In the late '40s there were 20,000. Today there are in the whole world only some 3,000 rich and fashionable women who wear clothes hand-made by the 23 haute couture houses of Paris. To evoke their celebrated sighs, provoke the fashion press and attract the foreign manufacturers and department-store buyers in search of rip-off grail, a legion of designers, buyers, cutters, seamstresses, midinettes, mannequins and pressers labor mightily to produce the two big shows, for summer and winter.
Give them credit. By deciding to celebrate legs or bury them, to glorify bosoms or...
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