Chrysti The Wordsmith: Dopp Kit

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith. The man who travels might pack his personal grooming tools in a DOP kit a leather or vinyl bag often outfitted with a zipper and constructed with a bellows frame that contracts and expands to accommodate the volume of the contents of the kit. Hire and kits are equipped with leather covered zipper pull tabs that give the entire design an elegant old fashion appeal. Dot kits were issued by the millions to American G.I. eyes during the Second World War. The soldiers continued to use the kits during peace time and passed the Dopp Kitt tradition on to their sons who in turn gave the idea to their sons. The Dopp kit is an American invention by a German immigrant Charles da poet a leather craftsman who came to this country in the early 1900s. It was either da pelt himself or his employee nephew Jerome Harris who designed the toiletries kit historical documents vary on this information. But because the German immigrant own the Charles dop company the invention became the Dopp kit Deo

peepee an abbreviation of the leather craftsman's surname. The kits were first distributed by adopted himself in one thousand nineteen. The company was purchased by Samsonite in the 1970s and today the original Dopp kit is manufactured by Buxton. I'm Christie the wordsmith. This program is produced in the studios of KGO on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry sued web dot com.