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r _ ARO V V With the desi g nin g , and the des-

cription, of haute couture, it is quite another matter—though just as odd. Its great designers are men (have they always been, I wonder? Saul clothed the daughters of Israel "in scarlet and other delights".) To write about it evidently calls for a woman.

Fresh and luminous