French Lingerie!

 

Ladies, let’s talk about French Lingerie!

 

Ok, well let’s start with just lingerie then.

 

How many of you are planning to put on a beautiful lace or satin bra and panties under your clothes today, tomorrow, and every day?

 

Just for you.

 

I thought so.

 

I bet that if I were to ask a Parisian woman the same question, the answer might be wildly different.

 

That’s because most of us wear underwear, and in Paris, women wear lingerie.

 

This is pretty much how my conversation started with Kathryn Kemp-Griffin, author of Paris Undressed: The Secrets of French Lingerie.

 

 

 

We had decided to meet for coffee in a funky Paris cafe called Merci and three hours later I will still be enraptured by what Kate (as she prefers to be called) was talking about.

 

 

Your First Bra

 

“Do you remember your first bra?” Kate asked me.

“I do,” I replied with a sigh.

 

It happened as a result of this stupid boy sitting behind me in my grade 8 class. He leaned forward and started to draw in thick black felt marker an outline of the undershirt I was still wearing under my blouse.

 

I ran home sobbing to my mother who the next day took me to the nearest department store.

 

My Triple AAA “training bra” was white, itchy, and unattractive,” I told Kate.

 

“And think of how that made you feel!” Kate added.  Like it was going to be embarrassing to reach womanhood was what I was thinking.

 

Then Kate described the experience a young French girl has in this situation.

 

“It’s an event!” says Kathryn. The girl’s mother, maybe even her grandmother and aunt, will escort the young lady to their favourite lingerie boutique. A lingerie expert will help her pick out the most beautiful bra she can find (and one that fits!).

 

Thus begins a life where the young woman “inhabits her body and her life with effortless grace and sensuality,” says Kate.

 

Oh my.

 

 

Lingerie In Paris

 

There are lingerie stores all over Paris, where women buy lingerie not as a luxury to be worn once in a while (like now during the holiday season or on a hot date where sex is the goal), but as something that makes them feel good.

 

It’s just part of one’s overall wardrobe.

 

And I bet that you do not see too many shop windows in our cities or towns where displays have advertisements that say — Libérer vos seins/Liberate your Breasts!

 

And I don’t think they mean “go bra-less” which made me curious enough to want to go in and have a look!  But I didn’t! I was too intimidated.

 

 

French Lingerie For Me!

 

Oh, there is so much more to talk about on this subject so have a look at my experience buying a French bra in another blog post CLICK HERE TO READ IT!

 

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