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Show Sybil D. Ccle Discusses Clothing Materials Made During War Time By SIBIL D. COLE Home Management Supt. Not many years ago we felt if we could recognize cotton, wool, silk, linen, and rayon by certain ' qualities we "knew our materials and could buy rather wisely". A distinct change is going on now. A large number of textile industries indus-tries are employed on defense orders, and some of our fibers such as silk, nylon, rubber and wool eliminated or limited for use in civilian clothing. What change is this bringing abount ? 1. Limit to the amount of material ma-terial in each garment. 2. Dual purpose materials which will make women's clothing slightly slight-ly heavier and men's slightly lighter in order to be interchangeable. interchange-able. 3. Smaller number of dyes and prints than we have had. 4. Some percentage of substitutes substi-tutes in woolen materials. 5. New fiber and yarn blends. Our textile industry has progressed pro-gressed rapidly in bringing new materials on the market. Some companies are advertising and labeling lab-eling their products to protect their reputation when using unavoidable un-avoidable substitutes. They also are giving detailed information on care and wearing qualities of new materials such as the care of rayon hosiery we have been wearing wear-ing about lately. In some cases manufacturers are lowering their quality of materials to keep within with-in the ceiling price and meet the additional cost of labor and fibers. Synthetic fibers are rapidly being be-ing developed, "It is claimed soy bean fibers can be produced at half the cost of sheep's wool, and it has a similar warm soft feel. Other sources which research is now active on are: Peanuts, corn, fish protein, yucca, the bark of redwood tree, and glass". Rayon is being made to resemble wool, cotton or linen. One of the new fibers on the store shelves at present is Aralac, made from the casien in milk. It is crease resistant, warm, dry cleans well, but loses strength when damp and is susceptible to moths. This fiber is being blended blend-ed with wool, cotton, and rayon to be used in many articles of clothing. While there isn't likely to be an alarming shortage of materials, it is evident there will be numerous numer-ous changes in the types of materials ma-terials we will be using. We will need to be alert to the changes, so we, as consumers, will be able to make a wise choice of clothing materials. |