Fashionable Doubletalk

The Scrapbook likes to think it’s open to new experiences. For instance, we have concluded that the designated hitter rule won’t destroy the institution of baseball. The Scrapbook is worldly.

So worldly that, recently, we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in upper Manhattan for a day of cultural edification wandering through the various rooms and collections. We lingered in the European galleries, outside of which a crowd was gathering as if for a rock concert or a Science March. In fact, it was for the latest Costume Institute exhibition: “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between.”