Information about clothing, on the other hand, is very detailed. A fuller account may be found in Chapter 6 of the eBook “ The Janos People” which is available for you to freely download right now; I will summarise here.
Four distinct kinds of clothing have been described: one in the spaceship and three on the planet. In the spaceship, the fifty-odd crew members seen were all in uniform, which was the same for men and women. Basically, this consisted of a one-piece close-fitting garment covering the whole body, in a fabric faced with gleaming metallic silver, but quite supple and flexible. Our witnesses were of the opinion that the metallic finish was actually silver, not merely a silver-looking metal.
Most wore a belt of the same material, transversely ribbed in an example seen close; to the middle front of the belt was secured a circular badge of about three inches diameter, the details of which are given below under Flags, Badges and Insignia. In one example seen close, the badge was secured to the belt by an elaborate silver clasp.
The two senior officers, Anouxia and Uxiaulia, did not wear a belt; instead of the badge they both wore a large, absolutely plain white disc on the chest, about five and a half inches diameter. The witnesses were not told the significance of these discs.
In the spaceship, most of the crew of both sexes wore, as part of the uniform, a closefitting silver 'balaclava' helmet, showing only the face. Some, at least, of the helmets had an ear-covering, in very thin silver, which was modelled to follow the lobes of the ears. At least one man, Anouxia, wore gloves of thin silver.
Frances saw, at very close range in one example, a mark along the left shoulder line, which she interpreted, as being similar to a concealed zip fastener. (Observers of spaceship uniforms have often wondered how the wearers get into and out of them, since they seem to have no fastenings.)
The shoes were of black or grey uppers, with very thick white spongy soles with no heel; they enabled the wearer to cling to the deck in 'zero-gee' conditions. (The absence of a heel is one of the most consistent details of published descriptions of the clothing of flying saucer personnel.)
We were told that the Janos people did not wear silver clothes on the planet; they were for the ships, and are a uniform. In the spaceship, men who wore no helmet had the hair cut very short, American 'crewcut' style, brushed straight up in front; the few women in the ship who were bareheaded wore their hair long, page-boy style, brushed out free and curling under at shoulder level. We may, I think, assume that all helmeted people, of either sex, had the hair cut short, though we never at any time saw a bare headed woman with short hair.
The people who were slowly dying of radiation sickness, on the planet after the power stations blew up, wore a monk's long-skirted habit in black or dark brown, with a deep hood or cowl over the face; this, we were told, was special clothing, to give them some protection against the lethal dust; it was not their normal clothing. Possibly it may have served also to identify them as contaminated by radioactivity.
On the pre-rockfall planet, in normal life, we have examples of clothing in two situations: at home, and at leisure. We did not see people at work, and do not know what they would wear.
Domestic clothing for women and children is seen clearly in the photograph of Uxiaulia's home, which shows his wife Vurna (a woman 23 years old) and her two children, in the garden.
The basic garment for all three is a pair of dungarees over a white jumper; the straps of the dungarees are fastened in the front of each shoulder by a white circular buckle.
Vurna, and the girl aged about five, both wore red dungarees; but the little boy, about three years old, wore pale-blue dungarees.
In both children, the jumper came up to a high round neckline, and was long-sleeved; Vurna's jumper was shorter-sleeved, the sleeves ending above the elbow.
Both children wore white shoes; but the mother's shoes were red.
Vurna's fair hair was brushed out naturally, and curled under at the ends, at about chin level.
The little girl had curly, yellowy-flaxen hair; most of it was free; but on each side of the temple, a bunch of hair was brought out through a red circular hair-grip or slide, so that the two bunches of hair stood out to the sides.
In the film of the lakeside evening barbecue party, clothing was of three kinds. Some of the men, including the one operating the barbecue, wore only a pair of dark-coloured swim-trunks, similar to those familiar to us.
Other men wore an overall suit something like a track-suit, with a broad belt at the waist. In one example, there were white stripes down the outer edges of sleeves, body and legs. In a boat with a mixed crew, both the man and the woman wore a red track-suit; evidently this was considered more convenient for activity than the garments I am about to describe.
The women who strolled or sat on the lake shore with their companions were more fashionably dressed. All wore variations on a common theme: this was basically a long sleeved bodice with a high round neckline, worn with an almost ground-length full skirt, draped in overlapping folds down the left side. The whole thing was held together by a large round metallic-looking clasp, of an abstract floral design, on the right hip.
The bodice was, with one exception, white, in a filmy material like a chiffon or a fine nylon. The skirt material allowed some variety in colour scheme; but in most the ground colour was white. The skirt material was printed with a large repeating pattern, which, although details varied, was basically an abstract floral motif, related to the design of the clasp. Red and pink designs were prominent.
One woman in the foreground wore a black bodice over a white skirt with the floral design printed in black; her hip-clasp was also black. She had a black head-covering of some kind; she was the only woman seen by our witnesses on the pre-rockfall planet who was not bareheaded.
Excerpt from the eBook "The Janos people" by Frank Johnson
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