Show why a jumper the word vas originally a jump and Is first met in a jacket or loose mat cc at reaching to the thighs the dainty feminine garment of today owes its parentage to the shapeless garment of course coarse sacking sometimes worn by coal heavers or dock laborers laborer sl 1 for this was the original jump essentially a male garment of the most primitive type indeed one polar expedition records that it found the eskimos i wearing these jumps or loose jackets jacke ts in the seventeen hundreds jumps became feminine in the form of a kind of loose stays chiefly worn as a sort bort of undress then then in in the eighteen hundreds the admiralty took notice of the word as a a jumper it Is offic officially lally mentioned as one of the new rigs of the lower deck from this curious ancestry has evolved the jumper of the girls gills of today I 1 |