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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 18:51:02 GMT
These are nice, but kind of impractical for our weather, Lagatta. Unless going to an inside function.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 18:52:27 GMT
I remember the fishnet fad when I was in high school. The authorities were beside themselves, because it was extremely difficult to figure out how to ban it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 18:54:46 GMT
Yeah, I know, I used to wear them quite a bit. A little old fashioned now, but still fun to do once in a while. But nothing beats bare legs, for me anyway.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 27, 2009 18:57:07 GMT
I remember that too. And I wore them, but I was around 15 or 16.
Deyana, none of my friends heat their apartments enough to be able to walk around like that without freezing.
I know you are trying to shock (my little smileys were a joke of course) but have no idea what you are trying to prove...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 19:00:23 GMT
Man, I've got nothing left to prove, lagatta.
Besides I know Kerouac well enough to know he is unshockable. Sorry for the threadjack btw.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 19:29:26 GMT
Just for fun, here are a few more. I'd say that at least half of these are tourists. |
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Post by fumobici on Nov 27, 2009 19:52:19 GMT
Oh god it's tempting to make catty comments ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 20:04:53 GMT
That's why it's more fun to just take the pictures!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 1:00:05 GMT
Since I missed the fishnet threadjack,I will chime in here. I have several pairs of fishnets in different colors. Unless the weather is too cold,I wear them every Mardi Gras and sometimes my husband borrows a pair for his costume. One Carnival we fought over who got to wear the purple.(I won  )We both happen to have great legs. Reminds me,I am due for a new pair this year,I missed Mardi Gras last year because of my knee surgery so I will treat myself to a new pair and color this year! We have great costume shops here.Can't do the heels though...pity. |
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Post by clichy on Nov 28, 2009 19:33:19 GMT
Great post as usual, and funnily enough one of the women in the pics is a colleague of mine!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 19:47:35 GMT
 When I linked this on the Thorn Tree, somebody warned me that I was in danger of lawsuits for invasion of privacy. Is she going to sue me?
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Post by lagatta on Nov 28, 2009 20:05:58 GMT
Here (in Québec) it could be a problem. A young woman won a lawsuit of a photographer at a small, non-commercial (arty) publication that took a pic of her just sitting on stone steps in front of a building. She was doing nothing embarrassing or illegal, and was not with any (possibly "illicit") partner. The lawsuit pretty much shut down the publication. I think the laws are similar in France but am not sure and IANAL.
A blog that did one of the many "what are they wearing in Paris this season" shoots blocked out eyes on all identifiable pics (which is a shame).
Horrors! They caught me GOING TO WORK last Wednesday. The humiliation!
And casimira + Mr casimir, that sounds great. Feather boas?
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Post by fumobici on Nov 28, 2009 22:06:39 GMT
Those laws are ridiculous. People should not have an expectation of any great privacy walking down the sidewalk or other public spaces.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 28, 2009 22:13:19 GMT
Well, fumobici, different cultures and nations (I mean presumably democratic ones) have very different ideas as to how to weight free use/privacy, free speech/defence against hate speech and many related issues.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 22:19:22 GMT
France has extemely strict laws but from what I know, people out on the sidewalk are fair game.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 29, 2009 11:17:18 GMT
Is the clothes anxiety some faint echo of the days when travel to Europe expanded from the exclusive and upper crust to more regular people, who tended to find themselves in the posher parts of Paris surrounded by the relative upper crust? There are so many parts of Paris that people visit now that would have been beyond the pale in those days - and so many more varieties of people, of course.
When I did my first school exchange with France in the 1960s, my mother was convinced my Parisian exchange partner would be expecting what she vaguely imagined cordon bleu cookery to be like, and was in quite a state about it, whatever I told her about what I'd experienced in his home (i.e., old-fashioned home cooking influenced by years of rationing, just as, in its own way, hers was - and all the better for it).
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 29, 2009 11:20:26 GMT
And fishnets...
When the Falklands War was starting (before we realised there really were going to be serious hostilities), some friends of mine were teasing a woman friend, asking if she was ready for the WW2 trick of using gravy browning to paint a "stocking seam" up her legs. She just looked a bit thoughtful and said "It's the fishnets that worry me......"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2009 12:13:50 GMT
I would say that the fashion anxiety is at least 40 years out of date, when there were indeed some pretty big differences in the way people dressed on various continents, and also fewer foreign visitors to Paris to confuse the issue. I'm sure that the main European cities seemed extremely stodgy and formal to Americans, and they felt really out of place in their casual vacation clothes.
The older generations seem to have kept this weird inferiority complex about their clothing. But I am happy to keep supplying pictures to reassure them! Or feed the fire...
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Post by lola on Nov 29, 2009 15:09:36 GMT
I usually buzz around without notice what people are wearing, particularly, except the welcome eccentric exceptions.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2009 15:40:26 GMT
In the coming two weeks away from the office, I hope I get a chance to photograph the Asian woman that I call "the Christmas tree women" to myself whenever I encounter her.
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Post by clichy on Nov 30, 2009 20:19:07 GMT
Kerouac @ #40 - I must admit I resisted the temptation to tell her hey, I saw a picture of you on an internet forum! Could have been the start of an interesting conversation but I'm not sure I want to go there with people at work...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 20:48:31 GMT
Same with me; you never know how people will react. If somebody told me they saw me in a candid photo on a forum, I would be perplexed and dismayed... at least until I was able to verify that the photo was harmless. Whenever I walk past the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame or places like that, I always think to myself "I have just appeared in 200 photos of total strangers and probably ruined a number of them by being in the foreground at the wrong time. And yet they still might put their ruined (by me) photos on FaceBook or in an actual photo album.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2013 20:30:05 GMT
I have to admit that looking at these photos again made me start longing for autumn.
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Post by htmb on Aug 6, 2013 21:30:01 GMT
I'd just like to have the opportunity to even THINK about what I'd wear around Paris in the fall. Though I did luck out with the temperatures, summer visits to Paris are not ideal. Better than nothing, I suppose.  |
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Post by mossie on Aug 7, 2013 6:55:47 GMT
Wish me luck, I am off to Paris again at the end of next month. I know I shall endlessly obsess about what clothes to take  I don't think |
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Post by lagatta on Aug 17, 2013 15:38:39 GMT
In the meantime, Amy Winehouse has indeed died. Beth Ditto seems to be alive (I had to look the question up, not having any interest in her otherwise).
I may possibly be travelling to Europe in the late autumn and if so, will try to make a side-trip to Paris, mostly to see old friends. Will doubtless take the same clothing I usually do for such trips. Expect to be invisible.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 16:04:11 GMT
Invisible is what most of us are.
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)We both happen to have great legs.
