Must be a French girl - XXV

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8214/8273193465_9f2f7674ee_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8214/8273193465_9f2f7674ee_c.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As the children lined up to catch a view of the spectacular </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Galeries Lafayette Christmas windows, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I spotted this petite miss with her cascade of <i>boucles</i> (curls), </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">white beret, and stylish pink coat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, definitely a French girl.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Galeries Lafayette</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>40, boulevard Haussmann</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75009, Paris</em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Metro Chaussee d'Antin Lafayette</em></span></div>

Must be a French girl - XXV

As the children lined up to catch a view of the spectacular  Galeries Lafayette Christmas windows,  I spotted this petite miss with her casc...

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Ultramod Mercerie - Vente au Detail

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2rLFnpt3E4cYx1mKQZd_KOcStfgZoMnj7-1Bkgp0aNiCA9vN9zvTXk-vDO45475DWS6BBHitJCahzK0GrX5zjGDL8qfG5h2yOcGBWSe3qH76Co25skP5O9_jydjzmN_wmdg-s-uNshVI/s1600/2012+Jan+17++3rd_0418.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2rLFnpt3E4cYx1mKQZd_KOcStfgZoMnj7-1Bkgp0aNiCA9vN9zvTXk-vDO45475DWS6BBHitJCahzK0GrX5zjGDL8qfG5h2yOcGBWSe3qH76Co25skP5O9_jydjzmN_wmdg-s-uNshVI/s640/2012+Jan+17++3rd_0418.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The interior of this shop is even more charming than its windows.  We found this charming mercerie (haberdasherie, notions store) with thousands of buttons, ribbons, silks, hats, feathers as we wandered out of Passage Choiseul.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In looking for more information, I discovered the wonderful history recounted here by Colleen of <a href="http://www.colleensparis.com/shopping/stores/mercerie-ultramod/" target="_blank"><strong>Colleen's Paris</strong></a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One thing is certain, at every turn you can uncover a story in Paris.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Ultramod </em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>3-4, rue de Choiseul</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75002, Paris</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Ultramod Mercerie - Vente au Detail

The interior of this shop is even more charming than its windows.  We found this charming mercerie (haberdasherie, notions store) with thous...

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Le Bon Marché -- des chapeaux

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmjnrM13I_kiPIc6xuIPkO-h3fGR2BgDIt_-uM5e-jiGThFzI1_i8XBbDE4q3NxXSCPwcoMqyd-Ruz6NnJ93ziqBa_tZS5nb66M69WcoSjbsYud4zNUyvh2N5khTKRix-Cn0YIMYh7R3Q/s1600/2010+paris+june+17-18+0564.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmjnrM13I_kiPIc6xuIPkO-h3fGR2BgDIt_-uM5e-jiGThFzI1_i8XBbDE4q3NxXSCPwcoMqyd-Ruz6NnJ93ziqBa_tZS5nb66M69WcoSjbsYud4zNUyvh2N5khTKRix-Cn0YIMYh7R3Q/s640/2010+paris+june+17-18+0564.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you have been reading my blog for a period of time, you know that I am almost as passionate about hats as I am shoes...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This chapeaux is not quite my style but I was captivated by the design.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What do you mean, <em>pas de photos</em>?  Whoops</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Le Bon Marché</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Métro Sèvres-Babylone</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Le Bon Marché -- des chapeaux

If you have been reading my blog for a period of time, you know that I am almost as passionate about hats as I am shoes... This chapeaux is ...

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Un chapeau de dimanche

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Zn0KV8-n0hzNN0dgSv8p2XLskxaeX2oX1lmqmR1em9KVBOghyphenhyphenS3z1cUdTSnBLjzrxS73rmYTKugGfiZ4PUmQqaRwZjAnY-S5kcAqPxMhYKqj_1NKyTMWT9ktz3Uc_QoMhbmpLZN0uiY/s1600/2010+paris+june+20+0930.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Zn0KV8-n0hzNN0dgSv8p2XLskxaeX2oX1lmqmR1em9KVBOghyphenhyphenS3z1cUdTSnBLjzrxS73rmYTKugGfiZ4PUmQqaRwZjAnY-S5kcAqPxMhYKqj_1NKyTMWT9ktz3Uc_QoMhbmpLZN0uiY/s640/2010+paris+june+20+0930.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I was going through all my photos of Paris hats and realized that I had missed this one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was taken during a lively meeting of bloggers and friends enjoying a Sunday déjeuner (Mary, Marie, Virginia, Anne Hervier, Maya, and Janet).  They had us seated along the back wall for a reason!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We saw a young woman wearing this chic chapeau of black tuile and after entering gently placed it on the shelf and coat rack separating the dining area.  I wish that we had snapped her before she removed it, but once placed on the shelf it had the appearance of a display in a fine boutique.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was a great day spent with friends:  old, new, and just-met.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>La Bourgogne</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>144, rue Mouffetard</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75005, Paris</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><a href="http://paristhroughmylens.blogspot.com/2010/08/le-beau-chapeau.html" target="_blank"><strong>(Here is Virginia's shot of the chapeau)</strong></a></em></span></div>

Un chapeau de dimanche

I was going through all my photos of Paris hats and realized that I had missed this one. It was taken during a lively meeting of bloggers an...

