Spring comes to the market: Montréal people
Sunny and warm! Let's go to the market for bedding plants and a bit of people watching, à la Montréal. They've flung off their wrapping, there was not a foulard to be found amid Sunday's swirl of shoppers.
A casual couple with pansies; red dress and red purse, wide-brimmed straw hat:
She works at one of the plant vendors; I admired her hat and she let me shoot it, but didn't want her face in the shot ("no makeup today"). But then, we do get to see her cinnabar bracelet! She wore its mate on the other wrist.
Ah, les jeunes filles in their uniform, shorts and tanks. I like how they're showing their long legs, without insisting that they must be tan first.
This one's for Déjà Pseu. Girl with oyster and leopard:
A simple skirt, white with a brushstroke graphic at one side, made charming by that sole detail and the unexpected complement of a purple tee:
A sweet spring bag carried at the top of her pack, filled once they decided how many lobsters to buy:
A trompe l'oeil décolléte composed of three layers, black body ilghtened lightened by the skirt's delicate tracery. Don't save the dress for dancing!
Le Duc said, "How does she walk in those?" Not the shoe I'd wear to tote tomato plants!
But even a woman in sensible shoes gets footsore! She found a bench to take a break.
A casual couple with pansies; red dress and red purse, wide-brimmed straw hat:
She works at one of the plant vendors; I admired her hat and she let me shoot it, but didn't want her face in the shot ("no makeup today"). But then, we do get to see her cinnabar bracelet! She wore its mate on the other wrist.
Ah, les jeunes filles in their uniform, shorts and tanks. I like how they're showing their long legs, without insisting that they must be tan first.
This one's for Déjà Pseu. Girl with oyster and leopard:
A simple skirt, white with a brushstroke graphic at one side, made charming by that sole detail and the unexpected complement of a purple tee:
A sweet spring bag carried at the top of her pack, filled once they decided how many lobsters to buy:
A trompe l'oeil décolléte composed of three layers, black body ilghtened lightened by the skirt's delicate tracery. Don't save the dress for dancing!
Le Duc said, "How does she walk in those?" Not the shoe I'd wear to tote tomato plants!
But even a woman in sensible shoes gets footsore! She found a bench to take a break.
Comments
So what do les femmes d'un age certain wear in the hot weather? I'm guessing not shorts and tank tops...
Murphy
I, too, love that those young women are letting their white legs go bare. I've been debating that very approach as we have what may be our only week of decent temps for a while. . . I'm planning to wear a dress to work today, have even shaved my legs after a winter's neglect. But oh, are they white, these legs! (and they lack the youthful charm of your lovely photo-subjects. . . hmm, maybe the cropped leggings of your other photo make a better solution . . . )
The weather here is glorious
I like your out and about images here. I agree about those heels....how does she do it?
Honestly, I don't like the very high heels with that outfit. I'd prefer something like Spanish espadrilles with a somewhat lower heel.
Oyster-buying young man has a nice striped top...
It is so wonderful seeing the sun and flowers after what has been a long, hard winter this year.
Mme: Always fun to watch in another country!
Murphy: See woman in white skirt and purple top; or they wear cropped pants, or a dress like black one; sometimes floaty calf-length skirt. Women of a certain age here still want to look sexy. I'll look for some to show you.
mater: Cropped leggings under a skirt or dress make a lot of sense, best of both worlds, and so bike-friendly.
hostess: You gotta want it.
lagatta: I've seen them in local boutiques, usually too short for me. Lilikoi, based in BC, make some wonderful cotton knit pieces.
LPC: I'd say Mtl (in this area certainly) is very much like Brooklyn, more than CA.
frugal: CEGEP: an acronym for Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel- similar to US community college.
My signature links to Montréal Cycle Chic.
alamodemontreal.com is a cute one, but as you can see, it is quite young, though it has "finds" for all ages.
A sound note: behind my house (near chez les Ducs) there are airs from a banjo playing softly in the laneway... Banjos are not a traditional instrument here, but with the heat, it works.
And no link to Montréal Cycle Chic!
All: you can find lagatta's link here:
montrealcyclechic.com
Here is a cute one by someone in the Passage, and she is writing it in English, but lives in an extremely French part of Montréal:
http://stylesud-est.blogspot.ca/p/about-me.html
Very gamine femme d'un certain âge, but she shows other types.
And very rarely like pink hair on anyone middle-aged or over... She needs a dose of "elegance is refusal".
I'll try to find someone a bit more representative, but in the Passage. There was more wearable stuff at à la mode montréal, but the contributors are all very young.