Boulevard Edgar Quinet - des chapeaux

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinEeIkzQVYNDFXQwGvstvNJcB-68Jv0kL37j3LM-s5wBGm1LUF7q2J_-IDsKNCr12CqgR9YrNAEPWskHkpMTnDiKbQmCnh1-OoAN3nw7Cn34EbaOry2FsyQNwlsfqcXao6XS0kQwk215g/s1600/2013+May+19+0519_157DSC_4405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinEeIkzQVYNDFXQwGvstvNJcB-68Jv0kL37j3LM-s5wBGm1LUF7q2J_-IDsKNCr12CqgR9YrNAEPWskHkpMTnDiKbQmCnh1-OoAN3nw7Cn34EbaOry2FsyQNwlsfqcXao6XS0kQwk215g/s1600/2013+May+19+0519_157DSC_4405.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Arts Fair</div><div style="text-align: center;">Boulevard Edgar Quinet</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong>Along Boulevard Edgar Quinet there is an open produce market in the central alley of the boulevard every Wednesday and Saturday morning (7am-2:30pm) and an arts fair every Sunday (10am until sunset). On this spring Sunday an artist was displaying a colorful assortment of hats.  Other vendors offered watercolors, collage, handcrafted leather, pottery, and other art and fine craft. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Arts Fair</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Boulevard Edgar Quinet</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75014, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Métros Edgar Quinet or Raspail</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Boulevard Edgar Quinet - des chapeaux

Arts Fair Boulevard Edgar Quinet Along Boulevard Edgar Quinet there is an open produce market in the central alley of the boulevard every W...

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L'oiseau et le chapeau

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPiMETG736EFOCWZ1nL2PuveEpfK_EH0HqsW7yr306qw4HtXfm4TPBgewF4CSUZi7KUJIJE7Fb1-flayeEB9JTxCaAUtlNcKHuKS0p517Ff00I2x1AbI3k9n_hXPbVdSryLbSzT_ym2E/s1600/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_95DSC_8689.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPiMETG736EFOCWZ1nL2PuveEpfK_EH0HqsW7yr306qw4HtXfm4TPBgewF4CSUZi7KUJIJE7Fb1-flayeEB9JTxCaAUtlNcKHuKS0p517Ff00I2x1AbI3k9n_hXPbVdSryLbSzT_ym2E/s640/2012+Oct+6+Saturday_95DSC_8689.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The bird and the hat?</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;">This flashy window of H&M </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">is nestled between the grand windows of Le Printemps </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and Galeries Lafayette on Boulevard Haussmann.</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;">The windows of Paris fascinate me and </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I only wish I could be there to see them each time they change.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I try, believe me.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">H&M </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">54, blvd Haussmann</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75009, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

L'oiseau et le chapeau

The bird and the hat? This flashy window of H&M  is nestled between the grand windows of Le Printemps  and Galeries Lafayette on Bouleva...

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La tribu des oiseaux

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreau9pPuGQuxF0fau1K4DIQyfAVd_84gYWMIaMLN0Y_jBTRqJKmpK2YluDzH5gPXX1n3L3gJRwD3y2mboXfbEEbEiOzi8Jn4K4N3OtNWz2nXe-NmqpFxUpeDSBDLck0srwPE_Zcjh8QM/s1600/2012+march+from+iPad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreau9pPuGQuxF0fau1K4DIQyfAVd_84gYWMIaMLN0Y_jBTRqJKmpK2YluDzH5gPXX1n3L3gJRwD3y2mboXfbEEbEiOzi8Jn4K4N3OtNWz2nXe-NmqpFxUpeDSBDLck0srwPE_Zcjh8QM/s640/2012+march+from+iPad.jpg" vca="true" width="506" /></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 boutique on Rue Saint Roch offers stylish hats,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">but tonight, this fluff of a dress steals the spotlight.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Rue Saint Roch</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75001, Paris</em></span>

La tribu des oiseaux

The boutique on Rue Saint Roch offers stylish hats, but tonight, this fluff of a dress steals the spotlight. Rue Saint Roch 75001, Paris

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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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La toque de chef

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTmCzd-hfLZqrI5Do5NI4W7xAwbYm7CglKC-VLCx3WDz7m2bY_dtRZpSwO2y-wZqAl0GV6kUotfLXvZLmTU1jlGFNnshJ_CqjD1XOYz2AUUFE9Kei2xzRLrYfPzVhQThoCPE7GZOOW0M/s1600/2010+paris+june+21+00264.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/AVvXsEjDTmCzd-hfLZqrI5Do5NI4W7xAwbYm7CglKC-VLCx3WDz7m2bY_dtRZpSwO2y-wZqAl0GV6kUotfLXvZLmTU1jlGFNnshJ_CqjD1XOYz2AUUFE9Kei2xzRLrYfPzVhQThoCPE7GZOOW0M/s640/2010+paris+june+21+00264.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 think that this chef was just taking a break or perhaps just starting for the day on Rue Jacob.  Is it me or does la toque (chef's hat) seem just a bit too small for his head?</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;">I do love the chef's attire and the starched hat.</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>Rue Jacob</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75006, Paris</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>

La toque de chef

I think that this chef was just taking a break or perhaps just starting for the day on Rue Jacob.  Is it me or does la toque (chef's hat...

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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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Un Chapeau Rose

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnsrozzDp0WhrtLzWsGsBqXbBIPxhRNCVy7q-ikIvN6br6bWQdkL6_a8kEaZOI1K7jAEYOa03gGYnW3ZWP470iAOVlb4eUMk-GyurmBzNqy-IY9tLckTFtUyfNkpBzpqCbc6-rgYefeo/s1600/2011+april+7+DSC_0403.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632006072125682498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnsrozzDp0WhrtLzWsGsBqXbBIPxhRNCVy7q-ikIvN6br6bWQdkL6_a8kEaZOI1K7jAEYOa03gGYnW3ZWP470iAOVlb4eUMk-GyurmBzNqy-IY9tLckTFtUyfNkpBzpqCbc6-rgYefeo/s640/2011+april+7+DSC_0403.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Walking from our apartment to Jardin des Tuileries is a small boutique of hats. This bright pink with a feather seemed perfectly French to me.</span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Bon weekend</span></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"></span>

Un Chapeau Rose

Walking from our apartment to Jardin des Tuileries is a small boutique of hats. This bright pink with a feather seemed perfectly French to m...

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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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