"Marriage à la Mode (short story) Marriage à la Mode is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published ""The Sphere"" on 31 December 1921, and later reprinted in ""The Garden Party and Other Stories"". The title is a play on the phrase ""mariage à la mode"" in French, which means 'fashionable marriage'. William would usually buy his children sweets because he knows his wife won't let him buy them 'big donkeys and engines', as that would be unseemly. This time he buys fruit instead. As it is, they have moved from a small house in London"
"Chic Chic , meaning ""stylish"" or ""smart"", is an element of fashion. ""Chic"" is a French word, established in English since at least the 1870s. Early references in English dictionaries classified it as slang and New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge noted, with reference to its colloquial meaning, that it was ""not so used in Fr[ench]."" Gustave Flaubert notes in ""Madame Bovary"" (published in 1856) that ""chicard"" (one who is chic) is then Parisian very current slang for ""classy"" noting, perhaps derisively, perhaps not, that it was bourgeoisie. There is a similar word in German, ""schick"", with a meaning similar to"
"Incroyables and Merveilleuses The Incroyables (, ""incredibles"") and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses (, ""marvelous women"", roughly equivalent to ""fabulous divas""), were members of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory (1795–1799). Whether as catharsis or in a need to reconnect with other survivors of the Reign of Terror, they greeted the new regime with an outbreak of luxury, decadence, and even silliness. They held hundreds of balls and started fashion trends in clothing and mannerisms that today seem exaggerated, affected, or even effete (decadent, self-indulgent). Some devotees of the trend preferred to be called ""incoyable"" or"
"adverb ""chicly"" has also appeared: ""Pamela Gross ... turned up chicly dressed down"". The use of the French ""très chic"" (very chic) by an English speaker – ""Luckily it's ""très"" chic to be neurotic in New York"" – is usually rather pretentious, but sometimes merely facetious—Micky Dolenz of The Monkees described the Indian-style suit he wore at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 as """"très chic"""". ""Über-chic"" is roughly the mock-German equivalent: ""Like his clubs, it's super-modern, über-chic, yet still comfortable"". The opposite of ""chic"" is ""unchic"": ""the then uncrowded, unchic little port of St Tropez"". Over the years ""chic"""
"Flamboyant Flamboyant (from French ""flamboyant"", ""flaming"") is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France from about 1350, until it was superseded by Renaissance architecture during the early 16th century. The term has been mainly used to describe French buildings and sometimes the early period of English Gothic architecture, usually called the Decorated Style; the historian Edward Augustus Freeman proposed this in a work of 1851. A version of the style spread to Spain and Portugal during the 15th century. It evolved from the Rayonnant style and the English Decorated Style and was"
"such as Marina DeBris, Ann Wizer, and Nancy Judd. Fashion Fashion is a popular style, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body. Fashion is a distinctive and often constant trend in the style in which people present themselves. A fashion can become the prevailing style in behaviour or manifest the newest creations of designers, technologists, engineers, and design managers. Because the more technical term ""costume"" is regularly linked to the term ""fashion"", the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy-dress or masquerade wear, while the word ""fashion"" often refers to clothing, including"
"ridiculous in the eyes of both young and older people. The terms ""fashionista"" and ""fashion victim"" refer to someone who slavishly follows current fashions. One can regard the system of sporting various fashions as a fashion language incorporating various fashion statements using a grammar of fashion. (Compare some of the work of Roland Barthes.) In recent years, Asian fashion has become increasingly significant in local and global markets. Countries such as China, Japan, India, and Pakistan have traditionally had large textile industries, which have often been drawn upon by Western designers, but now Asian clothing styles are also gaining influence"
"by teenaged actress Taylor Momsen, who, in 2010, became the ""face"" of the British retailing chain New Look. Momsen described her style as ""sweet and tough, grunge meets Chanel – a giant oxymoron"" and claimed that she chose her outfits from ""whatever clean clothes she finds on her floor"" (""although no one ever believes me""). In the world of Parisian fashion, the term ""bobo"" (short for ""Bourgeois Bohème""), which also had political connotations, was applied to ""typically discerning customers who are left wing and Left Bank""; or, put another way, ""that subset of thirty- or forty-something-year-olds who don't allow their"
