HOOKLESS FASTENER COMPANY
MEADVILLE PENNSYLVANIA

May
EXECUTIVE Thirteenth
OFFICES 198 3 7

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Athletic Director
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen

This company manufactures Talon slide fasteners or zippers and
has for a number of years supplied them to manufacturers of
various garments. As part of our service to our customers we

are now engaged in making a study of the various forms of hooded
jackets, by which we mean a jacket having a long collar which can
be converted into a hood by a slide fastener.

Lowe & Campbell Athletic Goods Company of Kansas City, Missouri
made a number of these jackets for warm-up garments. They inform
us that they were made as early as December, 1926, at which time
they made a numberfor the University of Kansas and one for you.
We have seen Lowe & Campbell's catalog, said to be 1927, in which
you are pictured wearing what Lowe & Campbell say is one of the
garments in question. A photostat of this page is enclosed.

We would like to obtain, or at least see, one of these garments
made at this early period, if one is available. Do you, by any
possible chance, have the one made for you that long ago, or do
you know anyone who has one like it? What we are interested in

4s the construction of the garment and the method in which the
slide fastener was applied, and it is immaterial in what condition
the garment may be.

If you can throw any light on this question, we shall be very
grateful.

Very truly yours

tb Cdn

T. L. Chisholm
Assistant Secretary
TLO:A
Encl