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   From: jclarke.usenet@cox.net   
      
   Every search I've been able to come up with gives me a huge number of   
   hits for everything from insurance agencies to manufacturers of horse   
   blankets, but not the story I'm looking for.   
      
   The story title was "Quality".  The story was that an extraterrestrial   
   ambassador, who was more or less a centaur in general conformation,   
   was to be presented at the Court of Saint James, and, per his people's   
   custom, needed to be attired in clothing made on the planet he was   
   visiting.  An elderly tailor was approached, with instructions from   
   the government to create a "horse blanket".  He refused, and came up   
   with something much more suitable, by which action humanity passed a   
   test.   
      
   Does anybody remember the author of that one or the title of the   
   collection in which it was published?   
      
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