"city of the fashion month. Dates are determined by the French Fashion Federation. Currently, the Fashion Week is held in the Carrousel du Louvre. Montecarlo Fashion Week (Fashion Fair Week) French fashion Fashion in France is an important aspect in the spectrum of culture and social life, as well as being an important aspect of the economy. Fashion design and production gained prominence in France from the 15th century. From the 17th century, it exploded into a rich industry both for local consumption and for export. The Royal Minister of Finances, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, expressed it as """"Fashion is to France"
"poet’s need to use a word which fits the scansion and rhyme pattern of the poem. Whereas in English elegant variation is often considered a stylistic error , in other languages it might be considered good writing style. In French, purists consider the rule of ""elegant variation"" (that is, using synonyms wherever possible) to be essential for good style. A humorist imagined writing a news article about Gaston Defferre: ""It's OK to say Defferre once, but not twice. So next you say the Mayor of Marseille. Then, the Minister of Planning. Then, the husband of Edmonde. Then, Gaston. Then, Gastounet"
"has been applied to, among other things, social events, situations, individuals, and modes or styles of dress. It was one of a number of ""slang words"" that H. W. Fowler linked to particular professions – specifically, to ""society journalism"" – with the advice that, if used in such a context, ""familiarity will disguise and sometimes it will bring out its slanginess."" Chic Chic , meaning ""stylish"" or ""smart"", is an element of fashion. ""Chic"" is a French word, established in English since at least the 1870s. Early references in English dictionaries classified it as slang and New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric"
"clothes. He is widely credited with influencing 20th century male fashion and, according to ""Forbes"" male fashion editor, G. Bruce Boyer, the ""Isn't It a Lovely Day?"" routine: ""shows Astaire dressed in the style he would make famous: soft-shouldered tweed sports jacket, button-down shirt, bold striped tie, easy-cut gray flannels, silk paisley pocket square, and suede shoes. It's an extraordinarily contemporary approach to nonchalant elegance, a look Ralph Lauren and a dozen other designers still rely on more than six decades later. Astaire introduced a new style of dress that broke step with the spats, celluloid collars, and homburgs worn"
"French fashion Fashion in France is an important aspect in the spectrum of culture and social life, as well as being an important aspect of the economy. Fashion design and production gained prominence in France from the 15th century. From the 17th century, it exploded into a rich industry both for local consumption and for export. The Royal Minister of Finances, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, expressed it as """"Fashion is to France what the gold mines of Peru are to Spain..."""". During the 19th century, fashion transitioned into many styles. The modern term of ""haute couture"" originated in the 1860s, for fashion"
"in 1981. Cabu updated the character later in ""Le Canard Enchainé"" under the title ""Les nouveaux beaufs"". The new version is a more urban and trendy version, with a ponytail instead of a bushy moustache. Nouveaux beaufs drive four-by-fours/SUVs, and are fans of plastic surgery. Beauf Beauf [pronounced /bof/] is a French term describing a man perceived as vulgar, unintelligent, arrogant, uncaring, misogynistic and chauvinistic, without any taste for etiquette or good manners. A ""beauf"" will typically be prompt to jump to conclusions and have strong views on complex social issues, based on an insufficient analysis of the facts, but"
"and Juno and named their garments for Roman deities: gowns were styled Flora or Diana, and tunics were styled ""à la"" Ceres or Minerva. The leading Incroyable, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, was one of five directors who ran the Republic of France and gave the period its name. He hosted luxurious feasts attended by royalists, repentant Jacobins, ladies, and courtesans. Since divorce was now legal, sexuality was looser than in the past. However, de Barras' reputation for immorality may have been a factor in his later overthrow, a coup that brought the French Consulate to power and"
"crossed ribbons or strings of pearls. Exotic and expensive scents fabricated by perfume houses like Parfums Lubin were worn as both for style and as indicators of social station. Thérésa Tallien, known as ""Our Lady of Thermidor"", wore expensive rings on the toes of her bare feet and gold circlets on her legs. The Incroyables wore eccentric outfits: large earrings, green jackets, wide trousers, huge neckties, thick glasses, and hats topped by ""dog ears"", their hair falling on their ears. Their musk-based fragrances earned them too the derogatory nickname ""muscadins"" among the lower classes, already applied to a wide group"
