French chic……..can you create it?

The thing is about French or Italian supermarkets, the ones I have been shopping in do have a lot of crisps and sweet foods, and the younger generation do buy and consume more what we would term fast foods generally than say their parents and grandparents generations.
I have heard that in Japan, where almost everybody was known to be slim owing to the diet, things are changing.There,
Chocolate, especially Cadbury products are much in demand as are all sorts of sugary cereals as the young want it for breakfast.

Sago

OPhere in another region of France now and I can honestly say I was the “chicest” in the supermarket just now!
I’m not showing off, the competition was not strong!

I remember my DC getting very excited at the huge tubs of sugary Nesqik in French supermarkets. That was many years ago.

Today I'm wearing French navy trousers and a navy and cream striped top.

The effect is not so much French chic as Breton fisherwoman without the cap.

The French are a lot slimmer on average than UK adults - 40% overweight, 10% obese compared with 62% overweight, 25% obese here. It’s interesting, the no smoking message got through to people in the UK, but obesity continues to rise.

MawtheMerrier

Equally unimpressed by Emmanuel whose trainers were similarly inappropriate for the occasion.
My point is that they were not queuing, but guests of HM government and the RF.
And I identified Brigitte as the thread is about “French chic” - not a word generally associated with male dressing.
No excuses.
Of course today is formal, but if you think back - those planning to queue to pay their respects were requested to dress appropriately - concessions being made of course for camping out or standing fir hours and hours, even overnight.
No, no excuses!

I think you are absolutely correct, and they were both dressed wrongly on this occasion.

Callistemon21

Today I'm wearing French navy trousers and a navy and cream striped top.

The effect is not so much French chic as Breton fisherwoman without the cap.

You need to complete this look with a roll up cigarette dangling from one side of your mouth.

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I don't know anyone who smokes!
Will a sweet cigarette do?

Prentice

MawtheMerrier

Equally unimpressed by Emmanuel whose trainers were similarly inappropriate for the occasion.
My point is that they were not queuing, but guests of HM government and the RF.
And I identified Brigitte as the thread is about “French chic” - not a word generally associated with male dressing.
No excuses.
Of course today is formal, but if you think back - those planning to queue to pay their respects were requested to dress appropriately - concessions being made of course for camping out or standing fir hours and hours, even overnight.
No, no excuses!

I think you are absolutely correct, and they were both dressed wrongly on this occasion.

The normally immaculate Macrons may have made a mistake in your opinion but that doesn't eliminate the French population from being , on the whole, dressing with a certain style attributed to them

But the Macrons dressed very stylishly and appropriately at the funeral itself ?

Sarah74

But the Macrons dressed very stylishly and appropriately at the funeral itself ?

Nobody says they didn’t. {sigh}

halfpint1 that is true as they are just two people, who usually dress stylishly in any case.As for the majority of French people dressing with a certain style, I think that has been disputed on this thread, as some do, but many do not.
Am thinking that like anywhere else, in cities, or in wealthy parts of a city, people do dress more fashionably than in towns and villages.Is it not better to dress as one pleases though than to be worried about how you look to others?

I went on a guided tour last week in a chic French resort and learnt that the bikini was "invented" in France! Did you know that they also introduced the first cotton polo shirt (Lacoste), the first mini skirt and the LBD.

Joseanne

I went on a guided tour last week in a chic French resort and learnt that the bikini was "invented" in France! Did you know that they also introduced the first cotton polo shirt (Lacoste), the first mini skirt and the LBD.

The bikini was named after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific where a nuclear test had just been carried out by the US.

I haven't read through the whole thread, but French women do have that certain something, they are not alone though, Italians are immensely stylish too. I remember waiting to go through passport control somewhere or other when the passengers from an Italian flight came in and lined up behind, couldn't take my eyes off their clothes.

I would also add Scandis to the list, a while ago I know, but look how they nailed the scarf as an accessory in Borgen. When I went to Copenhagen I was struck by how many stylish older
women there were there with silver and grey hair all looking great and natural in a casual less is more sort of way.