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Post by kerouac on Apr 19, 2009 9:49:20 GMT -5
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Post by Shoesy on Apr 19, 2009 9:56:43 GMT -5
I've just exalted you for showing me that I'll fit in. ;D
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Post by cigalechanta on Apr 19, 2009 10:33:51 GMT -5
It's like any city. different parts of town people dress differently. Go around the Hermes, Chanel area and it's the only place I see some of the outrageous trendy stuff like those high, high heels that look like cages or Carmen Miranda. The Marais, you see everything mixed in.
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Post by kerouac on Apr 19, 2009 10:59:13 GMT -5
But if you go to the "Hermès Chanel area" in the evening when the concierge's families are putting out the garbage cans, you will not see the daytime visitors anymore. The same would go for the Marais at dawn, when the night fauna have finally gone to bed.
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Post by mossie on Apr 19, 2009 13:20:59 GMT -5
Now perhaps some people will stop worry-gutting about how they look.  I doubt it.  |
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Post by kerouac on Apr 19, 2009 14:32:20 GMT -5
True, worrying about what to wear is probably part of their pleasure.
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Post by Darcy on Apr 19, 2009 14:38:09 GMT -5
Great photos, kerouac! I've been wondering where to post this fashion plate and you've provided the perfect thread. Note the chic shoes she's wearing! ;D I took this in early Sept 2006 when it was about 95 degrees every day. If I had her body, I might have worn that dress too!  |
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Post by denise on Apr 19, 2009 14:45:46 GMT -5
:)Thanks for this Kerouac, an exalt from me also. Can you publish it far and wide on TA? It SO irritates me when I read all the rubbish people post about what the people are supposed to wear in Paris, causing uneccesary anxiety. "Everybody wears black"! ::") Everybody is smart"!  "Nobody wears shorts" " nobody wears trainer"s ..... and the latest, "it's offensive not to look smart"! .....I just want to write "what a load of ****ocks! Sometimes I wonder if I have visited the same Paris as these people!. My experience is, like you , that people are people all over the world, some are smart some are scruffy and everything in-between. The only observation I would make is that from your photos Pariseins are slimmer than the people of the North of England town where I live. Sorry...just letting off steam... Denise love from england. |
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Post by Sandy M on Apr 19, 2009 14:45:49 GMT -5
Darcy,
You take the best candid photos!! That is quite a dress - or should I say "non-dress" that this young lady is wearing! I don't blame her if it was so hot and like you, if I had that body, I might consider wearing this one too - the shoes are quite the accessory! At least her feet wouldn't hurt!
We need Mossie to post a good comment on this one!!
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Post by Sandy M on Apr 19, 2009 14:49:38 GMT -5
[quote denise "it's offensive not to look smart"! ..... Hi Denise - this is a new one - hadn't heard that one yet - wonder who is offended if we don't look smart!!!  |
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Post by Sandy M on Apr 19, 2009 14:52:42 GMT -5
Yes, Kerouac - thanks for posting the link to these pics - would be hard to tell from the way people are dressed if one was in Paris or any large city here in the US!
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Post by denise on Apr 19, 2009 14:54:36 GMT -5
[quote denise "it's offensive not to look smart"! ..... Hi Denise - this is a new one - hadn't heard that one yet - wonder who is offended if we don't look smart!!! The French apparantly!  What rubbish! |
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Post by denise on Apr 19, 2009 14:57:17 GMT -5
;D ;DGreat picture Darcy so funny. This is a girl determined to be comfortable.....I like her style!
Love denise
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Post by Sandy M on Apr 19, 2009 15:00:46 GMT -5
Well, then I guess they will just have to be offended because I'm going to be comfortable! Big old ugly walking shoes and all! ;D ;D
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Post by Jody on Apr 19, 2009 15:01:08 GMT -5
I do wonder what the front of that dress looked like, Darcy!
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Post by denise on Apr 19, 2009 16:03:08 GMT -5
Well, then I guess they will just have to be offended because I'm going to be comfortable! Big old ugly walking shoes and all! ;D ;D Sandy...my experience with you is that you look smart anyway and wouldn't offend anyone. Lots of love Denise. |
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Post by Sandy M on Apr 19, 2009 17:13:33 GMT -5
Thanks Denise.
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Post by cigalechanta on Apr 19, 2009 17:56:41 GMT -5
any area at dawn is the same!
Yes, the truth is don't stress over what to wear, they dress like we do, whatever our choices are
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Post by geordy on Apr 19, 2009 18:47:50 GMT -5
When I was a youngster my sister, newly married, came back to New Jersey in the summer from Alaska!!!!. We were doing a New York day trip(United nations and Radio City)with the family. She gave me a talk about how to dress in NYC... Then I moved here,,,,while if going to midtown on a weekend I do go the extra effort(make up, neater clothes, etc)...when in my hood...which is the "fashionable upper east side" running errands, hitting grocery store, drug store, dry cleaners, etc, I'd be embarrassed to tell you how I sometimes leave the house! But yes in any major "fashion capital" there are those who "dress" and those who are living normal lives. When in Paris...I try to dress nicely..because I never know where the day will take me..and because I'm on vacation and haven't exactly packed the sweats, knit shorts, tee shirts etc.! ;D But that's nicely...not fashion plate! |
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Post by Shoesy on Apr 19, 2009 22:46:23 GMT -5
Dearest Darcy - Next time you decide to photograph such a special dress, please make sure you take a few more pics from all angles. All I can say is that that girl is very daring. |
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I doubt it. 
"Nobody wears shorts" 
Let the riot begin! LOL - 
hahahha