7 fashion rules from French women

Paris is a capital of fashion not just because of famous French designers like Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, and others.  

Paris has been recognized as the center of style for chic and elegant women living in the capital.  

French women are truly unique with their exclusive sense of style, beauty, and sexiness, however, it’s not that difficult for others to be just as stunning. You just have to know a few tricks, widely used by Madames and Mademoiselles.

How French women create their unique style?

French woman always appears like she doesn’t spend much time on her look. Reality is that she does, though it isn’t obvious due to her modest choice of clothes, make-up, and accessories.

Do you know why this trick is so important? Because when you look at this type of woman, you assume she has a natural beauty and she looks stunning without any effort.

So, rule 1 is to try hard and choose a fabulous look without making your efforts noticeable.

Rule 2 is to avoid wearing oversized designer logos. French believe that showing off luxury is far away from elegance.

Rule 3 is to find the style that highlights the best of you and to stay loyal to it for the rest of your life.

Following one direction of style is another way French women define elegance. Ladies in France choose their favorite line of clothing in their early adulthood and rarely make major changes.

For example, we should take a look at the editor of French Vogue magazine Emmanuelle Alt. All her looks are mostly similar, yet perfect. We could say the same about Anna Wintour, the most powerful woman in the world fashion. Anna isn’t French, however, she has been practicing this French rule for the last decade by wearing colorful midi dresses on her almost every public appearance.

Limits of French Fashion

Rule 4 is wise matching. Choosing similar looks most of the times and avoiding experiments doesn’t hurt French elegancy.

A true mademoiselle virtuously plays with her color palette and does a phenomenal job wisely matching her shoes, bags, and accessories. This is their only way to avoid monotonic style.

Rule 5 – bag and shoe collection. Bags and shoes might be the only part of the female wardrobe, where French ladies do not limit themselves.

They have a wide range of elegant, unique, and outstanding bags and shoes.

Original bags and shoes assist modest madams and Mademoiselles attract one’s attention.

Rule 6 is not to be vulgar. This includes everything, clothes, shoes, make-up, perfume, and accessories as well as walk, speech, and other manners.

French women do not wear excessively high heels, they believe it’s quite vulgar and cheap. For the same reason, they avoid wearing too much make-up, seductive dresses, and shiny or vibrant colors.

In their belief, when you go out in public, you should be the first thing people notice, not the things you are wearing.

French adore modesty and never wear an excessive number of accessories. French-style is more about one, but fabulous jewelry.

“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.” – Said the worldwide symbol of elegance, French designer Coco Chanel.

Rule 7 is all about breaking fashion rules in a stylish way. This French trick was particularly well defined by a famous French fashion icon Ines de La Fressange, who suggests wearing jeans with gem-encrusted sandals, not sneakers; a pencil skirt with ballet flats, not heels; an evening dress with a straw handbag, not a gold clutch; a chiffon print dress with battered biker boots, not brand-new ballet flats.