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Show Dyeing Keeps Women Abreast of Changing Color Styles .. I 1 I , 7 I , 1 I ; ; ... l'7l I ! ! Jr i N i 1 : : J . 1 s - i TO TH6. ASH CN OR NOT ? , ' Ai - n CHICAGO Every time a new fashionable fash-ionable color is born, there are hun-lreds hun-lreds of millions of dollars worth oi perfectly good clothes thrown into ash cans ay American .women. No other nation is so profligate in pending money on dress and none o criminally wasteful in discarding wearing apparel. These were the startling assertions ol William Citron, president of the RU Products company, in an address here. The fad that the United States is tbe richest nation does not excuse J)ieD in-ro New such reckless prodigality," said Mr. Citron. "Ihe housewife or business women could easily save half the money she spends on clothes oy a little ingenuity. Colors of gowns change every season at the behest of fashion's arbiters. Mauve may be the stylish color for spring and imperial purple for winter. But this change in colors need not mean that the gown must be consigned to the ash-can. ash-can. A cake of color remover, a cake of dye and boiling water are all that are necessary to transform the garment gar-ment Into any color the owner may desire. "If a gown Is blue, it can be rltted into a delicate pastel, if black Into a chrome or heliotrope, or red. Forty , or fifty cents worth of dye used at home enables every woman to keep abreast of the changes in color fash-lone. fash-lone. Every wardrobe disappointment, disappoint-ment, whether it be one of color of Inability to match fabrics, can be solved In this way." |