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All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women - Helena Frith Powell
All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women
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The allure of the Frenchwoman—sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous—is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful. With wit, whimsy, and wonder, British expatriate... show more
The allure of the Frenchwoman—sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous—is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful. With wit, whimsy, and wonder, British expatriate Helena Frith Powell uncovers the secrets of chic living in All You Need to Be Impossibly French, a cheeky guide to releasing your inner Frenchwoman. Delving deep into a mysterious realm of face creams, silk lingerie, and shopping-as-exercise, Powell reveals how French women stay impossibly thin and irresistibly sexy by achieving the maximum effect from the minimum amount of effort. Forget diet and inspiration books and style guides—this is all you need to embrace the wisdom of French living, and learn how to turn every day into la petite aventure.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780452287785 (0452287782)
ASIN: 452287782
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
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Always Doing
Always Doing rated it
Enh. This book rarely moves past, "French women care about their looks! Have a different cultural outlook on affairs! Buy all kinds of beauty products!" Yes, things are a bit different in France. We get it.In order to give a book a two a book has to make me mad, so this is a very, very low thre...
She Reads Everything
She Reads Everything rated it
5.0 All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women
I really enjoyed this ethnography on what gives French women their je ne sais quoi. I loved how honest the writer was about alternately being envious and horrified by French (to be fair, for the most part, Parisian) values - so very postmodern anthropologist of her!
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