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222 and consists of a Norfolk jacket, a long skirt covering knickerbockers, and a hat to match. This costume is made by my own tailor, Mr. T. W. Goodman, of 47, Albemarle Street, W., who is tailor to the club, and I believe the only person who has given much attention to the subject of cycling dress for ladies. Mr. Goodman has also invented no less than three different costumes intended to serve both for tricycling and walking, or travelling dresses, as it is inconvenient to have a dress which can only be worn on the tricycle. The first of these dresses obtained a medal at the Health Exhibition, and two medals at the National Health Society's Exhibition held the year before; the others would doubtless have been similarly distinguished had they been invented at the time.

The first of these dresses, Fig. 21, is a dark blue cloth Princess robe, with the ordinary drapery at the back and a scarf round the hips; at the right side of the skirt are some bows of ribbon, and these, when the wearer is walking, hide the secret of the dress. When she mounts her iron steed, all she has to do is to unfasten some buttons which are cunningly concealed beneath the bows, and at once she has a skirt perfectly adapted for tricycle-riding. It is constructed on the same principle as the riding-habit now worn, with room for the raised knee, so that the skirt does not draw up with the movements necessary to propel the machine. The part which is buttoned over is cut with a deep curve, so that when buttoned, the bows, which are seen on the right side of the accompanying en-