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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
8
An essaye on wartime supply and consumer pressures discusses financing, loyalty, and the need for efficient goods for soldiers. It contrasts ready-to-wear fashion with workmanship, noting shifts in public opinion and concerns about costs, quality, and practicality amid ongoing conflict. It references American, French, and British contexts and hints at broader social divides.
A long argument discusses quality style and price of American dressmaking. It notes cheap copies copy European works, complaints about fit for various figures, and the impact of war on fabrics and labor. Readers question what constitutes value in ready to wear gowns and the ethics of fashion pricing.
The article argues for expanding flock numbers on western farms to raise wool and meat output. It stresses pasture grazing, forage crops, and efficient breeding as key to profits, warns war-related stock declines may curb prices, and advocates careful record keeping and diversified cropping to support a larger sheep industry.
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