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  • Encore: If I Can’t Dance…

    Pic borrowed from Penny Dreadful Vintage here. Repost from April, 2011. If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. —Emma GoldmanThough according to scholars, this…

  • Hiding In Plain Sight

    Quelques Parisiennes in their natural habitat. Note the (mostly) sensible shoes. It was rather serendipitous, Duchesse’s post yesterday at Passage Des Perles. (When A French…

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Putting on arias. It’s still a vivid memory. It was second grade and we were lined up outside the auditorium waiting to go inside for…

  • Les Deux Femmes

    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…  –Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two women sharing space in my closet. Both are actually me,…

  • D’habitude

    I just adore an Old School riding habit, don’t you? In the past few years I’ve come to realize that even more than those bursts…

  • Encore: Walking The Line

    (Originally posted December 2011.) Personal style has often felt to une femme like more of a balancing act than anything. We have to find and…

  • Encore: Weighing In On Les Rondes

    Another soapbox rant from les archives d’une femme. Apologies if this rambles and is a bit of a rant.  It’s a topic that’s close to…