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Show DYE MAKERS SOLVE VEXATIOUSPROBLEM American Chemists Supply Need Resulting on Account Ac-count of War. Milton Oberdorfer, a department manager for the Keith-0 'Brien. company, com-pany, has returned from a ten-day buying buy-ing trip to New York, made in the interest in-terest of his firm. On his way east he arrived in Chicago during the heat of the .Republican convention. "I have had occasion to visit Chicago Chi-cago many times within the last fifteen fif-teen years, but I have never seen that city of conventions so thoroughly taxed for hotel accommodations as it was when I arrived? this time, which is saying a good deal when it is remembered that Chicago hotels are alwavs prepared to handle immense crowds, said Mr. Oberdorfer. "New York City shows no signs of an abatement of the prosperity wave on which it has been riding for many months. The ups and downs of the New York stock markef'seem to have little or no effect on business conditions, so far as I could learn. While there are between 150,000 and 200.000 garment workers out on strike in New Yof'k and vicinity, I think the strike is doing, more good than harm. When a settlement settle-ment does come, I think it will bring employer and employee to ft better understanding un-derstanding of each other. In (he meantime, mean-time, jobbers and manufacturers are preparing for a record-breaking fall business, while doing their best to fill midsummer orders. Owing to the strike the style situation; always a problem for manufacturer, jnb'ber and retailer alike, has settled down to a degree of permanency not equalled during the opening days of the war even. "The early fall styles for women will be of a more permanent nature, a fact that will make many women rejoice because be-cause a garment, purchased early in the season will remain in style until" the end of the season. Jobbers have been saved the expense of putting out a late summer sum-mer sample line, because the styles for late summer are practically the same as are shown for midsummer' wear. "The dye problem has ceased to be a problem. At least, the situation is given less 'attention by the manufacturers than it was a few mouths ago. American dye makers seem to have solved the problem in a manner satisfactory to everybody concerned. Black dye is the only" really weak dye in the American-made American-made color list. A few of the American-made dyes are not absolutely fast, but they answer the purpose to which they are put. "It rained copiously every day I remained re-mained in New York', but "inquiry revealed re-vealed the fact that very little merchandise mer-chandise was returned to the stores because be-cause of unfast colors, although thousands thou-sands of New York women, wearing American-dyed clothing, must have had their clothing damnened to a greater or less extent, a condition that will bring the inferiority of poorly dyed fabric to the attention' of the merchant that sold it in a hurry. If there is one thing more than another that will roil a woman 's temper it is to have the colors col-ors of her frock fade into each other because of contact with water." |
