French dressing

I have yet to figure out why French women have the reputation as being some of the best dressed women in the world. I look at a lot of women I see on the metro and street and think they a) are color blind, b) have no mirror in their house, c) are reading the Vogues and Glamours from about 3 years ago or d) all of the above. I would take pictures of them but that would be incredibly rude. Maybe when I finally get my cell phone I'll pretend I'm answering a phone call and take pictures.

Yesterday I saw some woman who was wearing a black suit jacket, navy blue pin striped pants, a red shirt and red high heeled sneakers. Not just any high heeled sneakers...stilleto high heeled sneakers. It was one of the most hideous outfits I have ever seen.

This is also why I haven't really bought any clothes. I go into stores and I find tapered pants, prairie skirts, and weird looking shrugs. And sad to say, I've seen women wearing all 3 of these things at once. Aside from the prairie and tiered skirts, the big thing here is to wear dresses with pants. I must be very avant garde because I used to do that when I was 5! And then either stilletos or sneakers with the ensemble. It really makes me sad.

The couture and designer crap is like this too...it actually is crap. I went into a store yesterday that sold desinger clothes and I can honestly say that a brand whore would buy this stuff. I saw a D&G shirt that was so hideous it looked like someone got mad at it for being so ugly and shredded it with a pair of scissors. Horrid. And it was $300!

The makeup is not much better. When I was walking out of the metro this afternoon I saw some woman whose hair was actually fro'ed out (she was white) and her eyeliner was extended about 3 inches beyond her eyelids. And she was about 50! So scary. I actually think she also used the black eyeliner to line her lips before she put on her bordello-red lipstick.

Of course, not every women looks like this. Sadly, it just happens to be quite a lot of them.