"white stockings, and women wore elaborate embroidered white and pastel gowns. After the French Revolution, a more austere white (""blanc cassé"") became the most fashionable color in women's costumes which were modeled after the outfits of Ancient Greece and Republican Rome. Because of the rather revealing design of these dresses, the ladies wearing them were called ""les merveilleuses"" (the marvellous) by French men of that era. The Empire style under Emperor Napoléon I was modeled after the more conservative outfits of Ancient Imperial Rome. The dresses were high in fashion but low in warmth considering the more severe weather conditions"
"Flâneur Flâneur (), from the French noun ""flâneur"", means ""stroller"", ""lounger"", ""saunterer"", or ""loafer"". ""Flânerie"" is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym is boulevardier. The flâneur was, first of all, a literary type from 19th-century France, essential to any picture of the streets of Paris. The word carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. It was Walter Benjamin, drawing on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, who made this figure the object of scholarly interest in the 20th century, as an emblematic"
"not born rich, but she became famous for her salons and her string of prominent lovers. Parisian society compared Germaine de Staël and Mme Raguet to Minerva and Juno and named their garments for Roman deities: gowns were styled Flora or Diana, and tunics were styled ""à la"" Ceres or Minerva. The leading Incroyable, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, was one of five Directors who ran the Republic of France and gave the period its name. He hosted luxurious feasts attended by royalists, repentant Jacobins, ladies, and courtesans. Since divorce was now legal, sexuality was looser than in"
"Tout-Paris Le Tout-Paris (""everyone in Paris"") is a French expression referring to the fashionable and affluent elite of the city, who frequent fashionable events and places, and establish trends in upper-class culture. It is equivalent to the ""jet set"" elsewhere. The expression ""tout-Paris"" was used in the 17th century to refer to ""high society"" among the aristocratic inhabitants of the city of Paris. It was used in 1660 by Nicolas Boileau in his ""Satires"" to refer to the influential members of Paris society who made Pierre Corneille's play El Cid popular, in the famous sentence, ""In vain, a minister sought"
"Fashion Fashion is a popular style, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body. Fashion is a distinctive and often constant trend in the style in which people present themselves. A fashion can become the prevailing style in behaviour or manifest the newest creations of designers, technologists, engineers, and design managers. Because the more technical term ""costume"" is regularly linked to the term ""fashion"", the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy-dress or masquerade wear, while the word ""fashion"" often refers to clothing, including the study of clothing. Although aspects of fashion can"
"Bon chic bon genre Bon chic, bon genre () is an expression used in France to refer to a subculture of stylish members of the Paris upper class. They are typically well-educated, well-connected, and descended from ""old money"" families, preferably with some aristocratic ancestry. The style combines certain fashionable tastes with the appearance of social respectability. The expression is sometimes shortened to ""BCBG"" (the fashion company BCBG Max Azria was named in reference to the subculture). Parallels are often seen between this subculture and similar upper-class social groups in the United States (""preppy"") and the United Kingdom (""Sloane Rangers""). As"
"irrational little vocabulary of the movements of fashion: newspaper fashion, pub fashion, cinema fashion, popular song fashion. But, for this English author, the great, the most desired fashion has always been that of “the best society,” of “the fashionable”, of “the chic”, which is kept by snobbism. After further analyzing the use of U and non-U habits and its progress, reflecting either by stress or reaction the mood of any time. Pursuing his argument he introduces Topivity — T-manners and T-customs etc., meaning the likely social conventions of a remote future in which the peerage has survived by infiltrating the"
"Bouffant A bouffant is a type of hairstyle characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides. The English word ""bouffant"" comes from the French ""bouffante"", from the present participle of ""bouffer"": ""to puff, puff out"". The modern bouffant, considered by one source to have been invented by British celebrity hairdresser Raymond Bessone was noted by ""Life"" in the summer of 1956 as being ""already a common sight in fashion magazines."" The style became popular at the beginning of the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was often photographed with"
"Bouffant A bouffant is a type of hairstyle characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides. The English word ""bouffant"" comes from the French ""bouffante"", from the present participle of ""bouffer"": ""to puff, puff out"". The modern bouffant, considered by one source to have been invented by British celebrity hairdresser Raymond Bessone was noted by ""Life"" in the summer of 1956 as being ""already a common sight in fashion magazines."" The style became popular at the beginning of the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was often photographed with"