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Must be a French girl -- VIII

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllldwyM-4yEBGtE3rd_J8KPrbmuh7ARPjNQ-1CqFF6JxCdFmbqvGfKxHbJJ3wUBoTVyZjgtkf-H5GQq1Aac0ky7CX5pcgQiCUNWUXgV6twjrGNNAIzv2u3r-f6xt0Kk6Kafjt1iERG2Q/s1600/2011+april+7+DSC_0279.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636837752645656546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllldwyM-4yEBGtE3rd_J8KPrbmuh7ARPjNQ-1CqFF6JxCdFmbqvGfKxHbJJ3wUBoTVyZjgtkf-H5GQq1Aac0ky7CX5pcgQiCUNWUXgV6twjrGNNAIzv2u3r-f6xt0Kk6Kafjt1iERG2Q/s640/2011+april+7+DSC_0279.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Oh definitely, and M. Cycliste thinks so too!<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Blvd de Courcelles</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">at Parc de Monceau</span><br /><br /></div>

Must be a French girl -- VIII

Oh definitely, and M. Cycliste thinks so too! Blvd de Courcelles at Parc de Monceau

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Un chapeau et un .....?

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDNEfu748UBB_m2IRHSDfj0WmNel9R8C0jUUqip7mL0D_E2Hn2-utirN6lsv2Kb9sMMNIIcNgCAQJOhD-6Oz-fmWvTH7TzeYXiXDbkg1Tlzj2cyoagFCT9rNEyaT1gXmZZ73Y0KQBHfY/s1600/DSC_0564cropped.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513545875326051458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDNEfu748UBB_m2IRHSDfj0WmNel9R8C0jUUqip7mL0D_E2Hn2-utirN6lsv2Kb9sMMNIIcNgCAQJOhD-6Oz-fmWvTH7TzeYXiXDbkg1Tlzj2cyoagFCT9rNEyaT1gXmZZ73Y0KQBHfY/s640/DSC_0564cropped.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>Un chapeau et un .... je ne sais pas! </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I was sneaking a photo of this stylish hat at Le Bon Marché as I had done <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2010/07/des-chapeaux-rouge-et-rose.html"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>before</strong></span></a> and in reviewing my daily collection of photographs, I wondered what exactly was that to the right of my focus. Is this another hat? Surely not -- it looks like wadded up underwear (albeit Parisian lingerie) that has been bunched up on a headband! Quelle horreur! I would wear the fashionable hat on the left bien sûr but not the "underwear headband." Can you imagine showing up at an event with THAT on your head? I can just hear the snickers now....</div><br /><div></div>

Un chapeau et un .....?

Un chapeau et un .... je ne sais pas! I was sneaking a photo of this stylish hat at Le Bon Marché as I had done before and in reviewing my ...

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Des Chapeaux: Rouge et Rose

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl12tHLVXsB1ylvot644LNiz9lRITwcmh8ivqV_L0o7GpTMMbZVY9dJBqxCGdXcsK2eBh-tWI54qbt-pdEsa8jwq3Ov6lwskUGp892-U0aoPogk0EicyB4hnDRR2s9HRUQCJBUvs9qJzw/s1600/DSC_0032.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495326299673390962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl12tHLVXsB1ylvot644LNiz9lRITwcmh8ivqV_L0o7GpTMMbZVY9dJBqxCGdXcsK2eBh-tWI54qbt-pdEsa8jwq3Ov6lwskUGp892-U0aoPogk0EicyB4hnDRR2s9HRUQCJBUvs9qJzw/s640/DSC_0032.JPG" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>Oh la la! A confession: J'adore bien les chapeaux! It is not quite the obsession I have with les chaussures but only because I do not wear one daily, bien sûr.<br /><br />The vision of these beauties in <a href="http://www.lebonmarche.com/"><span style="color:#ffcc00;">Le Bon Marché</span> </a>were too much for my camera to resist and thankfully I managed to get a shot before being chastised. Did I purchase one? Malheureusement, non. A big hat presents a real challenge to carry home, and on another day I will share "that" story (and photo) with you! </div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>Note: The link above only has the logo for Le Bon Marché so it may be in transition. However, this post on </em><a href="http://peter-pho2.blogspot.com/search/label/Bon%20March%C3%A9"><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><em>Peter's Paris</em></span></a><em> has a wealth of information with photos. Merci, Peter! </em></div>

Des Chapeaux: Rouge et Rose

Oh la la! A confession: J'adore bien les chapeaux! It is not quite the obsession I have with les chaussures but only because I do not we...

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