Why buy it if you don't want to be seen in it? 😎
I Googled and came across a company called Space Toys, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They were doing decent replicaSo, in one of those late-on-a-Friday-night impulsive moments in 2014, I pressed ‘buy now’ and secretly purchased one.It arrived about six weeks later, hand-sewn by someone called Marcie. It came in two large cardboard boxes, plain wrapped as requested, having spent a bit of time in customs.
At the time I was commuting to London from St Albans. To make the investment worthwhile, I really had to put it to good use. So I started travelling in it. The lovely thing about it is that it combines a bit of spectacle with complete anonymity. People started taking pictures of me and soon I was on Instagram and Twitter and on various news sites. A colleague called me to say that a real astronaut, Commander Hadfield, had come across a picture of me on a train station platform that was doing the rounds, and shared it on Twitter. The Walter Mitty in me was thrilled.was on. The suit is a bit impractical to wear all day , so I had a change of clothes in my bag – and a scarf.
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