What would a girl called Odette look like?

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Need to settle a debate with DH. We have drastically different opinions about this name.

So go for it please & describe your imaginary Odette...

Very blonde and athletic and confident-I went to school with her

Slim, dark hair in a neat bob, dark brown eyes, pale skin

Nul, I agree with your husband. It's a very middle aged/working class combination in the continent.

Black and from southern USA - Mississipi or New Orleans. Big and busty, but not fat as such but pretty.

Think a middle age Jennifer Hudson in Dream girls.

Alternatively, if not southern USA, then French speaking African country - same physical attributes though.

Haven't read other responses so as not to be swayed...

Thin, duck feet from too much ballet, wiry strawberry blond hair. Maybe even prominent teeth.

The above applies to Lydia and Felicity as well.

She is a beautiful white swan princess

I went to school with an Odette. She hated her name so much even the teachers used her chosen nickname of Bobby.

dark, gaunt, bit unhealthy, pasty looking

Middle-aged, dumpy and frumpy, malicious gossip

Haha Pixel! I just came on to say middle aged and dumpy too. The one I know also has terrible over sprayed hair and isn't the sharpest tool in the box either.

Pale, dark, attractive however I do keep hearing that voice in my head say odious sorry.

She could be any skin colour but her hair would be long, she would lean and slender as an adult.

If you watch the WW2 film, she would have no toenails.

I agree with pixel; "dumpy and frumpy" at least the one I went to school with was.

Very interesting! Thanks ladies :)

DH always vetoed this name because he saw it as only suiting someone dark skinned, fat, working class, older.

For me it's a ballet name: someone dainty, beautiful princess-like.

DH is French - so maybe his opinion is coloured by this!

OP, yes, that's exactly how I'd describe it. It seems no one else agrees though

I agree.

The teen Odette I knew had beautiful long dark slighlty curly hair. She was slim but broad shouldered.

She would have a sensible large handbag and clumpy shoes

Haha Burberry, brilliant!

Makes me think of Odette Hallowes too.

But if it's the French equivalent of Doreen, I wouldn't use it.

It is a ballet name, from Swan Lake. Ever see Black Swan? I forget if Odette is the white gentle sweet girl, or the evil black swan! Is your surname French? Otherwise it might not "go"; it's very French.

I think Odile is the black swan and Odette is the white swan

I know an Odette, she is young, slim, pretty with long dark hair.

Like a 75 year -old French woman. Short, fierce, with wiry/bushy hair. She was probably in the resistance!