Model of Distress Over Designer’s Style

Re: “James Tarantino Makes Dressing Simply Elegant” (March 11). Elegant? “Clean, simple and pure?” Well, they are as simple as a flour sack with a hole slipped over the head. And people will pay hundreds of dollars for a back and front that I would whip together in an hour? Sack-cloth with buttons?

I used to model, and I would not be caught dead in one of these. Methinks the Emperor had no clothes. I have been all over the world, and many countries have clothes that are more graceful, more colorful and (made of) more interesting material than we do. But few more expensive.

CARYL C. BRADFORD, Arcadia