SLEEK CHIC

I guess it was an understandable mistake. I saw the title “Working Class” (by Barbara Foley) over the Aug. 26 fashion article, and I leaped to the conclusion that the clothes modeled by “five successful Southern California Women” would be within the budget of the average working woman. A cursory tallying up of the cost of the various components of the ensemble worn by Rose Matsui Ochi, however, revealed a total price tag of $2,595, with the suit and accessories sported by Joan Goverman coming to a tidy $3,090, and none of the other three “working class” outfits making it in at under $1,000. I then comprehended that the operative word was class and not working and that the majority of us working stiffs will achieve that kind of class only in our dreams.

SHARON BIGGERS

Huntington Beach