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Show FARM NOTES If you want to save money when you stock your wardrobe, take a careful inventory of what it has In it now. That is the advise of Miss Hortense Snow, clothing specialist of the Utah State Agricultural college extension service. Pointing out that a large "number "num-ber of clothes which can be made wearable with a little cleaning and pressing and with slight alterations, alter-ations, Miss Snow believes that it is unwise to duplicate present clothing stock in renewing the wardrobe. . As soon as a careful inventory is taken, it is easy to analyze clothing needs, and snooping for them is made more systematic ana consequently much less tiresome. Similarly, if a person has a cleai idea what she wants to purchase she can ordinarily save money in obtaining it. It isn't how much you spend on clothes which indicates how well-dressed well-dressed you are, Miss Snow says. Careful planning is as essential as money to the art of being well-dressed. well-dressed. Clothing needs should be definitely listed on the family financial budget, however. The family should determine as a unit exactly what its clothing requirements require-ments are and what portion of the group income should go for clothes. |