"some considered ""fanciful"", could come from French instructions to mind one's ""pieds"" (feet) and ""queues"" (wigs) while dancing. However, there is no French translation for this expression. Another origin could be from sailors in the 18th century who were reminded to pay attention to their peas (pea coat) and queues (pony tail). Another proposal concerns the use of Norman French in medieval England; as the English dialect of the 11th century had no qs, one must watch their usage in court or discourse with the French Norman conquerors. Quinion cites an apparently related expression of ""pee and kew"" for ""highest"
"Groovy Groovy (or, less commonly, ""groovie"" or ""groovey"") is a slang colloquialism popular during the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. It is roughly synonymous with words such as ""cool"", ""excellent"", ""fashionable"", or ""amazing"", depending on context. The word originated in the jazz culture of the 1920s, in which it referred to the “groove” of a piece of music (its rhythm and “feel”), plus the response felt by its listeners. It can also reference the physical groove of a record in which the pick-up needle runs. Radio disk jockeys would announce playing “good grooves, hot grooves, cool grooves, etc.” when introducing"
"photos offered a realistic portrayal of fashionable styles. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tomy revived the concept as a toy marketed simply as ""Fashion Plates"". Fashion plates should not be confused with costume plates. As outlined by the French social and cultural historian Daniel Roche, there was a point when depictions of costume and of fashion ""diverged"": the latter came to depict clothes of the present day, while the former came to represent clothes ""after the event"", that is, after the epoch of the fashionable style. ""Le Monument de Costume"" of Freudenberg and Moreau le Jeune, published in"
"""chic"", which may be the origin of the word in French; another theory links ""chic"" to the word ""chicane"". Although the French pronunciation (/ˈʃiːk/ or ""sheek"") is now virtually standard and was that given by Fowler, ""chic"" was often rendered in the anglicised form of ""chick"". In a fictional vignette for ""Punch"" (""c"". 1932) Mrs F. A. Kilpatrick attributed to a young woman who 70 years later would have been called a ""chavette"" the following assertion: ""It 'asn't go no buttons neither ... That's the latest ideer. If you want to be chick you just 'ang on to it, it"
"minds."" The Irish music journalist and writer Pat Carty occasionally uses the title ""Le Flâneur"". Flâneur Flâneur (), from the French noun ""flâneur"", means ""stroller"", ""lounger"", ""saunterer"", or ""loafer"". ""Flânerie"" is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym is boulevardier. The flâneur was, first of all, a literary type from 19th-century France, essential to any picture of the streets of Paris. The word carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. It was Walter Benjamin, drawing on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, who"
"style and as indicators of social station. Thérésa Tallien, known as ""Our Lady of Thermidor"", wore expensive rings on the toes of her bare feet and gold circlets on her legs. The Incroyables wore eccentric outfits: large earrings, green jackets, wide trousers, huge neckties, thick glasses, and hats topped by ""dog ears"", their hair falling on their ears. Their musk-based fragrances earned them too the derogatory nickname ""muscadins"" among the lower classes, already applied to a wide group of anti-jacobins. They wore bicorne hats and carried bludgeons, which they referred to as their ""executive power."" Hair was often shoulder-length, sometimes"
"fashionable, appearing between 1790 and the 1820s in the courts and affluent families of England, Russia, France and more rarely, America. These portraits could also be found on various other trinkets, framed by precious stones on the lids of toothpick containers, snuffboxes and other small vessels. They would sometimes contain locks of hair gifted by the sitter to further accentuate the sentimentality of the piece. The hair could either be incorporated into the portrait itself or encased behind glass or crystal on the piece of jewelry. The high prices fetched by these items has generated a thriving market in imitations."
"social etiquette could spread through gossip circles at Almack's like wildfire and have potentially ruinous effects on her marriage and social prospects within the ton. Ton (le bon ton) ""The ton"" is a term commonly used to refer to Britain's high society during the late Regency and the reign of George IV, and later. It is a French word meaning (in this sense) ""manners"" or ""style"" and is pronounced as in French (). The full phrase is ""le bon ton"" meaning ""good manners"" or ""good form"" – characteristics held as ideal by the British ""beau monde"". The term ""le beau"