Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — Want Changeable Dresses! [ARTICLE]

Want Changeable Dresses!

At the recent International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London one of the most celebrated lecturers, Giacomo Ciamician, predicted that women of the future will not be contented 'with a dress which remains constantly of one color, but will demand colors that change in harmony with their sur .roundings. Thus the color of the apparel may be changed without changing the dress. Passing from darkness to light tbs color would brighten, thus conforming automatically to the environment —the last word in fashion fnrtha future. This prediction will come true as soon as chemists learn to understand better what are called “phototropic colors," or colors that change with the intensity of the light upon them. In men’s wear this might mean that the light-colored Buit of the bright summer day would be transformed into a dark suit at night Mosquitoes seem to be troubled with chronic Insomnia.