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[alden]

If you think this is a tailor's task or that of fashion, you may want to think twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTkLz9D4 ... re=related

Cheers

Michael Alden

[Costi]

It reminds me of a passage from Balzac's "The Old Maid", when chevalier du Valois prepares to visit Mademoiselle Cormon (the old maid herself) for the decisive charge to ask her in marriage (but he is, fatally, minutes too late - one of Balzac's favourite turns of situation). However, as Cesarine, his maid, notices, he applies his art on himself:
"Monsieur de Valois considered that such an occasion demanded a painstaking toilet; he therefore took a bath and groomed himself with extraordinary care. For the first and last time Cesarine observed him putting on with incredible art a suspicion of rouge."
That "incredible art" and that "suspicion" of rouge must be exactly what we see in "Death in Venice"...