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Please,
that woman is doing well
.
And that man.
What a nice jacket, and
how well the pants look
on her.
And that bag?
My goodness, this is non-stop". If you have been to
Paris
, you may have thought something similar to this, because there the
admiration
(and the same, a little bit of envy)
for how people dress
is, let's say, a little more common than in other places. Ok, it is true that
we are talking about the center of Paris
(we are not going to ignore the
money factor
) and that there are very, very stylish people everywhere, but it seems that in the French capital, for some reason, they are concentrated.
The same is in the water they drink, the same has to do with the air in which the scent of tobacco still wafts (but how many people smoke here?).
Or the same is that
there is an unwritten rule that says that to Paris, you have to come 'dressed'.
Fixed, if you prefer.
There aren't as many sailor stripes out there as one might think;
instead,
there are plenty of suit pants, straight-leg jeans, and plain sneakers
.
Black
loafers with white socks
can also be seen around here, where wearing a beret automatically means you in a way that you don't want to mean in Paris (like going on a trip to Andalusia and planting moles, come on).
Dressing well in this city has to do with something far from the theoretically native clichés and close to factors such as
the quality of the garments, appreciation for aesthetics and attitude, a lot of attitude.
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The issue of quality can be tricky because there are many issues involved, but taking into account the context and the fact that this is an observation based on walks (I wasn't going to ask on the street to show me the labels like that, like crazy) , we could determine it as
the fact that the clothes look good
.
It looks
clean, polished, with body, with entity
.
Perhaps the trick, with the permission of the fabrics, is that
the garments generally look good on those people you notice.
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This is an
open secret of Parisians
(or what they have sold us)
and that foreigners who set foot in the city apply
.
The Parisians are effortlessly stylish because
they have done the work at home, carefully editing their wardrobe
.
They do not go crazy with trends and select only those with which they feel comfortable and
they shine, not the clothes.
It would only be necessary for something, whatever, to take away the prominence.
The stylish women who walk around Paris seem to have spent no more than five minutes in front of the mirror, and that may be true:
when you have a good wardrobe, everything turns out as if by accident.
His way of attracting attention is less scandalous and more subtle, and whoever comes to Rue Saint Honoré and its surroundings
tries to imitate him.
But that's not bad.
On the contrary.
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In this sense, there is a lot of pampering in the center of Paris.
There is it for the environment, care so that visitors can feel that expectations are met, but also in
the people who walk through this particular and beautiful setting
.
There, right there, is where
much of the secret of why people dress so well in Paris lies: because they make an effort to do so
.
Because they want to do it to fit in the streets, to beautify them.
Historically, the
great avenues destined for the (then new) bourgeois class to walk
, were born in cities like this one, and Paris became a great exponent.
Wow, she became an expert;
they are not called boulevards by chance.
It was the place to go to see and, above all, to be seen.
Like bars with exotic names and crowded bars, like parade gates for street style animals.
And it seems that this continues to happen here and now:
people dress to delight other people
.
Gastronomy for the eyes, as Honoré de Balzac said about flânerie,
which is nothing more than walking around observing (although the term has also undergone changes since the 19th century).
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There is a 'meme' on TikTok that sums up this idea well: "I don't dress to be liked by men,
I dress so that those twelve-year-old girls stand up, look at me and think they want to be like me"
.
No more no less.
We dress to provoke admiration, and we have been doing so since before social networks,
although those tools seem to have amplified the effect.
Before, those girls in oversized suits with designer sneakers and coffee from Kitsuné (an essential stop, seeing the queues there are) would have taken their drink and walked without further ado.
Now, they stop in front of a Saint Laurent store to record a Reel.
Who blames them, when we create and share hyper-aesthetic prints with the same ease as going down to buy bread?
Well, a baguette.
No, those girls are not to blame.
They are, if anything, the epitome of what happens on the streets of Paris.
And recording yourself is absolutely secondary: the impressive thing is
that consensus by which everyone takes a little more care when going out for a walk in the streets.
It is a phenomenon that happens when you go on a trip (who wants to be immortalized with a propaganda shirt instead of a pretty look?), but here it takes on another dimension due to the international fame of the city.
Paris has always had very good publicity in terms of fashion, and the weight of history is noticeable
and causes that mechanism of
"wherever you go, do what you see"
to be activated .
I mean, dress for the occasion.
There is
something beautiful in that care that passers-by put in when preparing a look for Paris
: they (we) are moved not only by something purely selfish, which is
wanting to be admired and to fit in
, but also
a certain sense of respect for others .
They value those who share the sidewalk with them and that is why they do not want to go in any way.
In some way, it is
a kind of deference, recognition as equals, an act of affection
, if you want to see it that way.
It is offering beauty, or your vision of beauty, to the world
.
That is why I have never completely trusted those who tell me that they do not pay much attention to what they wear: I prefer generous people who understand that dressing can be a gift for oneself and for others.
And that's why I like those who set foot in the center of Paris.
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