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Couture
Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking" or "high fashion") is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is high-end fashion that is constructed by hand from start to finish, made from high-quality, expensive, often unusual fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable sewers, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. Couture translates literally from French as "dressmaking" but may also refer to fashion, sewing, or needlework and is also used as a common abbreviation of haute couture and
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I went from couture to velour.
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I am quite tired of these old things. Nothing new. Nothing fresh. Nothing...fantastique!
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― Delphine and the Silver Needle
― Delphine and the Silver Needle
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