Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: "You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs." - Diana Vreeland

[botemp]

Lovers of Parisian style and fashion with a conscious mindset and lots of chatter in between.

---

Favoured Parisian addresses:

Second Hand Shops

Outlets

Favoured London addresses:

Charity Shops, Dress Agencies, and Outlets

Favoured NYC addresses:

Consignment shops, Vintage, and Restaurants

---

Previous threads:

Un

Deux

Trois

Quatre

Cinq

Six

Sept

Huit Neuf Dix

Onze

Douze

Merch created in honour of our ten thread anniversary:

Les Parisiennes de Mamansnet shop

Well if we're playing well dressed women on lying down poses, may I present Charlotte Perriand, woman designer/architect that often gets overlooked but is the hand behind the famous Le Corbusier furniture pieces and a successful artist/designer in her own right. Had she and Eileen Grey been the face of the Modernist movement I think it would have been something completely different.

She was a daughter of a tailor and seamstress and had a most interesting wardrobe too.

Though, I highly suspect since we're so used to colour photography, b&w resonates differently.

And some more when she was older.

*architect/designer, stupid autocorrect stealing a title.

Oh Bo I love Charlotte! She looks wonderful and much more accessible to be honest ;) (less serene)

This is a great theme this, women lying down but dressed.

Love all the well-dressed, lying down women . It reminded me of an article in (I think) Style magazine by Lisa Armstrong about wearing "trad" clothes - not keen on the terminology - wool trousers, tweed, cardigans etc. but not in such a traditional way by mixing with something more current. I think that's always what I'd go for with vintage/secondhand, it made me think of flo.

What a fab looking woman and she looks like she'd be great company too.

I will take up the women lying down dressed challenge. Here's another style crush in one of my favourite films. Ok not quite lying down but close.

Sorry quirky I missed your post. Yes that's what I try and do.

Definitely understand the love for Ingeborg Lundin. The simple camp shirt tucked into chinos is perfect, effortless.

In honour of our thread title heroine (I must say this impromptu appreciation of the well dressed (somewhat) lying down feel quite apt on International Women's Day). Second pic is more stylistically appropriate with the others but not quite lying down either.

And the ones in between that I missed before cross-posting.

Not lying down, but I keep seeing an online video ad for Vagabond shoes with a gorgeous model who is beautifully dressed and in the same style as all the icons above (but standing). Took a screenshot of that too (attached). I'd love that look, but I've never mastered shirts and I don't look good in white. But I love how light and airy this looks despite being fully dressed.

Sorry, not lying down either, but a link to an article about the Chanel show and being a tribute to Stella Tennant www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/mar/09/chanel-stella-tennant-chic-androgyny-paris-tribute-virginie-viard
It's that making tweed etc. modern again.

Also, chic androgyny sounds like a good aim.

From that article:

Generation Z’s preference for ankle-length coats rather than knee-length ones, for loose jeans and cross-body bags rather than dresses and clutches, and for beanies not berets, were all reflected here.

When did I turn into a gen Z-er

Must say it didn't feel very Stella Tennant to me, our reclining ladies feel more ST than the Chanel show IMHO.

I like "chic androgyny" but didn't love the Chanel. It oozed glittery tweed, which I hate with a fiery passion. And I'll tell you why. It's playing with a perceived norm and is thus a completely pointless exercise in rule-breaking. As we have already established it is difficult to find clothes for women in good/natural fabrics and classical cuts. There is no "tweed norm" to rebel against. The fashion industry keeps giving us the "funky twists" on the classics without ever giving us the classics. I have done many searches for "tweed" recently and found a lot of things with lurex in the composition. It needs to die.

Well if they just gave a shit about European tastes Lurex would be long gone, it sells like hotcakes elsewhere for now though. I do agree they need to stop calling it tweed, because now all there is is glittery unicorn tweed or dowdy Harris Tweed (lovely material but overwhelmingly used exclusively in dull designs), they're two separate entities, they don't react to each other they just live in separate realms.

Where's the thumb's up button on MN? We want low key style... bangs drum for wearable, well cut clothes that look fabulous off the catwalk on bodies that aren't owned by women who do little but parade clothes and work out!

they're two separate entities, they don't react to each other they just live in separate realms. You have a point here Bo -- possibly the same point I'm making but from a different angle.

It's the bloody Chinese buying the unicorn tweed isn't it? And Americans. An unholy alliance if ever there was one.

Xing at the very least the point is that how can you crave the mad, rule-breaking stuff if you can never buy the normal, low-key and unassuming stuff first? All this rebellion left over from the 1960s is wasted on people who can't tell a raglan sleeve from a dropped sleeve, a midi from a maxi or wool from acrylic.

Don't forget the Middle East, all that oil money buys a lot of shiny things, and the Russians too (although they keep getting cut off and no one will deliver to them) and I'm fine with that (shiny stuff love, Russian geopolitical relations is another matter), I just wish fashion would cater a bit more locally as opposed to globally and Chanel does do this to a certain extent with their travelling shows but mostly fashion seems to think Instagram= the world and we all like the same things

dowdy Harris tweed

But that's interesting about the madness. I like it and I miss it - I don't choose it for myself much these days but I still like to look. But then I was brought up on the rules. If you don't understand them then how can you rebel?

Sorry Flo that's a bit cursing in Church on here, isn't it? It just rarely gets used in a new/imaginative way, they always grab the unicorn tweed instead.

Yes, ripped punk tartan means something if you've only ever seen tartan worn with reverence or as a uniform. Couldn't it be a revolution to wear that wonderful fabric in a different, modern cut -- instead of just selling a polyester copy as "punk style yeah"!

Can't we have both?

Forgot the MIddle East. And Russia. It's a veritable axis of evil! Maybe we have to wait until THOSE markets are saturated and/or the oil runs out.

I know a lot of people who wore various tartans and checks for 13 years as school uniforms - does that count as having something to rebel against?
I will go the “women lying down in clothes“ exhibition, love it!

I think it absolutely counts. But I also think that in 2021 they won't feel the need to subvert those clothes to rebel, necessarily. ;)