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Are you chic?

Am I fuck :D

Like you Cloo that look just does not work on me. I like it well enough, and sometimes breathe a slightly envious sigh when I see other women making it look effortless. But it is not me and I am not it. Everything about me is too marker pen to pull off such a watercolour look.

Big boots and messy hair works for me.
 
come here....Coco Chanel put a LOT of pearls on, yet her saying was to take one piece of jewellry when you went out. Whats that all about?

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I sometimes think I am chic, or something approaching sophisticated and then I see my poorly painted fingernails, my childish hairstyle, my tattered sleeves and I realise that I'm probably not. Win some you lose some.
 
Greebo said:
Perhaps in that picture she was trying to show how not to do it?
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i doubt it...her memoir, in her own words is called 'The Allure of Chanel' and she explains her fashion secrets (cant remember that many)

she is a stony cold woman, no heart, all head. she says women are obsessed with fripperies and bullshit....she only got into fashion and it could have easily been something else....if you like fashion its a great and shocking book
 
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FWIW I don't think I know any urbanites at all who fit the idea of French chic - although I'd argue that Ms T doesn't know the meaning of "badly dressed" let alone scruffy, and the same goes for spanglechick.

IMHO there's more to life than being chic (or not) and, from what I've seen, a lot of urbanites have worked out what's a good look (even if that may be a bit scruffy at times) for them and the lives which they've got. That's far cooler than trying to dress by somebody else's idea of what's right or wrong.
 
Am I fuck. I try really hard sometimes but I always get mascara on my shirt or leave the hair salon in the middle of wind storm. My personality and taste in clothes is too loud for subtle.
 
Greebo said:
Even without being a boon companion of fashion you must have noticed that some years there are more clothes available in one colour than another. If none of the 'in' colours for that season make you look good, tough.
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No, really can't say that I have. Most of my clothes shopping is done in charity shops :) I have noticed hideous materials and lack of cotton or other natural fibres though. I really don't notice clothes, or even people a lot of the time!
 
I think she's onto something with the black jacket. I have a small. neat black blazer type one and roll the sleeves up and pop the collar :D - that's 70% of the way to chincess as long as I've got ordinary trousers and shoes on.
 
i think 'chic' is a kind of affect, i wish i could master. I also think a lady doesnt need any money to look 'chic' - its the way she wears it...
 
met some relatives yesterday and the ladies looked great (with unruly Irish hair, and our western Irish look....) but one of them looked really 'chic.' She had a green and cream scarf on with a black top and jeans...she is in her 50's and not a stunner but the way she wore this scarf and walked and carried herself - pure class. Hard to explain.
 
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