maximum quantity of hair.