So Ive noticed some trends here in France. If one wants to be a fashionable young French person even when its 20 degrees (Fahrenheit) outside, there is a certain look you want to achieve. Step one, skinny jeans or bootcut jeans. Light wash or dark wash, it seems like everybody gets together and decides one week to only wear light colored jeans and the next week only wear dark colored jeans. I have rarely seen people wearing flared jeans unless they are unfashionable boys. Step two, little vans-like shoes or ankle boots. Ive seen a lot of black calf-high boots as well, flat bottomed and well-heeled alike. Next, you wear any kind of shirt with a small cardigan or sweater over that, and over all of that you have to wear a long black peacoat, or else you will stick out like a sore thumb. (I stick out like a sore thumb here with all of my warm gray jackets, no one wears gray here) Finally, you finish your outfit with a FAT scarf. The bigger, the better. And if you can wrap it around your neck three times or so and still have enough scarf to tie in a knot in front of you, all the better. Major plus points! Your scarf can be either black or white, unless youre wearing a small normal sized scarf which can be any color. I have to mention that these are rules for both sexes, girl and boy. In fact, Ive noticed boys wearing larger wooly scarves then girls. Oh, and black is the color of the season. No black? Thats whack.
If you shop at H&M, youre cool. If you shop at the local French version of Walmart, known as the Super U, youre not so cool, as your clothes might get cheese stink on them when all thrown together in a shopping cart.
Another amusing trend I have noticed is the ugly christmas sweater trend and the wooly grandma cardigans. Now, I personally love ugly christmas sweaters and wooly grandma cardigans, but I know others feel differently about the stylishness of these things. My point is: Kaylyn Sims, I am not unfashionable for wearing grandma sweaters. And you were right about the uggs, no one wears them here except the New Zealander, but hey, she's from New Zealand.
The other weekend I made sure to purchase myself a fat wooly scarf so I could be like everybody else. I was difficult finding a white long sleeved t-shirt with thin black stripes, as that is very French as well but maybe I will get lucky when I go to Paris.
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Ill try and take some sly pictures of my class mates for another blog post....
Finally, I've located your blog! I've asked many a person what the URL address is, and ever time I've been given an incorrect address. Even Madame Kendall couldn't give me the right one for Pete's sake!
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it is about me, but I squeal with excitement when I read on here about how fashionable scarves are. The entire fashion in France sounds whack, but cool at the same time. Thanks so much for making these posts, they make me crack up and are really interesting to read! Have fun and enjoy your trip. Keep posting, too :)
Haha Chelsea I'm sorry it was so hard to find!! I post status updates whenever I post a new blog on here and I always put the url in the update. Guess you didn't see them or you have me blocked on your facebook wall xD. Haha, either way I'm happy that you have enjoyed what I've written!
ReplyDeleteChelsea, you should squeal with excitement because the scarf trend will eventually make it's way to America/Humboldt County and we can all walk around wearing giant but ridiculously warm scarves too!!!! The fashion here is awesome, I'm impressed every day with what the people whip out to wear. I can understand why it's such a favorite past time in France to sit at cafe's and people watch... the people are super fun to look at.
I'm trying to post as often as I can because if I don't my mom will get angry with me. (She sends me messages all of the time saying things like "Where's another blog? We're all waiting... No blog yet! When's it coming?". Haha I will do the best I can for you Chelsea!!! Thanks for the comments! :D