French Dressing

 

How to Dress like a French Woman:

First and foremost, throw away uptight.

Of course own one of everything in black, plus know the fashionable color of the season, and have it in your wardrobe.

Dare to wear red gloves.

Stuff your pockets with confidence in your beauty, walk like you are worth a billion dollars.

Smoke without shame.

Wear matching sexy, jamais boring ni basic white, undergarments.

Ditch the tennis shoes and socks.

Have a day perfume and an evening perfume, make it your calling card.

Dress for the occasion, wear leather pants to the grocery store, and always have champagne in your refrigerator.

Celebrate your femininity, breasts are more than two lumps.

Add a twist to the ordinary- jeans, lace top, leopard print high heels, do not be afraid of yourself.

Sit straight, hold your head up, guard your tongue, and admire other women.

PS...The scarf thing, if you cannot tie it without stress, just unbutton another button and call it a day.

photo: Antique mannequin with typical Provencal garb. Chez Michel Biehn.

Comments

[jasmine]

this is one of the best dress i seen

[Jenny]

Love this Corey! I have a pair of red leather gloves from Target, champagne in the fridge when I can afford it, or else it is sparkling from California, a little blck dress when I am thin enough to pull it off, ( those American hips just won't budge LOL) I wear the same pair of jeans until they are so frayed they can be too revealing in certain spots, I would love to find perfect leather print heels but I live in Kansas...that maybe a challenge! Isn't all about attitude and comfortable in your own skin? I think the French woman has this. Myself and some of my friends are still working on that...but the older I get the more confident I feel. Smoking...not now...but in college my girlfriends and I smoked and felt very sophisticated and intellectual sitting in the student union. Does that count?

[lindaharre]

Oh, I Love it! I wish I was a little more French! I am going to try.....:-D)

[mary ann]

c'est parfait corey! love the dress form & fashion/life tips!

[Janelle Duncan]

How wonderfully liberating. I shall walk out the door today with my boots on and head held high. Thank you. Nel(aust)

[frida]

very inspiring, madame!

[ParisBreakfasts]

Wonderful post Corey :)
There's another one of those books here but your's would be more fun!

[Anne]

This made me chuckle. I am not this bold, I wish I were. Maybe someday!

[blackbird]

Brilliant -

and so true.

[Kristen Robinson]

Corey I love this it is always nice to let that little french in all of us out.

[herhimnbryn]

I found that just 3 days in Paris produced a new posture. I have always 'walked tall', now the 'two bumps' and I have inner confidence too!
Note to self...........buy red leather gloves.

[Cat]

What? Blue jeans and t-shirt won't do? (My every day attire!)

[Colette]

I guess I am a Frenchwoman, right down to my red gloves!

xoxo

[cruststation]

Fantastic, I love 'stuff your pockets with confidence'...that's good advice. I think if you have confidence you will look good and we don't even have to be French to be chic :)

[Shannon Lewis]

It looks like I'll have to practice some scarf tying for when I come out there!!

[berrie]

come on you American Girls! You're just as beaUtiful!Tho I will admit on a whole France has the corner on `chicness- Americans on a whole are simply put...relaxed & casual...but there are lots of `chic gals too......so don't beat yourself up so bad. for me class and sophistication is in so much more then just how you dress...or the outer package...I'm actually allergic to strong perfume and would rather not be in a cloud of it:( I imagine that if I ever visited france I might have to wear a mask??? tehehehee but I so agree with the ditching of the tennnis shoes and socks...unless your working out or jogging UGH don't wear them...love to you Corey! xo

[Nancy]

On our two trips to Paris, I found the French women fascinating and oh so chic! Even the simplest female dressed with panache and style. I was so happy I had packed lightly with mostly black and a few red items for accent and plenty of long, flowing scarves to toss casually around my neck! I felt I did not stand out as an American tourist. But, I was disgusted with my American hips, when I tried to buy a pair of jeans and all the poor salegirl could find to fit my hump was in the men's department! I was completely mortified and I was a skinny minnie back then! Oh the horror...being in the fashion capital of the world and unable to wear any of their tres' chic jeans! (I do believe ALL French born females have genetic skinny DNA!)

[Amber]

How fun! I could use this advice... but I do have a day and night sent-- day is Poem, and night is CoCo. So I am on my way!
Actually, this sounds like my mom!!

:)

[isabel]

hi Corey,
i'm going out right now to my favorite vintage shop to find some red gloves!
xox ;)

[susan@artstream]

when daughter grace came home from paris, she had ten new scarves and was showing us how to be fashionable and wear them! i think i could do more with the unbuttoning!
thanks for the tips!

[jennifer]

smoke? leopard heels and leather pants? I'll stick out like a sore thumb for sure ;)

[gracia]

Love the PS advice...
take care, grache

[josephine]

Hmmm...this almost sounds like a guide of how to dress like Josephine!

Minus the cigarettes and plus a lot of tripping in those high heels!

[miss*R]

well - I fail lots of these. I don't smoke - I tried wearing black then someone told me it was a 'colour' of negativity, so I ditched it.. I have red gardening gloves, do they count? I have champagne in the refrigerator and it disappears within minutes!
ahh well - I guess I am a simple aussie gal :)

[Penny]

After reading this I had to chuckle -- obviously there is a very good reason I wasn't born French, I'd have never made it as a 'French Woman'!!

[meredith]

I am giggling here. After 15 years in France, I still can't dress with that certain pizazz of all those sophisticated french ladies. I fear that I will always look not quite american/not quite french.

I don't smoke, but I do have some champagne in the frigo :)

[snowsparkle]

the small bit of french in me must be why i have the courage to sometimes wear sparkly shoes and leave a button undone. love this post corey! your words made me dance inside.