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...that magenta has given way to crimson, we desire to make a suggestion of a practical nature. All who were at Saratoga last year, or at Springfield in '73, must have been surprised at the various shades that passed for magenta; in fact, it seemed true that verium et mutabile semper magenta. Of late the manufacturers have made less magenta than formerly, and only one American house, it is said, imported a regular line of magenta ribbons; naturally the ingenuous mercer sold any approximate shade as "Harvard's magenta," and that misty notion of colors in general, and magenta...
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