Soiled Coat Collar
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have a navy boucle coat and it seems to delight in catching every tiny bit of dust. The greatest disaster is that the powder seems to get ingrained, and although I brush it, and have sponged it, it still leaves a white look.
K.
J.
Ashburton.
Try rubbing with a clean soft rag dipped in carbon tetra chloride, or in pure vegetable turpentine from the chemist, The powder is greasy, and both these solvents have been successfully used by Links in the Daisy Chain.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 23
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91Soiled Coat Collar New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 23
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