Say, a TV drama set in the cutthroat world of high fashion and sordid passion of the Treasury Dept.? (Note to Fox: Please mail royalty chex c/o DWT)

Since we got the original heads-up from Al Kamen's "In the Loop" column in the Washington Post, we're pleased to see that Al is maintaining a vigil on the heightened fashion consciousness apparently instilled in the Treasury Dept. by incoming Sec'y "Hank" Paulson. (The zillionaire fashion guru, seen in his full sartorial radiance at right, came to us billed as one of the saner Bush appointees. Just goes to show that everything is relative.)

Now Al reports:

"Matthew Rees, a former speechwriter for President Bush and for former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman William H. Donaldson and a senior adviser to former U.S. trade representative Robert B. Zoellick, is settling in at the Treasury Department as chief speechwriter and senior adviser to new Secretary Henry M. "Hank" Paulson Jr. Trust he'll be dressing to Treasury's now-documented high standards."

Here's a thought: Might not a weekly, or at least monthly, fashion show by the Treasury Dept.'s staff of fashion do-bees buck up the spirits of a nation torn by terror?