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    Parisian Chic The Hot Potato

    September 5, 2016

    I’m wearing (All available items are linked):

    LEMAIRE High-waisted wool-blend fine-knit skirt | Celine Velvet-Bib Shirt | Zara Rib Pants | ASOS Metal Open Circle Choker Necklace | Haider Ackermann Stiletto Boots

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    A quick Google search of Parisian Chic will lead us to a generous amount of opposing views on this mainstay style. The ultra feminine elegance is perfected with a precisely controlled dose of undone ease. Free, nonchalant, and deadly alluring are its synonyms.

    Inès de la Fressange went to great lengths to detail how-tos in her book Parisian Chic. Dressing codes aside, How to Be a Parisian Wherever You Are touched upon a broader spectrum, resolving not to be anything less.

    And then some new voices protested the idea for its cookie-cutter unreliability. The Gucci Gang, a teen social media squad direct from Paris, thought

    “the idea of ‘effortless French girl style,’… is a thing of the past, a paradox, or at least unattainable bullshit.”

    I’d like to think that enduring popular debates on one topic might be a good indication of the subject’s mature status.

    Are things like this A-line high-waist Lemaire skirt and the velvet-bib-adorned CÉLINE poplin shirt attainable, or rather, worth attaining?

    Your call.

    And I will leave my share of food for thought here: I never had to worry about sucking in my belly or limiting my movements in my Parisian-chic outfits. For a diehard comfort-first-devotee, the style gets one vote from moi.

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    2 Comments

  • Reply Mikey Tadesse September 5, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    Effortless! x

    • Reply zhours September 5, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      Thank you Mikey! x

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