From the V&A Collections website: 
This child’s body harness, used for stage flying ca.1920, was made and used by the Kirby Company. It has armholes, is fastened at the front and under the legs with leather straps and metal buckles, and features a leather back panel originally fitted with a device to hook and unhook the wearer into a flying line. The master stage carpenter George Kirby supplied the flying effects for the original production of Peter Pan at the Duke of York’s Theatre that opened on 27 December 1904. The realistic flying of Peter and the Darling children was essential to the effectiveness of Barrie’s play, and the company Kirby founded went on supplying flying effects throughout the century.

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