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Show find oontH, obvloutdy experiHlve and bearing tlii! jrionl. fashionable labeln, nil priced at n fraction of their original orig-inal cost. people who wIhIi mo to Hell their dresses in id to examine each garment carefully to determine whether It In likely to have n quirk turnover. If I think not, nothing will Induce ine to handle II." Ah a result of this careful "editing" "edit-ing" there are hanging on her racks no extreme creations that would have an appeal only to a few whose taste Is especially unconventional. Hut there are many beautiful evening eve-ning wraps, sports ensembles, gowns SELLS FINE GOWNS AT SECOND HAND Woman Finds Customers for Discarded Finery. The business of soiling second-band second-band clothing, long in disrepute, has been "glorified" by a New York woman, wom-an, Mrs. Genevieve Berkeley, who Is making a success of a shop where she displays only "discarded wardrobes." ward-robes." She calls her store "The Dressing Itoom," and has made a commercial as well as artistic success suc-cess of the venture. She buys her stock from wealthy New York women who do not care to be seen In the same gown at society so-ciety affairs more than a few times, or from those who, having had a dress made for them, finally realize that the color is definitely unbecoming, unbecom-ing, or from actresses who feel that their wardrobe must be kept as up-to-date as the morning's newspaper, despite the resulting depletion of the bank account. Mrs. Berkeley is fortunate in having hav-ing a wide acquaintance among such women ; ns a matter of fact, she was an actress herself when she decided to start her novel business. She has never had any difficulty in locating clothes of the type she needs; the trouble has been, she says, to refrain from taking certain of the dresses her wealthy patrons wish her to take. "I make it a rule," she writes in the American Magazine, "always to call personally at the homes of the |